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The Ansai waist drum dance is a unique, large-scale folk dance with a history of more than 2,000 years. Like a hurricane sweeping across the yellow earth, the dance displays the unsophisticated and wild character of peasant life on the Loess Plateau, revealing its unique artistic charm.

The drum dance is a traditional lunar New Year and Lantern Festival activity in Shaanxi province . Young people perform the dance throughout their villages while wishing people a happy New Year. Villagers set off firecrackers to welcome the arrival of the dancers and invite them to sample their homemade rice wine.

The dance is an extremely impressive spectacle that consists of vigorous dances and leaps accompanied by frenetic drumming.