Yuetang Fork Dance
Yuetang Tuncha Dance is a traditional dance item in the first batch of representative items of municipal intangible cultural heritage. Tuncha Dance has been popular in Yuetang, Yizheng City, and the area of Xieji since the mid-Qing Dynasty. It is a folk dance that local farmers often practice during the Lantern Festival and major festivals in the first month of the lunar year. It is closely related to folk activities and continues to this day. Tuncha Dance is a group dance for men, with more than 30 people. The dancers hold special iron forks, wear double-breasted cloth shirts, white towels on their heads, and cloth shoes on their feet. With the sound of clanging gongs and drums, they dance with Tuncha, and the scene is spectacular and magnificent. Tuncha Dance has a complete structure and is a unique and distinctive Han folk dance. It was one of the cultural activities held by the people in ancient times to worship their ancestors. The form of dance reflects the farming life of the ancestors. The dance is included in the "Top Ten Collections of Chinese Folk Dances". The dance was more popular in the 1930s, but it gradually declined in the 1970s. Now there is no successor and it is on the verge of being lost. (No pictures available, please provide them.) (No pictures available, please provide them.)