After China's reform and opening up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this form of dance was spread back, and people used to call it Xiao La Dance.
There is no way to know why it got this name. Some fans of the dance speculate that it may have something to do with the dancers pulling their hands together.
The Han Dynasty has a dance, the Song Dynasty has a picture, it is said, there is a depiction of the dance dance dance scene of the Song Dynasty painting collection in a museum in New York, the United States.
"Nanjing Xiaola Dance" was first popularized in some bars in Nanjing, and then began to go to the streets and lanes, and then spread to the public. The movement is free, no constraints, can fully reflect the personality, and different levels of people have to create the room to play, can make up their own patterns, music is also very casual, such as "Nanniwan", "Song of the Good", "Little Boy", "I am a girl" and other music can be used as a dance, and therefore it is very easy to popularize.