Lurigele dance of Daur people


Lurigele is a typical folk dance popular among the Daur people, who mostly live in Inner Mongolia and the Heilongjiang Rivervalley. Lurigele, the local language means "burning" or "flourishing" in Chinese.
 
For the Daur people, tradition is incorporated into their dance and musical instruments, especially during festivals. Borrowing themes from daily life, farm work and customs, dancers imitate the movements of birds such as the eagle, chick, and cuckoo, as well as daily activities such as picking herbs, sewing, or carrying barrels of water. As women dance, the men watch or hold meetings for hockey, horseracing, shooting and wrestling.
 
Lurigele dance of Daur people is a "living fossil" for the research and evolution of the primitive hunting dance of the northern ethnic groups.
 

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