Wooden drum dance 佤族木鼓舞 of the Wa people of Yunnan, China

Описание: A documentary about the wooden drum dance of the Wa people (Chinese: Wa zu mu gu wu, 佤族木鼓舞) of Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (沧源佤族自治县), Lincang (临沧市), southwestern Yunnan province, southwest China, which prominently features the use of log drums (Chinese: mu gu, 木鼓) carved from the trunks of trees. Cangyuan Va Autonomous County borders Gengma County to the north, Shuangjiang County to the east, Pu'er to the southeast, and Burma's Shan State to the south and west.

In the Wa culture, log drums are sacred instruments, their sound being considered a conduit to the heavens, and are used in various large-scale sacrificial rituals related to the Wa people's belief in ancestor worship and animism. As of the early 21st century there are approximately 700 large, medium, and small log drums in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, and 90% of the local population is able to do the wooden drum dance or sing wooden drum songs (mu gu ge, 木鼓歌).

The Wa (or Va) people (Chinese: Wa zu, 佤族), who speak a language in the Palaungic branch of the Austroasiatic language family, number about 1.2 million, of which about 400,000 live in China (most of the rest living in Burma's Shan State and Kachin State).

Filmed in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (沧源佤族自治县), Lincang (临沧市), southwestern Yunnan province, southwest China, c. September 20, 2016.

In 2006 the Cangyuan Wa wooden drum dance (沧源佤族木鼓舞), centering on Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (沧源佤族自治县), Lincang (临沧市), southwestern Yunnan province, southwest China, was included in the First Batch of China's National-Level Intangible Cultural Heritage List (第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录) by China's Ministry of Culture (中华人民共和国文化部, known since March 2018 as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 中华人民共和国文化和旅游部). The sub-agencies responsible for maintaining these lists, both under the aegis of the aforementioned ministry, are the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage (文化部非物质文化遗产司) and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (中国非物质文化遗产保护中心, CICHPC).

Additionally, in 2006 the Wa wooden drum dance (沧源佤族木鼓舞), centering on Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (沧源佤族自治县), Lincang (临沧市), southwestern Yunnan province, southwest China, was included in the First Batch of the Yunnan Province Province-Level Intangible Cultural Heritage List (云南省第一批非物质文化遗产名录).

In November 2019, the Cangyuan Va Autonomous County Cultural Center qualified as an official Protection Unit for Cangyuan Wa wooden drum dance (沧源佤族木鼓舞), part of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's List of Protection Units for Representative Projects of National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

纪录片《佤族木鼓舞》

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