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The dance of Li nationality has distinct national characteristics and a strong flavor of life. When getting married, building new houses, celebrating festivals or playing in the countryside, people should dance together. Among many dances, it can be roughly divided into three types: ancestor dance, life dance and production dance. The former includes ghost-catching dance (i.e. "exorcism dance"), blessing dance (i.e. "evocation dance"), New Year's greeting dance (i.e. "safe dance"), bowl dance (i.e. "mother dance") and so on. Life dances include firewood dance (that is, "bamboo pole dance"), gongs and drums dance, teasing mother dance, money bell double knife dance, money string dance and so on; Making dances, including rice dances and so on.

Zhao Fuwu, also known as "soul dance", is popular in Tongshi City and Maoyang District of Hainan Province. March, July and October in the summer calendar are the Year of the Ox. According to legend, the ancestors of the Li nationality believed that everything in the world was divided into "good and bad". The Year of the Ox is an auspicious day. Dancing this dance in March can bring "good luck" to cattle and make them multiply constantly; Dancing this dance in July can attract the "rice soul", make the seedlings grow sturdily and harvest the crops; Dancing this dance in October can attract everyone's "blessing", so that members of all ages are safe and sound, and infertile women can have children after marriage. On the Year of the Ox, all the members gathered in Aublanc's house to kill pigs and hold a banquet, taking turns drinking and beating drums. In the sound of gongs and drums, Mr. and Mrs. Aublanc dressed in traditional costumes took the lead in drinking and dancing with sparkling rice wine as a rich "blessing wine". During the dance, Pablo Bron sprinkled "Fujiu" on two rattan leaves holding "Fujiu" in his hand. Then, men and women in blue, blue and green silk robes danced outside the house and waved to the house with their sleeves. The female dancer holds a wine bowl in her hand, while dancing and toasting the male dancer. The dancer's head and body are vertical, and his knees are bent and straight. Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, he moved forward or backward with small steps, waving his hands to the house from time to time, indicating that he would bring the "blessed soul" into the house.