Primary six grade language book the second unit of oral communication

The dragon is the first of the four Chinese spirits, (dragon, phoenix, unicorn and tortoise are the four spirits of China) which are honored and feared by the Chinese people. In our minds, the dragon is an auspicious spirit, the master of the wind and rain, and the destroyer of the waves; its power is unrivaled even by the fiercest beasts. Dragon is the master of the water, in the coastal areas of China, fishermen are set up temples to worship, in order to wind and rain, and the dragon in the coastal areas of the myths are also particularly many.　Like cause and effect, night full of big dragon dance is one of China's very rich national color folk art. Whenever there are big festivals, big celebrations, and parades, there will be a dragon dance to help celebrate. As for the dragon dance since when, has no audit. But in ancient times, such as drought, pestilence, demonic plague, the ritual custom of dragon dance to pray for rain, can be imagined. Because China has believed since ancient times that the dragon is the master of wind and rain, has the infinite power to call the wind and rain, so whenever there is a drought or a flood, it will be asked to open the grace of blessing.　In the ceremony of the sorcerer, molded to do the activities of the dragon posture, pirouetting dance, to "like cause and effect" principle of magic, in order to achieve the effect of praying for rain and sunshine, which is the original origin of the dragon dance. By this festival on the ritual of play, and evolved into entertainment to help celebrate the type of play, it is the aftermath of things. By the Tokyo Dreaming Records record of the Song night of the hundred plays of the beginning of the play: "and in the left and right door, each with a grass handle to turn into a play of the dragon's shape, with a green screen to cover the dragon, the grass on the dense set of lamps and candles in the ten thousand Sheng, look at the meandering, such as the two dragons fly away," you can know that the dance of the dragon lanterns (dance of the fire dragon) of the custom, has been in the Middle Ages has been prevalent. In recent times, the custom of dragon dance has become popular in all provinces of China, both north and south, and in the New Year and the Spring Festival, when we welcome the gods and goddesses, it is inevitable to use the golden and silver dragons to help out, which is more lively and colorful than the lion dance.　"The powerful clans with the dragon as their totem moved from the west (Gan and Xia) to the east and entered the Central Plains, which was later known as "Xia". Fuyi and Nuwa are famous figures in Chinese ancestry. Legend has it that they were brother and sister, while others say they were husband and wife. In the stone and brick paintings of the Han Dynasty, there are often portraits of Fuyi and Nuwa with human heads and snake bodies. These portraits of Fuyi and Nuwa, above the waist into the human form, wearing a robe, wearing a crown and hat, below the waist is a snake body (occasionally as a dragon body), two tails tightly entwined; the two bodies of the face or face or back, the people at that time from the legend that they were recognized as the originator of the god, but also into the protection of the god, the ancients, the tomb of the ancestral temple more engraved with his portrait, is to take its protection of the dead, in order to be able to enjoy the happiness of the underground meanings.　This powerful dragon totem clan, by Gan, the gorge south into the western Sichuan; Ba Shu land, also because this clan will be coiled based on the name (Ba Shu home form of the word for Baba, that is, the snake's hieroglyphic characters), and then by the Sichuan and then down the Yangtze River to the east, Wuhan, north, to arrive in the Central Plains of Henan region. Later, the Yin tribe, which was hostile to the totem, moved partly to the north, i.e. the Xiongnu, so the place where the king of the Xiongnu sacrificed to heaven and earth was also called "Longting", which also indicated the relationship with the dragon. Those who migrated to the south, i.e. the various ethnic groups of Jing, Chu, Wu and Yue at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty and the Miao in the southwestern part of the country nowadays. The part that stayed in the original place was conquered by the Yin tribe, but its cultural power always existed. At that time, the Yin Shang bronze vessels had the pattern of Yin dragon with human face and snake body; therefore, although in the Yin Dynasty, Fuyi still had the qualification of prairie offering.　"The Xia dynasty was the era of Fuyi, so there are many legends about the relationship between Yu, the first ruler of the Xia dynasty, and the dragon. According to the legend, Yu was a dragon himself, and his success in water healing was also attributed to the dragon's assistance. It is also said that Yu's son, Kai, had two green dragons hanging from his ears and drove two dragons. The culture of the Xia Dynasty was the true culture of our country, and the emperors of all dynasties recognized the dragon as the embodiment of the dragon, and the clothes they wore were called "dragon robes", the beds they slept on were called "dragon beds", and the fetuses of the empresses were called "dragon fetuses", and so the dragon became a symbol of our country's culture. "Therefore, the dragon has become a sacred and honorable "creature" in China.　Dragons in China are extremely rich in national colors and mysterious gods; of course, the dragons referred to here are "Chinese-style dragons", not dinosaurs in the primitive era. Does the "Chinese dragon" exist or has it ever existed? This is a "God knows" question, this kind of even fossilized "animals", now can only be seen in pictures!　However, the Chinese have always believed that the dragon is a real mysterious spirit, and even the ancient metaphysicians who studied the philosophy of change were convinced that there must be a divine dragon in the universe, in the three realms of heaven, earth and fire. The I Ching often talks about dragons, and the places and traces of dragons are used to divine good fortune and bad luck.

