On The Source Of Hami Great Lamp Dance

Located at the eastern part of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Hami is thecontinental joint of China with Mid-Asia, West-Asia, South-Asia as well as theMediterranean Sea of Europe.2000years ago, it was the important strategic pointbetween the Han Authority and Hun so as to contain Xiyu. Such the specialgeographical position entails Hami the special historical value, which is the reasonwhy countless history records about Hami are kept. Hami is the old aggregate ofmusic and dance. The Hami Muqam is recognized as the heritage of Yi Zhou Yue ofTang Dynasty, meanwhile, the now existing folk dances like the Great Lamp Dance,Pi Le Dance, Chicken Dance, Bear Dance, Wu Bao Sai Nai Mu, Wheel Dance, aresuch the concrete and vivid ways that bring the multi-cultures into reality.The Great Lamp Dance is one of the various folk dances. It kept the activityduring the early1980s, however, faded at the end of1980with the passing of thegreat master Senior Ni Ya Zi Mai Mai Ti. Later then, kinds of versions appear on thestage, and some literary journals are written. With no doubt, these forms bare the soulof the dance itself to a degree. However, when the author is trying to feel the dancewith the own senses with curiosity, the discrepancy merges compared with theoriginal dance, even, there exists the fictional part.Thus, the author names the title of the article On the Source of Hami GreatLamp Dance with four clear aims as following:1. To seek for the origin of Great Lamp Dance, and to purge the inappropriateunderstanding of Hami Great Lamp Dance.2. To indicate the deep meaning of the Dance and to chase the ground of thegeneration, the development, as well as the derivation of the dance，and finally, tocorrect the wrong cognition of the meaning of the Dance.3. To analysis the cultural attributes of the Dance from the vertical perspectiveand to pursue internal reasons of the functional changes of the Dance so as to showthe descriptive meaning of the modern versions of the Dance.4. To clarify the meaning of verifying the culture of Hami under the moderncircumstance in order to search for the methods and thoughts of dancing originationaiming on showing a brand way to protect, heritage, develop as well as to researchthe traditional Xinjiang music and dance.To search for origin of Great Lamp Dance is not just to find but to pursue. As what said: only if all the people around the world develop the unique culture, namely, togive and to comprehend, can the whole human being share the civilization. Thus,searching for the origin of the Great Lamp Dance is the process to collect the lostshinning gold pieces contenting the entire donation, wisdom, and the eternal soul ofour ancients.