Wen/Gu Jianfeng Qiu Rui Ni Lai Jia Hua Zheng Kun Chen Yang Yi
In Puzai Town, Fengshun County, Meizhou City, during the Lantern Festival, people use bamboo and straw to make a "golden dragon", and then set firecrackers and joss sticks on the golden dragon to burn and dance the "golden dragon", commonly known as the "burning dragon", to pray for good weather and rain. Drums and gongs, burning and dancing "Golden Dragon", commonly known as "burning dragon", in order to pray for good weather and a good harvest. This began in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong six years (1741), Pu Zhai generations of folk rituals and rituals passed down to drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings.
Dragon Festival
As an ancient totem, the dragon has a high status in the hearts of the Hakka people. Not only do dragons often appear in traditional Hakka architecture, but also in ancestral halls, where they are enshrined underneath the ancestral goddesses, called the "Five Dragon Gods". On happy days, the Hakka people will pray for the blessing of the dragon with a dragon dance, "Puzhai Fire Dragon" is one of the Hakka dragon dances with great spectacle.
"Puzai Fire Dragon" is usually performed on the night of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the year. The special feature is that the dragon's head, body, and tail are skillfully tied with different fireworks, including "Burning Yumen", "Burning Smoke Shelf", "Burning Fireworks", "Burning Smoke Shelf", "Burning Smoke Shelf", "Burning Smoke Shelf", and "Burning Fireworks". There are three major events: "Burning Yumen", "Burning Smoke Frame" and "Burning Fire Dragon". At the same time, there are fire cable team, happy cannon team, dragon lantern team and drum band *** more than 100 people with the performance.
"Burning Yumen" is also known as "Carp Jump Dragon Gate", "Yumen" is six meters high, with the main door and two small doors, more than 10 meters wide, similar to the gate. The door couplet is often used to read: "The dragon and phoenix dance and sing for the prosperity of the world, and the fish jump for joy and peace". "Various types of fireworks are mounted at each of the gates, and there are also "aquatic fish" that perform when the gate is burned. This program is based on the historical story of Dayu ruling the water, "Yumen" under the swarms of carp, shrimp, led by the arowana fish swimming, playing in the water, jumping, a peaceful scene.
"Burning Smoke Frame" is also known as "Burning Fire Tree". "Smoke shelf" up to more than ten meters, there are eleven different levels of fireworks landscape, can be from the bottom up in an orderly manner burning show. In a moment, the small dragon landing birth, flower baskets into double pairs, landing silver flowers, big boat harvest return, carp swim with children, happy to present auspicious, flower baskets string colorful, 10,000 arrows through the sky, beads lamps into double pairs, discs bloom good flowers, flowers, good and full moon, and other wonders continue to appear.
The main event is the "burning dragon", divided into "out of the dragon" "burning dragon" and "back to the dragon" three steps. The main event is the "burning dragon", which is divided into three steps, namely "out of the dragon", "burning dragon" and "return dragon". "Golden Dragon" generally by more than 60 bare-chested strong man hand out of the hole, in the "Golden Dragon" non-stop up and down dance at the same time, the fire will follow the fuse spread, section by section to ignite the fireworks on the dragon, the "Golden Dragon The "Golden Dragon" instantly turns into the "Fire Dragon" with silver splashes and sparks. Dragon dancers in the colorful flames of light skilfully "harness the dragon", the fire dragon as if alive, in the sea of fire tumbling and dancing, make the mouth, spit beads, bowing, shaking the tail, spitting fire and other actions, magnificent, the scene is spectacular. At this time, the surrounding masses not only will not avoid the sparks, but also scrambled forward to dip "dragon gas", salute, applause one after another, lively and extraordinary.
The craftsmanship remains unchanged
Puzai Town, Fenshun County, is known as the "hometown of the Chinese fire dragon", but also "the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art" and "Guangdong ethnic folk art". "Guangdong ethnic folk art township".
Zhang Zijin, like many people in Puzhai, witnessed his grandparents making fire dragons since he was a child, but he began to help make fire dragons at a young age, and showed an amazing talent, but also often wondered: "How the dragon head is more mysterious, and how to draw the dragon scales more smoothly ...... I often think about these questions. " It turns out that making fire dragons seems to be uniform, but in fact, due to the complicated process and the lack of drawings, everyone makes a different fire dragon. "To do a good job of the dragon, you have to concentrate, do a little and think of other things, it is not good." Zhang Zijin love to study and patience, the production of the fire dragon is always alive. 2008, Zhang Zijin took over the "passing of the baton", became the third generation of fire dragon inheritor.
In 2018, Zhang Zijin was identified as a national intangible cultural heritage representative project representative inheritor. In order to make "Puzai Fire Dragon" go out, he often brings his own fire dragon to the Chaoshan area, the Pearl River Delta, Fujian and other places to tour, so that more people understand this folk art.