History

The Lantern Festival began in the early Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, but the custom of the Dragon Dance is believed to be the inheritance of the Yin and Zhou Dynasty's "Sacrifice to Heaven". Dragons in the historical records of the time very early, and the "dragon dance" contains "wind and rain country prosperity and people's peace", the original "pray for the New Year" meaning. Ancient people's wisdom is not open, probably because the dragon in the myth is the master of the ocean, the power is infinite, and the ocean is the main water, the dragon is also very natural to do the crops of the rain god. People to food for heaven, grain is the fundamental life-sustaining, indirectly also manipulated the human life. According to this meaning, the importance of the dragon exceeded that of the ancestors - Emperor Shun, Qi and Houji. In this way, the dragon was worshiped by the ancients as an "auspicious object" in the celebration and sacrifice, since the dragon dance

But it is not surprising. Rites of the king system," said: "the temple of the sacrifice, spring is key, summer is 衤帝, autumn is tasted, winter is baked". People so want to dance the dragon, and ancient working people in agricultural production of natural phenomena in the lack of scientific knowledge. They fantasize that the dragon is in charge of the rain, want to dance to pray for the dragon, to ensure that the wind and rain, a good harvest.　The Chinese nation is a creative people. Looking at the dragon dance performances of various places and ethnic groups, there are many kinds of performances, each with its own characteristics. Commonly, there are fire dragon, grass dragon, hair dragon (Guizhou Shiqian), human dragon, cloth dragon, paper dragon, flower dragon, basket dragon, section dragon, candle dragon, drunken dragon, bamboo leaf dragon, lotus dragon, bench dragon, flat dragon, rolling dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, big head dragon, glow-in-the-dark dragon, fireworks dragon and so on nearly a hundred kinds of more. The number of sections of dragon lanterns is generally 7, 9 and 13. From a long time ago, the dragon dance has been passed down from generation to generation. The Dragon Dance is no longer a "self-referential" program unique to a certain ethnic group, but belongs to all ethnic groups. Today, in the multi-ethnic family of our motherland, the dragon has become the symbol of the entire Chinese nation. The creation and transmission of the dragon dance is part of the glorious history of the Chinese nation and is loved by our nation and people. There are many kinds of lanterns in the Lantern Festival, such as flowers, insects, birds, beasts, everything, but the most special and huge, is the number of "dragon lanterns".　Today's New Year's customary "haunted dragon lantern" of the play. Haunted Dragon Lantern is "off the Dragon Lantern", because the Dragon Lantern long giant and heavy, the sound of drums and gongs in the head swinging tail, meandering away, not dozens of strong man, lifting the pole back and forth, not enough to manipulate the defense. The "fall" is swinging, as a verb, that is, "dance dragon".

