#TheGreatBeautyofGuangdong A series of events to celebrate the 2023 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day was held in Shunde Cultural Square, Liannan Autonomous County, Guangdong. The events offered an extraordinary display of intangible cultural heritage to the public. Dressed in traditional Yao costumes to reflect their respective townships, the participants performed traditional dances accompanied by the Yao drum. They jumped, spun, and made powerful movements to the rhythm of passion-filled music and drum beating. They took the audience on a journey to the primitive mountains of the Yao people.
Event performance scene
Recently, the 2023 Liannan Yao Autonomous County “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” series of activities were held in Shunde Cultural Square in the county, presenting a unique feast of intangible cultural heritage to the masses. The participating dancers wear Yao costumes with the characteristics of their respective villages and towns and dance inspired by the Yao tribe. Passionately slapping, jumping, or spinning with long drums in hand, with rough and powerful movements, or shouting in unison, accompanied by dancing with drums, leading the audience into the original ecological Yaoshan Mountain.
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Text, pictures/Yang Wan photographer Zheng Shousong