Introduction of Bench Dragon

Bench Dragon, also known as Meizhu Lantern, is one of the traditional Han folk activities originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, and is an annual grand event that prevailed in the southern provinces and cities of China before the collective ownership system. This Lantern Festival custom has been centuries. This kind of Han Chinese dragon dance is said to have originated in the Han Dynasty and evolved from the religious activity of dancing dragons for rain. Legend has it that a long time ago, when there was a great drought, a water dragon in the East China Sea jumped out of the water in spite of all odds, and it rained heavily, but the water dragon was chopped into pieces and scattered to the earth because it violated the rules of heaven. People put the body of the dragon on a bench and connected it (people called it the bench dragon), and people ran around day and night hoping that it would survive, and the custom of the bench dragon dance arose. The Dragon Dance is also divided into dry and wet dragons, with dry dragons being used for entertainment and wet dragons being used to pray for rain. Where the dragon comes, the people must throw water to support, the dancers all wet.