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It can be seen that the Chinese New Year "light", is to represent the "spring festival". Therefore, the "Dragon Dance" should initially be a kind of sacrifice, rather than entertainment, to become a celebration of entertainment should be after the Han and Tang Dynasty. Here is a legend, can also show that the dragon dance is purely memorial, contains a sacrificial component.　Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a lotus village on the bank of Campsis Creek, and there was a lotus pond in front of the village, which was full of lotus flowers. Every summer, the green lotus leaves covered the water surface, and countless lotus blossoms came out of the water, curling up, bright and colorful.　Lotus pond living in a pair of hard-working and kind-hearted young couple, the man called Baibei, the woman called Lotus, husband and wife male farming and weaving, respect and love each other. This year, lotus pregnant, after ten months, the child was not born. After ten months, the child was not born. After another year, the child was still not born, and it was not until nine hundred and ninety-nine days that a boy was born. Hundred leaves to see the child was born upright and strong, heart good like. And then a closer look, but was stunned: the child's chest and spine with fine dragon scales, golden light, dazzling. Counting, there were nine hundred and ninety-nine pieces. When the midwife next to him saw it, she was shocked and exclaimed, "Oh, no wonder, your family has given birth to a dragon god!"　The news spread throughout the village, and everyone came to congratulate them. The news alarmed the village's old patriarch, whose son was an official at the imperial court and who kept a rampant and ugly grandson by his side. As soon as this grandson and grandson heard that a dragon's seed had been born in Baiye's family, they immediately came to slash and kill with steel swords in their hands. The townspeople got the news and immediately reported it to Bai Ye. They discussed it carefully and came up with a solution: put the child in a foot basin and quietly hide him in the lotus pond in front of the door.　The old patriarch and his grandson with people rushed into the door, the child has disappeared. Seeing that he could not find the dragon's seed, the old patriarch seized Baiba and forced him to hand it over. The grandson, seeing the beauty of the lotus flowers, had a plan and raised his steel knife to kill Baiba and snatched the lotus flowers to his home. The old patriarch thought to himself: without parents, the dragon seed will surely starve to death even if it lives. Besides, Lotus will give birth to the dragon seed, and the dragon seed will be born in my house in the future, so the world will be my house.　Lotus was snatched to the old patriarch's house, missing her husband and children, and was very sad. Patriarch of the old man forced her to go to panning rice, lotus dragged the panning bucket to the edge of the pool, gently rippling the water, suddenly a cool wind blew, the depth of the lotus pond, the flowers and leaves have fallen to the sides to make way for the water, only to see their son sitting in a foot basin, drifting towards her. Lotus was surprised and happy, and quickly took her son into her arms, fed him milk, and still put him back in the foot basin. With a cool breeze, the foot basin floated back to the lotus bush. Lotus knew that his son did not starve to death, heart very happy.　Since then, she went to the pool three times a day to pan the rice, the son fed three times on the milk. This feed for nine hundred and ninety-nine days, the son gradually grew up, full of dragon scales shining gold. At night, the lotus pond shone brightly. The village people were secretly happy to know that the dragon's seed had not been extinguished. The old patriarch learned that the dragon seed was in the lotus pond, and had a poisonous plan.　One evening, the lotus to the pond panning rice, two grandchildren hiding in the poplar bushes to watch the movement, only to see the blue ripples, flowers and leaves floating, a cool wind blowing, the depths of the lotus pond Xu Xu floating a foot basin, the basin is sitting in a full of golden children, joyfully holding up his hands to the panning of lotus pounced on the past. Lotus full of joy, was about to reach out to embrace, poplar bush flashed out of a person, raised a brightly shining steel knife straight to the child cut. In a flash, only to see the child from the foot basin abruptly jumped up, transformed into a golden dragon, to the pool to leap. But it was too late, the knife cut the little dragon's tail. A big, beautiful butterfly resting in the lotus bush suddenly flew over and articulated itself on the little dragon's tail, and with a pair of beautiful wings it became the little dragon's tail.　The little dragon gave a long cry, and all of a sudden, the wind blew furiously, the dark clouds rolled over, and the petals of the pond full of lotus flowers also flew and swirled up one after another. In the midst of the thunder and lightning, the body of the little dragon gradually grew bigger and bigger, turning into a huge dragon tens of feet long, tumbling and leaping over the lotus pond. At this time, a tornado rolled over, the small dragon rose up in the air, riding the wind straight up, flying into the clouds. The tornado was so powerful that the man who cut the dragon's tail was swept up into the air and thrown away without a trace. Seeing his grandson being swept away by the wind, the patriarch's old man was so frightened that he fell into the lotus pond and drowned.　Lotus saw his son transformed into a dragon and flew up to the sky, shouting loudly, but the dragon had already flown away without a trace.　Since then, whenever there was a drought on both sides of Campsis River, the little dragon came to spread clouds and sow rain.　The local people thanked it by picking seven hundred and seventy-nine lotus blossoms from this pond and used nine hundred and ninety-nine leaves of petals to make a flower dragon. Because there are less than one thousand leaves, it is named Hundred Leaf Dragon.　Every year in the Spring Festival, the people have to beat gongs and drums to dance the dragon.

