Top Bowl Dance is a folk dance handed down by Mongolians from Yuan Dynasty. Relevant historical records show that the origin of Top Bowl Dance has a certain origin with Buddhism.
There are many rituals of offering sacrifices to Buddha in Buddhist teachings, including offering sacrifices to chyme in a bowl and offering sacrifices to geisha music in a song and dance performance. The combination of the two has led to new doubts about this form of dancing with a bowl filled with chyme on the top of the head, with beautiful movements. It has strong national characteristics.
It occupies an important position in the whole development history of Mongolian folk dance. At wedding banquets and festive gatherings, one or more Mongolians who can sing and dance have cups or bowls of small oil lamps or bowls on their heads, and the bowls are filled with clear water or milk wine. Hold two small handlebars or a bunch of bamboo chopsticks in each hand and dance in the singing and music. There is no fixed number of movements in the top bowl dance. After mastering the basic movements and the rules of beating cups and chopsticks, the dancers improvise on the spot, and their emotions are passionate, movements and dances are colorful, fully demonstrating the skills, wisdom, flexibility and changeable characteristics of Mongolian dance.