The land boat is a traditional folk dance of the Han Nationality, where a dancer “wears” a large decorated cloth boat around her waist, often with lanterns and colored silk hanging from it. When the dancers run and sway, the rippling fabric boat appears to be moving across a lake. Candles illuminate dances held at night, entrancing those who watch.

Chinese stilts can be two to more than three meters high. The performers stand on footplates and their lower legs are bound to the upper part of the stilts. In this way they can move in many different ways. Highly skilled performers can leap obstacles such as benches and desks, summersault, walk like “Eight”——“stand on one leg like a cock”, and bend backwards. Traditional performances include “The Story of the White Snake”, and “The Tang Monk's Travels” from “Journey to the West”. Stilts performances are famous in Beicheng and especially in Gankeng Village near Pingyao.

A traditional wedding ceremony is performed daily. (How nice that a marriage can take place daily!) First musicians playing traditional instruments assemble while eight people carry the bride in a sedan chair. Spectators can feel the joy of the occasion and see the magnificence of the ceremony.