The Lusheng Dance is one of the most popular and distinctive dance forms of the Miao people.
As follows:
1. The Miao dance means that the Miao region owns and inherits the heritage of Chinese history and culture. The Miao is a rich ethnic group of song and dance, only the Miao "drum dance" one, nearly a dozen kinds of. And it has a large number of branches and a wide distribution, forming a large number of rich song and dance varieties, reflecting the long history of the Miao "drum dance".
2. The Miao folk dance includes Lusheng Dance, Copper Dance, Wooden Dance, Xiangxi Dance, Bench Dance and Ancient Lady Dance, etc. In particular, the Lusheng Dance is the most popular. Especially the Lusheng Dance is the most widely spread.
3. All of them hold Lusheng dances. The dance is mostly in four steps, but there are also two-step, three-step, six-step, rubbing step, jumping step, pointing step, and left and right rotating and other jumping methods. Miao first-class actor Jin Ou led the dance of the "Miao youth dance", 1963 has been taken into the dance art film "colorful butterflies", in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and other places staged by the masses loved.
4. The Miao are rich in song and dance, only the Miao "drum dance" one, nearly a dozen kinds of more. Miao "drum dance" in the Tang Dynasty "Dynasty Legitimacy" on the "Wuxi barbarians, parents died in the village outside the coccyx its corpse, three years and burial, drumming road song, relatives drinking and dancing play a month or so," recorded, which shows that the Miao "drum dance" long history. "
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5. "Flower encouragement" is the Hunan Province, Phoenix, Baojing, Hua Yuan and other counties of the Miao people celebrate the lunar calendar, "June 6," "August 8" "Catch the summer" "catch the fall" and other traditional festivals, there must be self-indulgent dance. At that time, in the center of the square where the festival is held, a big drum is set up which is beaten by three people. Two people hold double mallets to beat the drum skin, and one person holds a single mallet to beat the drum, and the people who participate in the collective dance.
6. There is no limitation on the number of people or men and women. Before the dance, the drummers sing in their own language about the merits of the inventor of the wooden drum as a tribute to their ancestors. Then, the people dance around the drums in a circle to the accompaniment of drum beats. The basic dance posture of these dancers comes from the simulation of various kinds of life movements, to which some martial arts components have been added, making the dance movements soft and strong.