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| | Silver Ornament of Dong Nationality [edit this] | | Most jewelry of Dong's women is silver ornament. People in Xingguang Region like to wear silver chains, ring and earring. Every silver chain has three sections, with a total length of about 60-70 cm. Xinghuang Region has the most varieties of ornament that have difference style and are made elaborately. Some of these ornaments are exported to Yunnan Province, Guizhou Provice and Guangdong Province, etc. | Edit by: ch | |
| Waving-Hands Dance [edit this] | | The Waving-Hands Dance is a traditional and large scale dance popular in Tujia Nationality with thick sacrifice color. It is divided into two forms: the small scale Waving-Hands Dance and the large scale Waving-Hands Dance. Every year, from the third to the seventeenth day in lunar Jan, the men and women, the old and the young all gather in the Waving-hands Hall or Tugong Shrine, Tulaosi (the person preside over the ritual) rises up the broom, sings the songs for wiping off the evil, then the Waving-Hands Group carry the flag with dragon and phoenix pictures, blow the ox horn, trumpet and suona horn, and set off the three-hole guns and firecrackers, at that moment, the people begin to whirl around each other and dance. The atmosphere is happy and joyful in full blast. | Edit by: ch | |
| Nüshu [edit this] | | Nüshu is a special character that is handed down from ancient history and records the local language, which prevails in areas centering on Shangjiangyu. The characters is only used by women, called “Women's Characters”, and generally called “Nüshu”.
It is rhombus and thin foot characters, and the Coin sample“zhe er diao” issued in Taiping kindom is the earliest to record such characters.
Nüshu is usually written on the exquisitely made manuscript copy, fan covering, cloth and paper, even more, some is weaved in the brocade and belt. Nüshu is mainly used in the following aspects: fete; reading and singing, entertainment; letter communication; pouring life experience; recording events and history; revision of characters and verse; embroider etc. | Edit by: ch | |
| Lion Dance [edit this] | | Lion Dance is commonly referred to as “Lion Dancing Show”. By region, the “Wooden Handle Lion” which is made up of two wooden handles respectively at the head and tail of the lion is popular among the Yiyang, Yuanjiang Region. On performance, two of the handle holders wave the head of the lion frequently in accordance with the movement to the “bead” player in front of the “lion”; “Martial Lion” is popular in Anhua and Taojiang County and west of NianXian County, the action is more intense, integrating the body-building and entertainment. The players put on the multi-colored trousers and socks, hide themselves in the lion made by clothes, and follow the leading dancer holding the weapons to whirl. They occasionally writhe and then change to titillate, with such actions as licking fur, tumbling and rushing as well as uprising and turning around. They imitate the lion's actions so vivid and perfect that make the visitor soul stirring. “Sulfur Lion” is populated in Majitang Region in Taojiang County, and the player just go to outside to dance at the Lantern Festival in lunar Jan. in each year, before it, they usually need to worship the Guan God (one of the Chinese God) , which is called “FaChang”; When walking through the villages and pass the houses, they dance while burning sulfur for the purpose of expel evils and avoid disease. In the Anhui County, there is the “Arhat Lion”, with lucky status. The lion players wear “Arhat” headgear on their head, with hands holding the rush-leaf fan; they tease the “Lion” whose dancing step is slow, which is very funny and interesting.
The “Rice Begging Lion” is popular in the mountain area of Taojiang and Anhui County. The structure and actions of the “Lion” are relatively simple. The players usually play in villages during the Spring Festival, and they ask for the largess in the name of the transferring good fortune. | Edit by: ch | |
| Jiamu Festival Lantern Opera [edit this] | | Jiamu Festival Lantern Opera is recorded in Jiamu county annals that Festival Lantern Opera origins from the Ming Dynasty. It is local opera that populates in South Hu'nan and has nearly 200 repertories most of which reflect the labor people's happiness, sadness, sorrow and joy, and their fighting against tyrannical and lord, as well as exposing and criticizing feudal society, so it has certain educational meaning. Festival Lantern Opera is characterized by simple structure in art, focused plot, homeliness language, fun and humor, profound local color, imbued with a strong smack of labor life, and easily acceptable by the laboring people. | Edit by: ch | |
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