What are the elements of Guangxi Zhuang dance

What are the elements of Guangxi Zhuang dance: "Bian Tan Dance", "Toad Crutch Dance", "Pound Rice Dance", "Emerald Bird Dance" and so on.

1, Bian Tan Dance: also known as the "hit Lu Lie" "Valley Hammer". It has been passed down in the villages of Mashan and Du'an in Guangxi. The word "Gu Han" means wooden mortar for pounding rice in Zhuang language. In the past, the Zhuang used to pound rice with a wooden mortar and pestle by hollowing out thick logs. This dance originated from the labor of pounding rice, and the initial form was performed around the wooden mortar, which later developed into pounding the bench with a bamboo stretcher.

2. Toad Dance: The "Frog Dance". The local frog is called toad, and there is the legacy of worship toad, every year in the first month of the lunar calendar in the "toad festival", people have to perform a series of dances related to frogs, this custom has been spread in the Guangxi Tian'e, Nandan, Fengshan, and along the Hongshui River and other Zhuang inhabited areas.

3, pounding dance: the original is the ancient Luo Yue, Xi Ou people's "pounding hall", and later developed into many ethnic forms of song and dance. For example, the "rice-pounding dance" of the Buyi and Li, the "pounding and pestle dance" of the Wa, the "pounding stick dance" of the Gaoshan, and the "mortar and pestle song" of the Gaoshan. etc. Pounding means the rhythmic and melodious sound of women pounding rice. In other areas, the pounding dance is called the "hulling dance," "hulling dance," and so on.

4, Jade Bird Dance: circulated in Liuzhou Wuxuan Zhuang residential area. Props made of bamboo scotch bird-shaped, outside the paste green silk sewn to green floss for feathers. The local people love the jade bird hair turquoise, cries clear and crisp, gentle nature, as a symbol of good luck. During the Spring Festival, a man dressed as Pei Kingfisher, another person dressed as an old man, the rate of birds along the question to the family New Year's Eve performance blessings.