Flower Stick Dance (Second Batch Provincial Level) Yaoshan Village, Pitou Town, Quannan County, is the only administrative village of the Yao ethnic minority in Jiangxi Province. They belong to the "Guoshan Yao" system and regard "Pan Wang" as the ancestor of their tribe. They live in sparsely populated deep mountains and old forests, each family occupies a hilltop and builds a shed. In the sacrifice, they worship the three female Taoist priests of the surnames "Chen, Lin, and Li" as gods. It is said that their ancestors were trapped by wild beasts in an unknown deep mountain and old forest one day during their migration and lost their way. When the tribe was desperate, the three female Taoist priests "Chen, Lin, and Li" who lived in the depths of the mountains rescued them. In order to thank them for their rescue, the ancestors of the Guoshan Yao people have since worshipped the three female Taoist priests "Chen, Lin, and Li" as the goddess of their tribe. From generation to generation, they have maintained the folk custom of lighting incense and praying to the goddess every morning. "Chaohuang" is the emotional expression of making a wish or fulfilling a wish to the goddess. Flower stick dance (also known as "pointing soldiers stick dance") is a kind of folk dance originated from the "Chaohuang" ceremony. The dance is accompanied by the tunes of mountain songs that are sometimes low and gentle, and sometimes high and vigorous. It imitates the actions of the Yao people in their production and life, such as hunting, sifting rice, pounding tea, and digging bamboo shoots. The dance steps are rough and generous, and the rhythm is complex and changeable, sometimes soothing and sometimes intense. The whole dance scene gives people a rough and unrestrained feeling. With the development of history and the changes in life, flower stick dance has evolved into a traditional ethnic folk cultural activity that entertains gods and people, with singing and dancing, worship activities as carriers, and contains many cultural contents such as history, religion, folklore, and art. Flower stick dance is a unique flower among ethnic minority dances. Its formation is closely related to the historical and cultural development of the Yao people. It is a concentrated embodiment of the traditional culture of the Yao people. Flower stick dance carries many important cultural information and original production and life records of the Gushan Yao; through the sacrificial ceremony of singing and dancing to entertain gods and people, it has become an important carrier for the preservation and continuation of the traditional culture of the Gushan Yao.