The manifestation of dragon lantern

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was born here in the second year of Tiancheng (AD 927). From the 13th to 16th of the first month, playing dragon lanterns has a long reputation and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. Ssangyong is a dragon, a green dragon. Dragon symbolizes Zhao Kuangyin, and Qinglong symbolizes Zhao Guangyi. The name of Dongguan Shuanglong came from this.

When Ssangyong in Dongguan starts to drive, first drive, lift the whip and hang it up. Led by the head of the club, it reached the front of Song Taizu Temple at the northern end of Huojie Street, that is, after jumping the most wonderful routine at the Jiamaying stone tablet, it began to move towards the city. There are a pair of red palace lanterns in front of the dragon lantern, followed by a door flag, a flag, a handsome flag, a top flag and a colorful flag. Then there is the Nau Pavilion, where boys and girls take folk or historical stories as materials, or send them off in eighteen miles or thousands of miles. After scraping the pavilion, there were sticks and fire marbles to clear the way, followed by 48 gongs, four cowhide drums, 24 giant cymbals and 12 giant cymbals, which were earth-shattering and awe-inspiring, and finally dragons and dragons. Dragon lantern dancing for a while or performing dragon ball tricks and catching dragon balls, but what is more exciting is that dozens of people set up adult ladders on the cross street of the old city, and then passed them on the faucet. The faucet rose layer by layer, and the dragon body was coiled on the high ladder, and the faucet swung left and right. The dragon escape ladder rose step by step, the faucet rose to the top, shaking all over, the dragon tail circled back and forth, and the faucet swayed from side to side. At this time, my own fireworks always glow like a dragon's mouth, and the performance is achieved. Mianyang stilt dragon lantern is a popular folk dance in Xiantao City, Hubei Province. Artists from Chongyong Village in Pengchang combine stilts and dragon lanterns to perform, which is amazing. This is a unique form of dragon dance in Mianyang. As far as the dragon body is concerned; The length is similar to that of a general dragon lantern; However; Dragon boat festival is less than the general dragon lantern; General; Dragon lanterns have thirteen to fifteen festivals; The time span between Dragon Boat Festival is short; Easy to play with dragon lanterns. There are only nine dragon lanterns on stilts in Mianyang, with a long span between them, which is convenient for walking on stilts (up to 2 meters) and dancing dragon lanterns. As far as the color of dragon clothes is concerned, there are two stilt dragon lanterns in Mianyang, one is Huanglong and the other is Red Dragon. Generally, the color of dragon clothes is not limited. People who play stilt dragon lanterns must grow beards and dress up as the "Top Ten Famous Corners" of this drama, in which Dandan plays pearls, Wu plays dragons, the clown plays dragons' tails, and the other seven people play dragons' bodies.

A person who walks on stilts and dances with dragons must have three basic skills at the same time: walking on stilts, dancing dragon lanterns and martial arts. The key to watching the dragon lantern on stilts is that when dancing the dragon, the dragon lantern should be spread out and turned around, because the lower mouth of the dragon lantern is movable. When the dragon lantern goes up, the longkou opens to grab the pearl, and when it goes down, the longkou closes, which is very vivid and beautiful. Mianyang stilt dragon lantern can play tricks, and there are more than a dozen techniques, such as sky plate, turf, ground roll (commonly known as lazy dragon turning over), fish biting tail, half moon, green dragon plate column, five mountains (playing five square tables) and so on. Playing dragon lanterns has a strong lineup, which has become a beautiful landscape of Xiantao traditional folk dance. Quzhou Dragon Lantern has a long history, which has a history of thousands of years. 1982 was appraised by experts in Beijing National Culture Palace, and was confirmed as the representative of Han Dragon Lantern, which was exhibited and collected in Beijing. 1989 Quzhou County Cultural Center made a new dragon and sent it to Beijing for collection. Quzhou dragon lantern has unique techniques and shapes: the dragon horn is made of bamboo sticks, long and full, thick on the top and thick on the bottom; Lombok used to be made of pig bladder, but now it has been replaced with 500- 1000 degree light bulb; The dragon must be dyed green with hemp, and the whole dragon body is made up of hundreds of bamboo rings connected in series with ropes. There are leaders every two meters, ranging from seven to nine. Longlin dyed it with enough paper, the fire dragon dyed red and the hose dyed blue; The dragon's tail is tied with a hemp bundle about one meter long; The total length of the dragon is between 15-25m; The lamp in the dragon is twisted into a half-foot long twist with folded paper, and then boiled in animal oil. Butter is the best, with high brightness and is not easy to extinguish. The modeling characteristics of the whole dragon body are: huge mouth, bright eyes, sharp corners, flying, long body, strong tail, thousands of scales, flying and magnificent.

