Which place is the bench dragon

Bench Dragon is from Fujian and Zhejiang.

Banban Long, one of the traditional folk activities originated in the River Luo region, is an annual grand event prevalent in the southern provinces and cities of China. This Lantern Festival custom has been around for centuries.

In which Fujian is a folklore activity for locals to welcome the gods and pray for blessings, it contains a deep regional culture. Villagers drill holes to link sections of benches, one for each family, to form a bench dragon, which can be more than 200 meters long and is very spectacular.

Bench dragon production process:

Datan bench dragon, in fact, is a bench tied on the transparent fine plastic tissue, decorated with a variety of colorful flowers, and in the internal placement of two candles groove, the ends were drilled on the diameter of the round hole of about 5 centimeters, and then about 70 centimeters in length, diameter of hardwood rods will be strung together, light the candles on the street around the village. The candles are lit and paraded around the village in the streets.

It has a long history of more than 1,000 years, the lanterns dragon why, exquisite production, set painting, calligraphy, sculpture and other arts and tie, system, braid, paste and other crafts in one, integration of sports, acrobatics, dance in a furnace.

When making the skeleton of the dragon head, the frame is made of bamboo gimlets on a long wooden board, and then the details are made of finer gimlets. The gabions were wrapped with paper ropes made from burlap in the early days, but today they are tied with fine wire for convenience.

After the skeleton is completed, colored paper, transparent paper, and plastic paper are used for the outer layer. After the outer layer is glued, scales, scale patterns and other decorations are cut out of colored paper and attached to the dragon, which is done by the village's handy women.

Finally, in the joints of the dragon joints, with colored pens written on the "grain harvest", "six animals prosperous" and other auspicious words, the production of the entire dragon head is completed.