舞蹈语言在“承载或传递信息及观念”层面上,就是一种表意的“体态符号”。在舞蹈进入舞台,成为表演性质的舞台艺术之后,舞蹈语言的“表意”功能逐渐被“演绎”功能所弱化,因而我们只能够从民间原生态的舞蹈文化中去寻找“体态符号”的踪迹。我之所以选择以羌族的舞蹈文化作个案分析,原因有三:其一,羌族是一个具有深厚历史文化底蕴的民族;其二,羌族是一个没有成形文字的民族;其三,羌族是一个原始文化痕迹 The dance language is an ideographic “body symbol ” at the level of “carrying or transmitting information and ideas.” After the dance enters the stage and becomes the performance art stage art, the function of “Expression ” in the dance language is gradually weakened by the “deduction ” function of the dance language, so we can only look for “body posture from the folk original dance culture Symbol ”trail. There are three reasons why I chose to use the Qiang dance culture as a case study: First, the Qiang ethnic group is a nation with a profound historical and cultural background; secondly, the Qiang nationality is an unmarked nation; thirdly, the Qiang ethnic group is a primitive culture trace