Performance of SITC Unicorn Dance

The Unicorn Dance is still performed in the traditional way, usually in sunny fields and open spaces in the countryside, where one person dances the head of the unicorn and the other holds the tail of the unicorn. Accompanied by drums, gongs, cymbals, and suona, the Qilin starts to dance and worships three times to the sky (one worships the sky to wish for good weather, two worships the earth to wish for a good harvest, and three worships the people to wish for good health and peace), and then goes around the field and forages for food in the four corners of the field, at which time the suona plays the song "Eat the Four Doors," and then dances in the middle of the field, performing funny movements such as rolling, licking the feet, washing the beard, and biting the sau, and other joyful, angry, and sorrowful moods.

The Qilin Dance is followed by a martial arts performance, which is the traditional essence of the Qilin Dance in SITC. Successive performances of boxing (Nanquan routines), get stick, carry a knife, dance tip string, empty-handed white blade, tip string on the iron ruler, rolling rattan cards, etc., the last is the collective stick fighting, with the intensification of the rhythm of the music to form the climax of the performance (dance martial arts performance), the above performances of the project each class does not necessarily have all, but at least five, so it is called "disk five colors! Therefore, it is called "Pan Wu Cai". Each performance to the class master again dance up the unicorn head cannon to worship the end.