What are the characteristics of zhuang dance?

The earliest records show that zhuang dance in Huashan mural was actually an ode to the frog god by Zhuang ancestors at that time. The style of this dance is to raise your arms, open your elbows and squat down with your legs in a lunge. The action is rough and powerful, endowed with characteristics. It's called frog dance.

Other Zhuang folk dances mostly imitate the labor movement. According to statistics, there are dozens of dances that show labor and love life. The famous dances are: rushing pond dance, pole dance, bee inspiration, tea party, bucket dance, hydrangea dance, shrimp fishing dance, peach leaf dance, turtledove dance and so on. For example:

Pole Dance of Zhuang People;

There are four performers, six performers, ten performers and twenty performers, all even, mostly women. During the performance, the dancers stood opposite each other with a pole, surrounded by wooden troughs or benches more than one foot long and one foot wide, and everyone shouted and hit them up and down, singing and jumping, simulating the postures and movements of harrowing fields, transplanting rice, scooping water, harvesting, threshing and threshing rice in agricultural activities. Dancers sometimes play in pairs, sometimes four people cross each other, and sometimes many people play together; There are standing, squatting, jumping, turning, hitting, etc. With all kinds of movements of light and heavy, strong and weak, fast and slow, beautiful and natural, the whole dance is beautiful and fresh.