Folk music "Left Foot Melody" from the album "Chinese Music Map of Hearing Yunnan Yi Folk music Collection"

Left Foot Tune. Left foot tune

Folk music Nationality: Yi Nationality Region: Yunnan

Yi Huqin: Luo Xia

As the most popular and far-reaching traditional dance of the Yi people in Yunnan, the left foot dance has been inherited for a thousand years, and the "Dingyuan County Chronicle" of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi said: "Every year on the 28th of March (lunar calendar) outside the southern suburb of Dongyue Temple (today's Nanshan Temple), the four corners of the business Jahan Yi, trading clothes and goods, to the beginning of April. In the evening, more than 100 men and women played the Lusheng, Yi qin, blowing the mouth string, singing Yi songs (left foot melody), dancing around the left foot, and dispersed to the more Yu Fang." For many Yi people, "if you can walk, you can dance with your left foot; if you can talk, you can sing with your left foot." The left foot tune is the accompaniment of the left foot dance. In the folk tradition of the Yi people, there are nearly 300 left foot tune pieces, covering all aspects of life and emotions from production and life to cultural legends, from love and praise to allegorical advice. In the passionate chanting across the octave, people dance and dance endlessly, in the generous heat of life and full of hope. With a strong and bright beat, we join together, circling through heat and winter, through dusk and dawn.