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What is the origin of dragon lantern dance? There are also legends about dragon lantern dancing

We all know that Lantern Festival is a lantern festival. What's the riddle? By the way, it's dragon lantern dance! But do you know the origin of dragon lantern dance? As early as the Han Dynasty (205-219 BC), there are miscellaneous records of such a spectacular scene: in order to pray for rain, people wear colorful clothes and dance colorful dragons. Gradually, dancing "dragon" has become a necessary form for people to express good wishes and pray for longevity. Especially in the festive festivals, people are dancing "dragon" with their hands to express their happy mood.

There are hundreds of dragon dances in China. After thousands of years of spread and development, the forms of expression are even more diverse. Dragon dance can be so popular, and its mass, entertainment is inseparable, folklore: 'seven or eight years old play grass dragon, fifteen or six years old play small dragon, young adults dance big dragon'.

When playing Dragon, one or two people are less, and more than 100 people dance a dragon. The most common name is "fire dragon". When dancing fire dragon, it is often accompanied by dozens of cloud lights and often danced at night. Therefore, fire dragon has another name called "dragon light".

When playing the dragon lantern, dozens of big men are walking up and down in the cloud lantern, sometimes rising, sometimes diving, changing thousands of times, sometimes firecrackers, fireworks, and so on! There are hundreds of revelry people surrounded below, gongs and drums ringing together, which is spectacular, so lively!

This majestic scene has greatly stimulated people's mood, inspired and inspired people's hearts. Therefore, dancing 'Dragon' has become an indispensable movement to maintain the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and also embodies the Chinese people's heroic spirit of fighting against the sky and the earth.

The moral of dragon dance

In ancient times, people regarded "dragon" as the embodiment of auspiciousness, representing the wish of favorable weather. Therefore, they prayed for the protection of the dragon with dragon dance, so as to achieve favorable weather and harvest in four seasons. People dance with bamboo, iron ligation, and colored dragons made of silk or cloth for fun. They express their happy mood. After continuous processing and manufacturing by folk artists, playing dragon lantern has developed into a folk dance art with perfect form, quite performing skills and romantic color, which is deeply loved by the masses.

China is the hometown of the dragon, and the Chinese people live by the descendants of the dragon. Dragon is the first of the five auspicious beasts, and dragon culture is the most important totem culture of the Chinese nation. Since ancient times, legends about the dragon have been vast, and the dragon has also become the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation's self-improvement. With the development of the times, dragon dance lights are full of vitality again, and become a grand and warm art activity for enterprises, institutions and mass organizations to praise the motherland and praise happy life.

Dragon lantern is also called "Dragon Dance". It's about 20 meters long and 60-70 cm in diameter. It's made of iron wire inside, light bulb or candle inside, and gauze outside. The dragon dancers are made up of ten people. One person used Hydrangea to fight the dragon in front, and the rest held the dragon to perform the actions of "two dragons playing the Pearl", "two dragons coming out of the water", "fire dragon flying", "Pan dragon playing the sea".

Dragon lantern is the traditional lantern of Han nationality and some ethnic minorities. Popular in. It is auspicious to pass on the dragon. Therefore, the folk hold dragon dance activities every Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, temple fair and harvest year. Generally, it is made of bamboo, wood, paper and cloth, and the number of knots is different, all of them are singular. Its image can be divided into 'fire dragon' and 'Green Dragon' according to different colors. "White dragon" and "Yellow Dragon", which can burn candles in each section, are called "dragon lights". During the Spring Festival, there is a habit of "playing Dragon Lantern" in many cities and towns in China.

Playing dragon lantern, also called dragon dance, is a popular folk dance in China.

Legend of dragon lantern dance:

It's said that in ancient times, the weather in the world was smooth, the grain was plentiful, and the common people lived and worked in peace and contentment. One year, a sudden disaster came to the world. In many cities, floods flooded many houses and drowned many people. Outside the city, there was a drought that never happened before. The fields cracked and the spring smoke made people. I can't live any longer. There is a green dragon living in a big mountain. He is very kind-hearted. It saw such a miserable scene between heaven and earth. It was very pitiful to the suffering people. It decided to go up and find out.

