What are the dances of the Tujia

The Tujia people have military dance, rice-planting dance, Maugus dance and so on.

1, military dance: Bayu dance, before the song and then dance, before the war to drum their morale to take the soul of the enemy to drain the enemy gas, lined up in the vanguard before the troops. Began in the Shang and Zhou Dynasty, flourished in the two Han Dynasty. In the late Han Dynasty, it evolved into a court dance. Existing in the folk bench dance has the Bayu dance of the legacy.

2, rice-planting dance: rice-planting or harvesting rice, wheat, in the field or field side of the labor dance. The role of the dance is similar to that of the weed-gathering gongs and drums. The dancers are mainly women, men participate in the song, the hands continue to plant rice seedlings.

3, Maugus Dance: used for harvest festivals and celebrations. Outdoor or held in a large swinging hands hall. Beginning at dusk to the end of the night, usually a township, a village as a unit, men, women and children to participate in their own, around a bonfire and