Introduction of Binyang Cannonball Festival

Binyang Cannonball Dragon Festival is a kind of traditional festival unique to Binyang County, Guangxi, which is a comprehensive folk festival born from the fusion of Han and Zhuang cultures***,1 with distinctive and strong ethnic colors. Held annually on the eleventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Binyang Cannonball Dragon Festival has a long history, the origin of different sayings, but the most festive color is said to have originated in the Song Dynasty Di Qing and Nong Zhigao Kunlun Pass Battle. Song Huangyou five years (A.D. 1053) Song Dynasty general Di Qing in order to paralyze the "according to the pass rebellion" of the Zhuang leader Nong Zhigao, on the eve of the Lantern Festival, Di Qing ordered a feast for three days, and ordered the soldiers to set up a dragon dance, calling the people's families to firecrackers, to help celebrate the revelry, the city of Binzhou a scene of jubilation. Two drums that night, Di Qing led the elite soldiers raided Kunlun Pass, three drums when captured Kunlun Pass. Since then, the residents of Binzhou City believe that the dance of the cannon dragon is auspicious, and every year at this time must dance the cannon dragon in order to celebrate the carnival, which has been handed down to this day. The Binyang Cannonball Dragon Festival includes activities such as the Colorful Rack Tour, the Lantern Festival and the Cannonball Dragon Dance. The Dragon Dance is performed by the commander-in-chief (also known as the head of the Association), and the dancers are bare-chested and wear hats such as those of the Qing Dynasty soldiers (which are made of bamboo and coated with black color). Cannon dragon to dragon bead, dragon card, gongs and drums, Wenwu field to open the way, lighting and dragon protection team head and tail with the dragon and into the dragon, the cannon dragon, wherever, the households to welcome, will be prepared in advance out of the firecrackers to fire, thrown to the cannon dragon. There is "the sound of firecrackers is not stopped, the dragon dance is not stopped", so it is called the cannon dragon. 2 cannon dragon is scheduled for seven o'clock in the evening at the temple or the place of the Jikji enlightenment, by the head of the Association (or division people) to bite through the crown of the rooster to the crown of the blood light up the enlightenment of the dragon's eyes, then you can be 10,000 cannons, the dragon can also be up. In recent years, the "hundred dragons dancing in Binzhou" and other characteristics of the brand to attract the participation of many tourists at home and abroad, known as the "Oriental Carnival".12008 June 7, Binyang Cannonball Dragon Festival by the State Council approved the inclusion of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.