Southern Hunan has a long source of regional cultural resources and art, and has accumulated rich local music and dance culture for thousands of years. The ethnic dance in southern Hunan expounded in this paper is mainly the Yao nationality in Yizhang Mangshan and the She nationality in Rucheng. The paper expounds from four aspects; 1 On the basis of studying the dance culture, dance form and dance performance form of the Yao dance and She dance in southern Hunan. 2 To explore new movement characteristics and create more, better and more representative few folk dance works in southern Hunan. 3 Promote ethnic minority dance and strengthen the protection and inheritance of ethnic minority dance in southern Hunan. 4 To seek the future development direction of ethnic minority dance in Southern Hunan.