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12 Basic Steps of Tibetan Dance

12 The basic steps of Tibetan dance are rubbing, dragging, stepping, tripping, pointing, tucking, kicking, planing, kicking, sucking, jumping and twisting.

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Tibetan dance is the floorboard of Tibetan national dance. Tibetan dance culture has a long history, which interacts with the dance culture of Han nationality and the dance culture of neighboring nationalities and countries, forming a unique Tibetan culture in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The more common Tibetan dances are Heizai, Guozhuang and Tap Dance. There are many kinds of Tibetan folk dances with their own characteristics. Apart from thanking and surpassing Zhuo, antithesis, harmony and Zhuo are the most popular and famous self-entertainment circular dances.

Tibetans are one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, with a large population and wide geographical distribution. Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, which originated in the middle reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River basin in Tibet and concentrated in Xizang Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

It has a long national history and rich culture. Due to the differences in living areas of Tibetans and the contact with other neighboring nationalities, many forms and styles of etiquette and songs and dances have been formed in the same kind of cultural phenomena and artistic varieties, festivals and sacrificial activities.

In Tibetan folk festivals, it is people's greatest expectation and joy to look forward to a bumper harvest and celebrate the "Fruit Festival" after half a year's hard work. In Tibetan, the word "Wang" in "Guo Wang Festival" means "field", "Guo" means "turning around", and the overall meaning of "Guo Wang Festival" means: singing and dancing around the harvested fields.

When Wang Dui held the "Fruit Festival", people began to get busy earlier than usual to prepare for the activities. The women lit the stove in the yard and began to cook tea and pound milk. Men are busy setting up tents, arranging "viewing ceremony" seats covered with animal skins, and inserting willow branches and highland barley on the high platform that has been set up in the south of the yard.

Near noon, the celebration venue of "Guo Wang Festival" was finally arranged. Under the warm greetings of the host, the invited foreign guests took their seats in the guest table in turn and accepted the highland barley wine presented by the host. According to the custom, they dipped their middle finger into the wine and waved shells three times to show their respect for the god of heaven and earth.