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临沧市沧源县勐董镇佤族甩发舞项目代表性传承人 -鲍叶内
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Xiao Yumen – Inheritor of Wa Folk Dance in Cangyuan County, Lincang
临沧市沧源县佤族舞蹈传承人 – 肖玉门
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Bao Enong – Inheritor of Wa Traditional Textile Crafts in Cangyuan County, Lincang
临沧市沧源县勐董镇佤族传统纺织技艺传承人 – 鲍俄侬
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Wengding Village Wa Ethnic Culture Protection Area in Cangyuan County, Lincang 沧源县翁丁村佤族传统文化保护区
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Hair Dance of Wa Ethnic Minority 佤族甩发舞
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“Sigangli ” – Creation Myths of Wa Ethnic Minority 佤族神话《司岗里》
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The Wooden Drum Dance is a folk dance popular among the Miao, Li and Wa ethnic groups in southwest Yunnan. Wooden Drum Dance of Wa Ethnic Minority is mainly distributed in Yanshuai(岩帅), Danjia(单甲), Nuoliang(糯良), Menglai(勐来), Banhong(班洪) town of Cangyuan(沧源) Wa Autonomous County, Llincang(临沧). Wooden drum dance can be seen everywhere in Washan counties. Currently, where there are more than 700 wooden drums ranging from big to small and 90% of the people can dance and sing with the drum.
History
Wooden Drum Dance of Wa Ethnic Minority has a very long history. The wooden drum is regarded as a legendary divine instrument, the source of procreation and an important symbol of Wa history and culture. It reflects folk dance, song, literature, art, achievement and religious belief. Apart from their intrinsic value, the drum dances are also important to research into art, ethnology, folklore and religion. They have a unifying effect, and are still popular.
The general wooden drum dance is one part of major sacrificial rites that involve everyone, and the drum is highly symbolic. The acts of beating the drum and dancing to the drum is descended directly from an ancient and primitive culture, with strong values based on ancestor worship and reverence for nature.
Feature
Wooden Drum Dance of Wa Ethnic Minority mainly includes：
- 1. La Wooden Drum Dance (拉木鼓舞)
- 2. Mangluo Dance（铓锣舞）
- 3. Piaoniu(剽牛舞)
- 4. Knife Dance(刀舞)
- 5. Hair Dance(甩发舞)
- 6. Jump Wooden Drum House Dance(跳木鼓房舞)
- 7. Head Dance( 迎头舞)
How to Dance
First the dancers move diagonally one step to the right, bending a little backwards and swinging their hands towards the head. Then they mark time once with both hands swinging diagonally backwards and the body leaning forwards. These moves are repeated.
Importance
Wooden Drum Dance of Wa Ethnic Minority shows the diligent and brave character of the Wa Ethnic. Wooden Drum Dance used to be as the start of ceremony, Wa people of all ages dress up and dance around the wooden drum house to the beating of the drums. They start by showing respect to the wooden drum by kneeling and bowing, and then move around slowly counter-clockwise, waving hands and stamping feet. Wooden Drum Dance tells national history, sacrificial ceremonies, production and life.
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Dinglai Wa Ethnic Culture Protection Area in Cangyuan County, Lincang
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The news was updated on May 5, 2019.
During the Labor Day holiday, the yearly Monihei Carnival took place in Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County, southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
The carnival is the occasion for Wa people to touch each other black with special mud to express their sincere greetings. This year, Cangyuan held various activities to promote its tourism as well as business opportunities.
They included traditional ones like the memorial of the soul of ox, the gala of Wa ethnic group, blessing ceremony, hair swinging dance, dressing show, crossbow shooting, Wa weaving, making fire with bamboo and so on. Also, more creative and interactive activities were held, such as the night party for Chinese and Myanmar people and half marathon.
“Monihei” literally means “touching you black”. It is said that the carnival takes its meaning from the Wa ethnic group’s custom. Wa people believes that smearing a kind of special mud called Niangbuluo on faces or bodies is a good way to frighten evils, keep healthy and seek longevity.
