Meet He Murong, 73 – a living bridge between past and present. For over five decades, he’s mastered the Yingge dance, a 300-year-old tradition from Guangdong province known for its thunderous drums, colorful costumes, and hypnotic movements mimicking ancient heroes. 🥁💃 While Chinese New Year sees him leading electrifying performances (think ‘Lion Dance meets martial arts’ energy!), He spends the rest of the year wrestling with a modern dilemma: How does a septuagenarian make a Ming Dynasty-era dance trend on Gen Z’s TikTok?
\"Young people stare at screens more than ancestral traditions,\" He admits during a rare break between rehearsals. Yet sparks of hope emerge: Local schools now include Yingge in PE classes, and viral clips of its acrobatic moves have意外的 traction on Douyin (China’s TikTok). 🌟 Could this be the key to preserving a cultural treasure? For now, He keeps dancing – one rhythmic stomp at a time.
