The Yi Left-foot Dance is a group dance for self-entertainment that the Yi people in Mouding County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, love, and is popular in all towns and villages in the county. The Yi Left-foot Dance has a long history. The Dingyuan County Chronicles in the 41st year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty recorded: "On March 28th every year, the Dongyue Temple (now Nanshan Temple) in the southern suburbs outside the city goes to the market, and merchants from all over the world buy and sell clothes and goods, and they disperse on April 3rd. In the evening, more than a hundred men and women play the reed pipe, the Yi harp, the mouth string, sing Yi songs, and stomp their left feet in a circle, and they disperse on the third day of April." The Left-foot Dance is also called jumping feet or jumping left feet. The Left-foot Tune is the music for the Left-foot Dance. There are nearly 300 songs in 8 categories, including love songs, odes, narrative songs, satires, humor, persuasion, education, and drinking songs. The content covers all aspects of Yi culture, production, and life, with a brisk rhythm, easy to understand, and rich in expression. The singing style is characterized by high octave singing, crisp and pleasant, high-pitched and warm. When dancing, the left foot is raised first, and three steps are used to kick one foot. The basic steps include straight foot, swinging foot, stepping foot, stamping foot, stepping foot, kicking foot, rushing foot, and closing foot. Special movements include stringing flowers and turning over. The young men play the four strings of the dragon head and the small erhu, and the girls sing the left foot tune and dance the left foot dance together. There are more than ten people at least and hundreds of people at most. It is magnificent and is the main way for the Yi people to express their emotions in production and life, festivals, weddings and etiquette. The left foot dance combines song, dance and music. It is joyful, powerful, passionate and unrestrained. It is one of the favorite dances of the Yi people. The dance is very casual, with no limit on the number of people, regardless of gender, age, time and place. It can be performed at the village head, courtyard, mountain, lawn, etc. The Yi ethnic group's March Festival, February 8th and some regional festivals are the main occasions for large-scale left-foot dance. At that time, the entire county is filled with the sound of strings and left-foot tunes, and the streets and alleys are crowded with people dancing left-foot dance. In recent years, Mouding's left-foot dance has become more and more influential. Not only young people love to dance, but also people of other ethnic groups love to dance. It has gradually become one of the fitness dances for middle-aged and elderly people in some cities in Yunnan. At present, Mouding County has nearly 360 amateur left-foot dance song and dance teams, more than 600 backbone personnel, more than 20 representative artists of song and dance, and Yi villages have their own left-foot dance teams. The Yi left-foot dance has become a national dance type in the county. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)