Wooden Drum: A Magical Instrument to Connecting with God for Wa People
“Kong Lang… Kong Lang…”, at nightfall, bold drum is played in the area where Wa people live in. People at all ages, men and women, together around a flaming fire, jump and sing in the hair-swaying dance on the square. On May 2, a wooden dance performance was shown in the Ximeng Longtan Lake Scenic Area. Accompanied by the sound of drums, people felt the magic culture charm from Wa people.
Wa people believe that “everything is given by the god and everything is decided by the god. Shelter from the god can only be given to us if we serve the god.” Thus Wa people see the “sacrificial offering for connecting with the god” as a very important rite in their folk custom. Wooden drums are regarded as a sacrificial tool to connect with the god, thus it has an important position in the life of Wa people, and later it derives the “Wooden Drum Dance”.
You will see wooden drums in the life of Wa people in the region of Ximeng, Pu’er and Cangyuan, Lincang, Yunnan.
Wooden Drum is called “Kong Lang Kong” in the Wa language. According to the records in the creation epic “Si Gang Li” in Wa history, in the ancient times, the A’wa Mountain was suffered from a flood disaster, and the flood swallowed up all living creatures on the land, then the god of creation Shemuyiji threw a piece of wooden trough in the flood and saved the A’wa people. From then on, the ancient Wa people revered the wooden trough as the mother of them, and they put the soul of Shenmuyiji in a wooden-made container, which was the prototype of the wooden drums.
As the change of the eras, the wooden drum used in the ritual activities to pray for the peace of people and good harvest, has become one of the musical instruments of the Wa people in daily song and dance entertainment, leaving its primitive religious colour gradually faded out.
“Wooden Drum Dance”, being generally referred to as a joint name of a series of folk dances of the Wa people, is one of the dance performances in A’wa people’s daily life, mainly including Wooden Drum Dance, Sword Dance, Hair-Swaying Dance etc., and the wooden drum is the main accompaniment musical instrument for these dances. “Wooden Drum Dance” then accordingly became a part of the Wa culture.
Making of “Magical Instrument”
Wooden drum is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Wa ancients. According to introduction, a wooden drum is generally made from an entire section of bulky log, and hard wood trees such as Malaoying trees and red leave trees are preferred.
The maker will dig a narrow and long sound hole in the middle part of the log and then dig from both ends to the middle to form the drum belly deep in middle and shallow at both ends. The drum surface is made of cowhide, with 20 wooden handles under and surround the drum. Inside the drum are flat and long sound hole with drum tongue and drum teeth. At both ends there is a sound trough narrow in middle and wide at both ends and a square sound window. Two drum strikes (at the length between 0.4 m and 0.43 m) are used for beating the drum.
It is reported that wooden drums are divided into two categories: the male ones and the female ones. The former, with a low syllable and thick timbre, is made from Malaoying tree. The latter, with a high syllable and clear timbre, is made from red leave tree. The making processes of the male ones and the female ones are roughly the same, except the size of the female ones are a bit smaller than the male ones.
The wooden drum embodies the connotation of Wa culture, which is very important for the heritage and study of Wa people’s traditional culture. The area where Wa people live in will also strengthen the protection of wooden drums to inherit the Wa culture contained in the wooden drums.
Kunming enjoys the reputation of “Spring City”, is the provincial capital of Yunnan Province, the gateway city from China to Southeast Asia and South Asia, and the famous historical and cultural city of China. Kunming is also an important tourist and trade city, one of the important central cities in the western region. Cangyuan is a border city, Burma neighbors it in the west. More than 20 minority groups inhabit there for generations, among which Wa people takes up the largest proportion of the population. Cangyuan is regarded as a multicultural region. It boasts its unique culture and activities which are quite different in other resorts at home and abroad. The fun, passionate and unique Monihei Carnival and New Rice Festival are the popular festivals of Wa people. Cangyuan is one of the only two Wa Autonomous Counties in China.
