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Dong music performance

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China. Guizhou.

Liping County

Zhaoxing.

 

 

The village has a theater stage, singing platforms and grain barns. Drum towers are the village 's special feature. There are five of them here, looking like five lotus flowers scattered in five naturally formed villages.

 

Zhaoxing village is also a cradle of Dong festivals and dances. The important Dong festivals include Dong New Year, the New Harvest Festival, Sama Festival and so on. There are many kinds of Dong song and dance, among which the Grand Song (Dage in Chinese) is the best known. Zhaoxing is also the place where Dong people gather to perform the Dong drama every year.

www.chinatourguide.com/guizhou/Zhaoxing_Dong_village.html

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Uploaded on January 3, 2015
Taken on October 12, 2014