| Andai dance is a kind of Mongolian primitive dance originated from Kulun banner,Tongliao City,Inner Mongolia.It enjoys the reputation of "living fossil" of Mongolian dance art.Andai dance is essentially different from other forms of Mongolian dances.It is produced in the long-term production and life of the Mongolian people,so it perfectly shows the Mongolian People’s industrious and simple,enthusiastic and heroic character.Andai dance is a part of the early Mongolian Shamanism ceremony,and later developed into the stage art with the change of the times.With the development of the times,the religious nature of Andai dance has completely disappeared.Now it has become a kind of culture and art with ethnic characteristics and symbolizing the ethnic spirit of the Mongolian people.Andai dance has a significant impact on the development and inheritance of modern Mongolian art and culture.Many scholars or experts from various regions have carried out a large number of systematic research and investigation,and have achieved remarkable results.With the jointefforts of the older generation of Mongolian cultural workers,Andai dance was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list on May 20,2006,and has become an important part of Chinese folk culture.As an intangible cultural heritage,the effective protection and inheritance of Andai dance is the most basic task.The Andai culture is the witness of the historical development of the Mongolian ethnic group.It is an extremely precious cultural resource with important research value.It is a rich and colorful cultural heritage created by the Mongolian people in the long-term production and living practice.It is also the crystallization of the wisdom and creation of the Mongolian people.Therefore,the protection and effective use of the Mongolian Andai dance culture,the intangible cultural heritage,is a great significance to the implementation of the social science development concept.As one of the representative cultural heritages of Mongolian ethnic group,the problem of how to protect and inherit it is a problem to be solved.This paper attempts to analyze the historical origin of Andai dance and its characteristics and value;from the perspective of reality,combined with the development law of abandoning the old and promoting the new in the new epoch,it analyzes the current situation of the popularity of Andai dance;at the same time,it analyzes the contradictions and difficulties encountered in the protection and inheritance and the methods of protection measures;finally,it puts forward the specific problems encountered in the inheritance and countermeasures. |
