What month and day of the year is the Bamboo Dance?

The Wa are a people who can sing and dance well. Bamboo pole dance, which used to be a kind of dance after the death of a blessed old man, has now become a kind of recreational dance. The form of the dance is the same as that of the Bamboo Pole Dance of the Li ethnic group in Qinghai Province of China. That is, two large bamboo poles flat on the ground, outside the two large bamboo poles, people two a pair, face to face with small bamboo poles, along the large bamboo poles sliding back and forth to bump, dancers in the two poles sliding into the gap in the jump. Dance movements for the imitation of ants, turtledoves, leopards, paintings and other animal forms jumping, lively and cheerful. Bamboo pole dance, generally in the village of prestigious, influential old man held after his death, to pestle and mortar hit the bamboo pole and dance, village men, women and children can participate. The local old man said: "Although people die, but the soul does not die, it to another world after the same can not be separated from the song and dance, so people have to sing and dance to send him off." It is this open-minded view of life and death that creates the many funeral dances of the Wa people