摘要
Cao Gai dance is a unique sacrificial activity of the Baima Tibetans living in Pingwu County. Sichuan Province. The local villagers dance it every year to get rid of the evil spirits and praying for an abundant harvest of the crops in the coming year. Cao Gai is basically a ferociously looked wooden mask made almost by every family hanging above the house gate or on the middle of the wall near the house brazier. Every 5th of the first month of the lunar year is the date for the Cao Gai dance. Masked themselves with the Cao Gai, the dancers put on the furlined jacket with inside out and tie a red cloth belt on the waist, dancing, shouting while walking, and setting off fire crackers all the way, lasting a whole day from themorning till the night.
Cao Gai dance is a unique sacrificial activity of the Baima Tibetans living in Pingwu County. Sichuan Province. The local villagers dance it every year to get rid of the evil spirits and praying for an abundant harvest of the crops in the coming year. Cao Gai is basically a ferociously looked wooden mask made almost by every family hanging above the house gate or on the middle of the wall near the house brazier. Every 5th of the first month of the lunar year is the date for the Cao Gai dance. Masked themselves with the Cao Gai, the dancers put on the furlined jacket with inside out and tie a red cloth belt on the waist, dancing, shouting while walking, and setting off fire crackers all the way, lasting a whole day from themorning till the night.
