| Description |
Tắc Xình Dances is a ritual dance during the Harvest Festival. This dance has 9 movements that simulate daily life and production activities: visiting and clearing the way, making decisions, sharpening knives, beating knives, clearing fields, filling in abutments, taking care of rice, harvesting crops, celebrating the season, and paying ceremony for the gods. Only men are allowed to participate in the Tắc Xình dance under the control of the ceremony master (an experienced and reputable shaman or dancer). Tắc Xình Dances is accompanied by musical instruments such as earthen drums, bells, gongs, cymbals, deep totem horns, po le trumpets, pipes, and bamboo sticks. The two basic dance positions are sitting dance and standing dance. Sitting dance position: the base of the bamboo tree is buried firmly in the ground, and the top has a cluster of leaves facing the sky, bent like a fishing rod, thanks to a rope connected to an old apricot tube. Two people sit facing each other, using both hands to hold a bamboo tube (The bamboo tube is 70 - 80cm long, tied tightly with one end of a forest rope, the other end is tied to a bamboo top) and tap hard on the ground to create a "xịch" sound. , tap two bamboo sticks together to create a continuous, rhythmic "tắc" sound. Standing position: The person tapping stands upright, holding a bamboo pipe (diameter 3.5cm, length 180m) in the left hand, and the right hand holding a small, rectangular bamboo stick (length 30cm) to tap horizontally on the body of the pipe. The person tapping the music with one hand uses an old bamboo stick to tap on the apricot tube to create a "tắc" sound. With the other hand, the person tapping the apricot tube strongly on the ground creates a "xịch" sound and the music sounds continuously, one after another, forming a series of sounds. "tắc -tắc- xình" sound. |
