This Spring Festival, the members of the Grass Dragon Dance, the Niihama Flower Basket Horse Lantern Dance and the Songjiang Shadow Puppet Show are very busy, bringing wonderful performances to the local people.
As early as 2008, the grass dragon dance in Yexie Town, Songjiang, Shanghai, was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects. Accompanied by the lively sound of gongs and drums, the grass dragon sometimes holds its head high, sometimes hovers and plays. Through the traditional grass and dragon dance project, the performers displayed the traditional folk culture and sent strong New Year blessings to everyone.
The Flower Basket Horse Lantern Dance, formerly known as the "String Horse Lantern", is named after the horse lantern and flower basket props, and is mainly popular in Xinbang Town, Songjiang District, Shanghai. In the past, every Lantern Festival, the villages and villages of Xinbang Town organized a lantern team, generally on the first night in the temple field to dance with lanterns, from the temple to welcome the light of the fire, and then enter the village, door to door. It is rumored that the horse lantern runs to someone's house, which means that whoever has a prosperous family business.
Shadow puppetry is an ancient Chinese folk art form that is popular in a wide range and is also very popular in Songjiang, Shanghai. Songjiang shadow puppet theatre inherits the shadow puppet production style of Jiangnan, light carving and heavy painting, as a comprehensive of **, art, literature and other forms of performing arts, with its unique charm to attract many audiences.
Reporter: Sun Qing.
Reporters: Mu Meng, Zhou Yuyu, Huang Zhiyuan, Li Jing.
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