本文以产生于土家族地区的摆手舞形态为研究对象,在前辈学者们研究的基础上,利用已有的研究成果和文献资料,运用舞蹈动作分析法从舞蹈本体切入,并借助于民族学和历史学的研究方法从舞蹈文化内涵切入,试图从摆手舞的起源、表演形式和传承等方面,从横向上分析摆手舞的形态特征和内在含义。 Based on the researches of predecessors and scholars, this paper makes use of the existing research results and literature, uses the dance movement analysis method to cut the dance body and takes advantage of the ethnology and The historical research methods cut through the connotation of dance culture, trying to analyze the morphological characteristics and inherent meaning of swing dance from the aspects of the origin, performance form and inheritance of hand-waving dance.