1. First, hang the waist drum on your right shoulder, put the drum on your left waist, and tie a bow on your right waist.
2. Hold a pestle in one hand, hold the drum stick with the thumb of the right hand facing the pestle, the little finger of the right hand passes through the drum stick, and the other three fingers of the right hand naturally hold the drum stick, so that the palm of your hand becomes a ball.
3. The little finger of the left hand passes through the drum stick to the direction of the drum pestle, and the left and right fingers hold the method with the right hand. The waist drum has a constant drum beat and a cheerful rhythm.
4. Basic footwork, stand well, with the same method from one to nine bars, squat in the ninth bar, rise and fall with the drum in the tenth to thirteenth bars, and the same method in the fourteenth to sixteenth bars.
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Waist drum dance is a popular traditional folk dance in China, which originated from ancient war drums. The dancer hangs an oval drum around her waist, holding a drumstick in each hand, knocking alternately and jumping while knocking. After the founding of New China, waist drum dance has become a traditional dance that is often performed in mass festivals, and the masses call it "beating the waist drum".
Waist drum dance is a group dance, which is used to celebrate and warm scenes and express people's jubilant mood and heroic spirit of working people. Dancing men and women are dressed in colorful clothes, with an oval drum hanging around their waist and a drumstick in each hand.
The drumstick is tied with a HongLing and dances while playing. The drums are changeable, the sense of rhythm is strong, the steps are changeable, and you can walk out of all kinds of complicated and wonderful patterns. The waist drum team has as few as four or eight people, and as many as ten or even hundreds. During the performance, the emotions were warm, the movements were powerful, the queues were neat, and the momentum was huge.
Waist drum dance, also known as "beating the waist drum", is one of the forms of folk dance. Folk dances popular in northern Shaanxi before liberation were mostly performed during the New Year, and sometimes yangko teams were inserted to dance with them. After liberation, it was almost all over the country. In the early 1950s, it was a popular group dance in the whole province.
Performers have a dozen or dozens of waist drum players, half male and half female, and several people are equipped with double cymbals and small drum bugles. The waist drum wears a cloth at hand, a white or green double-breasted coat on the upper body, colored trousers and a tie on the lower body, and a simple makeup on his face, which looks like a brave man. This woman is wearing a headscarf and colorful clothes.
The waist drum used is about 1 ft long and 5 inches in diameter. When performing, the waist drum is tied to the drummer's waist. Drummers hold drumsticks, open their bows left and right, sometimes hitting the side and sometimes hitting the face, and at the same time changing various formations, performing skills such as running, jumping, jumping, throwing single fork and throwing double fork.