The dance Walking Between Mountains and Waters is a dance of the Zhuang people.
The Zhuang dance originates from the imitation of hunting, but it is often closely linked with the activities of sorcerers to honor the gods. The sorcerer always sings while dancing to honor the gods, and the god of music eliminates disasters and prays for blessings. The earliest record of the Zhuang dance in the mural paintings of Huashan is actually the ode of the Zhuang ancestors to the frog god at that time.
The shape of this dance is two arms open elbow up, two legs squatting into a bow, the action is rough and powerful, endowed with characteristics, known as the frog-shaped dance. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, bureaucrats danced the ghost drum dance when they sacrificed to ghosts and gods. According to Huang Xianfan, a famous historian, "During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the music and dance of the ancestors of the Zhuang people saw an unprecedented prosperity.
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The dances of the Zhuang people include the "Pounding Dance", "Embroidery Ball Dance", "Shrimp Dance", "Tea Picking Dance" and "Tea Picking Dance".
The dances of the Zhuang include the "Pounding Dance", "Embroidery Ball Dance", "Shrimp Fishing Dance", "Tea Picking Dance", "Flat Stretch Dance", and "Copper Drum Dance".
The dance is characterized by a clear theme, dance steps, witty and lively, realistic feelings, sometimes impassioned, sometimes lingering, fully embodies the stubbornness of the Zhuang working people and love and hate the character of clear.
The common musical instruments used by the Zhuang folk are suona, bee drum, copper drum, drum, copper cymbals, gongs, and sheng, xiao, flute, horse bone beard, Tianqin and so on.
Tianqin is the oldest plucked musical instrument of the Zhuang people, which has a history of thousands of years and is mainly circulated in Longzhou, Ningming and Fangcheng areas along the border between southwestern Guangxi and Vietnam. In the popular Zhuang folk legend "Ma Le Visits the Sky", the ancestor of the Zhuang, Ma Le, is playing the Tianqin to search for the sun in the sky.