The Guanling Miao Lusheng Dance is mainly spread in the Miao gathering areas such as Guansuo Town National Village, Shangguan Town Xiangyang Village, Puli Township Yaxin Village, Yongning Town Baiyan Village, as well as the surrounding Miao areas such as Zhenning Autonomous County, Ziyun Autonomous County, Xingren County, Liuzhi Special Zone, Zhenfeng County, etc., forming a Miao (Western dialect) folk dance cultural circle within several counties. Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County is located in the slope area on the south side of the ridge slope in the east of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, which is inclined to the Guangxi hills. It is located in the southwest of central Guizhou Province, in the western section of the Miaoling Mountains on the south slope of the watershed between the Pearl River and the Yangtze River. It is adjacent to Zhenning Buyi and Miao Autonomous County in the northeast, and is bounded by the Beipanjiang River in the southwest. It faces Qinglong County, Xingren County, and Zhenfeng County across the river, and borders Liuzhi Special Zone in the northwest. The total area is 1,468 square kilometers. The total population of the county is about 310,000, of which Buyi, Miao, Gelao, Yi and other ethnic minorities account for 64.22% of the total population. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The mountains in the territory belong to the Wumeng Mountain System, and the mountains are mostly undulating and continuous. The landforms are characterized by large ups and downs, complex and diverse types, and carbonate rocks are widely distributed. Karst is developed, forming a staggered distribution of karst landforms and normal landforms. The landforms are varied, and stone buds, shafts, funnels, depressions, valleys, awn valleys, hills, peaks, peak forests, etc. can be seen everywhere. Karst caves, underground rivers, and underground corridors are everywhere. Guansuo Town National Village is located on the hillside of Qingshan, about 11 kilometers west of Guanling County. It includes seven natural groups such as Xiaoba, Goubian, Shanlin, Xilongwan, and Huangnibao. It is a relatively closed and primitive Miao ancient village. The village faces west to the east, with Guanling County in the east, Yongning Town in the west, Huajiang Town in the south, Dingyun Township in the north, Puli Township in the southwest, and Shangguan Town in the southeast. There are 284 Miao households in the village, with a total population of 1,200 people, mainly surnamed Yang and Luo. The village is surrounded by undulating mountains, with few fields and large land, and the yield is thin. The slope is relatively large, which is a typical karst terrain. The transportation is relatively closed, and the roads leading to the village only go to Xiaoba, Goubian, Xinzhai and Lujiazhai. Lusheng dance is a widely spread folk dance form in the Miao area with a long history. According to historical records, the Lusheng dance in the Zangke area (Guanling, Zhenning, Zhenfeng) was already quite famous as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties. In 995 AD, the Zangke area sent an envoy to the court. Emperor Taizong of Song summoned them and ordered them to perform. The music was ups and downs. According to historical records: "One person blew the gourd sheng, which sounded like mosquitoes. For a long time, dozens of people danced together, stomping their feet on the ground as a rhythm. When asked about the song, it was called "Shuiqu". In ancient times, the Miao people used gourds to split into gourds, and the gourd sheng was the gourd sheng. Today, the Guanling Miao people still call the Lusheng bowl a gourd, and the gourd sheng is today's Lusheng. It can be verified from the ancient songs and word-of-mouth of the Guanling Miao people that the Miao Lusheng dance has a direct origin relationship with the Miao people's primitive "circling the slope" activity. It is said that in ancient times, after Chi You, the ancestor of the Miao tribe, was defeated in the Yellow River Basin, the Miao ancestors went through untold hardships and moved to Guizhou Heiyang Dagu and established "Asandu" (now Guiyang City). After living and working in peace for several years, they were invaded again. At that time, the Miao ancestor Yang Lu led the people to fight bravely against the enemy. After being defeated, Yang Lu was forced to abandon "Asandu" and lead his remnants to move west to establish "Ada" (now Anshun City). While settling down and taking a breath, in order to gather the scattered Miao people, especially to find his lost daughter and son-in-law, Yang Lu erected a tree on the west mountain of "Ada" as a sign, named "Yang Lupo", and often organized various cultural exchange activities "Roaming around the Slope" on "Yang Lupo". In the "Roaming around the Slope" activities, Miao artists organically combined Lusheng music with traditional martial arts through long-term practice, thus forming the Lusheng dance loved by the Miao people. The Miao villages in Guanling County hold grand "Roaming Slope" activities from the third to the eighth day of the first lunar month every year, and perform wonderful Lusheng dances to commemorate Yang Lu, a hero in the history of the Miao people. The Guanling Miao Lusheng dance is the main dance form in the annual "Roaming Slope" cultural exchange activities of the Wai Shu Miao branch of the Western Dialect Miao. Lusheng dance is also often performed in folk weddings and funerals. Lusheng dance is accompanied by Lusheng, and it is played and danced by oneself. At the same time, it is also interspersed with flower stick dance as an auxiliary performance. A complete set of Lusheng dance includes four parts: "entering the