The Dong people are divided into two dialect areas, South and North, with Jinping County as the boundary. No matter the southern or northern Dong, all of them are skillful in singing the melodious "Dong songs". Almost all Dong villages have amateur singing groups. Dong songs have a long history, and their music can be roughly divided into southern Dong folk songs and northern Dong folk songs. Most of the southern Dong folk songs are accompanied by musical instruments, and common instruments include pipa, ox-legged zither, Dong flute, lusheng, etc. The northern Dong folk songs, on the other hand, are accompanied by musical instruments. The northern Dong folk songs, on the other hand, are mostly sung without instrumental accompaniment, occasionally accompanied by wooden leaf blowing.
The Dong folk songs can be roughly divided into "big songs", "small songs", "square songs", "narrative songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs", "drinking songs" and "drinking songs". The Dong folk songs can be broadly categorized into six types according to their forms: "Big Song", "Small Song", "Square Song", "Narrative Song", "Drinking Party Song" and "Road Blocking Song".
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The Dong folk dances mainly include Lusheng Dance, Doye Dance, Giving Fish Dance, Lion Dance, Dragon Lantern Dance, Feather Shuttlecock Dance and so on.
The Lusheng Dance has disappeared as much as the Sheng Song, and what is now passed down is mainly divided into two categories: the performance dance and the carnival dance. The performance dance mainly shows the change and variety of footsteps, and when the sheng song changes from one section to another, the upper body and head and the hand and arm holding the sheng change with a right-swinging dance posture. This kind of sheng dance is mainly a lusheng dance in which the sheng team itself blows on the dancing sheng or makes a slow entrance in the marching song. The Carnival Dance of the Lusheng is a large-scale Lusheng dance held on the Sai Sheng Ping. This kind of Lusheng dance has a strong rhythm, swift movements and exuberant feelings, which is like thunder and lightning, wild winds and a warm atmosphere.
Doye is a large-scale singing dance. Dong language "more" has singing, dancing and other meanings, "yeah" is a leader and the song. Doye is a song and dance with hundreds of young men and women gathered in a field.
The Fish Giving Dance is a primitive fishing and hunting dance in the activity of "lifting officials".
The "Lion Dance" is a kind of dance activity held by the Dong people during the Spring Festival, which is mainly divided into the Celebration Dance, the Theater Lion Dance and the Green Lion Dance.
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