The Circle Dance of Southwest Ethnic Minorities,China:Cultural Identity and Practice in the Context of Chinese Indigenous Dance

Abstract

As a worldwide dance form, "circle dance" is one of the original dance art forms created by human beings. "Circle dance" contains the special culture, psychology and even religious belief of human society. At the same time, it uses educational functions and rules all aspects of the people. With this series of questions in mind, the author took the title of "Cultural Identity and Physical Practice of The Tibetan and Qiang Guozhuang in Sichuan in the Context of Chinese Local Dance", and focused on the form of "circle dance" in the Chinese land. As the only remaining country of the four ancient civilizations, China has a long cultural history. Since the modern China unearthed cultural relics, historical materials, sites, you can find the figure of the circle dance. Contemporary Chinese circle dance is still widely spread. The author takes the Qiang "Salang" in Sichuan and the Sichuan Tibetan "Guozhuang" as the case analysis to explain the cultural heritage, germination, cultural communication mode, functional evolution, inheritance and prospect of circle dance in the context of Chinese local dance. This article consists of five chapters and concluding remarks. The first chapter describes the origin and development of the Sichuan Tibetan and Qiang circle dance and the relationship between them; the second chapter mainly introduces the original cultural remains of the Tibetan and Qiang circle dance, analyzes the changing types of the Tibetan Guozhuang and Qiang people who are included in the national intangible cultural heritage and the remains of the "round" culture in the circle dance. The third chapter is to find the background and causes of cultural identity of Tibetan and Qiang dance, and find the construction process of cultural identity of Tibetan and Qiang dance in the context of Chinese local dance through analysis. The fourth chapter explains the dance attributes and community consciousness of Sichuan Tibetan and Qiang circle dance through

physical practice. The fifth chapter is a case analysis, taking the representative movements and techniques in the Tibetan and Qiang circle dance as an example, to further reveal the new living space, value and aesthetic innovation of the circle dance. Conclusion, from the Tibetan circle dance to the protection, development and inheritance of the traditional Chinese culture.

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