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Nanlong

Nanlong, so called, is a form of dragon dance developed in the southern part of the Yangtze River.　Dragon Dance The body of the Southern Dragon is heavier, with the head of the dragon being the heaviest part of the dragon. The style of Nanlong is characterized by its momentum. Because of its weight, the movements of the Southern Dragon do not emphasize on tricks like those of the Northern Dragon, but rather on physical strength.　One person is needed to guide the Southern Dragon with one bead, but with the body of the Dragon, there are usually about ten people, and the length of the Dragon is about nine meters. Since the South Dragon does not pursue flexibility, the dragon body can be 20 meters, 100 meters, or even 1,000 meters long. The size of the dragon's head also changes according to the length of the body.　In terms of production, the Southern Dragon is more traditional, with the dragon head tied with bamboo paper. Traditionally, the pattern of the dragon body is sewn on with cloth, while the pattern of the dragon body of the competition dragon is also painted on cloth for the sake of lightness. Nowadays, most of the dragons are painted or even sewn on the computer.　The movements of the Southern Dragon usually include coiling, S-bending, and the dragon's head crossing over the body, and so on.　Representative: Fujian Dragon Dance The Dragon Dance, commonly known as Grate Dragon Lantern, is a symbol of good luck. According to the record of "San Shan Zhi", Fujian "since the beginning of the first day", there is "flying dragon playing lion's image, longitudinal people to see." The first day is the year 712 AD Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's year, flying dragons that is the dragon dance. Since then, the Dragon Dance has been passed down from generation to generation and has flourished. Every traditional festival, especially the Lantern Festival, there are dragon dances in cities and towns, even in poor villages. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a remote village called Shuanghan in Dehua County, where dragon dance activities were also very active. Local talent Su Rulan had written a narrative poem for this, the poem said: "home lights haunted the Spring Festival, the dragon's head and tail to catch a few, see such as clouds near the sky road, than the neighbor is still listening to the wind blowing," is clear evidence of this.　Dragon lamp general body length of 20 meters to more than 30 meters, by the dragon head, dragon tail, dragon body and dragon pearl a composition. Small dragon 7 sections, 12 sections of large dragons, generally 9 sections. A person holding a section, beads lead dragon dance, for running, jumping, rushing, turning, rolling and other actions, large-scale and crab, shrimp, ark shells, mussels and other aquatic, as well as clouds, rain and other accompanying dancers, coupled with the drums and music, the activities of up to dozens of people.　The main dance of western Fujian and northern Fujian is "Bulong", followed by "Grass Dragon", "Bench Dragon" and "Fragrance Dragon". In northern Fujian, there is also the "hoop stop dragon" for children to play and the "three-section dragon" imported from Jiangxi. The dragons of Gutian Town and the red dragons of Miaoqian Town in Liancheng County, western Fujian Province are unique. The Gutian dragon is more than 400 meters long and consists of more than 100 wooden boards. There are 3 people supporting under each board. Dragon head, dragon tail are the God cannon, gongs, drums and band accompaniment, although the scale is large, but can "swim" can not dance. Temple in front of the red dragon is about 10 meters long, with 5 dragon beads, the dragon body is short and agile, easy to enter the house Dengtang dedication dance. Swimming dragon created in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong sixteen years (1751), the red dragon created in the Qing Jiaqing five years (1800), so far is still loved by the local people.　After the Lantern Festival, the general area will be the dragon lamp collection, in order to prepare for reuse, but there are some areas, such as the north of Fujian Chong'an area, the dragon lamp will be burned, known as "dragon slaughter".　With the progress of changing customs, women broke through the traditional forbidden area, in 1961, Quanzhou portage society first built women's dragon dance team. Later, shaowu, jianning, jianou, jiangle, datian, sanyuan and other counties and districts industry organized dragon dance training classes, there are women in training.　February 28, 1985 to March 1, the Provincial Sports Committee, the Agriculture Committee, the Cultural Affairs Department, the People's Committee, the Federation of Trade Unions, the Tourism Bureau, the Provincial Committee of the joint formulation of the "Fujian Provincial Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Tournament Trial Rules", and held in Fuzhou, "Fujian Province, the first Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Tournament". Fuzhou, Xiamen, Jinjiang, Longxi, Longyan, Sanming, Jianyang, Ningde eight places (cities) **** 13 dragons, 8 lions, more than 300 athletes participated in the competition. Fuzhou Gaohu White Dragon Team, Gaohu Double Dragon Team, Nanping Construction Corporation Dragon Dance Team, Ningde Dragon Dance Team won the Excellence Award, and Fuan Muyuan She Township, Xiamen Fuel Station, Wuping County Xiangdong Township, Longhai County Xiliang Township, Sanming Kekeng Coal Plant, Quanzhou City Transportation Company, and Zhangzhou City Xinqiao were awarded the Performance Award for their Dragon Dance Teams. [1]

