Reed music and dance of reed customs

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Reed music and dance are an important part of the cultural life of the Miao and other ethnic minorities. In every village of the Miao ethnic group, there is a central courtyard dam where reeds are danced. On the moonlit nights of summer and autumn, the reeds are ringing. Or talk about the past and the present, and enjoy the joy after labor to the fullest. There are many kinds of Lusheng music, and the content and form are also rich and diverse.

Reed music and dance of reed customs

Lusheng dance has both the softness of dance and the strength of martial arts. Therefore, in the Miao Wushu training, the reed can also be used as a martial arts instrument to fight with martial arts practitioners. Among the Miao people, reeds mostly appear in group activities, such as Huashan Festival, funeral ceremonies, etc., and always play an important role throughout the whole event. However, reeds are not tokens of love, and they rarely play a role of love. It only serves as a cohesion and a call. The power connects the hearts of the Miao people together.

Its dance is characterized by softness with rigidity and rigidity with softness. Lusheng dance includes single dance, male duet dance and male and female duet dance. After the power foot landed, the lower body vibrated and kicked the foot, and the upper body swayed naturally. Lusheng dance has both the softness of dance and the strength of martial arts. Therefore, in the Miao Wushu training, the reed can also be used as a martial arts instrument to fight with martial arts practitioners. Among the Miao people, reeds mostly appear in group activities, such as Huashan Festival, funeral ceremonies, etc., and always play an important role throughout the whole event. However, reeds are not tokens of love, and they rarely play a role of love. It only serves as a cohesion and a call. The power connects the hearts of the Miao people together.

Based on the reed dance, the ethnic literature and art workers in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture created a collective dance "Miaoshan Disco", which not only maintains the original appearance of the reed dance, but has simple movements and a sense of the times, and has been gradually popularized among the Miao people. The emergence of the reed collective dance is undoubtedly the transitional development of the Miao reed dance from individual to group, so that the reed culture has found its own value in the large cultural circle of the Chinese nation.

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Lusheng (pinyin: lú shēng) is a reed instrument of the Miao, Yao, Dong and other ethnic groups in the southwest region. Its predecessor was the yu of the Han nationality.

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