Tap in the snow, tap in youth, footsteps of happiness, footsteps of joy, joyous pastoral.
Tibetan dance is the general name of Tibetan folk dance. Tibetan dance culture has a long history and interacts with Han dance culture. It also interacts with the dance culture of surrounding ethnic groups and countries, forming a unique Tibetan culture in the Tibetan Plateau region of China.
The more common Tibetan dances include Xianzi, Guozhuang, tap, etc. There are many kinds of Tibetan folk dances with their own characteristics. In addition to the self-entertaining circle dances "Guo Xie" and "Guo Zhuo", "Dui Ke", "Xie" and "Zhuo" are extremely popular and famous dances.
Tibetans are one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, with a large population and a wide distribution area. The Tibetan people, who belong to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, originated in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in Tibet and are concentrated in my country's Tibet Autonomous Region and the four provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan.
It has a long national history and rich culture. Due to the differences in the regions where Tibetans live and their interactions with other surrounding ethnic groups, many rituals, songs and dances of different forms and styles have been formed in the same types of cultural phenomena and artistic varieties, festivals and sacrificial activities.
In Tibetan folk festivals, hoping for a good harvest and celebrating the "Wangguo Festival" are people's greatest expectations and joy after working hard for more than half a year. In Tibetan, the word "wang" of "Wangguo Festival" means "field", and "fruit" means "circle". The whole meaning of "Wangguo Festival" is: singing and dancing in the fields surrounding the harvest.
Tibetan dance can be generally divided into two categories: folk self-entertainment dance and religious dance. These two categories of dance have their own rich cultural connotations, graceful and unrestrained dancing postures, and unique dance styles and forms.
Among them, "Qiang Mu" is the most important temple sacrificial dance among the religious dance categories. The emergence and spread of the temple dance "Qiang Mu" are inseparable from the emergence and development of Tibetan Buddhism. ?At the same time, due to the existence of different sects in Tibetan Buddhism, "Qiang Mu", commonly known as the "God Dance" dance, has different characteristics in many aspects such as dance form, use of props and performers' attire. with differences.