There used to be hundreds of sets of movements and songs in Qu Zhuo, but now there are only more than 30 paragraphs in Qu Zhuo in Xinzhai. The name of music is the name of dance. Except for a few paragraphs, most of the music, lyrics and movements are unique. Each Qu Zhuo has Adagio and Allegro, and the lyrics of Adagio are 4 to 6 paragraphs, with slow movements; Allegro is mostly a variation of Adagio, with intense movements, and it usually ends when repeated twice. Qu Zhuo sang and danced without accompaniment. Qu Zhuo has no strict performance time, place, occasion or procedure. Every year, from the evening of the ninth day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar to the next day, "Qu Zhuo" is performed in the open space at the foot of the sacred mountain only once a year. Before the dance, people gathered in front of the mulberry-simmering stage to stew mulberry to worship the gods, and women sang songs with six-character mantra as the content. After arriving at the dance floor, 60 adult men form a pair of dances, and 30 men form a group, each standing in a semicircle, and each group is led by Qu Ben (the lead dancer), and everyone sings and dances clockwise. One group is given priority to, the other group is given priority to with smaller movements, and the two groups take turns alternately. The order of Qu Zhuo 1-4 paragraphs cannot be reversed, and other paragraphs can be skipped. Women can only watch, not dance together. When performing, male dancers need Tibetan robes, Tibetan boots, long-sleeved white silk shirts, waist knives and tall red spike hats. "Qu Zhuo" moves slowly, and its unique dynamic law is that when the adagio is remake, the strength leg bends and lifts, which is contrary to the routine of the strength leg stepping on the ground during the remake, forming the characteristic that the body's center of gravity moves left and right alternately. The lyrics of Qu Zhuo praise living Buddha, immortals, snow lions, dragons and peacocks, preach Buddhism and pray for good luck. Dancing "Qu Zhuo" is considered as an act of offering sacrifices to and entertaining gods, so the expression needs respect and sincerity. This shows that "bending" has a strong religious color.
In the early Meng Zhuo, only men could participate. Later, this custom was changed. Men and women danced a big semicircle together, but there was no custom of men and women dancing together. Up to now, Yushu Zhuo dance still retains two forms: male group dance and male and female group dance. On holidays, religious festivals, sitting on the bed of a living Buddha and other festivals and anniversaries, "Meng Zhuo" will be danced. At that time, the masses will gather in the open space, with dancers ranging from a dozen to hundreds, led by Zhuo Benzhuang, and then dance in order of age. When men dance, they are divided into two groups, each group stands in a semicircle and dances in circles alternately clockwise. When men and women dance together, they form a big semicircle, in which the men's team symbolizes the sun and the women's team symbolizes the moon outside. The head of the women's team overlaps with the tail of the men's team, which means "the sun and the moon shine together, and it is auspicious and wishful". The formation of the sun and the moon and the clockwise dance are related to the traditional Tibetan religion. Buddhists believe that everything rotates to the right according to the law, and vice versa.
Like Zhuo Dance, "Meng Zhuo" is a fixed special dance, and its title is the name of the dance. Sub-fast and slow board, the speed contrast is distinct. Before dancing, men and women get together and sing a lyric poem in a slow order. When the women's group ended, the dance team broke up and got ready to dance. The lead dancer leads the crowd to dance slowly with sleeves in a clockwise direction at the same speed, and the men's and women's teams take turns singing and dancing. After 5-6 paragraphs, the dance turns into a short and powerful allegro, and the movement and music are variations on adagio, and paragraphs 2-3 suddenly end. In the past, Zhuo dance was not accompanied by musical instruments from beginning to end, and the empty beat of dance speed was filled and adjusted by the clang of dancers stamping their feet and wrists.