One day, the wind was blowing, the rain was pouring, and the green dragon was flying to the upper boundary. As soon as he raised his body, he changed into a king of hell, pretending that he wanted to find the Jade Emperor. Through the south gate. In this way, Qinglong dressed in disguise, skillfully bumped through one pass after another, inquired about the reasons for the flood and drought in the upper world carefully, and finally found out the reasons: the queen mother of the Western Heaven invited Jade Emperor to dinner; the emperor liked to drink, drank many bowls of fragrant and delicious Qiongjiang in succession, and got drunk and turned around. After the banquet, the Jade Emperor went back to the palace to do business, still dazed, so he wrote the rain Book wrong - it should have rained three minutes in the city and five minutes outside. But the jade emperor made the city rain five minutes, outside the city rain three minutes. The rainfall in the city is five points, too much; the rainfall outside the city is three points, too little. In this way, the city will be flooded and the sky outside the city will crack. Knowing this reason, Qinglong sneaks into the Tiangong and changes the rain book: three points of rainfall in the city and five points of rainfall outside the city. In this way, the world slowly recovers itself. When the Jade Emperor woke up, he also realized that he had ordered the wrong rain book. He wanted to correct it, but he was afraid that all the officials said that he was careless and didn't count his words, so he had to correct his mistake. Later, the Jade Emperor suddenly found out that his rain book had been changed, and he was furious in his heart: who dared to do anything against my will and change the rain book at will? So he ordered tianbingtianjiang to search everywhere, and at the same time sent people down to ask about it. Later, it was found that Qinglong did it. The Jade Emperor appointed his prime minister to punish Qinglong.

The prime minister was sent by the Jade Emperor to find the emperor. The emperor knew that he was an emissary sent by the Jade Emperor of heaven. He dared not to be slighted and immediately entertained the prime minister with delicacies. After dinner, the emperor and the prime minister played chess in the garden. Soon, the prime minister lowered his head and snored. The emperor did not dare to disturb him, so he had to stand by and wait on him. After a while, the prime minister's big sweat drops one by one. The emperor was a little strange: it was cold in the first month of this season. How could the prime minister sit sweating? So she asked Gong e to take out a fan to cool the prime minister. After a while, the prime minister gave a long sigh of relief and woke up. The prime minister thanked him and said: 'thank you for your help. '

Seeing that the emperor was very confused, the prime minister then solved the mystery for the emperor. It turns out that the prime minister left a figure to sit in the garden, but the entity went to fight with Qinglong. Although the prime minister's martial arts are excellent, the green dragon has also been cultivated. When the two sides are fighting fiercely and the outcome is hard to distinguish, the emperor's gong'e blows a gust of wind. It is here that the wind blows on the battlefield, which greatly helps the prime minister. Suddenly, the spirit of the big vibration, strength doubled, fighting for a while, the green dragon arrived at the enemy, but could not dodge was killed by the prime minister. After being killed by the prime minister, Qinglong became a god bird. He cried outside the Jade Emperor's palace all day and called for justice to the Jade Emperor. Every day, the Jade Emperor listened, and felt very ashamed. He wrote a wrong rain book and killed the green dragon. He felt sorry, so he wrote a book to the world to ask the emperor to send an order to the people to remember the green dragon for the benefit of the people. Therefore, in the first month of each year, the common people use bamboo to make a green dragon, paste it with paper and silk, follow the shape of the green dragon, and paint the paper dragon vividly with colored pen, which is very powerful and majestic. On the 15th day of the first month (the day when Qinglong was killed), every family put on lights, played gongs and drums, and carried Qinglong to the streets and villages. Men and women, young and old, cheered and cheered to show the people's gratitude and memory for Qinglong. From then on, every first month, we have to play dragon. This custom has been passed to the present.