There are about 3 flights a day on average from Kunming Changshui International Airport to Cangyuan Washan Airport. It takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes from Kunming to Cangyuan and about 1 hour and 5 minutes from Cangyaun to Kunming by direct flight.
Kunming Changshui International Airport昆明长水国际机场
Address: Changshui Village, Guandu District, Kunming昆明市官渡区长水村
Tel: 0871-68718718
How to Get There: Take taxi, subway or airport shuttle bus(Kunming Changshui International Airport Shuttle Bus Timetable)
Cangyuan Washan Airport沧源佤山机场
Address: Nuoliang Township, Cangyuan County, Lincang临沧市沧源县糯良乡
Tel: 181-8383-9488
Airport Transportation: Taxis, airport shuttle bus and chartered bus.
Kunming-Cangyuan Flight Schedule
| Flight No. | Airlines | Departure | Arrival | Duration | Frequency | Full Prices |
| 8L9509 | Lucky Air | 07:00 | 08:05 | 1h5m | Mon, Thu, Sunday |
880 ￥
Economy Class
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| 8L9509 | Lucky Air | 06:55 | 08:05 | 1h10m | Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat |
880 ￥
Economy Class
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| 8L9921 | Lucky Air | 10:25 | 11:35 | 1h10m | Mon, Thu |
880 ￥
Economy Class
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| 8L9921 | Lucky Air | 11:10 | 12:20 | 1h10m | Sunday |
880 ￥
Economy Class
|
| MU5967 | China Eastern Airlines | 16:10 | 17:15 | 1h5m | Every Day |
800 ￥
Economy Class
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| MU5955 | China Eastern Airlines | 10:05 | 11:15 | 1h10m | Tue, Thu, Sat |
800 ￥
Economy Class
|
Cangyuan-Kunming Flight Schedule
| Flight No. | Airlines | Departure | Arrivals | Duration | Frequency | Full Price |
| 8L9510 | Lucky Air | 08:55 | 10:00 | 1h5m | Mon, Wed, Thu, Sunday |
880 ￥
Economy Class
|
| 8L9510 | Lucky Air | 08:45 | 09:50 | 1h5m | Tue, Fri, Sat |
880 ￥
Economy Class
|
| 8L9922 | Lucky Air | 13:10 | 14:10 | 1h | Mon, Wed |
880 ￥
Economy Class
|
| 8L9922 | Lucky Air | 13:55 | 15:05 | 1h10m | Sunday |
880 ￥
Economy Class
|
| MU5968 | China Eastern Airlines | 18:15 | 19:20 | 1h5m | Monday to Saturday |
800 ￥
Economy Class
|
| MU5968 | China Eastern Airlines | 17:55 | 18:55 | 1h | Sunday |
800 ￥
Economy Class
|
| MU5956 | China Eastern Airlines | 11:55 | 13:00 | 1h5m | Tue, Thu, Sat |
800 ￥
Economy Class
|
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Chinese Name: 勐来董棕林
English Name: Menglai Caryota Urens Forest in Cangyuan County, Lincang
Location: located in the scenic region of Thousand-meter Picturesque Gallery
Entrance Ticket：22RMB
Opening Time: 08:00-18:00
Caryota Urens Forest is distributed along Cangyuan Cliff Painting Valley, about 20 kilometers. Caryota urens is a kind of valuable,ornamental plants protected by Chinese government. Caryota urens is a species of flowering plant in the palm family from the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China where they grow in fields and rainforest clearings. The epithet urens is Latin for “stinging” alluding to the chemicals in the fruit. Its leaf is used as fishing rod after trimming the branches of the leaf and drying. The Caryota urens grows in the valley in a large scale, its leaves are rustling in the wind. The large area of the Caryota urens is an unique picturesque scenery in Yahua Valley.
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