What are the 8 ethnic songs and dances of Hechi

The dance of the Zhuang people originates from the imitation of the hunting, but it is often closely connected with the activities of the shaman's payoff to the gods. The sorcerers always dance and sing to honor the gods, and the gods are happy and pray for blessings.

The earliest record of the Zhuang dance in the mural paintings of Huashan is actually the ode of the Zhuang ancestors to the frog god at that time.

The shape of this dance is two arms open elbow up, two legs squatting into a bow, the action is rough and powerful, endowed with characteristics, known as the frog-shaped dance. In the Wei and Jin dynasties, bureaucrats danced the ghost drum dance when they sacrificed to ghosts and gods.

The famous historian Huang Xian_thinks: "During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the music and dance of the ancestors of the Zhuang people had an unprecedented prosperity.

The physical objects unearthed from Han Dynasty tombs include bronze drums, bronze bells, ram's horn button bells, wooden cavity skin drums, thurles, flutes and so on. Other dances of the Zhuang folk, mostly imitating labor movements.

According to statistics, there are dozens of dances that express labor and love life.

The famous ones are Pounding Dance, Flat Stretcher Dance, Bee Drum Dance, Tea Picking Dance, Bailing Dance, Hydrangea Dance, Shrimp Fishing Dance, Peach Leaf Dance, Dove Dance, etc.

The Zhuang folk dances are mostly modeled on labor movements.