Where did Xianglong come from?

Incense Dragon (longnan county) is a folk custom in longnan county, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China, and one of the provincial intangible cultural heritages in Jiangxi Province. Longnan Xianglong originated from the worship of dragons to keep out rain and water, and its image mainly comes from murals and sculptures about dragons in local temples.

The production materials are mainly local straw, palm leaves, bamboo shoots, sunflower stalks and special dragon incense, and the technology used is also the local traditional binding technology. The summoning ceremony of dragon dancing is held around the Lantern Festival in the first month of each year. There are round dragons, flat dragons and special sulfur dragons, which are divided into 7, 9, 1 1 arches, with a maximum of more than 4 meters and a minimum of 2.5 meters.

Its production materials are simple, the production process is exquisite, the technological process is complex, the modeling is majestic, the performance procedure is clear, the incense is bright and beautiful, the atmosphere is warm, the scene is spectacular, the masses participate strongly, and it has a typical regional symbolic culture.

Basic features:

Xianglong originated from the military at first, and then transited to ward off evil spirits and commemorate the merits of ancestors, and then developed into an indispensable and important folk activity of the Lantern Festival.

It has beautiful shape, exquisite structure, flexible performance, exquisite skills, spectacular scenes and warm atmosphere. After more than 700 years of circulation, the Lantern Festival has formed a unique folk activity, which integrates tying dragons, starting dragons, leaving dragons, worshiping dragons, dancing dragons, visiting dragons, releasing dragons and sending them away.