Turtledove Dance is popular in Nanxiao Town and Datang Town of Yongning County. Traditionally, it is performed by local wizards in events like harvest celebration, praying for peace and luck. Wizards will play turtledoves by wearing a mask of turtledoves' head, which is made by bamboo strips backed up by cloth, a waistcoat in green and white check and a mono-colored wide-hem skirt (to represent the wings of turtledoves while dancing). They dance in accompaniment with music and accompany singing, while demonstrating the bird's movement with the postures of paddling, playing with sand and courting.

Among the recreations and sports of the Zhuang, one of the most zestful and full of teamwork, force, power and humor is “the wooden slipper race” or “the wooden slipper dance”. In this event the three or four participants of a team line up behind one another and place their feet into separate footholds attached to the same pair of long slippers. At the appropriate signal every member of the team needs to step off in unison in order that the slipper moves smoothly forward. When good teamwork prevails, the team looks like a rapidly moving centipede with a synchronized movement of the legs. More often—and more humorously—good teamwork is hard to achieve and he whole team falls into mess, much to the amusement of the audience!

The Monkey Drum Dance is popular in the junction area between Mashan County and Shanglin County, the place that the Bunu Yao ethnic people inhabit. It is often performed in the Danu Festival. Generally, there are four dancers with a band and vocal accompaniment, and a cowhide drum and a cymbal as the stage properties. One performer beats the drum as the monkey king and carries a gourd on his back, which is a wine container. Another one plays the cymbal and the other two performers dance with fans in their hands. At the beginning, the monkey king first appears on the stage and cries out to the other monkeys. Then, the monkey king beats the drum three times and the cymbal player plays the cymbal to answer the calling and the band begins to play music accordingly. At this time, the other three dancers appear on the stage together. Then they dance around the monkey king. Holding the drum stick, the monkey king beats the drum on both sides of the drum and the cymbal player strikes the cymbals in rhythm according to the drum beatings, meanwhile, the other two fan dancers are dancing up and down following the rhythms of the drum and the cymbal. They sometimes push the monkey king backwards together; or, they steal the king’s wine and drink; sometimes, they make faces or fan for the king, which are quite funny and interesting. When they are dancing, the vocal accompaniments are singing songs to praise the morality and wisdom of the monkey king as well as the daily life of the Yao people.

Shoulder Pole Dance is also called “Shoulder Pole Beating” or “Gu Lang” or “Gulu Lang” in Zhuang dialect. The dance is performed in every village from the first day of the lunar New Year to the 16th. In some places, people use bamboo sticks to replace the wood sticks and shoulder poles. In order to pray for a harvest year and the peace and luck of people and animals, people tie some ancient copper coins on both sides of the poles, which sound nicely when they beat the poles. Generally, the participants are mostly women in even numbers, such as four, six, eight or ten. In the performance, people stand on two sides of benches, each person with shoulder pole or a stick in hand beating the bench or each other's stick. The tempo is sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and the ways of beating shoulder poles are various. All of these moves form a complete performance that represent the daily working life of the local people, such as threshing, irrigating, rice seedlings transplanting, weaving, and going to work etc.

Guangxi has long been called “the sea of songs”, and Nanning, the harbor. The Zhuang Ethnic Group is a minority which is particularly good at singing and dancing. They all love folk songs and are keen on singing. When they are working in the fields or on the mountains, they enjoy singing to each other for fun and entertainment. The Zhuang folk songs are full of life, and the singers always prefer to express their ideas and emotions by songs, instead of words. Almost all lager events, including narrating and recounting, celebrating and blessing, making friends as well as selecting mates and getting married, etc. are accompanied by singing. This lifestyle has been described as “singing instead of speaking”. With this tradition in mind, the main purpose of Nanning International Folk Song Festival is to stage a celebration of folk song that can be enjoyed by to the whole country and the rest of the world.