Performance form of Shanwei Jinlong

During the performance of "Golden Dragon on the Ground" in Nanxi Village, two people got into the "dragon quilt cover", one jumped the dragon's head and the other jumped the dragon's tail. The whole performance process is divided into eight stages: the opening ceremony, fighting around the hole, swimming in the pool, stretching muscles and washing scales, squatting in the thunder, dancing against the thunder, walking around the clouds and finally returning the gift. During the performance, the imitated dragon dance danced, splashed in the water and woke up after meditation. Accompanied by the majestic and bright Hai Lufeng orthographic drama "Big-name gongs and drums", Dasuona played different tunes according to different performance plots, including "Gong E Yuan", "Crying for Heaven", "Mountain Slope Sheep" and "Eight Bantou".

The most basic expression means of dragon dance are its props modeling, composition changes and action routines. According to the different materials of dragon-shaped props, they are divided into cloth dragon, sarong, paper dragon, grass dragon, Qianlong, bamboo dragon, brown dragon, bench dragon, louver dragon, lotus dragon, fire dragon, feather dragon and meat dragon. The production of northern dragon dance is generally tall and heavy, with simple and strong style; The southern dragon dance is exquisite, lively and smart. Dragon dance can be divided into yellow, white, blue, red, black and so on, with Huanglong as the most distinguished. The composition and movements of dragon dance are generally characterized by "circle", "rolling", "entanglement", "crossing" and "jumping". The traditional performing procedures of dragon dance are generally: inviting dragons, releasing dragons, dancing dragons and sending them away. There is a folk saying that "playing with grass dragons at the age of seven or eight, playing with dragons at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and dancing with dragons by teenagers". When there are few people dancing dragons, one person dances Shuanglong and many people dance Dragon.