A Study on the Historical Origins and Rhythmic Interaction of the Buyi Bamboo Drum Dance in Guizhou Province from the Perspective of Cultural Heritage and Digital Education Transformation

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10.2991/978-2-38476-593-5_67How to use a DOI?

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Buyi Bamboo Drum Dance; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Rhythmic Interaction; Ethnic Dance; Educational Transformation; Cultural Services

Abstract

The Buyi Bamboo Drum Dance is an important folk dance that has been passed down for generations in the Buyi ethnic minority area of Ceheng County, Guizhou Province. It is also a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage that combines ritual, narrative, and performance elements. This paper focuses on its “historical origins” and “rhythmic interaction,” and uses a combination of methods, including literature review, field investigation, in-depth interviews, video frame analysis, and expert validity assessment, to systematically study its cultural genes, performance elements, and the intrinsic relationship between movement, drumbeat, and music. The study finds that the Buyi Bamboo Drum Dance was formed amidst multiple cultural narratives, including bamboo king worship, rain-praying sacrifices, and love commemorations. Over a long period of transmission, it has gradually formed an overall structure supported by costumes, venues, festivals, accompaniment songs, and instrumental systems. Its core accompaniment song, Ge hai ge, has a high degree of correspondence with the dance movements and bamboo drum rhythms, forming a relatively stable “musical phrase-movement-rhythm” organizational mechanism. Furthermore, this dance demonstrates significant potential for expansion in educational transformation, digital archiving, and public cultural services, offering inspiring practical pathways for the living preservation, curriculum construction, and social dissemination of ethnic minority intangible cultural heritage.

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AU  - Zhengsan Wang
AU  - Krisada Daoruang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/30
TI  - A Study on the Historical Origins and Rhythmic Interaction of the Buyi Bamboo Drum Dance in Guizhou Province from the Perspective of Cultural Heritage and Digital Education Transformation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 5th International Conference on Humanities, Wisdom Education and Service Management (HWESM 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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