Performance combining lion dance, single bamboo drifting staged to mark "March 3 Festival" in China's Guangxi

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Performance combining lion dance, single bamboo drifting staged to mark "March 3 Festival" in China's Guangxi

STORY: Performance combining lion dance, single bamboo drifting staged to mark "March 3 Festival" in China's Guangxi DATELINE: April 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of celebrating the "March 3 Festival" in China's Guangxi STORYLINE: Students from Hechi University in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently performed the lion dance while drifting on a single bamboo to celebrate the "March 3 Festival." The performance combines the traditional lion dance and single bamboo drifting. In Guangxi, March 3 of the lunar calendar, or "Sanyuesan," has been an important occasion to sing in the antiphonal (call-and-answer) style to find love, to worship ancestors and pray for a good harvest. It has been observed by many of the region's ethnic groups including Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong and Mulao. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nanning, China. (XHTV)

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