The Methods and Skills of Waist Drum Dance

Waist drum dance, also known as "beating the waist drum", is one of the forms of Han folk dance. Before liberation, Han folk dances, popular in northern Shaanxi, were mostly performed on festive occasions, and sometimes yangko teams were inserted to dance with them. After liberation, it was almost all over the country. In the early 1950s, it was a popular group dance in the whole province. Performers have a dozen or dozens of waist drum players, half male and half female, and several people are equipped with double cymbals and small drum bugles. The waist drum wears a cloth at hand, a white or green double-breasted coat on the upper body, colored trousers and a tie on the lower body, and a simple makeup on his face, which looks like a brave man. This woman is wearing a headscarf and colorful clothes. The waist drum used is about 1 ft long and 5 inches in diameter. When performing, the waist drum is tied to the drummer's waist. Drummers hold drumsticks, open their bows left and right, sometimes hitting the side and sometimes hitting the face, and at the same time changing various formations, performing skills such as running, jumping, jumping, throwing single fork and throwing double fork.