The dance method of Quzhou Dragon Lantern is changeable, and there are more than 20 moves, among which drilling dragon, rolling dragon and panlong are the most wonderful. Dragon drills are divided into two types: drill bit and drill tail, and dragon dancers file through taps or dragon tail; Panlong is divided into two strokes: head and tail. The dragon dancer folds the arhat and lets the dragon wrap around the human body and stand tall; Rolling the dragon is to let the dragon roll on the ground, and the dragon dancer rolls over the dragon; There are two ways to dance the dragon. One is to let the dragon wag its head and tail during the parade, if it swims too much. The other is to make the dragon fly up and down and hover left and right, which means that the dragon is proud and swallows mountains and rivers, which is very spectacular.

In the dragon dance, the party is accompanied by spider dance. Spider is a basketball, made of barbed wire, covered with red yarn, with a handle and twisted inside. If two dragons dance against each other, the spider calls it "two dragons playing with pearls", which is really beautiful.

In the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects recently published by the State Council, the distinctive and representative traditional folk dance "Quzhou Dragon Lantern" in Handan, Hebei Province was finally selected successfully, filling a blank in the list of national intangible cultural heritage. This kind of dragon, also known as "Lantern Dragon", is popular in market towns where Tujia people live in compact communities.

Generally, lights are lit on the third day of the first lunar month and end on the fifteenth day. Lantern Dragon consists of nine segments (meaning: the old dragon was cut into nine segments). The faucet is tied into a shelf with bamboo strips, pasted with white Qingming paper and painted with various colors. Its shape is lifelike, with horns, mouth, eyes and beard. Each section of the dragon body is tied into a cylindrical shape with thin strips, and the outside is pasted with Qingming paper. The dragon tail is also tied into a fishtail shape. The dragon head, the dragon body and the dragon tail are connected by a red cloth belt. The dragon head, the dragon body and the dragon tail are lit with a candle lamp, which looks like a lantern. Dragon dancing is very lively. There are two or four pairs of lanterns in front to clear the way, indicating which village and street the dragon is. After the lantern, there are fish, shrimp, clam shells, lanterns and so on. Swinging their heads and tails in the sound of gongs and drums and horns, they swam around the street. Playing with lanterns and dragons includes Huanglong entering the sea, Jinlong holding a column, Erlong grabbing a treasure, Laolong turning over, and Jinlong crossing the sea cucumber. Wherever the lantern dragon goes, firecrackers are constantly ringing, fireworks are everywhere, and onlookers are packed. In order to welcome the lantern dragon into the house, 36 pairs of barrel guns were arranged in front of the door, and tens of thousands of firecrackers rang, hoping that the brave would try it in the courtyard. When the lantern dragon entered the courtyard, the fireworks and firecrackers outside the door exploded in the air, and the fire was everywhere. At this time, all the lights except those of the lantern dragon are extinguished. Lantern dragons dance in the afterglow of firecrackers and fireworks, which is very spectacular. Most people who dance lanterns and dragons are shirtless and roll with dragons. Lights don't go out, dragons don't stop, firecrackers don't stop. Once the water is sprayed into the dragon's mouth, the host will pull the dragon beard and hang friends in red, and entertain the dragon dance team with first-class tricks. If the dragon dancer is timid and afraid of fireworks and firecrackers, the coal dragon will bow his head in front of the door, and he will leave, without the owner's colored silk and the best taste. Therefore, people who dance with lanterns and dragons have quick eyes and quick feet. When the lantern dragon enters the courtyard, despite the fireworks flying, it can't burn the dragon body and human body. The dancing skills are not strong, and there are also cases in which dragon dancers enter the hospital and are discharged naked with bamboo rings. Lantern dragons play until the fifteenth day of the first month, and the dragon burning day is from the thirteenth to the fifteenth day of the first month. Dragon burning is carried out by a stream or ditch with water. When burning the dragon, put the dragon on the ground, and all the people will spray the prepared fireworks, fireworks and firecrackers directly on the dragon. After the dragon was burned, people screamed and jumped, sending the dragon's remains into the water and watering it, which means sending the dragon back to the sea. Therefore, the dragon is named after straw. Make a bibcock with a mouth, horns, eyes and a beard with a straw, make a seven-section dragon body with the same thickness as the neck of the bibcock with a bundle of straw, and then make a fishtail with nine sections, with straw connected in series at every other section and a bamboo pole inserted in each section. The grass and dragon dances are mainly held in Tujia rural cottages. Every year from May to July in the lunar calendar, it is the time to dance grass and dragons. The significance of dragon dance is that entertainment includes expelling plague and preventing fire.

