On a deeper level, the Ami nation is divided into two important cultural threads. One type has song and dance for young men at the Prayer for a Bountiful Harvest: this marks a kind of military training for the passage of youth in Ami society, and all the singing and dancing are like martial music, in order to build bonds among all men of the same age group.
更深入一點，阿美族的舞蹈分兩大系統，一種是男孩子豐年祭歌舞：那是阿美族社會中一種年齡階層的軍事訓練，所有歌舞就如軍歌，用以凝聚同年齡階層的男子。