--- Qixian County, Henan Province carried out the intangible cultural heritage project of the Association for the Elderly into the campus.
In order to welcome the New Year's Day, celebrate the New Year, let the majority of children feel the charm of traditional Chinese folk culture, and experience the unique value of intangible cultural heritage, on the morning of December 28, 2023, a group of 33 people from the Special Committee of the Empty Bamboo Dragon Dance of the Qixian County Senior Sports Association came to Qiguo New Town Kindergarten in Dongguan County, Qixian County to participate in the cultural and traditional cultural performance of "Welcoming the New Year's Day and Celebrating the New Year". More than 400 teachers and students of Qiguo New Town Kindergarten gathered together and enjoyed this wonderful performance with excitement.
Dragon dance, shaking bamboo, picking flower basket is a fitness sport with a long history in our country, set ornamental, interesting, entertaining, flexible, performative as a whole, not subject to venue, seasonal climate, age, gender restrictions, suitable for men and women of all ages, is a kind of mass fitness activities that are easy to promote and popularize.
At the event site, dragon dance, shaking bamboo, picking flower baskets, high-pole dragons, running bamboo horses, and acrobatic performers took turns to show the difficult program performances such as flowing clouds and water, birds passing through the forest, and golden snake dance, so that the children could not take their eyes off it, feast their eyes, and applaud. Wonderful performances, vigorous old people, innocent and lovely children, spent a pleasant morning together in laughter.
The holding of this activity allowed the children to feel the charm of the excellent intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, so that these traditional folk activities took root in the hearts of the children, passed on to future generations, and further promoted the development of national fitness activities in Qixian County. (Welcome Ai Bing).