Drive out the plague. During May and June of the lunar calendar, rice straw seedlings in the field are in a vigorous period, the weather is hot, and there are many pests and diseases, among which rice blast is the most destructive pest. In an era when science and technology are backward and hard to prevent, Tujia farmers use grass and dragons to drive away rice blast, which has become a habit over time and gathered for entertainment. Dancing grass to drive dragons away from the epidemic, starting from the village to the fields, dancing along the road in turn in every paddy field and every mound ridge, with the same dance movements as lantern dragons. The Dragon Dance Team, playing the trumpet, firing three cannons, beating gongs and drums, setting off firecrackers and performing dance skills, is quite spectacular. After dancing in all the fields in their respective villages, the grass will take the dragon to the stream and burn it. This is called sending the dragon back to the sea. Remove the flame. Around the Dragon Boat Festival in May or July of the lunar calendar, the rice in each village is about to mature. On the day of dragon dance, a basin of water and a sieve of whole grains were placed in the middle of every hall in the village, waiting for the dragon dance team to come. In the dragon dance team, in addition to dancing nine grass dragons, one of them broke a 10-foot-long bamboo into a boat shape with a pot of charcoal fire in the middle, and two people carried it. There are also three archers, archers and toast, and then there are a group of free spectators. The dragon dance team, led by the toast, started from the first village head and entered every room from top to bottom. After that, the faucet nodded three times to the shrine of the room, and then circled the room, dancing all kinds of tricks. At this time, the water shooter absorbs water in the basin with a water gun (the shape is the same as that in Chapter 3), and shoots water in the southeast, northwest, middle and five directions (meaning fire fighting). The toast grabs a handful of grain in the sieve and stays in the southeast, northwest and middle directions. When they were left outside the gate of the China Club, the Dragon Dance Team went out to dance in another club. After all the families in the village finished dancing, the grass came to the stream with dragons and flames, burned it and poured it back into the sea. The meaning of dancing the dragon and moving the flame is: ask the dragon to move the flame god out of the village to avoid fire and ensure peace. Legend has it that a long time ago, when people watched dragon lanterns, three Tujia youths became more and more excited, dancing and eager to try, eager to gain wisdom. They raised the bench and imitated the dragon lantern dance, having a good time. In the future, traditional sports will be gradually formed, with entertainment and fitness at ordinary times and performances and competitions during festivals, which are deeply loved by Tujia people.

There are two styles of Wolong: one is a simple Wolong with an ordinary long bench, with three people carrying it and two people living in the front; The other is to use thin bamboo strips, including a dragon head, a dragon tail, a dragon horn, a longan and a dragon mouth, and then paste scales of various colors. The tied dragon is placed on the bench with four wooden feet showing its claws, which is very beautiful.

