Every autumn, to celebrate the harvest, the Barhu Mongolian people
who live on theHulun Buir Grassland in Inner Mongolia will gather
voluntarily on a vast empty place and dance a highly rhythmical
group dance, which is called "Jeerenghei Dance" by the local
people, and is also named as "A Circle of Dancing Mongolian
Gazelles" or "Digging Through a Hole". First, all the dancers stand
in a semi-circle, hand in hand. Then the two men on both ends of
the semi-circle take the lead in dancing a rhythmical stamping
dance while getting into the middle part of the circle. The others
then follow suitand file into the middle. They will move like this
in cycles gladly and never tired. One thing they should pay
attention to isthat all the dancers must keep in step; otherwise
the dance cannot continue. It is said that this dance would help
thecattle reproduce and grow in the coming year.
