In the branch of the Li ethnic group, Xiao, there is a tradition of performing this dance at funerals with the belief that the living people are in one world while the dead in another. So, when somebody is dead, the living ones should happily see him off to the new world by performing this dance.

  Guizhou Volume: Xianggao (Striking Bamboo Pole) Dance of the Buy! Ethnic Group

Striking Bamboo Pole Dance is named after the sound the Buyi people produce while striking the broken long bamboo poles as its dancing props and popular in some villages and towns of Dushan County in Guizhou Province.

On the occasions of festivals, weddings, funerals, or singing contests and sacrifices, Buyi people gather, perform this dance for entertainment with the beating of the copper drums and leather drums, and pray to god for peace and good health and express their great joy.

Striking Bamboo Pole Dance is usually performed by young and mid-aged men and their movements are mainly characterized by swaying their waists left and right, striking the poles in their hands and changing the momentum and the speed of the drumbeats in order to coordinate with the movements and feelings of the dancers, thus producing a spell of ever changing stresses.

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