Legend of King Gelsall, Yushu City: South of Jiegu Town, Yushu City, the mountain spring spewing out from the mountainside of Hanggaya in the east and west along National Highway 2 14 forms a small waterfall due to the terrain, which is said to be the place where Zum bathes. There is also a small washbasin-like place in Jiaya of West Airlines, which is said to be the place where Zum washes his face and dresses. Longbao Lake in Longbao Township of Yushu City is also called Zhumu Lake. It is said that the black-necked crane there was raised by her grandmother and was her messenger. There are many descriptions of black-necked cranes in Gesar Epic. In the Tibetan cultural concept, the black-necked crane is a fairy bird. Yushu has always had the reputation of "the hometown of singing and dancing". There is a saying in Yushu: "You can sing if you can talk, and you can dance if you can walk". Song and dance are an inseparable and important part of the life of the Tibetan people in Yushu. Song and dance performances and entertainment activities are indispensable in the slack season, festivals or important religious celebrations. Yushu folk song and dance is an art form of collective participation in song and dance. There are many kinds of Tibetan songs and dances in Yushu, including Yi, Zhuo, Reba, Reba and Guowa. And each category has three or four hundred kinds of tunes, and there are dozens more. It is really dazzling and beautiful, with high artistic value and folk research value.
Yushu Zhuo Dance is popular in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Qinghai Province in the hinterland of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The historical origin of Zhuo dance can be traced back to primitive society, and there are many ancient traces of Yushu Zhuo dance. With the formation of six Tibetan clans, Yushu Zhuo Dance has gradually developed in the form of tribes, tribes and regional cultures.
Yushu yi dance is not only the floorboard of all kinds of songs and dances, but also the Dan Xian dance which is different from other national songs and dances. It can be interpreted as dance, song and dance. "Yi" came into being earlier than "Zhuo". Compared with Zhuo, it is less influenced by religion and is the most popular dance in Yushu.
"Wowa", meaning armed or samurai dance, is a unique ceremonial folk dance in Yushu, which is performed at temple fairs or major ceremonial occasions of tribal peoples. The performers are all male laymen, wearing round high hats with red silk tassels hanging down, known as "Juela" in Tibetan, dressed in festive costumes, wearing "Gawu" (a silver-plated protective shrine), necklaces, waist ornaments and other ornaments. The performance formation is dominated by circles, with big flags leading the way, trombone leading the way, a cymbal leading the dance, and one or two people holding swords and shields behind. Dancing with the lead dancer's cymbals and clapping hands, interspersed with saying "pot crooked" (saying "white") and singing "pot music" (pot song). It is characterized by slow and solemn dance, solemn atmosphere, grand scene and simple and dignified style, and is known as "Tibetan etiquette dance".
"Reyi" is an exquisite dance variety, which has both the style characteristics of "Reba" and "Yi", with beautiful melody, colorful dance vocabulary, vivid and peculiar performance form and humorous dance movements. Known as Tibetan social dance, Solum Suo, Ziqiong Songge Zhuoma, Zhuqiong Suonacuo and other dances are even more beautiful, with high artistic value and appreciation value, and are exquisite treasures of song and dance art.
Reba dance is a kind of folk dance that pays attention to skills and shows skills, accompanied by drums and dance steps. Generally, the song and dance troupe composed of Tibetan folk artists is very professional, and it takes years of hard training to be competent for the role. Silverware can be divided into four categories, daily necessities, jewelry, clothing accessories and religious utensils.
There are more than 30 kinds of daily necessities such as silver bowls, silver spoons, silver chopsticks, wine sets, silver pots and plates.
There are more than 40 kinds of jewelry, such as silver earrings, hairpins, silver necklaces, rings, bracelets and hair bands.
Clothing accessories include silver knives, silver shields, milk hooks, belts, waist plates, waist tags, sewing boxes and more than 20 categories;
There are more than 40 kinds of religious articles, such as butter lamps, net kettle, Ping Ding An, silver towers, silver caps, protective niches, suona and horns. Yak is a typical alpine animal with strong cold tolerance. Living in inaccessible alpine basins, alpine desert grasslands and other environments all the year round. The water it drinks is pollution-free mineral water from the plateau, and it eats herbs such as Cordyceps sinensis. Yak meat is a specialty of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with high nutritional value. Different parts of yak, such as horn, bone, bone marrow, tongue, throat, heart, gallbladder, juice, blood, meat and fur, can treat different diseases. Air-dried meat is a way for herders to store winter meat and a traditional food in winter and spring.