The reporter learned from the Enshi Prefecture Culture and Sports Bureau that the Eight Treasures Bronze Bell Dance of the Xuanen Tujia people is unique to the Tujia people in the Youshui Basin and is a rare and precious intangible cultural heritage. The copper bell dance is not only a wonderful song and dance, an artistic custom, but also carries heavy historical and cultural information, and contains profound philosophical value and educational significance. Although some movements have a strong religious color, such as kneeling down, kowtowing, worshiping gods, reining in horses to look at gods, stepping on gossip, etc., the theme of the entire dance and performance far exceeds the witchcraft content of praying to gods. , is a fairly complete set of drawings of the ancient Tujia people’s nomadic migration life on horseback.
The Eight Treasures Bronze Bell Dance integrates singing, dancing and music. Its dance is an organic unity of steps, shapes and compositions. The core of its steps are "Three Steps" and "Tai Chi Diagram", and the dancer steps one step at a time. One tremble or multiple trembles in one step, with flowing rhythmic beauty; its libretto is the "Sacred Song" sung by Tujia Tima, with the style of "Zhuzhi Ci", which has been passed down orally from generation to generation using the Tujia language as the carrier, or recorded in Chinese characters. The music method is passed down from generation to generation and is a "living fossil" for studying the history of the Tujia people; its music is a unique song category with Tujia characteristics based on the "Haha tune" as the core. The melody intervals are mostly pure fourths, The big jump of pure fifths and the continuous "shaking" of unison tones are the ancient origins of the theory of "shaking sound" in the basic music theory of the Chinese nation.