The Pendulum Dance is a traditional dance of the Tujia ethnic group with a long history, which has been passed down in the Youshui Basin and Yuanshui Basin along the border of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Hubei, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing, Chongqing and Chongqing. In Chongqing Youyang, Xiushan, Qianjiang, Pengshui, Shizhu, Hunan Yongshun, Longshan, Baojing, Guzhang, Hubei Laifeng, Enshi, Guizhou Yanhe, Yinjiang and other places there are swinging hand dance activities documented. In ancient times, the Pendulum Dance was mainly used for rituals and prayers, and the objects of worship, in addition to the eight gods, were mostly the kings of the Tusi, such as Lord Peng, Tian Hao Han, Xiang Lao Ren, and other famous figures in history, with significant traces of rituals and ancestor worship. The name of the dance of swinging hands varies from place to place, the Longshan area in Hunan Province is called "Sheba Day", Baojing is called "transferring the year", Yongshun is called "Sheba BaBa", and its folk significance is the same! The folklore significance is the same - praying for sacrifice. Nowadays, it is most popular in Youyang County, known as the hometown of the Pendulum Dance, and in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, one of the first declared intangible cultural heritages of the country.
The Hand Swinging Dance is clearly recorded in the relevant county records of the northwest Hunan region. In the 28th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, "Yongshun Prefecture Records and Customs", it is written, "There is a Hand Swinging Hall in each village, also known as the Ghost Hall, which is said to be the yinshi Yamamen of the deceased local officials. The third to seventeenth day of the first month of every year. Men and women gather to dance and sing, called Pendulum, this custom still exists." Qing Dynasty Tongzhi Yongshun Tribute student Peng Shiduo made a bamboo stick lyrics, said: "Fushi City in the brocade for the nest, the King of the soil Palace by the water waves, the red lamps ten thousand points of a thousand stacks of people, a piece of lingering swinging hands song." All illustrate the pendulum dance as the Tujia people enjoy a large folk dance in the Qing Dynasty has been quite popular in northwest Hunan. Longshan County Records of the Qing Dynasty and other books have detailed records, Yongding District, Maogang, Qingan, Luo water around the villages inhabited by the Tujia people are swinging hand hall or the ruins of the temple of the King of the soil, so far, the Tujia people for ancestor worship and swinging hand dance activities are still carried out at these sites.