Types of Dragon Dance

There are Leizhou Stilt Dragon Dance, Dragon Dance, Hemp Dragon Dance, Grass Dragon Dance, and Incense Dragon.

1. Leizhou Stilt Dragon Dance

The Leizhou Stilt Dragon Dance is a folk festival dance performed by the forefathers of the city of Leizhou in Guangdong Province in order to pray for the weather and national peace. The Dragon Dance on Stilts is usually performed by young men, each on stilts, with a face scarf on their heads, and wearing open-bellied shirts and pants. The dance includes a series of difficult movements such as stringing the dragon, swinging the dragon and playing with the dragon. The props for the dragon are made of cloth, bamboo and paper, with vivid images and unique shapes.

2. Dragon Dance

The Dragon Dance is a ritual in the ancestor worship activities of the Fujian She tribe, which consists of an honor guard of the sun, moon and stars. The dragon head is carved from wood and painted, simple and solemn. When sacrificing ancestors, the chief makes various movements with the drum, either in and out, jumping or stopping, jumping or squatting.

3, dance hemp dragon

Dance hemp dragon circulated in Sichuan Jizhou Longxi around the Qiang people, is a sports activity in the ancestor worship. It is a sports activity for ancestor worship. It takes the best from the dregs and retains the set movements such as playing with flower sticks, meeting with the dragon and phoenix, playing the hemp dragon with the god's stick, jumping the god's stick, and chasing after the colorful dragon.

4, dance grass dragon

Tongshun dance grass dragon for Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, Chikan District, Tongshun Island, a unique folk dance dragon, which has been very popular since the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Every year in the first month of the lunar calendar are indispensable activities, mainly dance grass dragon, net dragon is more. More than 20 strong young men are selected to perform the grass dragon dance.

5, incense dragon

Incense dragon has been passed down for a long time, in Rucheng County, Hunan Province, recorded early, its South Township area is more prevalent, more in the Lantern Festival. 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 to follow the tail. Its image comes mainly from the murals of local temples and sculptures of dragons.

The materials used are mainly locally produced straw, palm leaves, bamboo, sunflower stalks and special dragon incense, and the process used is also the traditional local tying process.

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