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Entertainments in Jiuzhaigou
Popular Activities Tibetans are nationality good at singing and dancing. Songs are hears everywhere in Tibetan villages, at work, at religious rituals, and in daily lives. They have drinking songs, tea songs, road songs, and songs and dances have become part of their life. Water of Jiuzhaigou sings endlessly all the year round, trees of Jiuzhaigou dance day and night; birds of Jiuzhaigou are vhriping out melodies from dawn to dusk. Songs and dances give birth to the lively nature of Jiuzhaigou people. Furthmore, with the dancing and singing genes inherited from their forefathers, people of Jiuzhaigou live in a world of songs and dances. Guozhuang Dance It is the most popular style of dances in Jiuzhaigou. According to Tibetan historical records, in the 3 rd CenturyB.C, people went crazy about dancing, everywhere in Tibet. It originated from the form by which they danced around a campfire, all the time. And this dance has been with the Tibetan nationality throughout their history. Guozhuang has three kingds: Temple Guozhuang, Pastoral Guozhuang and Farm Guozhuang. The temple Guozhuang event is organized for religious purposes in temples or monasteries, or for greeting and sending-off the Living Buddha. It is solemn of strong religious implications, through which, believers dance in honor of the Living Buddha, grateful for their expected bliss in their afterlife. The Pastoral and Farm Guozhuang are enthusiastic, unrestrained, and somewhat complacent. It is organized for festivals and big occasions when men wear loose trousers dancing like an eagle spreading its wings; women expose their right arms dancing with the right sleeve waggling behind. Moving around a circle, they sway their joined hands frontward and backward, keep beats of their steps, until very late at night. Tibetan Drama It is another form of outdoor song/dance entertainments. The most important feature is that actors and accesses put on masks for their performance. It is said that this form was invented in the i5th century by the Reverend Monk Tangdong Jiebu. When he traveled in Tibetan, he found that rivers contributed to much inconvenience for local people, and determined 10 build cable bridges across all the rivers. He coordinated with seven broth- ers and sisters who were good at dancing singing, am! Started a special form or song and dance with themes like history, religious stories, teaching for good deeds and charily. Highly commending his act undertaken for the public good. Tibetan monks donate money and material supplies lo build the cable bridges. When con-struction completed, the Tibetan drama troupe became popular in Tibetan-inhabited regions. Other Entertainments and Activities You Are Urged to Drink Tourists to Jiuzhaigou are often invited to drink aromatic qingke barley liquor as long as they visit Tibetan families. The host holds up the full cup, and flips a few droplets from it, upward, downward and midway, respectively to show respect for Heaven, parents and guests. If you are allergic to liquor or a little shy, the host will sing a drink-invitation song over his cup. Folk Songs Local folk songs are high-pitched, elegant, forthright, profound, lenient, inartificial, and of strong national characters. The antiphonal style is one entertainment form that attracts largest number of listeners in Jiuzhaigou. Group to group, village, men to women, the songs are exchanged, echoed, in varied and colorful tones and pitches. Working Dance Songs accompany people of Jiuzhaigou in their dances and work. Songs give rhythmus to work, and are designed according to different situations, e.g. for grazing, farming, building the house, and even for housework. Now, as Jiuzhaigou is listed as the International Tourist Resort, farmland is returned for forestry purposes. Since local people no longer work in farm fields, nor in rangeland, they use their songs to amuse visiting tourists.

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