The best looking waist drum dance is the "Open Lights and Colors".
The waist drum dance is a widely popular traditional folk dance in China, originating from ancient war drums. In the "Zhang Lanterns and Ribbons", the dancers hang an oval drum around their waists and hold drumsticks in each hand, striking them alternately, and the dance is very attractive while striking, which is loved by many people. After the founding of New China, waist drumming became a traditional dance often performed during festivals, and the masses called it "playing waist drums".
Waist drumming is a collective dance, used for celebrations, enthusiastic scenes, to express people's joy and encouragement and the heroic spirit of the working people. Dancers of both sexes, are wearing colorful clothes, hanging an oval drum at the waist, each hand holding a drumstick, drumstick tied with red silk, while playing the dance, the drums are rich in changes, strong rhythm, more changes in the dance, out of a variety of complex and wonderful patterns. The waist drum team is as few as four to eight people, as many as ten or even hundreds of people. Performances of emotional warmth, robust movements, neat and tidy queue, great momentum.
The main features of waist drumming
The drums are the main means of expressing the content of the waist drumming. Commonly used drums are: "starting point", "stopping point", "step drum", "running water", "single point", "chaotic point", "long point", "tight three Chui", etc., each showing different rhythms and emotions. Each of them expresses different rhythms and emotions. Folk drums on the waist drumming point of the name is very vivid image, generalized more than 30 kinds of names.
For example: "Phoenix three nodding", "tiger wash face", "Thunder God drum", "butterfly flying Dance movements include "kicking", "turning", "horseback riding", "flying feet", "turn over", "short step" and so on. Waist drumming is mainly performed in groups. The number of people is less than a dozen, dozens, hundreds or even hundreds. Folk performance waist encouragement, often two pairs of simultaneous performances, with the nature of the competition, than the drums, than skills, the more enthusiastic, the more exciting to play.