"Duan Gong dance", commonly known as "carry God", circulated in the western mountains of Nanzhang Xueping town area, more than 3,000 years of history. The discovery of the "Duan Gong Dance" has stirred the domestic historiography and literary circles, known as the "living fossil" of Chu culture.
According to evidence, the Duan Gong dance has a history of more than two thousand years. In the process of folk circulation, Duan Gong Dance is compatible with other cultures, but basically retains the original and simple style. Among them, "Stomping on the Flower Gang", "God's Gun Dance", "Dance of Sacrificing the Five Gods", "Dance of Sacrificing the Five Rampant Gods", "Roc Golden-winged Bird", "Stomping on the Eight Trigrams", "Running through the City and Wearing Flowers" and so on have all retained the imprints of the Ba culture, the Chu culture and the witch culture. Its dance program is similar to that in the Chu Rhetoric "Nine Songs".
The Duan Gong Dance is still performed in the mountainous areas of Nanzhang, Baokang and Gucheng in the middle reaches of the Han River and Zhenba in Hanzhong, Shaanxi in the upper reaches of the Han River, but the conditions for protection and excavation are very difficult. Duan Gong dance, there are three days and three nights, seven days and seven nights. Most of the people who are invited to perform the Duan Gong Dance are families with affluent economic conditions. Duan Gong Dance is a kind of folk dance to mourn the dead in the form of joyful dancing, which is an important part of the witch culture and shows the customs of the ancient Chu nation from one side. Duan Gong Dance is a kind of witch dance in folk ritual activities, which is a kind of ritual song and dance with strong color of witch culture and simple and primitive atmosphere, through which people pray for blessing and elimination of disasters.