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Kirin is a traditional culture.

Dancing unicorn is also called unicorn dance. There is another saying? Wu? Kirin, a dance performance of Ming Dynasty in China, began to spread among the people when the Southern Ming Dynasty perished. Unicorn Dance When dancing, one person is generally dancing the unicorn head and the other person is dancing the unicorn tail. Then, through the tacit cooperation, the two men showed the joys and sorrows of the unicorn incisively and vividly, which could attract people's attention. This kind of unicorn dance also represents people's wishes, and it will be danced every festival to make the coming year prosperous and peaceful.

Kirin is an auspicious animal in China, but it is not a real creature. It is shaped by people's imagination. This kind of animal has the function of exorcising evil spirits and avoiding ghosts in ancient folk, so many people also regard Kirin as a symbol of good luck. It is the totem of our Chinese nation. With the development of history, it has also become the object of creation in the field of literature, gradually moving towards plastic arts and performing arts. The unicorn dance that people dance now is actually a performing art, which is very popular in Guangdong.

Kirin dance spread from the court at that time to the people in Sui County in the late Ming Dynasty, and it has been circulated in the form of the Feng family. The unicorn dance in Guangdong Province was actually handed down from Suixian at that time. At that time, the Hakkas migrated from the north to the south, which also brought the unicorn dance, which was widely circulated at that time, and became a popular folk culture and art in Guangdong. Now unicorn dance has also been included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, which has become the key object of cultural heritage protection in China.

Kirin dance, as an art form praying for good weather, peace and prosperity for the people, is loved and passed down by the broad masses of the people, from which we can also see the cultural characteristics of that era.