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At traditional Qiang weddings, village song and dance experts will first form a 12-member "welcome" and "best man". On the day of the wedding, whether it is hot in summer or cold in winter, when the wedding guests approach the entrance of the village, the bridesmaids will mercilessly pour the prepared water on the wedding guests, preventing them from entering the village until the wedding guests hand over the "village rite". After entering the village, there is a ceremony called "Thu Huu Mi". The welcome guests tell the story of the couple's humanity and love. After the speeches, the banquet begins. The mischievous bridesmaids replaced the chopsticks on the table with straws, leaving the guests unable to eat the food and wine. The eloquent bridesmaids also improvised lyrics, sang and danced merrily, and added wood to the fireplace, making them sweat profusely.
To the laughter of the crowd, the wife's friends and family performed a lyrical and beautiful "ceremonial dance". The women, dressed in red dresses and sashes, stood in a semicircle in front of the fireplace and sang a joyful song, "The Game of Potluck," wishing everyone prosperity and harmony. The dancers work in groups of two, grabbing each other's red belts, taking small steps, swaying their upper bodies, and then taking turns. This movement is characterized by the immobility of the upper body and the waist to the hips. The "Ili Dance" is still preserved in the Chibi Soviet enclosure and Yao Ping Qiang village in Maowen County.
It is said that the "ritual dance" was performed by ancient witches and later evolved into a women's song and dance. However, it is still characterized by broken steps and hip-to-hip. On the morning of the wedding, the bridesmaids dress the bride and sing the "Dress Song". Then a young man of the same age carried the bride out of the village. The bride was dressed in red, holding a red umbrella and riding a horse. Surrounded by bridesmaids and wedding guests, she marched off to the groom's house.
After the ceremony and banquet, the singing and dancing began again. The "congratulatory dance" is a dance performed by family and friends at the banquet. The lyrics are simple and the content is closely tied to the marriage. The dance starts with one or two steps, with the right foot facing the left, called "one step" or "two steps.
Weddings can't be separated from wine, including a wine-themed wine dance. This dance imitates the shape of a peacock and has lively movements. At different times of the year, the Qiang people also like to dance the Pot Zhuang Dance, also known as the "Agricultural Festival Dance".
In the autumn, some Qiang people like to have "childless festivals", such as "Nanshui". On that day, men dressed in women's red clothes and carrying feathers go to the mountains to sing and dance all day to welcome the gods and pray for the elimination of disasters. On the first day of May, the festival of the "Amendment of the Russian Covenant" is held to pray to the gods of the mountains not to have hailstones or floods, which means to pray for a year and to fulfill promises. During the festival, we dance in the village of "Busy before the gods", keeping our heads down and clapping our hands and feet. The Dragon Boat Festival on May 5 is an important festival for the Qiang people in Li County. It is mainly used to worship the mountain gods. On that day, the "Washawa Cane" is performed. On the evening of December 30, the Qiang villages in Puxi will dance "I'm full of rice, I'm full of rice". Guests come to the hut, the host serves barley wine, and then men and women face each other and dance with rolling pins in their hands. I feel very happy.
The pot village dance with the color of the game is also called "pot village dance". For example, in the Flag Village pot village game, the dancers stand in a line holding hands. After leading a circle, people one by one from the armpits of two or three, put their hands on the right shoulder, and then walk around, from the armpits of three or four, put their hands like a chain on the shoulder, and then from the armpits of the last three, until the liberation. Walked up the steps while jumping and laughed the whole time.
Because of the different circulation areas, the styles and characteristics of Xishi potjang also have their own specialties. There are 25 kinds of common potjang dances in Wen County. There are many songs that glorify mothers and few songs that glorify love. The dances are held outdoors and the scene is spectacular. Everyone in the village can participate. Due to the different contents and forms of the dance, the formation changes a lot. During the dance, people stand in two rows and dance towards each other. The movements include "turning to both sides", also called "how strong", i.e. turning to the left and to the right, and "turning at the four corners", also called "stirring up English waves", i.e. turning in all four directions, i.e. turning in all four directions. "Four-corner turn" is also called "Stirring up the English wave", which means jumping back and forth in four directions. The "three-side jump" is also called "Xilaiwasa", i.e., left jump, right jump and front jump. The names of these movements characterize the dance.
In addition, many people choose the name of the dance with cheerful sound, such as "The weather is getting hotter and hotter in the west", "In the mountains", and "Bebeso" is a cheerful chorus in the dance. Throughout the potlatch dance, the "Chidomanamaka" of the Chibi Su in Mowen County shows a unique movement with the left foot in a low position. When dancing, the handles are arranged horizontally. When the right foot is lowered, the left foot is lowered and the hips are swung by constant stepping. The potshuang dances of Wenchuan and Lixian County include "Green Vegetables", "Cabbage Blossoms", "Youxiyi", "Muxi", "Zhou Zhou", "Zhou Zhou" and "Zhou Zhou", "Zhou Zhou" and other 20 kinds of dances. Most of them are closely related to production labor and agricultural harvest. For example, the "sieve" of Guozhuang in Xuecheng, Li County is on the threshing floor. People sieve wheat sieve dust, think of a pile of food and clothing, as if hearing the threshing floor shovels and iron pots "clanking" sound. Jiashan, Guozhuang "corn rotation" is also related to the harvest. In short, Guozhuang in Wenchuan and Li counties have a trembling pace, like to walk on wings or clap their hands, and have a cheerful disposition. Home furnishings contain special elasticity; there is also a strong sense of humor. Characteristic action is to tease the foot, such as the knee turned inside out, left hand side on top of the left foot, palm up, left foot slightly raised.