Bei Long

Bei Long developed its style around the north of the river.　In terms of the body, the head of the Northern Dragon is smaller and lighter, and the material used can be traditional paper, or more innovatively, lightweight gelatin, so that it can perform a variety of maneuvers, such as tumbling from side to side, etc. The Northern Dragon is different from the Southern Dragon in that it has a different style from that of the Southern Dragon in that it has a different style from that of the Southern Dragon. Unlike the Southern Dragon, the movements of the Northern Dragon are more subtle and therefore require less physical strength.　The movements of the Northern Dragon are usually suitable to be performed in a dark environment. Therefore, the materials used to make the Northern Dragon are fluorescent.　At present, the Dragon is more popular in the world. In China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and other places, dragon dance dragon art events and performances are often organized.

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Stilts Dragon

Shinyang stilts dragon lantern is a folk dance expression popular among the people of Xiantao City, Hubei Province, Pengchang neighborhood artists, stilts dragon lantern

The stilts, dragon lanterns combined with the performance of a unique style, skill, and marveled at the people, is the Shinyang Dragon Dance is a unique form of performance. As far as the dragon body is concerned, the length is almost the same as that of the general dragon lantern, however, the number of dragon sections is less than that of the general dragon lantern, the general dragon lantern is from thirteen to fifteen sections, and the span between the dragon sections is short, which makes it easy to play with the ground dragon lanterns; the Shinyang stilt dragon lanterns have only nine sections, and the span between the sections is long, which makes it easy to step on the stilts (up to 2 meters high) to dance the dragon lanterns. As far as the color of the dragon clothes is concerned, there are two dragon lanterns on stilts in Shinyang, a yellow dragon and a red dragon, while the general dragon clothes are not limited to any color. People who play the stilt dragon lanterns have to hit the face and hang the beard, dressed up as the "ten famous actors" in the theater, with the Dan actor playing the bead, the Wu Xiaosheng playing the dragon's head, the ugly actor playing the dragon's tail, and the other seven playing the seven sections of the dragon's body.　Stilt dancers must have three basic skills: the ability to walk on stilts, the skills of dancing dragon lanterns, martial arts. The key to the stilt dragon lantern is to look at the person who dances the dragon head, it is important to dance the dragon, the dragon head should be thrown open, turn round, because Chonglong dragon lantern's lower mouth is movable stilt dragon

, the dragon head upward when the dragon's mouth open to grab the beads, downward when the dragon's mouth is closed, alive and well, extremely nice to see. Shinyang stilt dragon lanterns can play tricks, to the sky disk, ground, ground roll (commonly known as lazy dragon roll over) fish bite the tail, half moon, green dragon disk column, five Yue (play five square tables) and other dozen kinds of skills, interspersed. Play dragon lantern lineup is strong, powerful and majestic, become a bright landscape of Xiantao folk traditional dance.