There are two kinds of bench dragons: single bench dragon and multi-bench dragon. The single stool dragon is jumped by three people, one right hand and one left hand, each grasping the first two feet, and the third grasping the second two feet with both hands. When dancing, head and tail are required to take care of each other and cooperate with each other. When the head is high, the tail should be low, the head should be left and the tail should be right; Looking up, the tail player let go of the transposition. A dragon-tailed dancer must be a person with fast footwork and good eyesight. The height of the two dancers is basically the same. Multi-bench dragon consists of nine benches, the first section is the dragon head, the ninth section is the dragon tail, and the rest are the dragon body. Under the leadership of the treasure changer, the faucet fluctuates up and down from time to time, turning around, just like a dragon out of water. The whole dragon needs tacit cooperation and follows each other. Wolong's movements are: two dragons grab the treasure, Huanglong wears flowers, Jinlong plays in the water, the golden cicada hulls, Huanglong rolls up and so on. Nowadays, the bench dragon performance has been put on the literary stage. The water splashing dragon of Tujia nationality is also a grand folk sports activity, which generally rose in the Tusi period. Splashing dragon is made of willow branches, and consists of dragon head, dragon body, dragon tail and rolling treasure. The whole body of a dragon is generally 12 holes, that is, one hole every month, and 13 holes in leap years. The faucet has eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, horns and whiskers, and its image is realistic. The dragon's tail is upturned and can swing from side to side. People who hold the dragon head are generally famous elders in Tujia village, and the dragon body and dragon followers hold it. Rolling treasure is also made of wicker into a ball, flying up, down, left and right in front of Longkou, forming a dragon to grab treasure.

The Dragon Splashing Dance is scheduled to be held in sunny days in the Year of the Loong in June and July of the lunar calendar. On this day, every household in Tujia village is filled with buckets, water pots, water scoops and water guns in front of the door. When the water splashing dragon team with horns, suona and gongs and drums comes to the door, men, women and children, all the water scoops, water guns and wooden pots keep splashing on the water splashing dragon and naked dragon dancers. Whoever splashes more water will have a good harvest. When jumping the water splashing dragon, all men, women and children in the village can take part in the water splashing freely, and the scene is tense, cheerful and lively. Dragon lantern is an ancient cultural and entertainment activity to celebrate the Spring Festival in rural areas of Yiwu, which can be found in almost larger villages. The date and number of days to welcome the Lantern Festival vary from village to village. Generally speaking, dragon lanterns will be ushered in around the Lantern Festival from the first lunar month 1 1 to 18.

The dragon lanterns in Yiwu are mostly Wolong. The faucet in Wolong is a wooden faucet, which is generally carved with camphor wood, filled with BLACKPINK, painted with gold and painted with glass lamps. There is a "middle hall" in the faucet, which is a wooden double-decker hall with carved beams and painted buildings and a curved sill corridor. It is quite beautiful. The dragon body has a plurality of dragon knots connected in series with the basket-holding lamp. Each lamp board is about 1.3m long, 18cm wide and 5cm thick. There are two lights in the middle section, and the distance between the lights is about 70cm. Round holes are drilled at both ends of the lamp board, commonly known as "bridge lamp". When connecting, align the two lamp boards with the round hole, insert the log handle and fix it with bolts. People marched with this wooden handle. The lamp shell is tied with thin bamboo sticks into dragon boat festival, round basket and other forms. The Dragon Boat Festival is first pasted with white paper, and then painted with dragon forest in red and green; The round basket is made of thin transparent red paper. (The picture shows the Lantern Festival in Xinyuan Village, Suxi Town, Yiwu. ) When the dragon lantern goes out, it first acts as a guard of honor for the ancient philosophers' lamps, hall lamps and brand lamps, followed by utensils and belts, holding incense sticks and lanterns. Then the Dragon Lantern Team. The dragon's tail is also carved with wood, and Longlin painted it with gold. Finally, I brought a bronze gong and a bronze drum, which were carried by two people. In the square of the Dragon Lantern Welcome Village, "vegetarian households" burn incense and light candles, display sacrificial ceremonies, set off firecrackers, and lead the Dragon Lantern on the square with two forks. When the dragon lantern is a "round lantern" (commonly known as a revolving lantern), it follows the head line, goes in and out, and I come and you go, laughing and having fun. In addition, there are dragon string belly, plum blossom and phoenix spreading their wings. The highlight of the lantern is not the length, but more importantly, the roundness and tightness of the lantern, the smooth speed and rhythm of the lantern turning in and out, and the wonderful lantern performance can be flexibly turned over in a narrow open space, performing stunts such as rear-end collision and belly string. Besides board lanterns, there are also dragon lanterns, lion dance lanterns, lanterns and lanterns. For hundreds of years, the dragon lantern is a common "family music" in the rural areas of this city, and it is regarded as "four old" and "broken" in the "small four clean" and "big culture". Several village leaders, Ertang, Longwei, etc. Be hidden without being knocked down. Resume from 1979. Xinyuan Village, Suxi Town is the earliest village in this city to restore the welcome lights. 1980 On the 12th day of the first month, more than 300 pieces of dragon lanterns were organized, passing through Jiangzhai, Baliqiaotou, Zhalin and Dumen until Tanghuan Village. There are a sea of people watching lanterns in the villages along the way. The lighting time was two days and two nights, which was a sensation. Huaqiao Dragon Lantern is popular in Huaqiao, Shangzhai and Liangtoumen villages in huaqiao town, Sanmen County. It started in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 1000 years. Dragon welcoming activities originated from totem worship consciousness and later evolved into folk activities praying for harvest and peace. Every year, lanterns are lit on the 13th day of the first month, and there are sixteen sets of lanterns in the first month. Dragon welcoming activities are held for four consecutive nights, which have been passed down from generation to generation.

