The Jinbao Aihe drum-stepping dance in Zhenyuan is mainly spread in the Jinbao Miao Township in the southern part of Zhenyuan. The township covers an area of 179 square kilometers. The township is a place where the Miao people live together, with a total of 10 villages and 160 villagers' groups. The drum-stepping dance is centered on Aihe Village and radiates to the surrounding villages and groups. In addition, the drum-stepping dance is also spread in Yongxi Township, 8 kilometers southwest of the county seat. The drum is an indispensable ritual instrument for the Miao people's Xianshi sacrificial activities, and it is also a symbol of entertainment activities. The Miao people set up drums as community and sacrificial drum activities, which are recorded and sung in historical books and ancient songs of the Miao people. In 1959, Tian Maoyin and others of the Jinbao Aihe drum-stepping dance represented the Qiandongnan militia and won the first prize in the first provincial militia performance in Guiyang; in October 1964, Jinbao Aihe drum-stepping dance was selected for the Guizhou Art Troupe. Five Miao girls from the Aihe team, Tian Maoyin, Tian Maoying, Tian Xiulan, and Pan Shengtang, participated in the first national ethnic minority art performance and won the first prize, and were received by Mao Zedong and other national leaders. In 1964, under the guidance of the instructor of the Provincial Bureau of Culture, the dance was changed greatly by adding the harvest dance on the basis of retaining the original four-sided and six-sided dances. It has been deeply rooted and passed down to this day. The current Jinbao Aihe drum-stepping dance is more popular among the people of Zhenyuan. It has participated in state celebrations and county large-scale events for many times. The primary and secondary schools in the township have incorporated drum-stepping dance into classroom teaching. Most of the participants in the Jinbao Aihe Miao drum-stepping dance are young Miao men and women, with no limit on the number of people. The activity time is generally during festivals and celebrations. The performance venue is an outdoor reed pipe field. At that time, the dancers will dress in their best clothes and dance with the circular gongs and drums in the center of the venue as the center of the circle (the gongs and drums are placed on wooden racks or benches). The dance is performed in a counterclockwise direction to the rhythm of the drums. The dance is steady and exciting, joyful and unrestrained. Men and women can cross teams and form a circle with their backs facing each other. Start, step on the drum beats, stretch your hands outward, take four big steps forward quickly, step back and take four small steps steadily, turn 180 degrees on the spot, then walk forward quickly, step back and rotate 360 degrees, and repeat this process. The dance shows the scene of the ancestors' migration. The double-stick drum beats are as follows: XXXXXXXXXX, sometimes hitting the drum surface, sometimes hitting the drum bang. The older dancers and drummers with much dance experience hold the sticks. The dance reproduces the farming scene, simulating a series of farming labor operations from sowing, sowing seedlings, pulling seedlings, harvesting, carrying grain into the warehouse, etc. The dance team has a series of action changes. For example, the dancers gather and disperse towards the center of the circle, and the circle changes into single and double rows. The movements of the hands change accordingly. The dance music accompaniment is mainly gongs and drums; the double sticks alternately hit the drum bang, and the drum surface is as follows: 1: Lusheng is also used in the accompaniment of major festive festivals. The dance has a special rhythm, contrary to the usual strong and weak rhythm cycle. For example, because of the quick step forward or backward, the dancer's hands just rise to the right or left, and the drum beats just fall on the rhythm, forming a peculiar rhythm that changes from weak to strong. The Jinbao Miao drum dance reproduces the traditional spiritual temperament and style characteristics of the Miao people. It belongs to the expressive primitive art, showing the most representative aesthetic characteristics of the community drum dance in the Miao drum dance, and well preserves the information of the humanistic history of this long-distance migration nation. At the same time, due to historical reasons, the Miao villages are deep in the mountains, traffic is blocked, and people are inconvenient to travel. They can only achieve the purpose of socializing by gathering, and the Miao drum dance is the best etiquette to communicate emotions in large social occasions. The formal beauty of Aihe drum dance is particularly prominent in the formal beauty of square dance. The four-party dance, six-party dance, and harvest dance are mostly regular circular patterns. The overall form is a circle rotating around a fixed point, like the movement of the sun and the moon, reflecting the Miao people's social life 0 happiness and family reunion. The colors of the gorgeous costumes in the dance express the Miao people's spiritual pursuit of a better life. The main inheritors of Jinbao Miao drum dance include Li Wanxiang, Tian Maoyin, Tian Xiulan, Tian Maoying, Tian Maolan, Pan Shengtang, Pan Yinghua, etc. Nowadays, the old artists are old and there are few opportunities to invite them to participate in activities, and the inheritance is becoming increasingly indifferent. When the old people pass away one after another, the young people lose their love for the local culture and no longer protect and carry it forward, the Jinbao Miao drum dance will lose its former glory and even slowly be replaced by foreign culture and disappear. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)