The Pendulum Dance is a local traditional dance of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

The Pendulum Dance, called "Sheba" in Tujia language, is a primitive ritual dance of the Tujia ethnic group, which integrates song, dance, music and drama, and expresses the production, life and battle scenes of the Tujia people.[6] The Pendulum Dance is a traditional dance of the Tujia ethnic group in Hunan Province, which is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. [6]? Xiangxi Tujia Hand Dance is a folk dance with Tujia ethnic characteristics, better reflecting the ancient customs of the Tujia people, and is now mainly circulated in Longshan, Baojing, Yongshun and other places in Xiangxi, Hunan. It is usually performed at night from the third to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

The Pendulum Dance has a long history, and the Pendulum Dance arose from the ancient ancestor worship ceremony of the Tujia people. Qing Qianlong "Yongshun Fu Zhi" records: "Walled villages have swinging hands hall, the first three days of the first month of each year to 17 days, the night gongs and drums, men and women gathered, dancing and singing, the name of the day "swinging hands", this custom is still alive." According to the Qing Dynasty, the eight temple monument and the county records of the king of the residual presumed that the hand dance has nearly a thousand years of history.

The Xiangxi Tujia Hand Pendulum Dance integrates songs, dances, music and dramas, and expresses a wide range of historical and social life contents, such as the opening of the sky and the earth, the reproduction of human beings, the migration of ethnic groups, hunting and fishing, mulberry and silkworm performance and weaving, slash-and-burn cultivation, ancient wars, myths and legends, and diet and living. Its dance content is structured by the above ceremonial program. Whenever celebrating the New Year, commemorating ancestors or having a reunion, the Tujia people have to dance the Pendulum Dance. In the villages where the Tujia people live, there are "gallery fields" specializing in the Pendulum Dance, which the Tujia people call the Pendulum Dance Hall. Tujia pendulum dance dance generous and rugged, with a single pendulum, double pendulum, pirouette pendulum, pendulum while jumping and other actions. The dance venue is usually on the pingba in front of the Pendulum Hall.

May 20, 2006, Hunan Province, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture declared the Tujia Pendulum Dance approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list