What is the main meaning of the fortune-telling dragon wagging its tail?

Bai dance is carried out in a specific environment.

Bai folk dances (including folk activities) are usually performed in three specific situations: there are many Bai folk festivals, and besides the traditional festivals of the Han nationality, there are more than 20 unique local festivals, such as the main sacrifice, March Street, Torch Festival, February Worship and Shi Baoshan Song Festival. Almost every month, folk dances and activities such as "White Crane Dance", "Spring Deer Crane", "Phoenix Driving Kirin", "Playing Cow", "Playing Horse" and "Playing Knife" are held in these ethnic festivals.

In the first month of the troubled spring, the white language is called "the one who takes is wise." Spread in Eryuan and Fengxiang.

According to Li Shaogu, an old artist from Baodayi Village, the origin of Naughty Wang's first month was that Zhang Daguan, a member of Baoda who was then the magistrate of Yizhang County in Huguang during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, brought back the "meeting god" he saw there and blended it with local folk customs. Another is to punish parents who have babies in the first month: because babies born in the first month should be conceived in the first year's seedling planting season, and the rural areas require young and strong laborers to go all out to plant seedlings in the awning season, people who do not comply with rural regulations should be punished.

The first month that plagues King Chun is usually held on the 14th to 18th day of the first lunar month. The location is often chosen in the country square. Before the activity began, the villagers reported their roles, including hall officer, assistant officer, archer, card handing officer, armor officer, fisherman, firewood, ploughing, reading, industrial and commercial office, mute, Sargam, lotus drop, teacher, fortune teller, god man, Zhai Gong, Zhai Po and the way of the first month-"The King of the Spring", among which, Before the performance begins, first dress up as a funny licensee, beat gongs and drums, walk or ride to the nearby countryside, and call it "the first month of the troubled spring king!" To attract the audience. Except for "welcoming the court official", "interrogating the prisoner" and "reading the imperial edict", the performance sequence is all conducted in different contents and forms, each occupying a venue. The whole village is divided into several venues to perform or perform alternately in the same venue. Every performance has a bully whip, interspersed with dances such as "jumping". Daobai and lyrics are mostly contradictory, or they are amused by homophonic words in Bai language. Performers will take the "prisoners" of the punished families to the hall for trial. After the "prisoner" pleaded guilty, the performance reached a climax.

The first month of the troubled spring is now rare, and there is a tendency to be gradually replaced by fields.

The "Cup Going to the Sun" held by the Nama people of Bai nationality in Lanping County on the eighth to fifteenth day of the second lunar month is also called "February Jump", which is called February Festival in Chinese. It is a large-scale collective song and dance sacrifice activity. Performers should have six sacrifice teachers representing six families, including warriors (called "property reports"), the Golden Temple Goddess disguised as men, Tian Gan, Wu Sangui wearing a red mask, horses wearing a black mask, fairies, fairies and so on. The content of the program is very complicated, which shows the worship of the local Bai people to their masters, heroes and ancestors. For example, Tian is also called "Miao Sai" and Bai is called "Straightening". Promote the cultivation of rice in rural areas of Dali, Eryuan, Jianchuan, Yunlong and Binchuan counties.

Tian's performances are usually held in village squares after transplanting rice seedlings in May of the lunar calendar. Sometimes they are invited to perform in neighboring villages. Its organizers are generally experts in production and are called "Miao officials" and "Deputy Miao officials". Miao officials are responsible for the overall arrangement of the work of the Miao competition, and the deputy Miao officials are responsible for the life, record keeping and income and expenditure accounts of the Miao competition.

Tian's performance is used to assigning roles in the team that organizes the seedling competition. Tianjiale in each county has its own characteristics, but the performances are roughly the same. The whole activity, with large scenes and many roles, can reach 80 or 90 people. In addition to Miao Guan and Deputy Miao Guan, there are people who dress up as fishermen, woodcutters, old couples who plow fields, dumb people and Sargam, as well as farmers, teachers, people engaged in small industries and vendors who dress up as buffaloes, oxen, lazy people who dig fields. And the girl who beat the overlord whip. Before the performance, Miao Guan wore a hat made of Miao with flowers on the top, a jacket, a tall horse, sandals on his left foot and cloth shoes on his right foot, and the groom led the horse forward. A large group of people walked from one village to another, singing while walking, and marched to the central square for intensive performances.

