Jilin Volume: Farmer's Dance

Farmer's Dance, popular in the congregating area of the Korean ethnic group in the northeastern China, is a representative dance favoured by these people. It is characterized by "beating tambourine" and "swinging elephant cap". The movements of tambourine beaters are rich and vigorous and posing like horse riders and arrow shooters while the elephant cap swingers use their necks as axles just to swing the 12-metre long tape tied to the cap, which move like wheels round the dancers and dazzle the viewers. The dancers usually consists of about 60 people, and hold a banner with the characters reading as "Agriculture is the basis of the whole world", which tells the aim of this particular dance as paying much attention to the agriculture as well as entertaining the farmers.

  Yunnan Volume: Cap Dance of the Hani Ethnic Group

Cap Dance, popular in the Jinghong County of Xishuangbanna Region in Yunnan Province, is a festival dance of the Aini People (of the Hani ethnic group) in the occasions of the Swing Festival, Bamboo Shoot Fair, Rice Seed Festival. While dancing together, men and women form a circle and there is no limit to their number. Men play music to help women change the floor patterns while the latter moving as the major dancers with uniquely shaped caps in their hands, forwards and sidewise, even over-headedly, and always abruptly and their knees shivering slightly, which makes the whole dance natural and stylish, easy-going and lively.

  Liaoning Volume: Stilt Yangge

Stilt Yangge is widely popular in northern China while one kind of which spreading in the southern Liaoning Province proves to be one of the best Chinese folk dances. The ballad can give us an idea on how the local people love it: "People would itch to dance on hearing the trumpet blowing while they jump high on hearing the drums and gongs."

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