Lurigele dance of the Daur ethic group
(chinaculture.org)
Updated: 2013-12-18
Year：2006
Sort：Folk Dance
Area：Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang
Serial No.：Ⅲ-28
Declarer：Daur Ethnic Autonomous Banner of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region;Harbin,Heilongjiang Province
Lurigele is a typical folk dance popular among the Daur people, who mostly live in Inner Mongolia and the Heilongjiang Rivervalley. Lurigele is the local language that means "burning" or "flourishing" in Chinese.
The Daur people like to dance in a traditional way while playing traditional instruments, especially during festivals. Usually women dance and men watch. Borrowing themes from daily life, farm work and customs, dancers imitate the acts of birds such as the eagle, chick, and cuckoo, as well as imitate daily activities such as picking herbs, sewing, or carrying barrels of water. Meanwhile, the men hold meetings for hockey, horseracing, shooting and wrestling.
This dance is a "living fossil" for the research and evolution of the primitive hunting dance of the northern ethnic groups.
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