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Mr. Yong Lao, what's the name of the artistic ability in Japan?

Yong Lao ren is called "Weng" in the local art and energy circles in Japan. It means to pray for national stability, people's unity, population prosperity and bumper crops. In the local wild talk, the performance begins with a dance to greet the gods, and then the official performance begins. That's what the old people in Okinawa mean. There are two kinds of performances for the elderly in Okinawa. One is that a man and a woman play the old man and a woman respectively, and the other is an old man's performance symbolizing the patriarch. Such a character image implies longevity, prosperity of future generations and material abundance, which means that the old man symbolizes three ideals of mankind. Nowadays, the dance for the elderly has become a special ceremony of stage performance. No matter what program is performed, the opening program must be the dance of the elderly. This ancient form of dance still remains in the folk activities of offering sacrifices to gods in rural areas.