New record set by local Tibetan dancers

Semadro dance is a folk waist drum dance, which is performed by a leading dancer and drummers hitting drums. In this performance, 248 Semadro dancers performed different drumming rhythms together.

When the Dingri Loshed performers hit the stage, 188 men played and sang three-stringed guitars and 188 women danced arm to arm, with graceful and dignified dancing steps. The dance is popular in places of Dingri county, which is near to the world's highest mountain Qomolangma, or Mount Everest as it is known in the West.

Widely practiced in the region's Lhaze county, the Lhaze Doshed is performed by 188 men and 188 women with each dancer holding a six-stringed guitar in their hands during the large-scale performance.

The 1,000 performers were rural residents from the Samdrubtse district, the countries of Dingri and Lhaze of region's Shigatse city.