Waist drum dance is a popular traditional folk dance in China, which originated from ancient war drums. Decorate Lantern hangs an oval drum around the dancer's waist, holding a drumstick in each hand and hitting it alternately. Very attractive and loved by many people. After the founding of New China, waist drum dance has become a traditional dance that is often performed in mass festivals, and the masses call it "beating the waist drum".
Waist drum dance is a group dance, which is used to celebrate and warm scenes and express people's jubilant mood and heroic spirit of working people. Dancing men and women are dressed in colorful clothes, with an oval drum hanging around their waist, a drumstick in each hand, and red silk tied to the drumstick. They dance while playing, with changeable drums, strong sense of rhythm and changeable dance steps, and can walk out of all kinds of complicated and wonderful patterns. The waist drum team has as few as four or eight people, and as many as ten or even hundreds. During the performance, the emotions were warm, the movements were powerful, the queues were neat, and the momentum was huge.
Main characteristics of waist drum dance
Drumming is the main means to express the content of waist drum. Commonly used drums include: starting point, stopping point, drumming, running water, single point, chaotic point, long point and tight step, each with different rhythms and emotions. The folk names of waist drums are very vivid, and more than 30 names have been summarized.
Such as Three Nods of Phoenix, Tiger Washing Face, Raytheon Drum, Butterfly Dancing and Chicken Pecking Rice. Dance movements include kicking, turning, riding, flying feet, turning over and taking small steps. Waist drum dance is mainly a group performance. The number of people is as small as a dozen, as many as dozens, as many as hundreds or even hundreds. Waist drum dance, a folk performance, is often performed by two couples at the same time, which is competitive. Compared with drums and techniques, the more you play, the more enthusiastic and exciting you are.