Dancing Dragon Head

Dancing Dragon Head is a ritual in the ancestor worship activities of the Fujian She Clan, by the sun, the moon, stars and other groups Dancing Dragon Head

into an honor guard. The dragon's head is carved from wood and painted with colors, making it look simple and solemn. During the ancestor worship, the person who holds the dragon head makes various movements with the beat of the drum, either advancing or retreating, dancing or stopping, jumping or squatting, and there are certain rules and regulations. Dragon Head Dance The Dragon Head Dance represents the process of the birth and growth of the "Nine Dragons", including the "Nine Dragons Coming into Being", "Marrying Water in the East China Sea", and "Driving Clouds and Driving Rain". The "Nine Dragons" are born and grow up in the process. It includes the performances of "the birth of the nine dragons", "marrying in the East China Sea", "making clouds and rain", "courting relatives in the deep pool", and "the return of the nine dragons to their places".

Dancing Hemp Dragon

Dancing Hemp Dragon is circulated among the Qiang people in the area of Longxi, Jizhou, Sichuan, and is a sports activity in the ancestor worship. In recent years, the Qiang people have improved this activity by removing the dregs and taking the essence of the dance, retaining such routines as playing the flower stick, the meeting of the dragon and the phoenix, playing the mahjong with the god's stick, jumping the god's stick, and chasing the colorful dragon. Performers tied a string of copper bells around the waist, the female handheld a tie with colored balls and ribbons of colorful flower stick, stick set on the iron ring buckle and copper bells; men in the hands of the colorful stick, one end of the hemp tie into a fine dragon head, the other end of the hemp beard for the dragons dragged more than 7 meters long body. Drums and gongs, the dragon's head low and high, hemp dragon flying, flower stick rotation, dragon hit flower stick, ball play hemp dragon. The snapping sound of the dragon's body is intertwined with the ringing of the bell at the waist, the sound of the iron ring on the stick, and the singing, drumming and shouting, making it a unique style.

The Grass Dragon Dance

The Grass Dragon Dance is a recreational custom of the Luo people. The grass dragon is made of straw grass. Weavers first weave a long grass curtain, weave to the end of the three forks slightly upward, symbolizing the "dragon's tail"; the other end of the curtain folded back one layer to make two curved corners up, similar to the "Dance Grass Dragon

