Amazing drone footage shows hundreds of university students in China practising a traditional Chinese sports dance 'Five-Animal Exercise' to start the new semester.

In the video, filmed in the playground at Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Tuesday, three hundred students are dressed in traditional costume and dance along to the music, forming a symbol for Taiji.

According to news reports, the "Five-Animal Exercise" was created by a famous doctor in ancient China who was inspired by five animals including tigers, deer, bears, apes and birds and formed the movements that aim to improve peoples' health.