The most influential dance of the Tujia Festival is the hand-waving dance, which is a dance that prays for happiness and rewards ancestors. It shows the production, life, war, myths and legends of the Tujia people. Song is born with dance, and dance is named after song, which originated in ancient times and prevailed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. After the Tujia family sacrifice ceremony is completed, beat the big drum, sound the big gong, lead the people by the "Tima" or the master of the altar, enter the hand-waving hall or the hand-waving flat to dance the hand-waving dance, sing the hand-waving song, the momentum is majestic and magnificent, and the heart is moving.

According to the scale of its activities, the hand-waving dance is divided into two kinds: "big swing" and "small swing", according to its dance form, it is divided into "single swing", "double swing", "whirlwind swing", etc., and according to the time of its holding, it is divided into "New Moon Hall", "February Hall", "March Hall", "May Hall", "June Hall" and so on. The hand-waving dance is divided into large hand-waving and small hand-waving. The large-scale hand-waving activities are large-scale, mainly to worship the "eight great gods", performing human origins, ethnic migration, resisting foreign disasters and agricultural activities, etc.; the small hand-waving activities are small-scale, mainly to worship the Duke of Peng, Xiang Laoguanren, Tian Haohan and local soil kings, and perform some agricultural activities.

The Great Wave of Hands is held in the Hall of Hands Swinging. In the center of the Swing Hall is the idol of King Yabu and his wife 'Papa'. A flagpole with a height of 24 meters stands in the middle of the big flat of the swinging hand hall, and the two dragon flags on it are waving in the wind, and a white crane at the top of the flagpole is about to fly.

At the time of the boundary, each village is composed of a hand-waving "platoon" according to the surname or clan house, each "platoon" is a hand-waving team, and the number of each "platoon" is unequal, and there are hand-waving teams, sacrificial teams, flag teams, bands, armor teams, and artillery teams.

The first column is the dragon and phoenix flag team. The dragon flag and the phoenix flag are made of red, blue, white and yellow silk to make four triangular flags of one color each. The flag is more than a foot long, and the edge is inlaid with cockscomb-shaped lace. With the white dragon flag and the red phoenix flag as the inheritance, they walked side by side at the forefront of the team.

The second is listed as a sacrificial procession. It is composed of respected old people on the wall. There are more than 20 people. They were dressed in soap-colored robes and held props such as eyebrow sticks, divine knives, and chao tubes. A venerable person holds a wine jar with the word 'Fu' on it, and leads the people who carry the five grains, the prey, the baba, the dumplings, the tofu and other sacrifices. Perform sacrifices with the master of the hall and sing sacrificial songs.

Behind the sacrificial procession is a dance team. Men and women of all ages can participate, dressed in festive attire, holding a pilgrimage or evergreen twigs in their hands.

The dance team was followed by the small flag team. On the side of the house, there are two kinds of colors, rectangular and triangular, and it is also decorated with ruffles. Dedicated to the altar of the "Eight Kings" to thank the ancestors for their deep grace.

Then there was the band, the armor team, and the artillery team. The band is divided into two types: distillation and hand-waving gongs and drums. Then it is accompanied by horns, earth horns, wild horns, dong dong quine, etc. Play the unique melody of the Tu family festival.

The armor team is composed of young adults wearing colorful "Xilankap". The Tujia people are brave by nature, sharp and martial, and take brocade as the armor in the hand-waving dance to demonstrate the majesty of the martial arts.

The artillery team is composed of bird guns and three-eyed guns, and each team is arranged according to the above procedures to enter the swinging hand hall. After entering the hall, first sweep away the evil, and then calm the nerves. Holding a broom in his hand, Zhang Tangshi strongly condemned those 'big buckets in, small buckets out.' With the iron broom of morality, they swept away those national scum who 'wanted to harm others and commit thefts', fully demonstrating the virtues of the Tujia people who are jealous and hateful, simple and kind. At the time of the sacrifice. Under the leadership of the master of the hall, the worshippers kneel down their left feet in order, and the dancers also kneel reverently. Led and joined with the sacrificial team, singing divine songs in unison. The lyrics are euphemistic and deep, and the atmosphere is solemn and solemn. After the song. Each row presents its own offerings to the shrine, on which there are words such as "Fulu Suxi", "Auspicious Ruyi", "Harvest of Grains", "Wind and Rain".

After the sacrifice was completed, the salute was fired three times, shaking the heavens and the earth, destroying people and dancing, and the audience was boiling. Under the command of the master of the hall, people neatly change the dance movements, sometimes single pendulum, sometimes double pendulum, sometimes whirl, the dance posture is beautiful, the movements are realistic, rigid and soft, rough and majestic. The content of the hand-waving dance shows the artistic pictures rich in national characteristics and life atmosphere, such as ethnic migration, hunting and conquest, and agricultural and mulberry weaving.

