Types of dragon dancing

There are dragon dances on stilts in Leizhou, dragon dances, dragon dances, grass dances and fragrant dragons.

1, Leizhou stilt dragon dance

Leizhou stilt dragon dance is a folk festival dance performed by ancestors in Leizhou City, Guangdong Province, in order to pray for good weather and national peace. The performance of dragon dancing on stilts is usually performed by young people. Everyone is standing on stilts, with towels on their heads and open shirts and trousers. There are a series of difficult movements in the dance, such as stringing dragons, swinging dragons and beating dragons. Dragon props are made of cloth, bamboo and paper, with vivid images and unique shapes.

2. Dancing faucet

Dance dragon head is a ritual in the ancestor worship activities of the She nationality in Fujian, and it is a guard of honor composed of the sun, the moon and the stars. Leading wood carving painting, simple and solemn. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, the leaders made various movements along with the drums, either advancing or retreating, jumping or stopping, jumping or squatting, and there were certain rules.

Step 3 dance, Malone

Malone Dance is popular among Qiang people in Longxi, Jeju, Sichuan, and it is a sports activity to sacrifice ancestors. Get rid of its dross, take its essence, and keep the routine actions such as playing Hua Gun, knowing dragons and phoenixes, playing with magic sticks and dragons, jumping with magic sticks and chasing rosy clouds with dragons.

Step 4 dance the grass dragon

Tiaoshun Dance Grass Dragon is a unique folk dragon dance in Tiaoshun Island, Chikan District, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. It was very popular from the middle of Ming Dynasty to the middle of Qing Dynasty. Every year, the first month of the lunar calendar is an indispensable activity, mainly jumping grass dragons and net dragons. Dance grass dragon will select more than 20 able-bodied men to perform.

5. Xianglong

Xianglong has been circulating for a long time, and it has been recorded in the annals of Rucheng County, Hunan Province for a long time. It is popular in Nanxiang, and is mostly held on the Lantern Festival. When performing a fragrant dragon, there must be two dragons (mother dragon and young dragon) and two lions (lioness and young lion) dancing with it. One lion leads the way in front of the dragon, and the other lion follows the dragon's tail. Its image mainly comes from murals and dragon sculptures in local temples.

The production materials are mainly local straw, palm leaves, bamboo shoots, sunflower stalks and special dragon incense, and the technology used is also the local traditional binding technology.

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