Miao Long Shirt Dragon Dance

Guizhou
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The Miao Long Gown Dragon Dance, known as the "Oriental Tango", has a history of thousands of years. It is an artistic expression of the Miao compatriots in Xinpu Township of our county to pray for blessings, exorcise evil spirits and worship totems during traditional ethnic festivals and grand celebrations. It is a national dance that unfolds the masculinity of Miao men. During the performance, it is not limited by the venue and the number of people. There are at least two people dancing, and at most hundreds of people. In the movements of walking, jumping, striding and spinning, they strive for a rough and bold beauty of power. At 0:00, hundreds of reed pipes play a song together, the mountains resonate, the dance steps are vigorous, and the scene is extremely spectacular and very contagious. The Miao Long Gown Dragon Lusheng Dance, its performance connotation is the worship of the "dragon", the totem mascot of the Chinese nation, the praise of the "dragon", and the praise of the "dragon". No matter how big the performance is, the whole performance process strives for the harmony and unity of the reed pipe playing and the dance steps. When showing the image movements of "dragon fighting horns", "dragon spitting water", "dragon going out of the sea", "dragon soaring in the clouds" and "dragon flying", although it is exaggerated, it does not deform, fully showing the image of the "dragon" in mythology, the dynamics of the "dragon" and the power of the "dragon". On October 19, 2003, the original ecological dance of the "long gown dragon" of the Xinpu Miao ethnic group participated in the 6th Beijing International Tourism and Culture Festival as the only representative of ethnic minorities in Guizhou Province, and was hailed as the "Oriental Tango". (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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