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A dance troupe performs the Savardan dance in Alshaa League. [Photo/Alshaa Left Banner Convergence Media Center]

Ao Yun, a third-generation inheritor of the Savardan dance in Alshaa League – which is located in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region – is committed to the inheritance of this original and fascinating folk culture.

Savardan is a Mongolian traditional folk dance and it is officially listed as an intangible cultural heritage. The dance expresses the living customs and spiritual outlook of the Mongolian people in a unique form and the dance moves are very rich.

Among the extraordinary repertoire of movements used is looking into a mirror, drawing eyebrows and combing hair to express a women's life – as well as those expressing the daily lives of Mongolian people, such as milking and horse lassoing.

In 1988, Ao Yun began to learn the Mongolian dance and it has been 34 years since then.

In Ao Yun's dance studio, she's always busy, either choreographing the dances or correcting the moves of her students.

Over the years, she has devoted herself to the promotion and inheritance of the Mongolian dance form, teaching more than 1,200 students, the youngest being only four years old and the oldest aged 55.