What is Chopsticks Dance

The Mongolian people do not like to knock the chopsticks and bowls when they are eating, but the Mongolian people in Ordos do not like this custom. They often knock the chopsticks and bowls during the festive feasts, and the Chopstick Dance is a result of this. Chopstick Dance is a form of dance performed by a male entertainer alone at weddings and festivals, accompanied by strings and vocals. Chopsticks Dance must be full of chopsticks with the right hand, with the power of the bowl to lift up and down, first hit the hands, legs, shoulders, and then hit the feet to hit the ground, followed by the change of the bowl around, sometimes the shoulders shrugged vigorously, sometimes the legs jumped dexterously, sometimes twisting the body to the left and leaning forward to face the left, and sometimes twisting the body to the right and leaning forward to face the right. Various types of movements are basically linked to the semi-anointed dance posture.

The Chopsticks Dance is characterized by shoulder movements and is usually performed by men. The dancers hold chopsticks in their right hands and hit their hands, legs, shoulders, feet and other parts of the body from time to time, and sometimes also hit the ground (or the stage). With the change of the wrist, sometimes the shoulder shrugs actively, sometimes the leg jumps skillfully, sometimes the left body leans forward, sometimes the right body leans forward. Its shoulder movements have both a sense of rhythm, but also has an extraordinary flavor, integration of joy, wonderful and strong as one. Although the action is simple, but with skills to please the audience, so there is a certain performance nature. Chopsticks dance spread in Xing'anmeng plains, both male solo dance, there are male and female group dance. In the form of performance from the single-handed chopsticks growth to two-handed chopsticks, shoulders, waist, legs of the dance vocabulary is doubly rich. So the dance seems to be cheerful, frank and bright, novelty, the most expressive of the Mongolian enthusiasm, openness, swarthy, bold personality of the easy-going people.