Zhejiang folklore story after reading 1000 words

Dance dragon lantern, is the traditional cultural activities of the Chinese people, all ethnic groups have the custom of dance dragon lantern, legend has it that the Tujia people in a long time ago did not have the habit of dancing dragon. One year, a long drought without rain, the harvest withered, streams and rivers cut off, came a can calculate the weather rain and shine Yin drought, the earth's woe Mr. Guigu, said to the Tujia people: "Do not worry about, today's afternoon before the time of the cloud row, the 11th hour of the rain, the city under the three points, outside the city under the seven points". His words, by the water of the old dragon heard the golden hook thought, the mortal world has such a capable person still want me to manage what water? The Jade Emperor ordered him to change the amount of rain inside and outside the city upside down and divided. As a result, the rain poured down, flooded the city, houses collapsed, drowned many people this was when the land of the workshop to the Jade Emperor after the report, the Jade Emperor put the golden hook of the old dragon into the Heavenly Prison, seven days after the beheading of the public. Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, knew about this and pleaded with the Jade Emperor to save the old dragon. Before Goddess of Mercy could say anything, the Jade Emperor let go of her sword and chopped the Golden Hook Dragon into nine pieces. After that, Mr. Guigu came again and said to the Tujia people, "The old dragon was beheaded because he gambled with me and lost his life, but he did a lot of good things to the folk, and you should burn some joss paper for him when he died." So, the Tujia people will make nine sections of gold dragon, to the villages and villages dance, called people worship, pray for the old dragon to bless the wind and rain, grain harvest. Over time, the dragon dance has also become a traditional custom of the Tujia people. However, the Tujia Dragon Dance, in towns and cities is to dance across the country is similar to the Buzha dragon, in the Tujia cottage dragon dance and different places, its own characteristics.