New record set by local Tibetan dancers

陈小将

A large-scale folk dance performed by 1,000 dancers at the Shanghai Stadium in Shigatse city of the Tibet autonomous region on Sunday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
A large-scale intangible culture heritage dance performed by local Tibetans in Shigatse city of the Tibet autonomous region, has been recognized by the World Record Certification Agency as a new record for "the largest-scale performance of Shigatse intangible folk dance".

The large-scale folk dance was performed by 1,000 dancers at the Shanghai Stadium on Sunday.

The challenge rules for the world record include all challengers in a single venue perform the Shigatse intangible cultural heritage folk dance at the same time, the total number of dancers shall not be less than 1,000, individuals who do not participate or repeated participants during the challenge period will not be counted as valid participants, and the performing time should not be less than 15 minutes.

Dressed in colorful Tibetan costumes, 1,000 dancers adopted three kinds of local intangible culture dancing resources of Shigatse into the performance, which are the Semadro, Dingri Loshed and Lhaze Doshed dances.