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Which province is the folk dance of Cailianboat?

Cailian Boat is the folk dance of which province is introduced as follows:

Cailian Boat is a traditional dance which is popular among the people in urban and rural areas of Shinyang (now Xiantao City), Hubei Province.

Picking lotus boat, also known as "rowing color boat, running dry boat", picking lotus boat and Xiantao is located in the geographical area related to the Jianghan Plain, the lake is vast, the lotus fragrance, is the land of fish and rice. Lotus root has always been abundant, so the art form of lotus picking boat in Xiantao is widely spread. Xiantao lotus picking boat and a unique form of artistic performance and famous in Jingchu land, has repeatedly participated in the provincial folk dance performances, and was praised.

Xiantao Cailian boat production is unique, is made of bamboo and wood carefully made, under the boat shape, five, six feet long, on the pagoda pavilion-type cover, the boat is about two meters high, the boat are framed with colored paper. A colorful lotus boat arrangement of six to seven people running the boat, the boat by a young girl (or a young man) dressed up as a lotus picking woman make-up, wearing colorful clothes,

One hand to hold a handkerchief, one hand to help the boat railing, such as sitting in the boat posture. At the bow of the boat there is a man dressed as a man to support the Penny, a hand to take the Penny, a hand to pull the colorful boat to run round or as a swinging boat, the stern of the boat to add a clown, called "swinging the top of the mother-in-law", holding a broken fan along with the boat, also equipped with gongs and drums, playing the piano, and so on.

Colorful lotus boat in Xiantao unique in the performance, the first big man to support the Penny's improvisation of the creation of the four sentences to open, the sentence to "three three four three of the main word and the liner word composition, more congratulations on the word; after the big man to support the Penny and the girl on the boat singing, the contents of the Han Chinese folk love stories, a singing and baking the atmosphere, the girl on the boat with the music in the support of the Penny's big man bamboo pole traction The girl on the boat dances to the music, singing and dancing, and the boatwoman at the helm cooperates with the two protagonists, playing funny moves to attract the audience's laughter.

The singing voice for the cavity of the Shinyang Flower Drum Opera, such as "picking the boat, swimming in the river, catching the dry boat, eight brocade, hand-held bar" and so on. On the first to fifteenth day of the Spring Festival, the colorful lotus boat will be along the streets and villages to pay tribute to the New Year, dancing and singing, leaving an unforgettable impression on the general public.