Dance content:
The waving dance reflects the production and life of Tujia people. For example, hunting dance shows hunting activities and imitates animal movements. Including Chasing the Monkey, Trailing the Pheasant, Looking at the Moon by Rhino, Grinding Eagle Wings and Jumping Toad. List the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in China.
Agricultural dance. It mainly shows Tujia people's farming activities such as digging, sowing, spinning cotton, cutting fire residue, burning ash and accumulating fertilizer, weaving, pulling hemp snakes, transplanting rice seedlings and planting corn.
There are more than ten kinds of life dances, such as sweeping the floor, beating mosquitoes, beating Baba, beating buffaloes, shaking fleas, competing feet and wiping back. There used to be pre-military dance and cocktail party dance, but now it has been lost.
Waving partners have percussion instruments, and drums and gongs are on both sides of percussion instruments. A cowhide drum, a pair of drumsticks, a big gong and a gong mallet. The diameter of the drum is about 0.6-0.85m and the height is about 0.65-0.85m.. The diameter of the gong varies from 0.65 to 0.85 meters, and the concave-convex depth is about 0.04 meters. Drums and gongs are arranged according to their sizes.
When playing, one or two people beat drums and call gongs in the center of the wave hall to direct the audience. Commonly used Qupai are simple pendulum, double pendulum, grinding eagle wings, sowing and so on. The rhythm is steady, the intensity is clear and profound.
Hand-waving dance is a comprehensive art of singing and dancing, and its song is called "Wave Song". However, it is said that there were hand-waving songs a long time ago, and now two hand-waving songs have been preserved. One is the folk song Digging a Pit for Eating, and the other is The Singing Soldier. The lyrics are simple, but they reveal the simple philosophy of life and the concept of hero worship.
——by Baidu Dancing