What is the Zhuang dance

1, flat dance: also known as the "hit Lu Lie" "Valley Hammer". It has been passed down in the villages of Mashan and Du'an in Guangxi. The word "Gu Han" means wooden mortar for pounding rice in Zhuang language. In the past, the Zhuang used to pound rice with a wooden mortar and pestle by hollowing out thick logs. This dance originated from the labor of pounding rice, and the initial form was performed around the wooden mortar, which later developed into pounding the bench with a bamboo stretcher.

2, pounding dance: the original is the ancient Luo Yue, Ou people's "pounding hall", and later developed into a form of song and dance for many ethnic groups. Such as the "rice pounding dance" of the Buyi and Li, the "pounding and pestle dance" of the Wa, the "pounding stick dance" of the Gaoshan, and the "pestle and mortar song" of the Gaoshan. etc.

3. The Emerald Bird Dance: It has been passed down in the Zhuang settlement of Wuxuan, Liuzhou. Props made of bamboo scotch bird-shaped, outside the paste green silk sewn to green floss for feathers. The local people love the jade bird hair turquoise, cries clear and crisp, gentle nature, as a symbol of good luck. During the Spring Festival, a man dressed as Pei Kingfisher, another person dressed as an old man, the rate of birds along the question to the family New Year's Eve performance blessings.

4, toad拐舞：即 "Frog Dance". Local frogs as toad, and the legacy of worship toad, every year in the first month of the lunar calendar, "toad festival", people have to perform a series of dances related to frogs, this custom is spread in Guangxi, Tian'e, Nandan, Fenghuangshan, and along the Hongshui River and other Zhuang inhabited areas.