About Chongqing Tongliang Dragon Dance

Tongliang Dragon Dance has a long history. It is proved that it started in Ming Dynasty, flourished in Qing Dynasty, and is famous nowadays. Folk play dragon lanterns every spring to pay homage to the New Year, Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival River, in case of drought to play Huang Jing dragon rain, hoping that the dragon and phoenix auspiciousness, longevity and abundance of life. Throughout the ages, by the faith gradually evolved into entertainment, and the practice has become a habit, giving birth to the Tongliang Dragon Lantern, the flower of the Bayu folk art.

Tongliang dragon lanterns are full of flowers, and the traditional event is the Spring Festival Dragon Lantern Festival. Every year from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth Lantern Festival, the county township dragon dance team gathered in the county, a variety of dragon lantern assembly performance, all kinds of art exhibition race, culture and trade combination, lasted for half a month, lively and extraordinary. Tongliang dragon lantern activities in the contemporary development of two major festivals, one is China Tongliang Dragon Lantern Festival, held in October; the second is the Chinese Dragon Hot Spring Tourism Festival, held in May. During the festival, Chinese and foreign top stars perform, dragon lantern boutique competing exhibition race, full of dragon dance song, attracted a lot of national VIPs, businessmen and hundreds of thousands of viewers inside and outside the city gathered in the Dragon Township *** Degree of festivities.