What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in Hubei

In addition to the dragon dance, the Lantern Festival in Hubei Province also features stilt walkers, colorful boats, stiff lions and opera singing. Yangdian Dragon Lantern has been the second batch of intangible cultural heritage in Xiaogan City and the second batch of intangible cultural heritage expansion projects in Hubei Province, and Yangdian stilts have been included in the fourth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage projects in Hubei Province by the Hubei Provincial People's Government.

Yangdian Dragon Lantern has been active in the traditional cultural projects in the folk, completely by the masses "spontaneous organization, voluntary participation, many participants, a wide range of viewers" of a traditional cultural activities. Every year, from the beginning of the lunar month, the dragon head and tail are tied with bamboo and colored paper and connected to the dragon body to form a complete dragon lantern. Yangdian Township is known as the "township of dragon lanterns", according to the 2017 census of the township *** have 116 dragon lanterns, spread throughout the township villages.

Lion Dance

Lion Dance is an excellent folk art in China, and every Lantern Festival or rally celebration, folk are to lion dance to cheer. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and became popular during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and has a history of more than a thousand years.

"Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Lion Dance", "Peaceful Music", generally completed by three people, two dressed as a lion, a person acting as the head of the lion, a person acting as the body and the back of the lion. One person as a lion body and back feet, the other person when the lion guide, dance method and there are cultural and military points, cultural dance lion tame, have shaking hair, rolling and other actions, martial arts lion lion lion ferocious performance, there are prancing, stomping high, rolling colorful ball and other actions.