Dragon Head"; in the middle of the middle of every Zm tie a small bundle of oval grass, skewer the grass, the grass, and the dragon head. Oval grass, string a bamboo as the "dragon body". In front of the dragon's head to do a separate round grass as a "dragon treasure" (dragon pearl), and then some decorations, in the dragon's head, dragon body, dragon tail hang some colorful paper, will be in the village village dance up. After the Spring Festival, people will take the grass dragon to the river and burn it to send the dragon back to the Dragon Palace; usually, if the village encounters any disaster or there is no rain in a drought for a long time, they will also tie the grass dragon and burn it to the river to pray for the "Dragon King" to eliminate the disaster, send blessings or send rain. Suzhuang Grass Dragon Dance The grass dragon dance of Suzhuang Town, Kaihua County, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province is also known as the grass dragon, straw dragon or incense dragon. The straw dragon is tied with a thick rope made of straw, and then tied into a dragon's head and tail, in the shape of a long dragon, with lighted incense sticks inserted into the rope. According to legend, the Tang Dynasty has welcomed the grass dragon to send the Dragon God activities, has been passed down to the present day. Every year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Suzhuang Township villages farmers holding high incense grass dragon, or shuttle in the village avenue, or dance in the sun field field.　Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang was resting in Maotanwukou Village of Suzhuang Town, the local people offered him a BMW and welcomed the grass dragon at the Mid-Autumn Festival. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, that this is the dragon bit to do the omen of the son of heaven. After ascending to the throne, the Royal Edict of the year the dance of grass-dragon Maotanwukou Village for the "rich floor village", and give the couplet "a hundred generations of peacefully living in Jinxi rich floor resort, a thousand years of distant veins of the Viet Nam descendants of the famous family."　Mid-Autumn Festival night dance grass dragon, Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province, Suzhuang Township villagers of a "key thing".　In the daytime, the whole village hold fresh straw harvested from the fields, tied into a more than 80-meter-long grass dragon placed in the ancestral hall, and in the grass dragon body full of incense. When night falls, the villagers gather in the ancestral hall, holding torches, when the patriarch gives the order, the whole village swarms up to light the incense on the grass dragon, it is said that whoever lights more incense, his family will get a better harvest in the coming year. Then, young men and women in the village hold up the fire and incense on the grass dragon, running wildly and dancing, shuttling in the village path, dancing in the paddy field in the wilderness, the white moon in the sky, the fire dragon flying in the clouds, the scene is very spectacular.　The Mid-Autumn Dance in Suzhuang Town, Kaihua County, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is a traditional custom with a long history, distinctive features, and wide participation by the masses. Going to Kaihua to see Suzhuang's grass dragon dance is the best choice for this Mid-Autumn Festival vacation.　Water Splashing Dragon The Water Splashing Dragon is a ritual of the Tujia people in western Hunan province to pray to the gods for rain. Once there is a drought, local leaders will come out to organize the Water Splashing Dragon, and the performance is extremely grand. The performance has a dragon head, dragon body 9 or 11 sections, are not paste paper, not Phi cloth, only through the insertion of willow, take "wish to get willow manna water" meaning, and there are fish, shrimp, mussels, clams and other deacons accompaniment. When the performance of bare shoulders along the street dragon dance, onlookers to splash the water, dragon dance people were drenched all over the body, in order to pray for heavenly rain, the more water is predicted to rain the greater, so the surrounding villages and villages everyone to participate. The dragon dance and the deacon have no special requirements, but the person who holds the dragon bead in front of the dragon must have martial arts skills, according to the "four door shelves", "eight tiger fists", "Sukong back arrows", "Fierce Tiger Jumping into the Stream" and so on. Fierce Tiger Jumping Stream" and other routines to perform, and has become a custom.

Incense Dragon

Incense Dragon has been passed down for a long time, in Rucheng County, Hunan Province, recorded early, the south of the township around the more prevalent, more in the Lantern Festival held. Performances of the fire dragon, there must be two dragons (mother and child dragon), two lions (mother and child lion) accompanied by the dance, a lion in front of the dragon to lead the way, a lion in the dragon tail to follow.　The whole body of the dragon is made of bamboo and straw. The length of the "mother dragon" is generally seven sections, the length of the "child dragon" is generally five sections, with the local special "Lohan incense" (about 0.53 meters long) inserted all over the dragon. When night falls, to the earth cannon for the number of three, drums and orchestral instruments, artillery, people holding torches to ignite the dragon body all the incense, lifting the dragon out of the tour. It is a spectacular scene.　Incense and Fire Dragon The performance program of the incense and fire dragon includes: rolling, spraying water, sinking to the bottom of the sea, jumping, swallowing, sleeping and other actions. The "Sinking" and "Swallowing" maneuvers are more difficult to perform. Lead and follow the two lions, in addition to their own tumbling jumping action, but also make some of the lead dragon and with the dragon "escort" action. Incense Dragon

Folk dance incense dragon is often held in the insect plague, lighted incense inserted in the dragon, points of fire composed of a light shining dragon in the night sky to invite swimming, insect fireflies chasing the dragon body of the points of fire to fly, "incense dragon" through the streets and alleys, dance to the fields, flying insects chasing incense, the more sets of more and more, and suddenly, the dragon dance! Suddenly, the dragon dance team stopped at the edge of the pond, fierce grass dragon with head and tail, deep into the water, the water flooded the dragon, but also drowned the swarm of insects swooping incense. The incense and fire dragon has a higher practical value than other forms of dragon dance in the point of getting rid of pests.