This is Ji Zhi came to Xuan'en County, saw the sacrificial scene, the Tujia people are simple and hospitable, Ji Zhi and others came here, received a warm reception, the wine has sweet wine and smacking wine, and the food is Baba (glutinous bacon), oil tea and other Tujia special foods. The alcohol is not high, the taste is pure, Ji Zhi drank a lot unconsciously, Ji Zhi came here to relax all his body, unprecedented comfort, as if returning to the countryside where he used to live, there is no noise of the big city, more tranquility, although life is not as prosperous as the city, everyone's face is full of satisfaction and happy expression.

Ji Zhi has been here for four days, the hand-waving dance is the third day, this time it is a five-year-old hand-waving dance, which lasted for seven days, Ji Zhi drank wine, looked at the men and women dancing around the bonfire, Ji Zhi really wanted to live with these villagers like this, no desire, simple and happy, but he knew that it was just to think, there were still many things waiting for him, although he still did not understand what his mission was, but he knew that one day he would know.

"Brother Zhi, what are you thinking?" At this time, a sweet voice remembered, pulling Ji Zhi back to reality.

Ji Zhijian is Xiang Rongrong, a beautiful little girl at the age of seventeen or eighteen, people here call her Kappu, in the Turkish language is the meaning of flowers, but also to describe Xiang Rongrong as beautiful as a blooming flower, now the Tujia family is influenced by the Han nationality, has been sinicized, the name is the same as the Han nationality, Chinese is the language of enlightenment, so here Ji Zhi does not feel any cultural differences, the only difference is that the unique customs of the Tujia people are still retained here.

"It's Rong Rong, see you're sweating profusely, come and rest. Ji Zhi looked at this little girl a few years younger than himself with pity, and picked up a towel to help her wipe the sweat from her forehead.

"Why don't you go dancing?" asked Rong Rong.

"Brother no, not as good at singing and dancing as you are. Ji Zhi said softly.

"Isn't it boring, let's go back. Xiang Rongrong saw Ji Zhi sitting there in a daze, thinking that Ji Zhi was too boring.

"You're not jumping?" asked Ji Zhi.

"There are still a few days, so I'll go home with my brother earlier today. Xiang Rongrong said playfully.

After Ji Zhi came here, he lived in Xiang Rongrong's house, the Tujia people are hospitable, but because of the sacrifice, people from many places come here to watch, if it weren't for Liu Tiancheng, Ji Zhi and they have no place to live, Xiang Rongrong's father is the head of this village, and generally does not receive guests.

Xiang Rongrong took Ji Zhi's hand, jumped, and walked towards his stilted building, with Wangchen and Ling Feng following behind.

Not long after Ji Zhi left, three people walked out of the dancing crowd, and at the same time, a few people walked out of the crowd of spectators, and walked quickly in the direction of Ji Zhi, at this time, a few more people from the dark corner rounded up with these people, and whispered a few words, and at the same time followed Ji Zhi and the others and disappeared into the night.

"Brother Zhi, tell me about the outside world, and how you and Brother Tian met, as if he respected you very much. "Back to the stilted building, Xiang Rongrong pestered Ji Zhi to tell her about the outside things, these days this girl has been pestering Ji Zhi to ask questions, Xiang Rongrong has never walked out of this village since she was a child, his father managed her very strictly, this time Liu Tiancheng brought Ji Zhi to live in her house, so that she had close contact with people from the outside world for the first time, and was very interested in Ji Zhi, Liu Tiancheng saw Xiang Rongrong when he was very young, his father also respected him very much, although Xiang Rongrong has never been out of the village, but is very smart, and the education has also kept pace with the times, except for not being able to go out of the village or contact with strangers, everything else is not restricted, so Xiang Rongrong noticed that Liu Tiancheng had an unusual relationship with his father, and it was very likely that his father was still obedient to him, this time seeing that Liu Tiancheng had a lot of respect for this young brother, she understood that her father would not stop her from asking some things, and things proved to be true, her father was like a guest to Ji Zhifeng, and her father did not dare to stop her from asking questions.

"Hehe, Liu Tiancheng and I are colleagues and good friends. Ji Zhi said, for this simple little girl who has never been involved in the world, sometimes Ji Zhi really doesn't know how to answer.

"I hate it, you don't tell the truth. Of course, the smart Xiang Rongrong heard that Ji Zhi was perfunctory to her, and she seemed to throw herself into Ji Zhi's arms.

This move made Ji Zhi blush, and the unemployed Ji Zhi was suddenly hugged by a girl, although Xiang Rongrong was only seventeen or eighteen, but she was very well developed, and her petite body had a pair of extremely well-developed breasts, this close contact, the two softness rubbed on Ji Zhi's body, and Ji Zhi was embarrassed.

"I didn't lie to you, we are indeed colleagues, by the way, what other fun do you have here besides sacrifices?. Ji Zhi pushed away Xiang Rongrong without a trace, and diverted the topic.

"Yes, there are a lot of fun things on the mountain, how about Rong Rong take her brother to play after the sacrifice is over?" The innocent and lovely Xiang Rong Rong was quickly led away by this topic.

"yes, yes, I like to climb mountains. Ji Zhi nodded.

"yes, so do I, so how about we go to the top of the mountain? Xiang Rongrong said excitedly. (To be continued.) )