Guozhuang is a Tibetan dance, which is also called "Guo Zhuo", "Ge Zhuang" and "Zhuo". In Tibetan, it means singing and dancing in a circle. When dancing, men and women usually join hands in a circle in a semicircle, and one person takes the lead, and the men and women ask and answer questions repeatedly, with no instrumental accompaniment.
The whole dance consists of two stages: slow first and fast second. The basic movements are "fluttering across the legs", "striding forward and backward" and "squatting across the legs". The dancers' arms mainly change their dancing posture, and the formation moves clockwise. The circle is large and small, and the pattern of "dragon wagging its tail" is changed occasionally.
Guozhuang Dance is distributed in Qamdo and Naqu in Tibet, Aba and Ganzi in Sichuan, Diqing in Yunnan and Tibetan areas in Qinghai and Gansu. It can be divided into "cauldron village" for large-scale religious sacrificial activities, "middle cauldron village" for traditional folk festivals and "small cauldron village" for family and friends gatherings, with different scales and functions.
It changes with the development of Tibetan production and life. Therefore, there are labor songs and dances such as beating highland barley, twisting wool, feeding animals and making wine, singing and dancing in praise of heroes, singing and dancing in expressing Tibetan customs and habits, marrying men and women, completing new houses and welcoming guests.
If you travel to the above-mentioned Tibetan areas, Tibetans will enthusiastically jump into the welcome pot. At that time, the host and guests will dance together and have fun!