Yi ethnic characteristics of music and dance, melody-rich, beautiful sounds. Dance fast-paced, passionate. Mouth string folk instruments yueqin and very popular, young men and women have used it to express feelings, to express love, dating and love is self-entertainment.

　　Yi music and dance a wide range of styles. Flexible flexible "cigarette Dance", a joyous mood of the "Law for the Dance", vigorous ancient "Yi hit song," passionate "A fine jump on" and the unique rhythm of "bronze drum", "Golden Bamboo Dance", "ritual dance", "winter frame wins Luohe Dance" and other folk dances, music and dance unique to become the garden of the Chinese nation in a beautiful landscape. Yi proverb reads: "But a lot Yijia song, dance twist but Yijia, the number of stars in the sky can do, Yijia endless number of dance, song and dance number to ask Yijia? Please bucket to measure the sea." "Yi was born singing, singing is one of several big load, down the western slope of the sun sing, sing Venus from the east, called the lark stopped listening to music, listening to the sound of cattle and sheep grazing forget, if you want to hear songs Yi Jia , Yijia cottage to go. "This is a colorful Yi folk song and dance, many forms of injustice. Can be said that Yi is a singing and dancing, has a wealth of folk dance and music arts, whether it is work space, or weddings and festivals, have to dance to express their emotions, spiritual and cultural dance music is an important part of the Yi .

Wide range of folk operas Yi, Yi folk literature is one important source. Often in traditional Yi society in the history of singing in the form of lectures, emphasis on ethics, customs and tradition to express love and emotions, singing their lyrics are based on the content, or smooth euphemism, or cadence, or the gentle melody, with great artistic appeal. Folk songs from the large category can be divided into narrative songs, love songs, hard songs, work songs, songs and customs of wine songs.

Yi people's very fond of instrumental music and dance, Yi extremely wide variety of musical instruments, classified by modern instruments, stringed instruments are Yueqin, product strings, three-stringed lute, horn violin, three HU; wind instruments are Bau, Maputo, gourd Sheng, Qing Lu, g West feel Seoul, Kiba; percussion with drums, Kela Meng, the amount of lattice film.

Yi dance forms, is rich in life and ethnic styles. "Tage" is the most mass of a dance. In parts of the Yi, the "Tage", also known as "kick up", "jump Song", "left", "jump Guozhuang", etc., is a rich historical heritage Yi dance form. Weishan, Yunnan text Longting have drawn Qing Dynasty Qianlong reflect Yi "Tage" Dance of the murals, their dance forms and dance with today's Yi "Tage" almost the same dance, that bonfire of a circle, surrounded by Yi into a circle, jump into the front collar playing Lusheng and other musical instruments, while others stand on another and then dance together, their vigorous dance, march in step to beat, jumping side when we step while dancing and singing.

Yi dance forms there are four strings dance, dance for Luo, "A small jump on," dance cigarette, bronze drum, dance hubs, winter Geduo He, Lusheng dance, dance mat Phi, buckwheat son dance, dance inserted, the feet dance, dance bells, wine ceremony dance, dance the hippocampus, gold bamboo dance, wedding dance, and the "Mengmo home hereby", jump in the Funeral "Wazi black," "chatter so far", "pull box", Paper encouraging and so on. In Northwest Guizhou Yi Nuo also a popular game, Yi called "group of Taj", which means just the formation of the human era. Jump "group of Taj" for the men, their peculiar dress, with a cloth wrapped around the head into a cone, mounted in black body, upper body and legs with cloth wrapped around his face wearing a white clay coated with wood. Performers with rough movements during the performance of primitive human life, usually in the Lunar New Year's flood the temple to 15 performances, mainly used for eliminate the bad evil spirits, pray for good harvest next year, domestic animals thrive.

Yi folk instrumental music is very rich, with solo and ensemble, etc., solo in the big and small Liangshan Yi Yueqin instrumental "Autumn Wind" to "threshing floor", "Leibo tune" immeasurable mountains of Yunnan Yi flute solo song "over mountain," "The sheep tune" Red River in Yunnan Yi Ba Wulu played song "A Mile" and the most prominent features. Ensemble formed very early in history, the most famous court Nanzhao AD 800 by playing the band went to Chang, "Nan Zhao Feng sacred music", the large-scale, beautiful music, Tang Chang'an at the time was a high reputation. Modern Yi folk music ensemble to Nie Su Yi branch of the "dance suite" A small branch and Yi's "A Fine Dance" the most representative.