| Dancers are playing Taiping Drum Dance in Lanzhou, capital of China's northwest Gansu Province, February 27, 2007. Performers (usually are men) carry a barrel-shaped drum, which is one meter long and 0.5 meter in diameter, with an imposing manner. The thundering sound can be heard half or one kilometer away. They must perform difficult dances such as "sparrow hawk turning upside down" and "whipping one's horse on". In the dance of "bending the bow and shooting goose", performers have to jump up to the sky, with one hand carrying the drum and the other hand beating. (Xinhua) |
