Flesh Lotus, what is the dance?

This is a made-up plot in Zeng Jiu's novel "Snowy Past".

"Meat Lotus Flower", also known as "Lotus Flower Eighteen Rings", was once popular in the area of Shazi, Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, few people danced it anymore because of the war and the lack of livelihood.

The Flesh Lotus Flower is the continuation and evolution of the legacy of military music and dance of the ancient Ba people, the forefathers of the Tujia ethnic group, and is a concentrated manifestation of the Tujia people's traditional culture and character traits. The dance is majestic, with roaring sound, fierce and mighty movements, rigid and flexible, crackling and snapping, very ethnic, sporty and ornamental.

"Flesh Lotus Flower" was created by Yang Tongzhao, a folk artist, in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

Legend has it that Yang Tongzhao loved to sing and dance all his life, and every New Year, he would organize lantern dances, and he himself would play the main role. In his twilight years, he was still obsessed. This dance is not subject to time and space and the number of limitations, free and unrestrained, after tea and dinner, labor can be danced with, is a form of self-indulgent dance.

"Flesh Lotus" has participated in the National Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Minority Traditional Sports Games, were awarded the Gold Medal; to participate in the People's Republic of China *** and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country's large-scale performances, the China Central Television (CCTV), Taiwan's Sanli Television and other more than 10 television stations across the country are filming and broadcasting.