April 27, 12 noon, Zhangmutou Town, East City Cultural Square. "dong dong", "dong dong", "dong dong", a burst of enthusiastic and impassioned drums sounded, the two unicorns kept on dancing, constantly changing positions. Out of the hole, scratching the head, playing tail, licking feet, searching for the green, explore the green, drunk green ...... this moment, they were in the cultural square to get "reborn".
The entire unicorn dance is divided into two sections, called "head set" and "tail set", collectively known as the unicorn set. A young man dances the head of the unicorn, and a young man holds the tail of the unicorn, and with percussion music, the unicorn licks its feet, picks up the green, and other forms, as well as emotions of joy, anger, and sadness. After the Qilin Dance, there are martial arts performances, either unarmed singles, doubles or armed singles and doubles, and finally a performance by a master or an elder. After a full set of Qilin Dance, the performers are drenched in sweat. Wonderful performance won the onlookers burst of applause.
It is understood that this is the town of Zhangmutou unicorn dance team in preparation for the national mass culture will soon be held in Beijing "group star award" competition. Chen Haiqing, a teacher at the town's cultural station, has been busy preparing for the competition. He said, Zhangmutou unicorn dance art a long time ago, before the vast majority of folk self-organization. From 1997, not only the people attach great importance to, the town government is to set policy, allocate funds, attract talent, set up teams, in the art of inheritance of tradition, reform and innovation, to support the unicorn dance team to participate in a variety of cultural activities and competitions, and won a lot of achievements. 2001 the town participated in the province's first unicorn dance competition won the Gold Medal; 2002 visit to Canada to perform widely popular and well received; in 2003, Zhangmutou Town successfully organized the first unicorn dance competition. In 2003, Zhangmutou Town successfully held the Chinese Qilin Dance Competition, and two programs of the town's Qilin Dance Team won gold medals in the competition. Last December 8, Zhangmutou town was named by the relevant departments as "China's folk arts - the township of the Qilin".
Chen Haiqing said, "Group Star Award" is difficult to get, but Zhangmutou unicorn dance charm is difficult to resist, he hoped that soon there will be a "good harvest".