Keeping up the beat
By Lin Qi | China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-01 07:32
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A performer of the Wa ethnic group with a local troupe on Cangyuan county, Yunnan province strikes on a wooden drum on the Great Wall in Beijing. File Photos |
Dark-skinned and bare to the waist, his long hair flying, a man strikes fiercely on a one-m-long, black wooden drum painted with a bull head at either end. He stops after every two or three hits, stretches out his arms, and raising two club-shaped drumsticks in his hands, looks up at the sky.
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