The pace of "Guo Zhuo" is a single-phase left start, the left and right feet hold seven steps as a section, and then start to retreat, from slow to fast, the number of steps remains unchanged, the dance steps are relatively simple, and the participants are easy to learn, so the number of people is very large.
Kuzhuo has many kinds of dances, such as two and a half steps, six steps, eight steps, six steps plus time, eight steps plus time, monkey dance and so on. Guo Zhuang dances with his arms open, twisting his waist sideways, stepping up the steps, waving his sleeves and singing and dancing.
Running and jumping movements, especially for men, have a large range of movements, stretching their arms like eagles hovering and flying, while women have a small range of movements, which is characterized by bodybuilding, lightness and liveliness in sports.
The history of guozhuang dance
The whole dance consists of two stages: first slow and then fast. The basic movements are "cross-legged fluttering", "walking around" and "cross-legged squatting". The dancer's arm mainly changes the dance posture and the formation moves clockwise. Circles are big and small, and the pattern of "dragon wagging its tail" changes 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, "Zhongda cauldron village" for traditional folk festivals, and "Small cauldron village" for gathering relatives and friends, 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, showing Tibetan customs and habits, marrying men and women, building new houses and welcoming guests.