Zuojiang Tea Picking Dance is a folk festival dance of the Zhuang nationality, also known as "Zhuang Tea Picking". It is widely spread in the Chongzuo Zhuang area, mainly in Jiangzhou District, Fusui County and Longzhou County. It reflects people's labor and love in the form of singing and dancing, and expresses people's joy and yearning for a happy life. There have been two forms of preaching and performance since the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. One is from the first day of the first lunar month to the early February of each year, to congratulate the New Year, celebrate the harvest, pray for peace, and entertain the public. It is a collective dance, the main content of which is to express a year's agricultural production labor, and the theme is tea garden labor, hence the name. The dancers are both male and female. The male is called the tea master and the female is called the tea girl. They hold colorful fans or orchid lanterns, handkerchiefs, etc. One or two tea masters lead a group of tea girls to sing and dance. The tea masters' movements are humorous and interesting, and the tea girls' dances are light and agile, enthusiastic and cheerful, full of life. Use unicorn, phoenix and other modeling props, small drums, gongs, cymbals, flutes, huqin, suona and other instruments to accompany the dance. There can be up to 20 to 30 actors in each team. Another type is that in the first month of the lunar calendar every year, three or five Zhuang dancers go from village to village, starting with a performance on a bamboo mat for drying rice, and then developing into a performance by multiple people in the square, drying field, and stage. There are dance segments such as opening and closing tea, fighting golden flowers in June, unicorn lanterns, umbrella kicking dance, and New Year's greetings song, with singing and dancing. The main rhythm of male movements is squatting and jumping with legs, shaking knees up and down, and swaying the head from side to side, which is passionate and rough. Women's hips swing from side to side throughout the whole process, and the steps include front twisting step, front point step, back step, jump back step, front kick step, lifting step, etc., which are light and delicate. The dancers wear Zhuang costumes, and use fans, handkerchiefs, money whips, umbrellas, flower baskets, unicorns, lions, and phoenixes as the main props. Fan flowers include turning fans, pointing fans, circling fans, and swinging fans. Erhu and flute are the main instruments to accompany the songs, and drums, gongs, cymbals, and percussion instruments accompany the dances. Information source: Fusui County People's Government Information source: Fusui County People's Government