Ban Long, also known as Qiao Long, saves every 2 meters in knots, usually dozens of knots, with the longest exceeding 400 knots. Each section is supported by wooden boards, tied into an arch with bamboo sticks, covered with colored paper, painted with scales and lit with red candles, which looks like a bow bridge and is called the dragon body. Dragons are decorated with colorful ornaments, which can be divided into flower dragons, story dragons, walking dragons and taking dragons. The dragon dragon faucet is as high as two meters, with candle lights inside, and an evening show. Longan is radiant and spectacular. Ban Long can only line up in a row, accompanied by cheerful plum blossom gongs and drums. Doushuilong, also known as roasted grass dragon, is generally more than ten knots (odd number), with a total length of 10 ~ 20m. Each section is tied into a shell with bamboo sticks, pasted with colored paper, painted with scales and hollows, with candles as lights and alternating current as cloth, which is called dragon clothes. Waving freely, flexible and free. Chaihoop dragons are different in length, with the same head and tail as doushuilong. The skeleton of the dragon body is a bamboo hoop with a diameter of about 20~30 cm, which is connected by ropes, wrapped with colored paper and supported by bamboo poles at a certain distance. Dance, ups and downs, flexible and vivid. Because it is made of bamboo, the dragon body can't light a lamp, and it has to dance during the day.
The bamboo horse jumping activities in Fuyang are widely distributed, including Longmen bamboo horse and Luzhu Wang Jia bamboo horse. It is made of bamboo sticks tied into a horse-shaped skeleton, wrapped with colored paper, and the horse's head stuck with hard paper. Generally, Sanma is a group, and Eight Horses is a group, up to 5~6 groups. Most of them are young men dressed as civilian military commanders in ancient operas, riding bamboo horses and dancing on the stage. In the sound of gongs and drums, bamboo and horses danced with the groom's flag, discharging "scissors" and "four corners" and other formations.
Jumping crane is a unique artistic variety of the Xu family in Changyou, Fuyang, which originated in the Qing Qianlong period. Crane symbolizes longevity, and jumping crane is intended to keep peace. 1954, the old artist Xu Jinmao performed "Jumping Crane" in the national folk music and dance performance. 1979, Fuyang County Cultural Center organized a new excavation and arrangement, and went to Hangzhou for a public performance in the form of "Riverside Dance", which won the provincial outstanding folk art award. "Crane" is mainly made of bamboo strips, with white cloth sewn outside and white paper lined with cloth, and tied into a crane shape. Dancers wear black trousers, black high-heeled cloth socks with toes and black shoes. The trousers are put into the cloth socks to show the crane's feet. People bend 90 degrees to 120 degrees, carry props on their backs, and manipulate the crane head and wings with both hands to perform. "Jumping Crane" is usually a solo performance, accompanied by honor guards and plum blossom gongs and drums. Four people on each side of the dancer hold a pine lantern or a big lantern. The main actions of "jumping crane" are marching, washing hair, pecking and spreading wings. A dancer must have a "solid back" and "stable feet", and have a unique and superior form.
Most of the white elephant lion dances in Fuyang are green hairy wenshi. Among them, the green hair of the lion in Luzhu Town, Dengxin District is made of the lion hair grass (medicinal name Guo Shanlong) on the mountain, which does not fade or shed hair. White elephant solo dance is another major feature of Fuyang, which is performed by He from Nanxin Town, Longyang District. A white elephant was sandwiched between lions. The white elephant is tied into a skeleton with bamboo sticks, covered with white cloth and covered with white hair. Two dancers live in the body of a white elephant. When dancing, they manipulate their ears and noses with both hands and dance with lions. The lion rolled and jumped, and the white elephant walked steadily, which set each other off.
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"Gu Ting gongs and drums" began in the Southern Song Dynasty, originally from the court, mainly near the fields. Divided into two parts: the ancient pavilion and the band. The ancient pavilion is a three-story four-corner phoenix with upturned cornices, front and rear doors, four windows and two-story four-corner lights. The pavilion is about 2~3 meters high, with an area of 1 meter, and is hollow-burning. The ancient pavilion is made of purple bamboo and pasted with silk. There is a plaque on the door that says "the legacy of Wucheng". There are couplets on the column, which are very beautiful. The band follows, either advances or retreats, or trembles or stops, accompanied by leisurely music. 1953, Fuyang county held a folk music and dance performance, and the ancient pavilion gongs and drums at the gate won the prize. 1954, the county cultural center combined Qingjiangkou, Changkou and Zhenjiaxi gongs and drums into an ancient pavilion gongs and drums to participate in folk music and dance performances in Jiande area.