Dragon lanterns are greeted with a set of auspicious etiquette. Including welcoming time, dragon clearing road, sacrifice, departure, walking route, dragon receiving, dragon ball sending ceremony and the order of dragon lanterns and supporting facilities. , are very particular about, reflecting the local folk customs and regional cultural values, deeply loved by people. The biggest difference between Huaqiao Dragon Lantern and other dragon lanterns is that five dragon lanterns come out at the same time. Dragons are divided into five colors: red, yellow, blue, green and purple, representing five different directions: east, south, west, north and China, and implying that the four seas are one and the world is one. Each color also has a different meaning. Red represents the sun and represents hope and beauty; Blue represents the sky and good weather; Green represents the earth, which means that everything grows and the grain is abundant; Purple represents luck and symbolizes the harmony between man and nature; Yellow represents power and wealth, and symbolizes a better life. Therefore, before the Dragon Lantern went out to welcome guests, the ceremony was very grand. Five venerable elders fasted and bathed the day before, dressed in national costumes, placed incense tables in front of Wulong Temple, burned incense and prayed for blessings, and first offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and invited the god of wealth. In the ancestral hall, ancestors are worshipped and prayed. After that, the five-color dragon went to the ancestral tablet at three o'clock, sounded three times and went out to meet everyone. At that time, gongs, drums and firecrackers sounded, lions cleared the way, gongs and cymbals sounded, horns sounded, and the flag was raised first, followed by the god of wealth, palace lanterns and ancient pavilions. Wherever the dragon lantern goes, it is accompanied by special folk tunes. Use "falling tiger" when starting, with strong rhythm; March with the horn; Say hello with "middle finger picking rope", and the rhythm is cheerful and warm.

manufacture

summary

The dragon lantern is exquisitely made. It is based on a 2-meter-long wooden board, with round holes drilled at both ends and punched with wooden sticks one by one to form a long queue. The length can be long or short, depending on the number of segments that the villagers spontaneously participate in, ranging from short 100 meters to more than 200 meters long. Each board seat is tied with bamboo sticks to form the skeleton of a dragon head, a dragon body and a dragon tail, pasted with colored paper, decorated with dragon whiskers, longan, dragon horns and dragon balls, and pasted with Long Lin, dragon fins, painted patterns and paper-cuts. Each Duan Long has four square colored lanterns, which are paper-cut or painted according to the producer's preference and style. Patterns include flowers, birds, insects, fish, auspicious birds and beasts, myths and legends, dramatic figures and so on. It combines many Han folk crafts, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and a hundred schools of thought. There are no professional artists in the production of dragon lanterns. The bibcock is collectively built by talented people in the village, and the dragon body is made by each household. Group inheritance is its greatest feature.

