Every festive festival, people will dance the dragon, starting from the Spring Festival, to the Lantern Festival, to the second day of February, "the dragon raises its head", and then to the Dragon Boat Festival ......This year is the Year of the Dragon, and the Lantern Festival coincides with the weekend, and traditional dragon dance performances from all over the country enter the venue amid the festive and enthusiastic sound of gongs and drums.
Traditional Chinese dragon dance performances are generally composed of "inviting the dragon", "coming out of the dragon", "dancing the dragon" and "sending the dragon". The "dragon" is usually placed in the local dragon king temple, and on the day of the dragon dance, the "dragon" is invited out of the temple with flags, gongs and drums as the guide, and the eye-catching ceremony is held. After that, under the guidance of the dragon ball, the dragon head led the dragon body and the dragon tail to rush out, and everywhere the gongs and drums shook the sky, the firecrackers rang out in unison, and the dancing "dragon" seemed to soar through the clouds and mist, and the sound was heard for ten miles, and the scene was very warm.
At this time, the "dragon" is accompanied by drum music, chasing the dragon balls, and begins to rise and fall, flying up and down, or "golden dragon sweeping the ground", or "fishing for the moon under the sea", or stacking bodies, or frolicking, etc., the rhythm of the drum music is gentle, rapid, and enthusiastic, and the movements of the "dragon" are sometimes beautiful and lyrical, sometimes agitated and unrestrained, and in the ever-changing, the spirit of the audience is doubly invigorated.
In the United States, Chinese people compete to touch the faucet during the Chinese New Year.
The lively dragon dance has a long history. It was roughly transformed into folk entertainment in the Tang Dynasty from the initial rain worship sacrifice, and began to be combined with the Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty. Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu" of the Song Dynasty recorded: "On the night of the Lantern Festival, the grass is tied to the dragon, the grass is covered with a green curtain, and the lights and candles are densely placed. Since then, the custom of dragon dance during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival has gradually formed. The Song Dynasty lyricist Xin Qiji's "Qingyu Case Yuan Xi" in "The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night" hints at the Lantern Festival of the Song Dynasty, and the dragon dance has become the protagonist of people's entertainment activities at that time.
Nowadays, people pray for the blessing of the dragon through the dragon dance, carrying the good wishes of ancient times for good weather and a safe harvest in the new year; At the same time, the Lantern Festival dragon dance is also the end of the Spring Festival, so that relatives and friends can get together again and share the joy.
There are dragon dances during the day and at night. In some places, if the dragon dance is to walk through the streets and alleys, to every house, people will put red cloth in front of the door, put offerings, and call it hanging red, in order to pray for the blessing of the dragon. In some places, if it is a dragon dance at night, the "dragon" is added with candles or other light sources, and after nightfall, with the dragon dance soaring, spreading light and joy, it looks good in the dark.
There are hundreds of dragon dances in the country, the more common ones are fire dragon, grass dragon, hair dragon, human dragon, cloth dragon, paper dragon, flower dragon, basket dragon, Duan dragon, candle dragon, drunken dragon, bamboo leaf dragon, lotus dragon, bench dragon, flat dragon, rolling dragon, tangram dragon, big-headed dragon, luminous dragon and fireworks dragon and so on.
Like the bench dragon in Anling Township, it is composed of three parts: dragon head, dragon body, and dragon tail. The dragon head is the key part of the whole dragon, and it is made by the village ** hand with high skills. The dragon body is based on the willingness, one or several sections of the family, and everyone does it, each showing their magical powers. Depending on the size of the village, bench dragons vary in length, with some large villages making bench dragons hundreds of knots long.
Bench Dragon. Gaolong in Yangdian, the whole dragon lantern has 12 sections, which means that there are 12 months in a year. On the twelfth night of the first month, the dragon lantern opening ceremony was held, and the thirteenth day of the first month was held, and the temple was visited and applauded. Each dragon lantern runs through the narrow old street of Yangdian, and incense tables are placed in front of every house to welcome the dragon. On the 14th day of the first lunar month, each dragon lantern bows to the masses in their respective bays to express New Year's greetings and represent auspiciousness; On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, play with the lanterns, the onlookers follow the lanterns to swim to their respective bays, at 12 o'clock in the evening, the whole bay men, women and children gather together to burn the lanterns, call it lanterns, send the lanterns, and are accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, firecrackers.
The dragon dance in Gantian Town, Leye County, Baise City, Guangxi. Gantian Town is known as the "Dragon Township", and the Gantian Dragon Dance has a history of more than 300 years, and it is also an important folk activity during the Spring Festival of the people of Leye. Every year during the Spring Festival until the Lantern Festival, the dragon dance in villages and villages is staged in turn, and dozens of large and small "golden dragons" compete on the same stage, and the scene is very shocking.
The dragon dance in Gantian Town, Leye County.
In addition, there are stilt dragon dances in Leizhou, Guangdong, stilt dragon dances in Xiantaoyang, Hubei, dragon dances in Fujian, hemp dragons in Longxi, Jezhou, Sichuan, grass dances on Chikan Tiaoshun Island in Zhanjiang, Miao dragon dances in Taijiang, Guizhou, incense dancing fire dragons in Rucheng County, Hunan, dancing hundred-leaf dragons in Zhejiang, fire dancing dragons in Fengshun, Guangdong, and so on.
There are so many types of dragon dances that can be roughly divided into two types depending on the region: the "Southern Dragon" developed in Jiangnan and the "Northern Dragon" developed in Jiangbei. "Southern Dragon" is heavy with a dragon body (the dragon body can be 20 meters, 100 meters, or even 1,000 meters), the momentum is mainly powerful, although it is not flexible enough, but it is huge, among which the representative genres are Yangdian Gaolong and Huangpi Dragon Dance. "Northern Dragon" is more popular, characterized by a small and light dragon body, light and agile than the "Southern Dragon", making more fancy styles, like many countries in Southeast Asia are using "Northern Dragon" for performance and celebration.
The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, embodying the spirit of unity and pioneering spirit of the Chinese nation. The dragon dance is also a unique traditional folk entertainment activity in the auspicious and blessed season. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, dragon dance performances take turns to imply dragon leaping, peace and joy. Dragons follow the dragon balls, dragons walk in a prosperous era, the sound of gongs and drums, and people usher in the auspicious celebration and joy of the new year.
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