The Red Silk Dance is a folk dance of which ethnic group?

Classical Chinese folk dance, adapted from the Peking Opera water-sleeve technique, which expresses the beauty and joy of a young girl in the form of dance.

Red Silk Dance

Chinese Han folk dance. Dancers dance with different colors and lengths of silk ribbons and named. Silk dance has a long history, the Han dynasty portrait stone, painted bricks have been silk dance dance image, such as Yangzishan, Sichuan, painted bricks engraved with a group of music and dance, which has a female dancers, both hands holding a long silk, silk end of a short stick, the left hand upward, the right hand flat on the stomach in front of the head, back to look forward to the ribbon like waves fluttering, the image is vivid. Silk dance with a long, short two kinds of ribbons. Short silk is generally used in folk songs and dances such as rice-planting songs, some dancers take a short silk in one hand, a hand with a fan with the dance, some dancers hold a short silk dance in both hands, cheerful and lively. Long silk width of about 0.9 to 1 meter, 4 to 6 meters long, silk tied to one end of the 0.33 meters or so of the wooden stick. The dancers hold the wooden stick and dance with the long silk, matching various steps and dance postures, and dancing various silk flowers. The basic silk flower has a small eight, "big eight", "pair of flowers", "wave flower" and so on dozens of kinds. Long Silk Dance is also divided into one-handed (dance a long silk) and two-handed (dance two long silk) two kinds. Chinese traditional opera has preserved a wealth of silk dance.