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I. Encouragement and Miao Culture

The popularity of Miao dance is largely driven by the emotional will of ancestor worship. This is not only a myth and legend, but also a lusheng and wooden drum created by ancestors for dance, and the universal power of dance also comes from the divine will of ancestors.

Witchcraft and primitive religious beliefs of Miao people play an important role in their lives. In various sacrificial activities, Miao people hope to communicate with the gods through various dances, and worship and pray at the same time. At present, dance is still a major form for Miao people to express themselves. Therefore, the Miao people's "encouragement" inevitably becomes the most religious and magical thing. At present, we often see praying for rain, children, gods and ancestors in holiday parties. These are not direct prayers, but are reflected by dancing corresponding dance ceremonies, which have produced agricultural dances, wedding and funeral ceremonies, war dances and so on. We can also see many things about religion and witchcraft-seeking children, getting married, ascending to heaven after death, etc. From such activities as "ox-wishing ceremony", "funeral jumping", "Lushenghui" and "incense jumping". Some Miao people only dance wooden drums, while others dance lusheng. Dancing is mostly limited to clans with the same surname, because it is a clan activity with drums as the unit, and the whole sacrifice process cannot be separated from drums. It started with drums, pushed the sacrificial activities to a climax, and finally announced the end of the activities with drum instruments.

Second, encourage and Miao farming culture

A large number of historical materials and archaeological discoveries prove that Miao nationality is one of the earliest farming nationalities in Chinese mainland. Its early activities were in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and plain areas, developing agricultural production and creating culture. The word "Miao" of the Miao nationality is the appellation of the existence of Miao entity by different nationalities in history, that is, "the person who grows grass in the paddy field" is the unified national name of the whole country. Because Miao is an agricultural nation, its religious beliefs have to be closely related to the agriculture on which it depends, so its worship often has a strong agricultural color. From this, it is not difficult to infer that in the agricultural cultural creation activities of Miao ancestors in ancient times, it was the agricultural psychology that was produced as the materialization and condensation of the soul, which was suitable for their agricultural production. As a cultural psychological form, Miao people's psychological will, emotional orientation and even way of thinking are bound to be integrated with their hearts. In the dance creation and performance, which is full of passionate emotional experience, mystery, original intention and other conscious activities, spiritual intention and instinctive impulse, will behavior and emotional expression complement each other and merge with each other, forming an aesthetic dynamic form of artistic activities dominated by dance, especially when these activities and tendencies are concentrated on a certain object, their performance is more vivid and prominent. One of the traditional actions of Miao people in western Hunan is devoted to agricultural production, such as "preparing soil and ploughing fields", "digging gardens and growing vegetables", "hoeing lotus on shoulders" and "harvesting and threshing". Among them, the "fragrant dance" offering sacrifices to the God of Five Grains reflects the good wishes of Miao ancestors for agricultural production, and places their wishes and prayers on realistic farming activities. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole Miao dance is based on the psychological form of farming people, and farming culture is the "root" of Miao dance.

3. Encouragement and Miao totem culture

Primitive society, backward economy and social civilization, totem worship has become an indelible part in the history of human evolution and an important link in the evolution of human civilization. The main reason is that people's understanding of natural phenomena is unscientific at first, and they have a fear and awe of the strangeness of natural phenomena and the unpredictability of a certain life form, which urges primitive residents to pray for the shelter of mysterious forces in nature in various forms, and over time they have a worship psychology. For a long time, witchcraft etiquette or totem worship activities have been formed to express human cultural psychology at that time. In the totem of Miao and Huai nationalities, the worship psychology of human beings is mostly expressed in the form of dance, such as lion dance, bird fighting, dragon dance, chicken fighting, wood drum dance, etc., among which wood drum dance is the most distinctive. Miao ancestors lived in Jianghuai area, where rivers and lakes are densely covered, there are many rivers, maple forests are everywhere, flowers and plants are flourishing, butterflies are flying and the environment is beautiful. For a long time, Miao ancestors naturally had the psychology of seeking common ground while reserving differences, recognizing relatives and worshiping maple and butterfly. Up to now, when the Miao people in Sandu County hold drum festivals, they will sacrifice maple trees cut from the mountains and slaughtered cattle in the court. At the same time, blowing sheng played drums and danced with men and women. In Miao ancient songs, it is of great utilitarian value for Miao ancestors to beautify maple trees, and it is certain that maple trees have something to do with themselves. Maple becomes mother butterfly. Mother butterfly was born by Miao and human ancestor Jiang Yang, and then there was human. The maple stump has also become the bronze drum of the Miao sacred vessel, so "there is a celebration/a dance for everyone/a dance around everyone." So Miao people worship maple trees for generations. Miao people in western Hunan call maple tree "mother tree", and everything in maple tree is deified into the reality of original imagination, which is the basis of the appearance psychology of Miao wooden drum and even bronze drum totem.

Four. Incentive and Miao bionic culture

When the ancient Miao people migrated, the southwest was still a vast virgin forest. In this inaccessible, densely populated Lin Jing, birds singing and tigers howling, in order to avoid the pursuit and oppression of reactionary rulers, they had to hunt wild animals around them to survive. It is in this hunting life that many Miao dances imitate animal forms. In order to hunt wild animals more effectively, hunters must learn all kinds of bird songs and animal sounds to induce them and get happiness from them for a long time. For example, according to tradition, the theme action of wood drum dance is to imitate grasshoppers fighting, and the legend of drumming is also to imitate the pecking sound of woodpeckers. Its dance rhythm is that the upper body leans forward, throws the same hand, turns straight, takes the hip as the power, and the arm swings greatly; The twisting, swinging, turning, tail and pedaling of the head, shoulders, hands and waist are the most essential reflections of Miao people's migration to mountainous areas. Another example is the popular performance dance "One Man Inspires" of Miao people in Xiangxi. There are two kinds of performances: men and women. Men's inspirations include "Cock Pecking Rice", "Monkey Playing with Things", "Going to the Sea in Kowloon" and "Spreading Wings in Dapeng", all of which imitate animal forms and are rough and powerful. Women's movements are mostly about labor, production and daily life, such as "beauty combing hair", "clever woman brocade", "embroidery" and "washing face in Baotou". Mostly elegant and dignified. "Monkey's Encouragement" is a highly skilled man's performance dance. The main content of the dance is to show that when the monkey enters the temple to steal fruit, he accidentally beats the drum, then panics and plays with the drum. Actions include "falling on a tree", "running away", "scratching" and "rolling the ball". The action of "bronze drum dance" also comes from hunting life, agricultural life and imitation of animal forms, such as riding horses, driving ducks, fishing and catching shrimps.

Nowadays, Miao drum dance has become a dance art that can stand in the world, and it has been accepted by many experts, scholars and people in society. The encouragement of the Miao people has also become a feature of the Miao people. Although they have no writing, they spread their civilization in their own way-the encouragement of Miao people. With regard to national dance and culture, we should learn more, explore more and develop more, which is one of the cultural values worthy of attention.