Tibetan people perform Guozhuang dance at a local festival on July 26 in Garze county in Sichuan province. Taking place across the ethnic Tibetan regions of China, traditional Guozhuang battles feature hundreds of colorfully dressed performers singing in complex group styles in a contest that can last for hours, if not days, Fang Aiqing reports. Born in 1944, veteran performer …
Tibetan people in Benzilan, Yunnan province, prepare for a Guozhuang dance party. Unlike many other forms of intangible cultural heritage in China, Guozhuang dance is not a traditional ritual that's separated from daily life. Xu is among the older generation of Guozhuang performers that insist on the original tradition of Guozhuang dance, with its fixed routine and tunes, being strictly …
