Huasheng**, February 13 (Reporter Deng Guiming) On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, dragons soar all over the world. Twenty-one villages and groups (pieces) in 8 townships and towns in Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, danced the incense fire dragon, and tens of thousands of villagers participated in it, with a warm atmosphere and joy.
Rucheng incense dragon is said to have originated from the folk activities of worshiping the dragon to stop rain and water in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, and the dragon dance lantern festival is generally held before or on the night of the Lantern Festival, which is spread in 14 towns and villages in Rucheng County. In 2008, it was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative items.
It is understood that during the Spring Festival this year, from the first day to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, a total of 58 villages and groups (pieces) in more than 10 townships and towns in Rucheng County danced incense dragons to pray for a smooth New Year, a bumper harvest of grains, and peace and security of the country.
At about 16:30, Chengguo Village, Quanshui Town, which has the reputation of "thousand-year-old city", is already full of traffic, lively and extraordinary, the villagers beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers, sing and dance, and create an atmosphere. In front of the ancestral hall of the "Zhu Family Temple", the incense fire dragon that has closed the dragon is mighty and magnificent. There are three kinds of incense fire dragons, flat dragons, and sulfonosaurs, this is a round dragon, up to 26 meters, and the main materials are straw, bamboo, and long incense.
Zhu Chunsheng, secretary of the party branch of the village, introduced that the whole dragon is composed of the dragon head and the auspicious animal sika deer, butterfly, jade rabbit and phoenix, which is the characteristic of the incense fire dragon in the village. More than 200 people in the village spent 10 days to make, more than 20,000 incense sticks, costing more than 20,000 yuan, plus firecrackers, fireworks, villager dinners, etc., the total cost was 8 to 100,000 yuan, which was raised by about 500 villagers. ”
At 18 o'clock, there were a lot of people inside and outside the village, and the wonderful performance was about to begin! The six links of sacrifice, dragon beckoning, tour exhibition, dragon solitaire, incense grabbing, and dragon transformation will last about 2 and a half hours.
After the speeches of the ancestors and the village party secretary, at 18:35, the men, women and children of the whole village lit incense with torches, incense candles, and igniters. When all the incense is lit, dazzling, illuminating the night sky, the host gives an order, dozens of three-eyed guns roar, followed by drum music, suona loud, firecrackers, more than 100 young adults wearing straw hats and red vests go into battle together. "The day is auspicious, the heaven and the earth are open; The dragon dance on a good day is a prosperous talent. Men are blessed, women are thousands of blessings; The descendants are developed, and the generations ......are prosperousIn the solemn and passionate dragon dance greetings, carry the dragon and raise the dragon.
The ancestral hall gate dances for three weeks, a spin and a bow, after three worships, the dragon tail retreats first, and then retreats the dragon head, and then walks along the main road in the village and the paddy fields next to the village.
Dozens of candlelit dragon lanterns lead the way for the incense dragon, followed by the three-eyed gun, the double lion, the double fish, the zodiac mascot, the blowing band, the firecracker fireworks team, the incense dragon is located in the middle of the team, and then there is the drum band and the dragon lantern team. The villagers followed closely, taking pictures, taking **, posting Moments, Douyin, and recording this beautiful scenery and wonders.
Every time the incense dragon passes through a house, there are people to incense, light, set off firecrackers, and light fireworks to greet them, which is called "solitaire", "blessing" and "peace". After completing the predetermined route, the incense fire dragon returned to the ancestral hall and kowtowed three times.
When the dragon incense is about to burn out, the dragon dancer puts the incense fire dragon on the ground three times, and the dragon head is in the center towards the direction of the ancestral hall, after that, the dragon watcher goes to pull the dragon incense, and people insert the dragon incense on their own god case or the side of the corral door, in order to pray for the safety of the family and the prosperity of the six animals.
In the sound of drums and firecrackers, the dragon dancers lit the Rucheng incense fire dragon, and the blazing flames pointed directly to the blue sky, which means "the dragon returns to the sky". The next day, people pack the incinerated dragon ashes, send them to the river, fill them with incense, burn paper money, and pour the dragon ashes into the river, which is called "sending the dragon back to the sea".
This year, our village is listed as a demonstration site for rural revitalization, as the old county town more than 1,400 years ago redeveloped, the unveiling ceremony of the thousand-year-old city's archway was held, and the ancestral hall was repaired and completed. Zhu Yanjie, the person in charge of the dragon dance and dragon tour, said excitedly.
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