Inheritance And Evolution Of Achang "kicking Nest Luo" Dance

Achang ethnic group is one of the minority nationalities with less population in China. They mainly reside in Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Dehong, Yunnan Province. Achang ethnic group is divided into two branches:one is "Big Achang", which usually reside in Jiubao and Nangsong Town, Lianghe County; the other is "Small Achang", which reside in Husa Town, Longchuan County. There are many differences in their religion beliefs, languages, festivals, customs and arts. For example, they have significant differences in the dancing arts."Small Achang" usually believe Hinayana which were effected by Dai and Jingpo Ethnic group. Their main dancings are dragon and elephant dances that were played during religion related festivals."Big AChang" usually play the "Dengwoluo" dance at harvest time or at the wedding or funeral.They also play the "Dengwoluo" dance together during Woluo Festival and other traditional festivals.Since1983, Big Achang and Small Achang communicate with each other more and more often along with the development of official documents about Achang festival culture. Under its influence,the "Dengwoluo" dance has been a lot of changes in its content, form and function. As a simple, integrated, typical and popular dance, the "Dengwoluo" dance gradually spread among the whole Achang ethnic group and the other minority nationalities. The evolution of the "Dengwoluo" dance in the inheritance process is continuous, dynamic, multi-dimensional and mixed.In this paper, author use lot of details which mainly come from the field researches and literature reviews to describe the full picture of cultural connotation, artistic characteristics, generation and development history of the "Dengwoluo" dance and present situation of the dance culture inheritance. Author also regard official uniform and organization of the Achang national festival as a time node or variable, discuss the evolutions about the "Dengwoluo" dance which cover the changes in six aspects, such as time and space, movements development, dance accompaniments, dance program, the purpose and function of dance and subject consciousness of dancers. This is the innovation of this research. In the meanwhile, this paper investigate the reasons of the dynamic process of the "Dengwoluo" dance evolution from the politics, economic, cultural exchanges, the subject cognitive and emotional changes of dancers.On the basis of comparing the differences about the inheritance of the "Dengwoluo" dance between "Big Achang" and "Small Achang", this paper summarize the problems of the "Dengwoluo" dance inheritance and put forward the countermeasures in order to achieve better inheritance, communication and innovation of the Achang national traditional dance culture.