What does the dragon lantern mean?

Dragon lantern, also known as Sun Tugai (zhuà Danyang dialect), is a kind of folk group dance and belongs to the traditional "rolling dragon lantern".

Dragon Lantern (Danyang Dragon Lantern), also known as "Sun Tugai (zhàI Danyang dialect) Dragon Lantern", is a kind of folk group dance and belongs to the traditional "rolling dragon lantern". Dragon lantern originated in Suntugai Village, Shuanghe Community, Danyang Town. There are two kinds of dragon lanterns, "Qinglong" and "Qinglong", which are called "Sun Jinlong" and have a history of more than 500 years.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, there were "Longpu" and "Longtian", and there were also special village-level "Yuanxiao" organizations among the people. Danyang Dragon Lantern experienced the development of Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, and gradually formed a folk dance Danyang Dragon Lantern with its own unique performance style and routines through the summary, perfection and development from generation to generation.

During the performance, accompanied by clouds, dragons and boredom, he has superb skills and can perform dozens of routines, mainly including "a long snake array", "Shuanglong playing in the water", "blind date between men and women", "double snails at the top of the plate" and "Shuanglong coming out of the water". The routines of clouds include: four-corner lanterns (also triangular lanterns), left and right downwind flags, mud array, partridge cutting, flooding and so on.

There are 72 sets of stacked arhats, including "clay array", "small archway", "big archway", "hollow archway" and "small ingot". There are mainly the following types of dance boring (flying fork) routines: flour flower, single copy, python wrapped arm, double copy, fairy shoulder, prodigal joint and so on.

Cloud, dragon, boredom and arhat stack also have their own routines, which are varied and varied. It is a traditional folk dance art integrating performance, music, dance, appreciation and competition.