Answer:

The word tinikling is literally defined as “to perform it tikling-like.”

The dance imitates the movement of the bird as it struts through the grass with its long stilts and the way it runs through branches or dodges bamboo traps set up by rice farmers.

It historically originated during the Spanish occupation in the country specifically in Leyte, an island in the Visayas.

According to legend, the dance was started when the indigenous locals were ordered by the King of Spain to work for the haciendas (plantations, mines, or factories) and lost control of their land during Spanish occupation.

Filipino locals that disobeyed the orders or worked too slowly would receive a punishment: to stand in between two bamboo poles which were clapped together to hit the Filipino locals’ feet.

Explanation:

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