中国东北是满族的故乡,牡丹江一带保留了比较完整的萨满祭祀仪式,俗称“跳家神”。一个“跳”字便说明了舞蹈在仪式中的存在与作用。萨满即满——通古斯族的语言,意为“因兴奋而狂舞”之人。祭祀活动由“穆昆达”(满语,即族长)主持。他首先把祖宗匣子“请”来,族人在穆昆达带领 Northeast China is the hometown of Manchu, Mudanjiang area to retain a more complete shaman sacrificial ceremony, commonly known as “jumping home god.” A “jump” word shows the existence and function of dance in the ceremony. Shaman is full - Tungusic language, meaning “excited because of the dance” person. Festival activities by the “Mu Kunda” (Manchu, Patriarch) presided over. He first “invited” the ancestral box and the tribe led in Mukunda