The Dance of Shigong is a popular folk dance around Nanning. The dance is often accompanied by vocal songs that are sung in Ping Hua (a local dialect), so it is also called “Ping Hua Shigong”. Generally there are two kinds of Shigong Dance, which includes the outer and inner temple dance. The inner Dance of Shigong usually integrates with the Daogong. The performance involves mainly civil and military activities and it mostly shows ceremonies to pray and offer sacrifice to gods or ancestors. The outer Dance of Shigong mainly reflects the daily workand life of the local people. When there is a funeral or a new bridge to be built, people usually invite Shigong to dance. There are group dances and solo dances, alternately performed, accompanied by drums and gongs. They perform scenes of inviting the gods, sending off the soul, and dispelling ghosts through dance. The Dance of Shigong is rich in movements and postures.

The dragon boat race is a traditional sport that is still quite popular. Nanning holds a dragon boat race on May 5th, according to the lunar calendar every year. In 1997, a boat race held by Nanning Municipality and Lutan township won a title of “The Best Location for Dragon Boat Race” because of its large scale and efficient organization. The award was issued by the All-China Sports Federation and the Dragon Boat Association of China.

It is a kind of performance to show the different kinds of feats to climb a slope pole upwardly, inversely or climb in circles to fetch the things on it. Every year the Miao Ethnic Group has a fair to hold a pole climbing game. A 10-meter tung pole is erected in the fair place with preserved ham, rice wine and Ciba (a kind of cooked glutinous rice pounded into paste) hanging on the top. All the participators should climb up to the top and drink a mouthful wine and down. The most mirable of this game is that almost all the climbers are using their own feats to show their special skills and athletic abilities, some only climbing by using the hands and others by using both hands and feet, some climbing upwardly and the others reversely with the feet upward; moreover, some even circumvolving while climbing…. At this time, all the young people around the pole are singing and dancing and cheeri ng for the climbers, and everything there presents a happy ambience.

The Yao Ethnic Group is an intrepid nationality. They like to put some danger and daring into their performances. For example, in the feat of climbing the sword ladder, also called “climbing a mountain of swords” sharp swords are fixed to a ladder as the rungs. The players climb up and down these sharp rungs barefoot, without harming their feet.

“Xiuqiu” (a ball made of strips of silk) Tossing is a kind of traditional entertaining sport and a unique manner of expressing the emotions to the object of one's affection among the Zhuang youth. The embroidered balls can be made in the shape of a ball, square, diamond or an animal of various shapes with some color band and a hank of colorful silk tassel attached. Stuffed with chaff or cottonseeds, the ball will generally be less than 0.5kg in weight. When playing the game, all the males and females are divided into two competitive teams facing each other, with one judge stationed on each side. One side tosses the ball into the other team's court, and the opponents try to catch the ball before it hits the ground. If they fail to do so, they have to sing a song or give a performance. Then they toss the ball back to the first and so on. When the embroidered ball is used as a love token, the tossing strategy is different. In this case, the girl secretly tries to throw the ball to the object of her affection, and, if he his successful in catching the ball, the man will present a handkerchief or a towel back to the young lady. They continue in this fashion, singing antiphonally to gain further understanding of each other. Another way is when the girlfriends the man she likes, she will toss the ball to him. If the man who gets the ball has the same feeling, he will tie a present on the ball and toss it back.