The long silk dance is a very difficult dance. The longer the silk, the more difficult it is. The silk that an average dancer dances is four times the height of a person, and a circle can just wrap the person in it.
The silk of Changsiwu is about four to six meters long, and there are two types: "soft silk" and "hard silk". For hard silk, one end of the silk is tied to a foot-long silk stick. Single or double silk can be used to dance various silk flowers. For soft silk, there is no silk stick and the long silk is danced by hand power.
The basic silk flowers of the long silk dance include "big eight characters", "small eight characters", "wavy flowers", "double pairs of flowers", "shoulder circles", "jumping circle flowers", "pan flowers" Intestine", "Big Wheel" and so on.
Another dance method is to fasten two pieces of silk from the back of the neck to the shoulders, with several feet of silk hanging from the back. The dancer holds the silk with both hands and dances various silk flowers, which is generally used in Chinese classical dance. "Flying Sky", opera and dance "Tiannu Scattering Flowers" and other repertoires.
Some folk silk dancers have superb silk dance skills and superb skills. They can hold the folded long silk in their hands and release it, then take it back, throw one end, take back the other end, and add dance moves such as turning over, or " Lotus Pot", "Dragon Jumping Gate" and other patterns.