Tap, tap

The faucet is made of a wooden board with a length of 2 meters and a width of 0.3 meters. The base is nailed into a T-shape with two wooden boards, and the three ends are drilled with round holes, which can be connected with wooden sticks. The base is made of wood and bamboo as a frame, which is the skeleton of the faucet, and colored paper is pasted outside. The dragon top is inserted into the moon, and the halberd is painted, and the order flag, the handsome flag, and the prestige flag (flag tattoo) are painted. The dragon crown is covered with flowers of various colors and seasons. The dragon eyebrows are decorated with phoenix paper-cut patterns, and the phoenix is composed of flower-and-bird paintings. Different colors of dragons are matched with different flower-and-bird paintings. For example, red dragon's dragon eyebrows use magpies to hold plum blossoms, Huanglong's dragon eyebrows use oriole to wear chrysanthemums, Qinglong's dragon eyebrows use phoenix to wear peonies, and Qinglong and Zi Long use Phalaenopsis and bamboo finches respectively. Dragon Face Gate is a vanilla cloud composed of three pairs of Shuanglong playing beads. There are plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum paintings on the upper lip of the dragon, straight vanilla clouds on the side, horizontal vanilla clouds under the dragon nose, and the flower arrangement process of magpies making plums on the dragon nose; There are vase balls and badminton on both sides of the faucet. Longkou contains dragon balls, and there are stickers on both sides, saying that the weather is good, the country and the people are safe, or I can't help staying up late today. Jade leakage does not urge couplets to show my wishes and enjoy myself. Decorate with dragon beard meat, longan, Longlin and other ornaments. It combines paper-cutting, painting, embroidery, flower arrangement, origami and other folk art techniques, and its shape is atmospheric and beautiful.

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The dragon body, commonly known as the dragon section, is made up of wooden boards with round holes drilled at both ends and dragon rods connected in series. Each board seat consists of four rectangular colored lights. Lanterns with candles or electric lights can be turned on on both sides, which is called two-sided dragon lanterns. According to the producer's favorite style, or paper-cutting, or painting, the patterns on the lanterns include flowers, birds, insects and fish, auspicious birds and beasts, dramatic figures, myths and legends, etc. , rich and colorful, inclusive of multiculturalism.

The dragon's tail is on a wooden base, with a rectangular dragon body in front, a three-pronged or five-pronged dragon's tail behind it, and dragon fins and dragons' forests.

supporting facilities

1. The ancient pavilion, framed by wooden tenons, looks like a sedan chair, pasted with rice paper, with various paper-cut or painted landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects, fish, auspicious birds, auspicious animals and other popular scrolls, mainly displays folk painting arts and crafts.

2. Palace lanterns. Bamboo frame, built-in electric lamp, wrapped in HongLing, and hung with tassels.

3. Flag. There are four banners embroidered on both sides, "Huaqiao Dragon Lantern", with yellow characters on a red background and behind the horn.

4. The fire is burning. A funnel-shaped barbed wire made of fine lead wire is connected with the long handle of the wooden stick. Use small pieces of dry wood and put them in barbed wire for lighting. Two people, each with a fire, walk in front of the faucet and shake the fire pile to light up the road. This is the original lighting tool, which has been used all the time when welcoming dragons to prove the long history of welcoming dragons.

5. Club head. Cast pig iron into a ball, the hollow can store gunpowder, the top is plugged with a wooden wedge, and there is a small hole at the lower end, and the fuse is inserted to ignite the fire. This ball is firmly fixed on the wooden stick, hence the name "club head spear". When the ceremonial generals who greeted the dragon were dispatched, they had three sticks and three heads, which were powerful. After the club head banged, gongs and cymbals played in unison, the horn sounded, a cry was uttered, the faucet was raised, and the ceremony began.

well-behaved

1. Qinglong Road. Is to find out the road conditions of the dragon lantern route. There is a local saying that there is no turning back in Longlu. If there are obstacles on Longlu Road, they should be cleaned up in advance. When the Dragon Road was cleared, two strong men each held a big gong on the day of welcoming the dragon head. They followed the route of the dragon lantern, sounded gongs to inform the masses, and cleaned up separately so as not to affect the dragon lantern. Residents along the road cleaned up the road where the dragon lantern passed to welcome its arrival.

Here we go. After connecting the dragon lanterns at the concentration point, go to the Wulong Hall to worship heaven and earth first. Presided over by five venerable elders dressed in national costumes, the elders were asked to fast and bathe on the first day. Put incense tables in the temple to pray for peace, and then invite the god of wealth out of the temple, followed by fire, lion, gong, cymbal, horn, standard, god of wealth, palace lantern, ancient pavilion and five-color dragon lantern. At the ancestral temple, after the ancestor worship ceremony, the head of the club rang three times and the dragon welcoming team set off.

