Guangxi legend: Zhuang "board shoes dance"

In the morning of the National Day in 1990, on the lawn of Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, the central leadership watched the Nandan Zhuang dance of Guangxi "board shoes dance" with great interest. Novel and unique performance and harmony of interest, drew them to laugh, applause and laughter into a piece. During the Asian Games, the "Board Shoe Dance" took part in fourteen performances in Beijing, and was warmly welcomed by people from all walks of life.

"Plate Shoes Dance" is grown in the Zhuang folk art on the fertile ground of a magnificent flower, with distinctive ethnic characteristics, rich in expressive power, it is with the help of props beating and music accompaniment, jumping out of the coordination of the beautiful dance. Generally by nine Zhuang men and women in a group of three young people, wearing six nearly two-meter-long board shoes, stepping on the beautiful melody walking, dangerous, interesting, with the music conversion, the girls and boys can also wear a long board shoes cheerfully jumped up the modern three-step dance.

"Board shoes dance" originated in the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi Nadi Tuji wooden yoke practice method. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaded the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the Ming Dynasty asked Guangxi to send troops, and Guangxi asked Nadi Tuju to send three hundred soldiers to exterminate the Japanese invaders. Tujia Luo Wu Jie immediately recruited three hundred people for training, the new soldiers first drill, the pace is difficult to be consistent, Tujia ordered the use of wooden yoke will be the feet of the new soldiers clamped, three people even into a team, nine people lined up in formation, unified pace, only forward, not allowed to fall back. After rigorous training, the team's unique method of warfare, fierce and tenacious, for the level of the Japanese invaders have made a contribution. From then on, three people wooden yoke practice method popular folk, evolved into "three people wearing shoes" competition. Three people wearing board shoes this sports competition program through artistic processing, developed into a "board shoes dance".