Does anyone know about the Tujia family waving hands and dancing and crying to marry ?

The daughter of the Tujia family must be able to cry when she gets married, which is called crying marriage, crying beautifully, crying touching aunt crying marriage has a special "crying wedding song", which is a traditional skill. Tujia girls began to learn to cry and marry at the age of twelve or thirteen. In the past, girls who didn't cry were not allowed to marry.

Now, crying and marrying is only a custom in remote cottages. The daughter of the Tujia family must cry when she gets married, which is called crying marriage, crying beautifully, crying touchingly, and being called a smart and clever daughter-in-law.

According to the historical book Hengchong, the hand-waving dance originated from the military war dance of the Ba people in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In the Western Han Dynasty, this kind of military war dance of the Ba people became the dance music of the Han court, which was called the Ba Yu dance. Liang reverted to the title, and later changed it to the Dance.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Ba Yu Dance was listed as a Qing Gaole. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ba Yu dance has endured among the people for a long time. There are big and small hand-waving dances.

The small hand-waving dance is held once a year in the first month of the year, mainly to perform farming, fishing and hunting activities. The big waving is held every three years and is based on the small waving dance, plus the military war dance performed by Pisilankap. When dancing the hand-waving dance, it is necessary to blow the big earth horn, suona, beat the gong to conceal the light, cymbals, drums, and set off three-eyed cannons and firecrackers.

People form a circle, with men in the outer circle and women in the inner circle. In addition to circles, there are columns, "human" herringbone formations, and various pattern formations. The number of dancers varies, and you can come and go freely.

The movement requires the hands to swing no more than the shoulders, the knees to extend and bend, and the hands and feet to move in a smooth manner. The dance is simple and the rhythm is bright. At the same time as the hand-waving dance, the hand-waving song is sung, and the lyrics range from fixed lyrics that have been passed down for a long time, and there are also a small number of new lyrics that are improvised and sung.

People sing and dance, the atmosphere is warm, with a strong Tujia atmosphere.

Categories: Social and People's Livelihood.

Analysis: The hand-waving dance is the original sacrificial dance of the Tujia family, in the place where the Tujia people live, there is a special "corridor" for dancing the hand-waving dance, and the Tujia people call it "hand-waving hall". Located on the bank of the Youshui River, Shemi Lake in Laifeng County is the hometown of hand-waving dance.

The floor of the "Swinging Hands Hall" is inlaid with stones, which is flat and smooth. In the middle is a tall osmanthus tree or pine and cypress tree. "Waving Hands Hall", also known as "Shrine Hall", is a place where ancestral shrines are enshrined.

Every year between the third and fifteenth days of the first lunar month, people have to hold a sacrifice here, and waving hands and dancing is the main content of the festival.

Every Spring Festival, the Tujia people help the old and the young after dinner, holding lanterns, torches, supporting colorful pennants, and pouring into the "Waving Hall" with various colors of flowers and quilts. In order to create a lively atmosphere, the Tujia people also have to sound the bell and set off the cannon, hang the red light on the laurel tree or the pine and cypress tree in the middle, hang a big gong under the tree, put a big drum, one person beats the gong and drum, everyone dances around the big tree according to the rhythm of the gong and drum. Swing hand dance is divided into "single pendulum", "double pendulum", dancers change formation and movement with the leading dancer's instructions, in the swing law, most of them are swinging, that is, when swinging the right hand, the right foot is out, and the left hand is out of the left foot, commonly known as "throwing the same side hand".

Most of the dance movements of the hand-waving dance are the reproduction of the production, life and conquest scenes of the earth and the diggers: there are "chasing wild boars", "dragging pheasant tails", "rock eagles spreading their wings" and other lack of nuclear stupidity; There are "digging soil", "removing seeds", "planting buds", etc.; There are "mosquito fighting", "pooping", "back wiping" and so on; There are "open bows and arrows" and "riding horses and wielding swords" to show that they are fighting battles. The dance posture of the hand-waving dance is rough and generous, strong and powerful, and the rhythm is distinct.

After the Tujia people sacrificed their ancestors with offerings such as cow heads, pig heads, baba, rice wine, bacon, etc., they began to dance, dancing from dark to dawn, and sometimes even dancing several times in a row all night. There is also a big hand-waving dance held in the wild, which is a military war dance with a grand scale and extraordinary momentum. There are as few as a few people, and as many as tens of thousands, which lasts for seven or eight days.

Held every three years, the Big Swing Dance is a reenactment of military war scenes. The big hand dance ** is also an unprecedented trade fair.