Dragon dance originated from the ancient people's worship of dragons. On festive festivals, people will dance dragons, starting from the Spring Festival, and then in February, they will raise dragons and hold the Dragon Boat Festival.
When dancing the dragon, the dragon follows the hydrangea to make various movements, interspersed, and constantly shows various postures such as twisting, waving, leaning back, kneeling, jumping and shaking. People pray for peace and harvest through dragon dancing, which has become a traditional folk culture all over the country.
In ancient times, dragon and lion dances were one of the programs of large festivals in a year. With the emigration of China people to all parts of the world, the present dragon and lion dance culture.
It is spread all over Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand, and has become an important symbol of China culture.
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Legend has it that a long time ago, the Dragon King of the East China Sea was ill, with sore back and itchy whole body, which was particularly uncomfortable. I asked all the dragon doctors in the Dragon Palace, but no one cured me.
The dragon mother asked the dragon king to visit famous doctors among the people. A famous doctor's superb medical skills really cured the dragon king's blog as a thank you. The Dragon King asked him what he wanted, and the famous doctor told him about the flood in his hometown, hoping that the Dragon King could improve the situation.
The Dragon King readily agreed, and since then, the weather here has been good. In this way, during the Chinese New Year, people will make some big dragons, beat gongs and drums, and dance dragons happily in the streets. Since then, dragon dancing has become a habit, passed down from generation to generation.
In China, agriculture is the main tradition, and farmers have special feelings for dragons. Since ancient times, due to ignorance of natural phenomena, people have imagined that there are dragons in the sky, dragons in the sea of clouds and dragons in the rain.
Dragon dance is to pray for the dragon god, to bless the four seasons with good weather and good harvests. In this way, in the first month of the year, the dragon dance lantern contains the good wishes of the cultivators and has been circulated for a long time.
After thousands of years of development, there are many kinds of dragon lanterns, including grass dragons tied with straw, bamboo dragons tied with bamboo, cloth dragons sewn with cloth, bench dragons connected with long benches, etc.
From the color point of view, there are Huanglong, Chilong Dragon Dance Lantern, Qinglong and so on. There are many dragon dances, such as playing with pearls in Shuanglong, the dragon winding the dragon, the little dragon piercing the dragon and circling Shuanglong.
At the same time, they are divided and combined, and they never tie knots. Now, Dragon Dance has also entered the international stage, becoming a unique culture of China in the eyes of foreigners, and people are lamenting its spectacular performance.
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