01 · THIRTY CONTEMPORARY POSITIONS, NO RECEIVED FOLK LYRICAll thirty performed positions are contemporary; Peacock River is a lyrical river, not a fabricated folk-song discovery
The public source prompt contains forty-seven lines, thirty-nine nonblank, 406 characters and 930 UTF-8 bytes, hashing to af4b15524b962dcf7d231501368e2fd5e8c1c2acfaf8deeb0cacea7530872125. Removing structure labels and blanks leaves thirty performed lines, 291 characters and 815 UTF-8 bytes, hashing to adcf8dbcb801f18c06390db70090af496d45192a6a9e878fc6cb8a2f92a25a56. No classical verse, traditional folk lyric or identifiable received text is borrowed. The paired ‘who sings / who watches by Peacock River’ calls appear twice, while four answering lines return to form the complete refrain. The archive treats Peacock River as a lyrical place inside this song—not a real river, fieldwork site, folk-song source or travelled route.
02 · A LIVING DANCE REFERENCE IS NOT A VISUAL PROPThe peacock has traceable Dai cultural roots; one generated opening-feather image is not peacock dance
The 275-character source tag string asks for a southwest Chinese minority folk-pop ballad, Dai-village river, clean bright delicate female vocal, hulusi, bamboo flute, soft plucked instruments, gentle strings, a slow sway and long instrumental passages, while excluding rap, EDM and heavy drums. It hashes to 3bf83e0b985c92304cbf59dbfd6ca5e613607bd0705c7efd7753b9889f61b18a. The UNESCO-affiliated International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region identifies Peacock Dance specifically with Dai performers in Yunnan and documents movement sequences that imitate a peacock leaving its nest, drinking and spreading its feathers. That traceable context requires distance here: peacock, silver, hearth, bamboo shadow and village remain William Lee’s contemporary AI-assisted lyrical imagery. With no real dancer, tradition bearer, elephant-foot drum, festival, ritual, field recording or community authorization, this recording is not presented as peacock dance, traditional folk song or documentation of Dai life.