venue", "saluting to the flower tree", "Lusheng meeting friends" and "ending". During the performance, the local respected elders first blew the Lusheng, and the young men lined up next to the flower tree and played the ancient Lusheng song "Yang Lu established Yang Lupo", and walked in a circle in a clockwise direction with slow steps. After entering the venue, all the dancers circled the tree three times and began to salute it. Following the rhythm of the Lusheng music, the dancers took half-squat steps, took three steps forward, bowed and saluted to the tree, and repeated this three times, ending the "Salute to the Tree". "Meeting Friends with Lusheng" is the most important part of the whole Lusheng dance. It takes the longest time to perform and is the climax of the Lusheng dance. The performance of this part is often very free, and the performers can give full play to their own dance skills. During the performance, the young men freely form a pair of two people in front and behind. Each pair follows the ups and downs of the Lusheng music, using dance movements such as jumping, squatting, kicking on one leg, spinning, and rolling on the ground. While moving forward in circles, they amuse and provoke each other, and from time to time use the Lusheng as a stick, and the Lusheng flies up and down, left and right with them, and fights. The Lusheng tone is sometimes cheerful and exciting, and sometimes melodious and relaxed. The girls danced around the boys holding flower sticks. During the dance, several people held flower sticks and hit each other to the rhythm of the Lusheng music. The dance postures were sometimes unrestrained and passionate, and sometimes light and elegant, presenting a moving scene of the sticks rolling and the colorful skirts fluttering. The Lusheng dance and the flower stick dance cooperated well, with neat composition and orderly rise and fall, which made people surprised and dazzled. After the "Lusheng Meeting Friends" ended, all the dancers played the "Ending Song", took slow turns, and turned three circles counterclockwise around the flower tree to exit. The whole Lusheng dance ended. Lusheng dance is an indispensable part of the life of the Miao people. In order to avoid losing it, the "- style" inheritance method was adopted in history. It was stipulated that every time there was a red or white wedding, young people would gather together to compete in Lusheng. Those who could not pass the three levels would be punished on the spot to be ridden by the crowd for three circles, so as to force young people to learn Lusheng. In the development of Miao culture, Lusheng dance has become a necessary skill for young men to pursue their sweethearts. Therefore, learning Lusheng dance has become a kind of cultural consciousness for Miao youth. At present, there are still many inheritors who are proficient in Lusheng dance skills in the ethnic village, such as Luo Shixin, Yang Yongshu, Luo Yuanjun, Yang Yongguo, Yang Chaofu, Yang Chengxin, Yang Yongshu, Zhang Shiming, etc. Guanling Miao Lusheng Dance In the "Circling the Slope" activity, people dance Lusheng dance around the flowers and trees. Two people can freely form pairs, or they can dance solo and four people according to different occasions, with a variety of dance movements. Guanling Miao Lusheng Dance uses a combination of dance movements such as jumping steps, squatting steps, single-leg kicking, rotation, and lying on the ground, fully demonstrating the superb dance skills of Guanling Miao. At the same time, Lusheng dance is gradually formed by the Miao people in their long-term farming and hunting life, and has always been closely related to people's lives. The content of Lusheng music reflects almost all aspects of Miao life, and its tunes also show the characteristics of diversity. In the performance of Lusheng dance, the sheng is used as a stick. The sheng flies up and down, left and right, and fights with each other, which has the characteristics of "martial arts". It is interspersed with wonderful flower stick dance performances. "Combining martial arts and dance, and crossing sheng and stick" is the distinctive feature of the Guanling Miao Lusheng dance that is different from similar dances of other dialects of Miao people. Guanling Miao Lusheng dance is an artistic expression form gradually formed by the Miao people in their long-term farming and hunting life. The content of the Lusheng music narrates many war stories in the history of the Miao people, and also describes the process of the ancestors' creation of the world, hard work and multiple migrations. It carries many important historical and cultural information and primitive memories of the Miao people, contains a large number of primitive farming culture sacrifice rituals of the Miao people, and also reflects the unique marriage and love customs of the Miao people. In addition, the timbre of the Lusheng is sweet during the performance, the tune is sometimes melodious and gentle, and sometimes passionate and unrestrained. The steps of the Lusheng dance are rough and heroic, the movements are difficult, and the artistry is high. It has high artistic and aesthetic value. In the past 20 years, with the progress of society and the development of economy and culture, the adjustment of rural industrial structure and the continuous improvement of modern agricultural production level, the prosperity of market commodity economy, the impact of foreign strong culture, and the gradual aging of folk Lusheng dance artists, Lusheng dance is no longer a necessary skill for young men to pursue their sweethearts. The cultural consciousness of learning Lusheng dance formed over the years has disappeared, and the Miao Lusheng dance is facing the danger of gradual extinction.