Hundred Leaf Dragon

Zhejiang Province popular "hundred leaf dragon", is a kind of conception, the production of the dragon are very strange. The dancers hold lotus lanterns, lotus leaf lanterns and butterfly lanterns in their hands and dance. People can only see the blooming lotus flowers, lotus leaves in the piece of drift, dance, like a beautiful butterfly flying in the flowers. After a beautiful and lyrical dance, the dancers gathered in the field, suddenly, a huge dragon in front of people's eyes leaped out. It turned out that a very large tea lights (or treasure bowl), the back of the drawing is a brilliant and magnificent dragon head, many lotus flowers tightly interlocked, composed of the dragon body, a piece of petals, into the dragon's body of the piece of scale armor, beautiful butterflies into a shake swing of the dragon's tail, while the lotus leaves have become a white cloud. Dragon dance girls like immaculate lotus flowers, the nature of the mysterious, sometimes reveal the shape of God. Sometimes stealthy and hidden, and sometimes attached to a variety of objects in the city of the dragon and lotus flowers and lotus flowers, dancing the lotus dragon, so that the air swallowed the dragon added a charming atmosphere.

Burning Fire Dragon

Burning Fire Dragon, also known as Fire Dragon Dance, is a unique folkloric tradition passed down in the Fengshun area of Guangdong Province, and is usually held on the night of the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival.　Burning Fire Dragon There are many stories about the burning fire dragon. Legend has it that a long time ago, a fire dragon came to Fengshun, breathing fire and making trouble, since then, the land was dry and cracked, the seedlings withered, and the farmers were anxious. At this time, a young couple stepped forward and led everyone to chisel the mountain to draw water. However, the water through, the fire dragon came again, it opened its bloody mouth, spitting fire, burned the young couple, roasted the water dry Burning fire dragon

the source. The young couple left a boy, Zhang***, to follow in his father's footsteps and went to Mount Emei to learn the ways of the immortals. Returning three years later, he fought with the evil dragon for three days and three nights, and burned the dragon to death in the cave with divine fire, and he himself died of exhaustion. From then on, the winds and rains were favorable, and the grains were plentiful. Local people to commemorate Zhang ****, to celebrate the harvest, the night of the Lantern Festival will be held every year to burn the dragon activities. Year after year, the formation of customs.　Burning fire dragon "fire dragon", is made of paper, 15 to 20 meters long, divided into five sections, surrounded by colorful firecrackers. Before starting the dance, the first firecrackers to lead the dragon out to sea. Then a team of bare shoulders and chest, holding a fire stick fire dragon dancers, with the rapid sound of gongs and drums running on the field, repeated three times, called "please dragon". Then, the "fire dragon" appeared, it circled around the field, first from the dragon's mouth out of the fire, and then, the dragon body tied firecrackers were ignited, from beginning to end, the fire shooting, thunder and lightning. Huge dragon body in the fireworks and explosions surrounded, up and down, left and right dance, very beautiful. At this time, pre-prepared in the field of fireworks frame, shooting strings of fireworks towards the sky, colorful, destructive eye-catching, thus pushing the fire dragon dance to a climax. The whole activity lasted more than ten minutes, to be extinguished by fireworks, the fire dragon was also burned. And the fire dragon dancers on the arm, chest burned up a blood bubble to the most blood bubbles for the "lucky".

Splashing water dragon

Splashing water dragon is a ritual of the Tujia people in western Hunan province to pray to the gods for rain, and once there is a drought, local leaders will come out to organize splashing water dragons, which is an extremely grand performance. The performance has a dragon head, dragon body 9 or 11 sections, are not paste paper, not Phi cloth, only through the insertion of willow, take "wish to get willow manna water" meaning, and there are fish, shrimp, mussels, clams and other deacons accompaniment. When the performance of bare shoulders along the street dragon dance, onlookers to splash the water, dragon dance people were drenched all over the body, in order to pray for heavenly rain, the more water is predicted to rain the greater, so the surrounding villages and villages everyone to participate. The dragon dance and the deacon have no special requirements, but the person who holds the dragon bead in front of the dragon must have martial arts skills, according to the "four door shelves", "eight tiger fist", "Sukong back arrow", "fierce tiger jumping into the stream" and so on. Fierce Tiger Jumping Stream" and other routines to perform, and has become a habit.