Sani people created stone forest culture, which attracts tourists with its unique charm. As the traditional dance of Sani people, Dasanxian Dance has won appreciation of countless guests from home and abroad, having become a special highlight for local tourism.

Sani people have a legend regarding the origin of Dasanxian: in ancient times,Yi people lived in the deep forests and planted crops by slash-and-burn cultivation. During the planting season, hereditary headman forced people to work on his land first, and then poor people were allowed to cultivate their own. In order to seize the time, people started to planting seeds quickly as they could not wait for the carbon on the "fire land" to be completely extinguished. Because they had no shoes to wear and felt their feet hot and uncomfortable, people had to lift their feet up and down twice every three steps, having the two feet take turns. Sometimes they felt burnt so much that they shouted “ahzz”. During slack season, people recalled these movements and felt that these could express their inner feelings. So they used Dasanxian as a matching instrument to design dancing, which became today's Dasanxian Dance, also known as "Tiaoyue”.

Dasanxian

(Collected according to online information)