8 Dance Moves Imitating a Birdie:
In the Zhuang dance, there are various hand positions, but the basic hand positions include seven kinds: straight finger, bow, hook, hand support, hand spread, palm up and palm down.
The main dance forms of the Zhuang:
The Zhuang is an ethnic minority in China, and it has quite a few dances.
Bian Tan Dance:
Also known as the "hit Lu Lie" "Valley Hammer". It has been passed down in the villages of Mashan, Du'an and other villages in Guangxi. The word "Gu Han" means wooden mortar for pounding rice in Zhuang language. In the past, the Zhuang used to pound rice with a wooden mortar and pestle by hollowing out thick logs. This dance originated from the labor of pounding rice, and the initial form was performed around the wooden mortar, which later developed into beating the bench with a bamboo stretcher. It can be said that only the Zhuang "flat-bearing dance" is
freed from the limitations of pounding pestle and mortar, more lively than the original form, free, sound rhythm is more varied, melodious props dance.
This dance not only shows the labor process of rice-planting, harvesting, threshing, and pounding, but also retains the ancient charm of using the sound of the bamboo tube as accompaniment. The "Bian Tan Dance" is especially popular among middle-aged women, and the number of people performing it is usually four, or as many as ten in a group, either hitting the bench together or hitting each other crosswise, one after another, in a staggered manner, with a healthy dance posture.
The night of the Spring Festival lights everywhere, people organize their own knocking dance, bursts of laughter, the village boiled, a harvest scene. Zhuang proverbs have "the first month of the Spring Festival Hall noise boom, this year, everywhere Wo Tai Feng" said.
Pounding Dance:
Originally, it is the "pounding dance" of the ancient Luo Yue and Xi Ou people, and then it has been developed into a form of song and dance of many ethnic groups. For example, "Pounding Dance" of the Buyi and Li, "Pounding and Pestle Dance" of the Wa, "Pounding Stick Dance" of the Gaoshan, "Mortar and Pestle Song" of the Gaoshan and so on. etc. The dance of pounding pestle and mortar has existed since ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, Liu Xun described the sound of pounding rice in "Ling Table Record of Dissimilarities": "There is a pounding hall in Guangnan, which is a groove made of muddy wood, with about ten mortars and pestles on both sides, and men and women standing between them to pound rice and grain, and the knocking of the groove sideways is a part of the beat, and the groove sound is like a drum, which is heard in the miles, even though the woman's skillfulness to make the autumn anvil can not be compared to its Liu Liang also."
On the word pounding hall, the Song Zhou to Fei in the "Ling Wai Dai Answer" in the solution: "take the grain pounded in the groove, the sound of the sound of the monk temple of the wooden fish, the female companion to the idea, the pestle into rhyme, the name is pounding hall ......" from this it can be seen, pounding hall refers to the women pounding the rice when there is a rhythmic and It can be seen that pounding means the rhythmic and melodious music when women pound rice. In other areas, the pounding dance is called "hulling dance", "hulling dance" and so on.
Jade Bird Dance:
The dance is passed down in the Zhuang settlement of Wuxuan, Liuzhou. Props made of bamboo scotch bird-shaped, outside the paste green silk sewn to green floss for feathers. The local people love the jade bird hair color green, cry clear and crisp, gentle nature, as a symbol of good luck. During the Spring Festival, a man dressed as Pei Kingfisher, another person dressed as an old man, the rate of birds along the question to the family New Year's Eve performance blessings. Performance dancers into the props, two hands or hooked bird head, eyes, mouth, wings lever, the bird's head turning, eyes open and closed, mouth sound.
The performance includes flying, foraging, drinking, bathing, sleeping and other affectionate and moving dynamics. At the end of the dance, a feather is plucked from the props and sent to the host to wish the host family prosperity. The host is rewarded with meat, wine and red packets. The performance of sending blessings along the door is reminiscent of the Pai Men performance of the Han Chinese rice-planting songs. Performed by. Technique and the Dai Peacock Dance similar, all kinds of bird-shaped props dance into the Zhuang people's wisdom and creativity.
The Toad Dance:
The "Frog Dance". The local people call frogs toadstools, and there is a legacy of worshipping toadstools. Every year in the first month of the lunar calendar in the "toadstools festival", people have to perform a series of dances related to frogs, and this custom has been passed down in the Zhuang inhabited areas such as Tian'e, Nandan, Fenghuangshan, and the coast of the Hongshui River in Guangxi.