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ancestor	preparation for sacrifice	dressing	be present
Images of the ancestor	worship the ancestors	only on the dance collection, he dresses him up with this present clothes.	must be present with the pious
unilateral	opposite	planting	make a group photo
be a round to dance one one by one	two persons dances on opposite	imitate planting as in Spring	only about twenty persons can dance swaying dance

Swaying hands dance represents folk dance of Tujia minority nationality. The swaying dance is bold, simple and unsophisticated with the primitive air. The dancers show the colorful scenes of lives. They look back the arduous lives of their forebear to worship their achievement. The clue of worship of the ancestors can be seen.

She Mehu Village is famous for swaying dance. They farm on their land generations by generations; they are honest and simple. There is a hall for swaying hands dance, which is said five hundred years long. According to the local people, the hall could be told the first swaying hands hall and in 1988, it was acknowledged the protection site for cultural relic.

The swaying hands dance is an important part in the lives of Tujia people, which is also a treasure to protect and conserve the special customs, tradition of Tujia ethnic minority nationality. but because of lack of subsequence and the dropping behind economic, the swaying hands dance is getting more and more faint.