Shoulder Pole Dance

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.

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