Bian Tan Dance:
It is also called "Ta Lu Lie" and "Gu Han". It has been passed down in the villages of Mashan and Du'an in Guangxi. The word "Gu Ham" means wooden mortar for pounding rice in Zhuang language. In the past, the Zhuang used to pound rice with a wooden mortar and pestle by hollowing out thick logs. This dance originated from the labor of pounding rice, and the initial form was performed around the wooden mortar, which later developed into beating the bench with a bamboo stretcher. It can be said that only the Zhuang "flat stretcher dance" is a prop dance that gets rid of the limitation of pounding pestle and mortar and is more lively and free than the original form, and the acoustic rhythm is more diversified and melodious. This dance not only shows the labor process of rice-planting, harvesting, threshing, and pounding, but also retains the ancient charm of using the sound of bamboo tubes as accompaniment. The "Flat Stretcher Dance" is especially popular among middle-aged women, and the number of people performing it is usually four, or as many as ten people in a group, either striking the bench together or striking each other crosswise, one after another, in a staggered manner, with a healthy dance posture. Spring Festival night lights everywhere, people organize their own knocking dance, bursts of laughter, the village boiled, a harvest scene. Zhuang proverbs have "the first month of the Spring Festival Hall Boom Boom, this year everywhere Wo Tai Feng" said.
Pounding Dance:
Originally, it was the ancient Luo Yue and Xi Ou people's "pounding", and then developed into a form of song and dance for many ethnic groups. Such as the "pounding dance" of the Buyi and Li, the "pounding dance" of the Wa, the "pounding and pestle dance", the "pounding dance", the "pestle and mortar song" of the Gaoshan tribe, etc. etc. The dance of pounding the pestle and mortar has existed since ancient times. Liu Xun of the Tang Dynasty described the sound of pounding rice in his "Recorded Differences in the Ling Table": "There is a pounding hall in Guangnan, which is a groove made of muddy wood, with about ten mortars and pestles on both sides, and men and women standing in between them, in order to pound the rice and grain, and the sound of knocking on the side of the groove is like drums, which can be heard for miles and miles, even though a woman who is skillful in making the anvil in the autumn can't be as bright as it is in the Liu Liang." Regarding the word pounding hall, Song Zhou Dai Fei in the "Ling Wai Dai Answer" in the solution: "take the grain pounded in the groove, the sound of the monk temple of the wooden fish, the female accompanied by the intention to transport the pestle and mortar into a rhyme, the name of pounding hall ......" It can be seen, pounding hall refers to the women pounding rice rhythmic and melodious musical sound. In other areas, the pounding dance is called "hulling dance", "hulling dance", etc.
The Pounding Dance is the most popular dance in the world.
Jade Bird Dance:
The dance has been passed down in the Zhuang settlement of Wuxuan, Liuzhou. The props are made of bamboo scotch in the shape of a bird, with green silk sewn on the outside and green floss for feathers. The local people love the jade bird hair color green, cry crisp, mild temperament, as a symbol of good luck. During the Spring Festival, a man dressed as Pei Kingfisher, another person dressed as an old man, the rate of birds along the question to the family New Year's Eve performances blessing. When performing the dancers into the props, two hands or hooked bird head, eyes, mouth, wings lever, bird head rotation, eyes open and closed, mouth sound, performance flying, foraging for food, drinking water, bathing, sleeping and other friendly, moving dynamics. At the end of the dance, a feather is plucked from the props and sent to the host to wish the host family prosperity. The host is rewarded with meat, wine and red packets. The performance of sending blessings along the door is reminiscent of the Pai Men performance of the Han Chinese Yangge. The performance of the technique and the Dai Peacock Dance is similar, all kinds of bird-shaped props dance into the Zhuang people's wisdom and creativity.
The Frog Dance:
The Frog Dance. Local frogs are called "toadstools", and there is a legacy of worshipping toadstools. Every year in the first month of the lunar calendar, in the "toadstool festival", people perform a series of dances related to frogs, and this custom has been spread to Tian'e, Nandan, Fengshan, and the Zhuang residential areas along the Hongshui River in Guangxi.