DittoLeeoI really wanted it to be synced... Took a lot of creative liberties while editing but it looks cool enough
I am not the original creator of the meme‼️just the first one to edit the full song
No Artificial Intelligence tools were used in the making of this video. Nothing was generated! The dance footage was altered and sped up frame-by-frame in a video editing software to match the music.
Chinese Soldiers Tibetan Dance 弥渡山歌 MIDU ECHOING (FULL SYNC EDIT)DittoLeeo2025-10-29 | I really wanted it to be synced... Took a lot of creative liberties while editing but it looks cool enough
I am not the original creator of the meme‼️just the first one to edit the full song
No Artificial Intelligence tools were used in the making of this video. Nothing was generated! The dance footage was altered and sped up frame-by-frame in a video editing software to match the music.
Part 3 Source: Floral Echo Phonk Remix youtu.be/0HNdtkVXUCs?si=NwEhv4Z5GKvQLM3uChinese Soldiers Tibetan Dance (Extended) | Alishan Girl Phonk VersionDittoLeeo2025-12-21 | 1/21/26 edit: cut the video to just be part 2!
My original midu echoing edit was taken down at some point so then I decided to come back bigger and better with an edit of the full performance.
I made some alternate English translation lyrics to improved flow. It’s still a bit awkward to sing/say, however, it’s def MUCH better in my opinion compared to the other versions. I’m personally pretty proud of “star-crossed” because a reference to Romeo and Juiliet is something native english speakers would understand and it’s incredibly useful short-hand to get the main idea of the song across. And “flower” in this context is a literally means to bloom or grow/develop and is fun word play to still involve the original Chinese lyrics where the lovers (Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai) build a flower bridge.
Also, I know that the melody for the second verse is different than the first, but the score is more interesting with the additional lyrics!
Perc and chants are a bit weird... Never notate with the goal of getting the program to sound right!Chinese Soldiers Tibetan Dance (ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE)DittoLeeo2025-10-29 | Performance starts at 0:51
I got so fucking annoyed that everyone was just reposting but without any source material. So, I present to you 3 hours of work purely for my own damn satisfaction.
Apparently, the trend has been very popular in China for the last 1-2 months, and I’m sure everyone who grew up Chinese already knew where the dance is from. But for the exclusively english reading, writing, and speaking homies… You’re welcome, hehe 😏
Original performance is from “The 5th Minorities Art Festival of China” on September 14, 2016 Link to the video (HIGH RESOLUTION): youtu.be/3IN1sOJMThc?si=o8tXPQj0P7TjBX3s
The title of that video roughty translates to: “The 5th National Minority Art Performance - People's Liberation Army Delegation Song and Dance Gala: ‘Building Dreams at the Border’ [Military Camp Grand Stage 20160914]” (or “[Barracks Grand Stage 20160914]” for the end bit)
(12/16/25 edit note: lmao they changed the vid title)
The Tibetan dance they are performing is titled “We Are All Brothers”
Director: 次仁旺堆 Tsering Wangdui (Tibetan) Composer: 格桑旺久Gesang Wangjiu (Tibetan) Performers: 黄保 胜 Huang Baosheng (Tibetan) (This is the guy who does the pose!) , 董文顺 Dong Wenshun (Tibetan), 格桑扎西 Gesang Zhaxi (Tibetan), 字等 Gao Yu (Qiang), etc.
I’m not familiar with the politics between the CCP and Tibetans but I think it’s safe to say that they have these Minorities Arts Festivals as way to promote/maintain national cohesion…
Details about the trending music:
The original-original is a Traditional Chinese Folk Song called “Alishan Girl.” Then it was remixed by Yang Music - 羊音乐 in the “Phonk” style which is a sub category of hip-hop.
Other details I found while searching for the dance (it took me like an hour to find the original performance… Hurray for internet deductive skills, i guess):
There were a few articles published about this event. This one is from a government website: https://www.neac.gov.cn/seac/c100625/201607/1096142.shtml
This channel operated by the Mainland Chinese government and they posted a performance in the 2016 Spring Festival Gala (I didn’t verify if this was correct). The costumes look about the same, so its probably the same group but they are performing a different dance. A lot of people in the comments were assuming that this is where the viral clip is from. But here, they are performing a dance whose name roughly translates to “Follow the lead! Follow the lead!” or “Arise! Arise”: youtu.be/Nbd2MStMLFc?si=KVRrqQa98V7S9w-G
So there was another video claiming that the Tibetan dance is the “First Place Group” from the 2014 All-Army Arts Festival. However the footage is identical to that of the The 5th National Minority Art Performance from 2016. The video itself was uploaded in 2019 and it is only a compressed/low resolution clip, so I assume that this information is incorrect/a false claim: youtu.be/prpKZalWNmA?si=wvsNdeucE3VkL13J
Based from info in the video description of the The 5th National Minority Art Performance, they were not the “first place winners” but rather the first to perform at the event. They were most likely dancers/ballarinas just dressed as soldiers.
But here is a link to the actual 2014 All-Army Arts Festival. These service members are god damn talented, so it really could go either way tbh: youtu.be/LNFDRzShqQI?si=N79fJUvo_zbHFgvW
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