Turtledove Dance

Turtledove Dance is popular in Nanxiao Town and Datang Town of Yongning County. Traditionally, it is performed by local wizards in events like harvest celebration, praying for peace and luck. Wizards will play turtledoves by wearing a mask of turtledoves' head, which is made by bamboo strips backed up by cloth, a waistcoat in green and white check and a mono-colored wide-hem skirt (to represent the wings of turtledoves while dancing). They dance in accompaniment with music and accompany singing, while demonstrating the bird's movement with the postures of paddling, playing with sand and courting.

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