Naxi dance score

There are several special books on dance scores named Dunmu in Dongba classics, marked with Naxi hieroglyphics, which record the postures, positions, routes, shapes, movements and the use of dancers in detail and completely. According to the records of these dance scores, some scholars roughly divide Dongba dance into five categories: god dance, bird, beast, insect and fish dance, utensil dance, war dance and mask dance. In addition, it is believed that there are dances such as opening funerals, offering sacrifices to the dragon king, seeking long rituals, and offering sacrifices to the wind for divination. It can be said that it has formed a unique "jumping god" dance. Dongba dance is widely loved by Naxi people because it embodies the theme of "God conquers ghosts", good conquers evil and light conquers darkness. Dongba dance score is recognized by relevant experts as "a rare treasure in the art gardens of all ethnic groups in China, just like the remnants of Dunhuang stone dance score in Tang Dynasty and Deshou Palace dance score in Song Dynasty".

Dongba dance score not only records a large number of dance movements, but also plays a role in standardizing dance movements and passing them down from generation to generation, and also contains music, art and aesthetics. It is of great reference value to study the social life, ideology, culture and art of Naxi people, and even to explore the history of artistic origin, development and evolution of China and other nationalities in the world, especially the origin, formation, classification and compilation methods of various dance music scores in the world. A.R.Guest, a famous British dance score scholar, once compared Dongba dance score with Labannot's famous "world dance score" and spoke highly of it.