Folk music "A Xi Jumping Moon" from the album "Music Map of China Hear Yunnan Blang, Mosuo, Sani people Song Music Collection"

Axi Dancing to the Moon. Axi dancing to the moon

Folk music Nationality: Yi Sani Region: Shilin, Yunnan

Dance: Jin Ruixian, Bi Limei, Huang Yan, Bi Yu, Wu Wenyong, Zhang Rongfa, Bi Jing

Sani Big Three strings: Bi Yu, Wu Wenyong, Zhang Rongfa

Bamboo flute: Bi Jing

The moonlight was shining brightly on the red land. The young men of the Asi and Sani people of the Yi branch jumped to the moon around the burning bonfire. While playing the big three strings, playing bamboo flutes and wood leaves, the young men lunged and jumped, or swung their legs and danced fiercely and enthusiastically. The women waved their arms, clapped hands, sang and danced to the beat. The strings buckle the heart, the heartbeat presses the dance steps, leaving no room for breathing, to stay up all night, to let the heart of the hot emotion gushing out, the dance is fierce as stepping on fire.

Legend has it that in the old days, the Yi people lived on hunting and slash-and-burn farming. In order to catch the season, they often dug pits to sow seeds without waiting for the trees to burn out and the soot to cool. Because the ground is hot, the labor jumps from time to time to change feet, which becomes the initial dance steps of jumping to the moon. Later, this joyful dance, especially the youth dance, became the best way for young men and women of the right age to date and seek a mate, and the moon jumping field was also their love field. And festival gatherings and festive days, men, women and children all dressed up to jump the moon, in pairs into a circle, and dance, music, applause, singing and mouth from time to time forget the shout, stepping on the ground, as if to shake the earth, the figure undulation waves such as the tide under the moon rise and fall, and the atmosphere like a bonfire heat wave, to light the moon and night together, This is the romance of the people of Axi and Sani.