Folk music "Dancing Sheng Dance" from the album "Music Map of China Hear Yunnan Lahu, Zhuang, Dulong Folk Song Music Collection"

Sheng Dancing

Folk music Nationality: Lahu Nationality Region: Yunnan

Lusheng: Shang Zesan

Have you ever seen the Lahu people dance the sheng? The instrument played is the Lusheng, an ancestral musical instrument of Lahu people. It is made of several bamboo pipes and a gourd. The hand holds the sheng pipe or gourd pipe, and the mouthpiece made of thin bamboo pipe connected to the end of the handle of the mouth blowing is full of loud sound, high and low around several sheng pipes. It is said that the ancestors of this ancient nation came out of the gourd, and they regarded the gourd as a holy relic, the gourd sheng, and men carried it with them and blew it wherever they went. The bonfire was lit, and the table in the middle was filled with grain, tea and rice wine. Skilled Lushan and three-stringed hands blew and played ancient tunes and began to lead the dance. The men in one circle and the women outside one circle formed a circle, singing together, stepping on the ground, the rhythm of the music was like pulsating in the blood, and they turned clockwise while dancing, changing according to the melody. Stamp your feet, lift your legs, turn around, clap your hands, support your shoulders... Sometimes imitating the sound of nature in song, imitating the shape of animals in action. They jump when they celebrate, when they celebrate, when they are happy, as long as they hear the Lusheng sound, they can't help but want to jump, so they sing and jump through countless happy hours and the cold and difficult times of life. Lahu, one of the oldest ethnic groups in China, "La" means unity, and "Hu" means happiness.