The dance "Walking Between Mountains and Waters" is a Zhuang dance.
The Zhuang dance originates from the imitation of hunting, but it is often closely related to the activities of male and female witches worshipping gods. Male witches always dance and sing while worshipping the gods, and music the gods to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. The Zhuang dance recorded in the Huashan Mural is in fact a chant of the Zhuang ancestors to the frog god.
The dance takes the form of raising the arms, bending the elbows and squatting the legs to form a lunge movement. The movements are bold and powerful, characterized by the frog dance. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Liao people encouraged the ghosts and gods by jumping on them when they sacrificed to them. Famous historian Huang Xianfan said: "During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the music and dance of the ancestors of the Zhuang people flourished as never before.
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The dances of the Zhuang people include the "Zhongtang Dance", "Hydrangea Dance", "Shrimp Dance", "Tea Picking Dance", "Holding Pole Dance", "Copper Drum Dance" and so on. The dance is characterized by distinctive themes, brisk dance steps, lively humor, realistic emotions, sometimes impassioned, sometimes exaggerated, fully embodies the working people of the Zhuang stubborn, love and hate the character of clear.
The common musical instruments used by the Zhuang folk are suona, bee drum, copper drum, drum, cymbals, gongs, xiao, flute, ma gu hu, tianqin and so on. Tianqin is the oldest plucked instrument of the Zhuang. It is mainly popular in Longzhou, Ningming and Fangcheng in southwestern Guangxi near the border with Vietnam. It has a history of more than a thousand years. In the folklore "Ma Le Tian Xing", the ancestor of the Zhuang, Ma Le Tian, played the celestial string in search of the sun.