The Qiang live in an area which has long been neighboring with the Tibetans. Some of the Qiang's customs, cultural phenomena and language have been incorporated into the Tibetan language. For example, the Qiang "Circle Dance" should have been called "Shalang", but now it is almost always called "Wajuang" due to the Tibetan custom. There are many types of Qiang "potzhuang", including the "Elderly Potzhuang" for the elderly, the ceremonial "Welcome Potzhuang", and the "Youth Potzhuang" for unmarried men and women, which, as the name suggests, belongs to both men and women. The first is the "youth potshang" and so on.
"pot Zhuang" dance team shape is basically a circle, but there are sealing and not sealing points; men and women section of the station and the difference between the intervals of the station. The form and name of the dance team is based on the content of the song sung to accompany the dance. The Qiang dance is basically sung and danced by the dancers themselves, with few musical instruments accompanying them. The speed and rhythm depend on the content of the lyrics and the mood of the dancers. Therefore, among the various "potshuang" danced by the youth, there are also lyrical potshuang that glorify the beautiful life, fun potshuang with games, and potshuang that express love between men and women in different forms with witty humor and strong mood.
Whenever the young people dance "potshuang", the wheat field will be gathered around a large number of middle-aged and elderly women, who are sunbathing while gently singing for the dancers. The warm sunshine and the joy of singing and dancing bring them back to their own frequent dance of the girlhood, happy memories of longing for them because of the years of hardship and full of grooves in the cheeks of the re-emergence of the luster. The style and interest of Qiang "pot Zhuang" varies from village to village. Even in neighboring villages, there are differences in the way certain dances are performed and in their style. However, all the dances of the potshang, which are used by unmarried men and women to express their love and to choose a lover, are the most distinctive, lively, energetic, and attractive group dances that people come to watch.
Ri County, Mukah Township, "youth pot Zhuang", is the local unmarried youth exclusively for fellowship, entertainment, a little famous "pot Zhuang" dance. Whenever the festival, the village near the young men and women will wear their own embroidery, inlaid with red, green, blue, black lace peach, lake blue robes, aprons and shoes hooked up the tip of the embroidered flowers upward "clouds" and other festive attire, the yellow soil paved yard decorated as a colorful flower bed.
In one of their angular, black and red face, flashing and bright eyes from time to time exposed to the youthful fitness and unique mountain vitality, so that the bright sunshine on the plateau is also inferior.
I don't know in whose order, the youth to men and women half of the form of standing in an unsealed circle, began to dance. In the process of alternating between male and female leaders and mixed chorus, the dance changed accordingly to the rhythm. They are in the drying of crops, high up in the yard around the large wooden frame running, jumping, rotating dance, like a number of beautiful butterflies accompanied by loud and clear song chasing, shuttle, play in the wonderful fence.
And more exciting is that, whenever the dance jumped to a paragraph, the formation by the opening of the leader of the dancers, led by everyone from the circle form into the inward roll "cabbage heart" and outward return to the dance section, male and female young people in close proximity to the face to face, the shyness of the blush will instantly fly on the cheeks of a lot of girls. Whenever this happens, the townspeople on the sidelines will speculate which young men and women are already lovers through the happy eyes of those pairs of people looking at each other. Friendly discussion, laughter and frequent discussion followed, the "pot Zhuang" dance atmosphere pushed into a more enthusiastic ***.
In addition, Heishui County, Selgu unique "women's pot Zhuang", also has a special attractive interest and charm of the circle dance. And I heard that as long as the young girls here jumped "pot Zhuang", it will involve a few villages around the hearts of young men. No matter what is important to the boys, there is nothing more important than to watch the "women's pot Zhuang".
Clothing colorful, glowing girls in the "women's pot" before the opening, the first to accept the village in the village of respected old people chanting, blessing and in accordance with the etiquette of drinking a round of smack wine, and then began to dance.