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What is the main area where the Sitting Dance has been spread?

Sitting Dance is mainly spread in Ningxia and Gansu.

The Hui folk dance. It is popular in Gansu. Generally, many people sit on the ground in the empty space, take turns to dance in pairs, singing wine songs. Islam prohibits the drinking of alcohol, so stop in simulation. Improvisation, dynamic and organized. Hui folk song and dance. Popular in the mountains of Ningxia.

The Hui dance art has a long history, it is the Hui people in life and labor to create the crystallization of the spirit and culture. So far, it has become a dance art with strong national flavor and unique form and style. As a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese dance art, it is loved by people of all nationalities. Hui dance is a comprehensive whole of visual art and auditory art.

To glorify love as the main content, in the self-indulgence of non-specific occasions, usually by a single person or men and women dancing as a form of performance, the dance is more cheerful and unrestrained. The Sitting Dance is mainly spread in Gansu.

One of the forms is to sit together and sing a "wine song", which is performed mostly by women, but also by pairs of dancers. The music is delicate and varied, clear and pleasant to the ear, with the changes in the music to do some simulation of the dance movements, the upper body with the slow swaying, or gently step. The dance mainly expresses women's inner feelings of joy, anger, sadness and happiness.

Benefits of dancing

Dancing is a good aerobic exercise, whether for adults, children and the elderly, often engaged in aerobic exercise is a good exercise, increase the rate of the body's metabolism is a way and method. Frequent dancing can also enhance the human body's lung capacity, enhance the cardiopulmonary function, so for some such as the prevention of chronic cardiovascular disease has a certain good effect.