Main features:
The "Blue-faced Tibetan Opera" developed on the basis of the White-faced Tibetan Opera is not only rich in content and wide-ranging in subject matter, but also inherits and preserves the folk dance forms such as the "Buma" which already existed in the Guge Dynasty. Folk square dance into the programmed Tibetan drama, but also cited the Tibetan people's favorite folk music, so that the Tibetan opera circulated in the Tibetan folk long lasting.
In order to conform to the beliefs of the Tibetan "multi-god worship", people in the sacrificial rituals, created the use of a variety of deity masks, and contains a large number of Tibetan folk dance components of the program dance. This ritual dance was later adopted by the prevalent Tibetan Buddhism Yellow Sect, called "Qiangm", popular in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and other provinces and districts believe in the Yellow Sect of the vast areas. The dance of Qiangm is mostly mixed by the Animal Dance and the Dance of the Dharma Vessel. During the performance, there is little singing, and the atmosphere is solemn and solemn.
Whenever there is a major religious festival, the Lama Temple will hold the "Jumping God" activity. In the suona, python, trombone, drums and cymbals, performers wearing masks, holding weapons or weapons, dressed as the gods lined up around the field for a week, the opening ceremony. Then they perform the Dance of the Fierce God, the Skeleton Dance, the Dance of the Ox God, the Dance of the Deer God, the Dance of the God of Joy, and the Dance of the God of the Protection of the Law, etc., and each of these dances has a certain religious content. Between the various dances, also interspersed with lamas performing wrestling, jousting, etc., to entertain the audience. Sometimes also perform "give up their bodies to feed the tiger" and other Buddhist stories and performance of charity, long life and wealth of the "Longevity Dance", "Crane Dance" and so on. Today, the Yellow Sect's ritual dance Qiangmu has not changed much from that of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China in terms of content and form. Qiangm" of the last scene is to drive away the ghosts, the gods and goddesses will be made of ghee and tsampa into an imaginary ghost head - "Duo Ma" escorted to the temple outside the open space burning, so that the year by the evil, pray for the blessing of the year.