By Sun Ye in Guiyang (
China Daily) 14:03, December 04, 2013
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Yes, they still warp their bodies to unbelievable shapes, gyrate for a full minute withoutlosing balance, lift up their partners and spin them overhead. But when it comes to folk-dance competitions, there is something else to watch for.
There are folklores, legends and traditions of various ethnicities that lie beyond the dances.
For the entries of the prestigious Lotus Award, the country's highest honor in folk dancing,it's especially true.
Yang Zaiqing, a Miao ethnic native from Dayu village, Guizhou province, has brought aunique ritual dance, Stomp Down the Moon to the Lotus Award stage in Guiyang, Guizhouprovince, in mid-November.
Neat rows of primary and middle school students from his tribe of Bailing, Miao ethnicgroup, vigorously thump the floor. It's similar to a heavy tap dance, except they raise theirlegs high and land full on the sole with very loud "clicks" of the shoes.
"It's so refreshing and full of life," comments Zhao Linping, veteran dancer and researcherof ethnic dances at Inner Mongolian University.
Indeed, the dance, which is an everyday ritual for the group, is designed to revive themoon.
"For us, the moon is the supreme being and we worship her," Yang, who also played ajumpy tune on the lusheng, a Chinese musical instrument with multiple bamboo pipes.
"This dates back to hundreds of years ago when we fled and migrated from Jiangxiprovince and had to live in the wild," Yang, the Chinese teacher at the Sandu Dayu schoolsays. "The moon guided us and fed us. The name of our clan, Gailai, means 'live again'. Andwe still do the stomping dance in front of rice paddies and wish for harvests today."
"Everybody, men and women, young and old, celebrates the moon."
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