湘西土家族的毛古斯舞，是一种具有人物、对白、简单的故事情节和一定的表演程式的原始戏剧舞蹈。它以近似戏曲的写意、虚拟、假定等艺术手法，表演土家先民渔、猎、农耕等生产内容。既有舞蹈的特征，又有戏剧的表演性，两者杂糅交织，浑然一体。因而在学术界博得“中国民族舞蹈的最远源头”“原始戏剧的活化石”等誉称。（来源：文旅湖南）
The Maogusi Dance of the Tujia people inXiangxi,Hunan is a primitive theater dance with characters, dialogues, a simple storyline and a certain performance program. It performs the production contents of fishing, hunting and farming of the Tujia ancestors with the artistic techniques of writing, virtualization and assumption, which are similar to opera. It has both the characteristics of dance and the performativity of theater, and the two are mixed and intertwined as one.Therefore, it has won the reputation of “the farthest source of Chinese folk dance” and “the living fossil of primitive drama” in the academic circles.
