Cultural Explanation Of Andai

The Andai dance, as Mongolian non-material culture heritage, is the traditional fortune of Mongolian folk arts and vector of culture. The traditional Andai dance embodies Mongolian primitive culture identity of devil, white kite, marriage, religion, and medicine so on. It also embodies the original art features of music, poetry and dance. However, modern Andai evolves toward multi-faceted arts including dance, drama and sports, and is closely related with social environment.The article, based on the theoretical approaches of the culture prototype theory, literary anthropology, medical anthropology, introduction to intangible culture heritage, and technical means of field-base investigation, intends to trace back the primitive culture connotation of Andai,.In the preface, the research evidence, methods, purpose and significance are all introduced. And the international situation of research about Andai is reviewed systematically. The reason for the research is to show the connotative values of primitive culture, the characteristics of Andai dance, and how to protect and develop the manifestation of the Mongolian traditional culture through muti-disciplinary research to the ethnic dance, the intangible Mongolian culture heritage, under the circumstance of current confrontation with strong cultural homogenization as well as the trend of focusing on the protection of culture diversity. Exploration of the culture of Andai dance and its historical origin is very important for reflecting the deep structure and genes of ethnic culture as well as the trace and law of cultural development.The first chapter mainly expounds origin of devil culture and marriage customs in Andai dance, besides the cultural connotation of rainmaker. For example, both "a-da Andai" and "e-le Andai" include the ghost, the ghost residence and exorcism customs; "wu-ru-g Andai"(marriage Andai) presents the original traces of development of Mongolian primitive marriage, feudal marriage and family ethics; rain Andai shows the customs of praying Heaven for rain and the worship of Heaven.The second chapter introduces the primitive literature and arts characteristics. It points out that the Andai poetry puts emphasis on rhythm, rhyme and metrics, and explores how to compose oral poetry with some regular formula of various rhetorical devices like comparison, complex, parataxis etc. Many drama factors are contained in Andai-singing ceremony. And it takes a long historical process to change Andai-singing into play. Andai dance delivers the features of primitive dance such as collective dance, lap dance, tap dance, and so on.The third chapter sets out the effect of social and cultural factors on causes and treatment of Andai disease. Many complex elements result in the disease, including the contemporary society, migration, culture shock, psychological and biological features and geographical environment. The Andai-singing shows treatment of Shaman highlighting the application of psychological treatment.The forth chapter carries out the research on Andai with category. The development of Andai is divided into the traditional Andai, modern Andai and non-material cultural heritage. The modern Andai is further divided into folk artists' Andai, professional artists' Andai, Andai of fitness dance and gymnastic Andai. At the same time, the article introduces the methods and principles of protection and inheritance of Andai as a non-material culture.In conclusion part, it sums up the important points of the whole thesis: First, the original cultural characteristics of the symbols of devil, eagle and frog in Andai, and its process of evolution are closely related to funerals and folk beliefs. Second, Andai-singing ceremony is the origin of Andai drama, and the use of oral pattern in Andai poetry as well the Andai dance are the Mongolian spiritual and cultural heritage. Three, the study Andai mental illness belongs to interpretation of the general relation of physical, psychological, social and cultural modes. Four, The spread of Andai and its development have evolved from a natural developing stage to a consciously protecting stage.