Dragon dance is a traditional folk cultural activity in China. What is the significance of this activity?

Every holiday celebration, we can see people dancing dragons happily. Dragon dancing is also called dragon dancing, dragon playing, dragon lantern playing, dragon lantern playing and dragon lantern festival. So, why do you want to dance dragons? The purpose of dragon dance can be summarized as follows: first, praying for rain; second, entertaining the gods and themselves; third, showing strength; fourth, prospering people's hearts.

Among them, praying for rain and blessing is the most basic. The legend of the East China Sea Dragon King suffering from low back pain in Tongliang, Sichuan Province is similar. After the dragon king fell ill, he became an old man and went ashore for medical treatment. The doctor caught a centipede from his waist. After the dragon king recovered from his illness, he thanked the outdoor machine and said that as long as people built a dragon to dance and swim around like it, they could keep the rain in time and get a bumper harvest.

In addition to praying for rain and blessing, dragon dancing also shows its strength. There are several meanings here: first, dragon dancing is "hard work"; Second, the dragon is a collection and symbol of strength; The third is not to rule out "teasing" and "disrespect" for dragons.

The moral of dragon dance is that people are prosperous, which is based on the homophonic symbol of "light" and "ding". The custom of lanterns also has the meaning of prosperous people, prosperous families and praying for the healthy growth of the next generation. Dragon lantern is also a lamp, which is a "light" that is homophonic with "Ding". Moreover, the dragon is the national emblem of the Chinese nation and a symbol of strength, and the dragon lantern also means "Long Ding".

In the course of its development, Dragon Dance has experienced an ancient cultural activity with traditional cultural connotation and gradually alienated into a sports activity. This alienation is the connection between dragon dance and sports. Dragon dance has gradually become a sports event, and it is losing its due cultural heritage.

The combination of dragon dance activities and sports should be an effective means of the modernization trend of dragon dance and an effective way to popularize dragon dance activities. However, if the degree of alienation is too serious, this traditional culture of China will gradually be assimilated by modern competitive sports culture, losing its profound traditional cultural connotation and spiritual value, and becoming a kind of non-competitive sports.