Tian's performance used the language, music, costumes and props of the Bai people. During the performance, drums were blaring, such as "arranging a team", "planting seedlings", "swinging a dragon's tail", "flying dragons to heaven" and "bees crossing the river". Folk dances such as overlord whip, white crane dance, horse racing, dry boat and clam dance are interspersed around the square. Play all kinds of farming activities and performers, and sing with Bai's "Blowing the Chamber". The lyrics are humorous and vivid, the performance is vivid, and the atmosphere is warm and cheerful. Taking "farming" as the main content, the wife of the old man who tills the field (disguised as a man) makes people laugh. All the activities of the field include the whole process of rice planting and transplanting, which shows the rich farming culture of the Bai people and fully reflects the cheerful and optimistic character of the Bai people and their desire to have a bumper harvest of grain and a prosperous livestock.

There is also a kind of farmhouse music, which directly runs through productive labor, such as the "seedling door opening" activity in rural Dali. Opening the seedling door is also called "seedling planting competition". Before the game, the flag was planted in the venue, and the suona drum played with the music. After the competition started, the laggards were easily blocked in the rice fields by transplanting experts. At this time, some people who play suona went down to the field and played suona behind him to show their urging.

Dali Tianjiale combines labor production with entertainment activities. As a folk activity, it is increasingly loved by the Bai people. Bai people believe in wizards, gods, Taoism and Buddhism, so there are many sacrificial ceremonies and religious ceremonies. The largest scale is the main sacrifice activity. Worship to the Lord is the traditional ideology of the Bai nationality, and there are still worship activities in the villages of the Bai nationality. When welcoming or offering sacrifices to our Lord, some temple fairs are quite lively, combining "riding a horse" to pray for good weather and "playing with cows" to pray for a bumper harvest, singing and dancing, accompanied by suona gongs.

Witchcraft dance in Dali is associated with the worship of the Lord and the custom of "receiving aunt Jin". Generally, two or more wizards can dance with more than ten people, echoing each other. In the process of dancing, onlookers can join in singing and dancing, and there are certain procedures. It used to be a relationship between a wizard and an apprentice. When dancing, the wizard also took his apprentice and held a single-sided flat drum (locally called sheepskin drum). The wizard's actions are simple, rude and single. The witch swings her hips, looks around, or leans over or leans back. Witchcraft dances in Jianchuan are usually performed in this main temple, with witches and gods performing on the same stage. There are many stylized movements in the dance, such as "fork incense on the chest", "double throwing incense", "wrapping flowers inside and outside" and "double throwing flowers". Eryuan witch dance can be roughly divided into two situations: one is the occasion of village sacrifice; The second is family sacrifice. Family sacrifice has the steps of receiving the soul, searching for the bottom, asking the soul, answering the soul and sending it away. Now wizards only have individual activities in remote villages.

Buddhism in Dali is divided into Mahayana and Hinayana, which are different from tantric Buddhism and Zen Buddhism. During Nanzhao period in Tang Dynasty, Tani religion was popular in Dali, and Zen was introduced into Dali at the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty. At present, Buddhist music and dance in Buddhist sacrificial activities are only spread in Eryuan, Jianchuan, and in towns such as Feng, Ironmaking, Southern Yunnan, Shaxi and Jinhua. There are several kinds of dances, such as "circling the altar", "vase flower dance", "flower treasure flower dance", "lotus lantern dance" and "sword dance", which are mostly performed in the main hall of temples or religious families.

There are also sacrificial activities of totem worship and primitive nature worship in mountainous areas. For example, the Chinese translation of "building a high pot" in Dada Township of Yunlong Changxin District is "funeral dance" or "coffin dance". The dancers are all young men, holding hands in a circle, in which coffins are parked and candles are lit in front and above. In the dim candlelight, the dancers rotate counterclockwise, with moderate rhythm and tragic atmosphere. This kind of dance contains the religious color of "immortal soul".

Bai folk dance has a deep foundation and is worthy of being a treasure of Bai traditional culture.