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Zhuang dance walks in the mountains and rivers.

The dance "Walking among Mountains and Waters" is zhuang dance.

zhuang dance originated from the imitation of hunting, but it is often closely related to the activities of witches and wizards offering sacrifices to gods. Wizards always dance and sing when they worship God, and music gods pray for disaster relief. Zhuang dance recorded in Huashan Mural is actually an ode to the frog god by the ancestors of Zhuang nationality.

The form of dance is to raise your arms, bend your elbows, squat your legs, and form lunges. Bold and powerful movements, characterized by frog dance. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people in Liao Dynasty encouraged ghosts and gods by jumping ghosts when offering sacrifices to them. Huang Xianfan, a famous historian, said: "During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the music and dance of the ancestors of Zhuang nationality flourished unprecedentedly.

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The dances of Zhuang nationality include nave Dance, Hydrangea Dance, Shrimp Dance, tea things Dance, Holding Pole Dance and Bronze Drum Dance. The dance is characterized by bright theme, brisk dance steps, lively humor and realistic feelings, sometimes passionate and sometimes exaggerated, which fully embodies the stubborn and clear-cut personality of the Zhuang working people.

The folk musical instruments commonly used by Zhuang people are suona, bee drum, bronze drum, big drum, brass cymbal, gong sound, flute, Ma Guhu and Tianqin. Tianqin is the oldest plucked instrument of Zhuang nationality. It is mainly popular in Longzhou, Ningming and Fangcheng, which are near the Vietnam border in southwest Guangxi. It has a history of more than one thousand years. In the popular "Ma Le Skywalker", Ma Letian, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, played the celestial string to find the sun.