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The dance of the Li ethnic group has significant ethnic characteristics and a strong flavor of life. During marriage, building new houses, celebrating festivals or farming recreation, folk dances are performed in groups. Among the many dances, they can be roughly categorized into three kinds: ancestor dance, life dance and production dance. In the former, there are ghost-catching dance (i.e. "ghost-exorcising dance"), fortune-beckoning dance (i.e. "soul-beckoning dance"), yearly dance (i.e. "peace dance"), bowl-playing dance (i.e. "jumping mother" dance), etc. The life dances include the Chai Dance (i.e., "jumping bamboo pole"), Drum and Gong Dance, Teasing Niang Dance, Money Bell Double Dagger Dance, and Money String Leader Dance, etc. The production dances include the Pounding Dance, etc. The Blessing Dance is the most important dance of the festival.

Zhufu Dance, also known as the "Soul Dance", is popular in Tongshi City, Hainan Province and Maoyang District. It is performed in March, July and October of the summer calendar every year on the day of the ox. According to legend, the ancestors of the Li people believe that everything in the world is in the existence of "good luck" and "bad luck". The day of the Ox is auspicious. March dance, can attract cattle "fortune", so that cattle continue to reproduce; July dance, can attract "rice soul", so that the seedlings grow strong, a good harvest; October dance, can attract people "fortune", so that members of large and small peace. In October, this dance will bring "blessings" to all the people, so that members of all sizes will be safe, and infertile women will be able to give birth to sons and daughters after marriage. On the day of the cow, all the members gathered at Obulong's house to kill the pig and set up a banquet, drinking wine and playing gongs and drums in turn. In the sound of the gongs and drums, Mr. and Mrs. Obulong, dressed in traditional costumes, danced in front of them, using the rice wine used to wash and polish the precious stones as the "wine of good fortune" for wealth and prosperity. During the dance, Mr. and Mrs. Pa Obulong hold two red vine leaves dripping with "lucky wine" in their hands and sprinkle "lucky wine" to the crowd. Then, dressed in blue, green, green silk robes of men and women outside the house with the sleeves of the robe to the house while dancing and waving. The female dancers hold bowls of wine in their hands and toast to the male dancers as they dance. The dancer's head and torso remain vertical, the two knees are bent and straight, accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, small steps forward or backward, hands from time to time to the house beckoning, said the "blessed soul" into the house.