Waving-Hands Dance

    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.

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