The Lusheng Dance is a traditional folk dance of the Dong ethnic group.
The Miao Lusheng Dance "Drums, Dragons, Tigers and Long Shirts" is a kind of Lusheng dance unique to the Miao people in Guiding County, Guizhou Province. It has a history of more than a thousand years, and is regarded as the "Oriental Tango" by experts and scholars in the art world at home and abroad.
Their self-created dance is unique, usually using the reed-sheng as props and musical instruments, and dancing while blowing. The accompanying dancers dance counterclockwise in a large circle, and the lusheng player plays while making a variety of movement techniques. Among them, the squatting and jumping movements are the most common.
The main characteristics are: the axis of the vertebrae, the foot with the waist, turn the lower limbs, the pace of the curved and stretched out, a beat once, the first half of the beat down, the second half of the beat up, the toes landed on the ground when the touch that is, as if the hot feet of the jump.
Origin
About the origin of the Lusheng Dance, the Miao have a simple and wonderful legend. According to legend, when Pangu opened the world, the earth was desolate. At that time, the ancestors of the Miao people relied on hunting birds and animals for food and clothing, in order to solve the difficulty of capturing birds and animals, a clever young man, cut down trees and bamboo in the forest, made a branch of reed-sheng to imitate the chirping and movement of birds and animals, blowing and jumping up to lure all kinds of birds and animals.
Since then, people have been able to get something out of their hunting trips, and the lusheng dance has become a necessity of life and has been passed down from generation to generation. This kind of legend is still circulating with a lot of simulation of birds and beasts chirping and form of lusheng tunes and dance movements of the phenomenon is consistent, but to clarify its origin, still need to be from the historical aspect of the study.