3. Longlu. Huaqiao Dragon Lantern must follow the prescribed route, which is the so-called Dragon Road. According to the custom that dragons never look back. From the Wulong Temple to the ancestral temple, and then along the predetermined route, Kannonji is the only place to pass, and large venues suitable for hovering dragon lanterns (such as school playgrounds) should also pass by to facilitate performances and gatherings. Other main streets should say hello so that the masses can catch up. After the trip, you should invite the God of Wealth back to the Wulong Hall, then put the faucet back to the ancestral hall before you can rest.

4. Solitaire. The masses worship the dragon on the Flower Bridge as a god. Wherever the dragon goes out, people along the way put incense tables and answer the dragon devoutly. The ceremony of solitaire is to set up a square table at the door of the store or the gate. Put a pair of incense and three cups of green tea (boiled water) on the table. The cereal rice tea lattice (an ancient sacrificial utensil carved with wood) is filled with tea, white rice, beans and fruits. Some also add three gifts of wine, commonly known as three dishes of blessing, including noodles, meat and tofu. Or five sacrifices, with chicken and fish. When the dragon arrived, the lay man burned incense and candles, poured wine and sifted tea, and led the whole family to bow down devoutly. The dragon welcoming team must also stop, with the dragon head facing the portal, and both sides praise Geely's words. After the ceremony, the salute sounded and the dragon welcoming team continued to move forward.

5. Send the Dragon Ball. Every time an overseas Chinese class welcomes a dragon, there is an interesting episode, that is, sending a dragon ball. Every time you prepare to greet the dragon, you should contact the person who sent the dragon ball. Dragon ball catcher must be middle-aged, childless, willing to accept dragon balls and warmly welcome them. The time to send the dragon ball is the night to welcome the dragon. When the dragon lantern swam through the dragon road, the honor guard for welcoming the dragon was dissolved, leaving Long Wei as the leader and reconnecting with the selected dozens of Duan Long. 1 team, accompanied by drum music, walked to the gate of Solitaire Pearl Lake and stopped. Solitaire bamboo households put a table of incense at the door. After bowing down devoutly, the hostess of the Dragon Ball Lake touched the dragon ball in Longkou with her hand, and an elder gave her a red egg. The person who receives the dragon ball must provide tea and cigarettes, as well as fruit. After exchanging auspicious words of wishing each other an early birth and congratulations on getting rich, everyone dispersed separately. Some rich people also received dragon balls. In addition to the above routine entertainment, they will also give each person a pack of cigarettes and a red envelope to the group, ranging from several hundred yuan to one thousand yuan. All this is completely voluntary. Before liberation, the Dragon Ball was always given to middle-aged childless families. After liberation, it was also given to the rich. It can be said that people's ideology changes with the change of the situation.

6. Music Besides percussion music such as gongs and cymbals, Huaqiao Dragon Lantern is also equipped with special tunes. Start with "Tiger Falling", the rhythm is powerful; March with the horn; Greeting with the tune of "middle finger picking rope", the rhythm is cheerful and warm. It is also a local feature of Huaqiao Dragon Lantern that it is mixed with folk tunes when it goes out to welcome guests.

value

artistic value

The making of Huaqiao Dragon Lantern shows the wisdom of carpenters, bamboos and folk arts. It integrates literature, painting, sculpture, paper-cutting, embroidery, music and drama, and integrates various artistic elements, making it perfectly unified in the whole dragon welcoming activity, with high folk, aesthetic and educational values.

Social value

Huaqiao Dragon Lantern embodies the wisdom of the people and the charm of folk art, and has strong artistry and appreciation. The process of welcoming dragons is not only a process of entertainment, but also a process of rallying people's hearts, which can provide evidence for the study of folk culture in Sanmen Bay.

Huaqiao Dragon Lantern participated in the city and county folk art conferences and the street activities of Sanmen China Blue Crab Festival for many times, which made this folk activity glow again. In 2007, it was listed in the list of intangible cultural heritage protection in Zhejiang Province.