Which Ethnic Minority is the Top Bowl Dance

The Uyghur folk dance "Top Bowl Dance" is a women's group dance that integrates ethnicity, folklore, skill and appreciation. It expresses the festive scenes of young and beautiful Uyghur girls singing and dancing with tea bowls on their heads, welcoming guests and celebrating festivals, and expresses the sincere feelings of Uyghur people's love of life and hospitality. At the beginning of the dance, each girl with six tea bowls on her head takes a slow and dignified step, and strikes the rhythm with the thimbles and small plates on her hands. The Thimble and Bowl Dance is an innovative development based on the traditional Uyghur folk dance, the Plate Dance. According to relevant information, the Dance of the Plate first arose in Kuqa County in southern Xinjiang. As this dance has acrobatic colors and requires a high level of difficulty to perform, in the past, it was often performed by one or two artists who could master the technique. With a few bowls on their heads and holding small plates and chopsticks to tap the rhythm, they danced less difficult steps to keep their bodies in balance. The dances were also performed in teahouses and restaurants, after tea or during mass gatherings to please the audience, and had no fixed content or mood. After liberation, it has also been moved to the stage several times, but the intention is mostly for the display of folk dances and skills, no stripped changes, no matter from the sense of the times, the structure, the scene, the skills, can not be compared with the "Top Bowl Dance".