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Large-scale fire dragon live-action show charm
"From the folklore of the street through the streets, the grand fire dragon, with the auspicious clouds, rainbow, neon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon, the fire dragon. with auspicious clouds, rainbows, thunder and lightning. Drums and music, clusters of people see it strutting, invisible dragon tail stirring the joy of the countryside." As Fengshun poet Chen Qixu's poem said, every year the Lantern Festival Puzai fire dragon show is lively, attracting tens of thousands of people around the crowd to go to watch, but there are still a lot of spectators do not see the spectacle of the sigh, at the same time, the non-heritage culture is facing the "promotion" of the dilemma.
The tea mountain interpretation of the fire dragon spectacle
In order to further revitalize the use of this national non-heritage, in the city of Meizhou and Fenshun County departments with the assistance of the relevant Fenshun village Luo Bin combined with the characteristics of the Puzai fire dragon, to create a large fire dragon live show as the theme of the Dabao Mountain Tourism Resort.
Dabao Mountain scenic area is about 6.8 kilometers away from Fengshun County, is actually a planting Fengshun alpine green tea tea mountain. Developed as a scenic spot, the tea mountain is retained while an artificial lake is made in the valley, with seats arranged around it, and with the mountain scenery as the backdrop, modern lighting, sound, laser, water screen and other elements are added to form a live-action theater.
"The Meizhou region is not short of landscape scenery, especially in Fengshun County, known as the 'southern gate' of Meizhou, so the scenic area was established with the intention of creating a place where you can both visit the landscape scenery and enjoy folklore performances." Dabao Mountain Tourism Resort related person in charge of Huang Yuan introduced, after selection, their scenic area of folklore performance theme was finally selected for the "Puzai fire dragon", the creation of the "Millennium Fire Dragon" live theater, but also invited the national non-heritage Fenshun Puzai fire dragon production technology inheritor Zhang Zijin and his team to join them.
It is understood that the "Millennium Fire Dragon" live theater to Dabao Mountain ecological tea garden vast and multi-layered natural landscape as the stage, for the audience to present a "light" and "fire" feast. Live theater to "Puzai fire dragon" and its folklore as the cultural core, using water screen holographic projection, Weiya system, naked eye 6D and other latest technology, real performances and video effects for the overall planning creativity and alignment of choreography, the formation of a "combination of real and imaginary" stage The performance effect, vividly showing the Fenshun fire dragon culture, Hakchao culture.
Create a study camp inheritance of non-heritage
How to make more people, especially young people to stimulate interest in non-heritage, feel the charm of non-heritage, inheritance and development of non-heritage is an important issue. 2020 October, the Dabao Mountain scenic area to the relevant departments to apply for the establishment of the Meizhou City, the Dabao Mountain primary and secondary school students to study the practice of education camp.
"The camp develops more than 10 research and education courses on its own, such as "The Heir of the Dragon", "Exploring the non-heritage fire dragon", etc. Through the course of education, the students are curious about the non-heritage fire dragon and interested in research and study." Huang Yuan introduction, up to now, the camp has received from Meizhou, Jieyang, Shantou, Chaozhou and other schools about 60,000 times of students to participate in the study of practical education activities, students through the understanding of the "Puzai fire dragon" origin, history, enriching their own humanistic feelings; through the team hand-painted to the "fire dragon
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Folklore of the fire dragon aspires to a better life
Wen/Zhou Yunshui (Dr. Zhou Yunshui, Secretary General of the Hakka Research Committee of the Chinese Society of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies)
The fire dragon of Pozhai, which has been passed down through the years for more than 270 years, belongs to the local folk rituals that have been passed down from generation to generation, and it has been passed down through the local people. It belongs to the local folk rituals and customs of exorcism and praying for good luck, which have been passed down from generation to generation. Folk legend has it that villagers in Puzai Town, Fengshun County, in order to commemorate the Qingfeng Princess of the people to eliminate harm, every Lantern Festival, they will use bamboo gimlets, straw tied into the shape of the "Golden Dragon", and firecrackers, inserted incense, burning dance, commonly known as the "burning dragon", intended to pray for the Golden Dragon to come down to the earth every year, and the earth to have a good weather every year, and the earth to have a good weather every year. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good time on your own.
Whenever the new year Lantern Festival comes, the people of Puzai, men, women and children, are eager to see the fire dragon show, bring good luck to the people. The villagers who hold the "fire dragon" have bare shoulders and let the sparks shower on their bodies. The sparks blister the skin, signifying money and good luck. Visitors are not too afraid of being injured by firecrackers, it turns out that if the dragon body sparks scalded blisters, the "bubble" word, pronounced and the banknote of the "ticket" word is almost the same, then you will be rich in the coming year. Especially the dragon head of the Prime is more remarkable, people are competing for money, the most money to Prime the dragon head, Prime the dragon head, in the new year, will certainly be good luck, people called "Dafa Dragon Luck" (fortune).
"Puzhai Fire Dragon" has been invited to perform in various places, such as the first Guangdong Provincial Folk Art Festival in 1987, the first Hakka Association in Meizhou City in 1989, the "International Daffodil Festival" in Fujian Province in 1990, the "International Tourism and Cultural Festival" in Guangdong in 2005, and the "International Tourism and Cultural Festival" in Guangdong. "International Tourism and Culture Festival" in 2005, the opening ceremony of the Sixth Meizhou Municipal Games in 2009, the Eighth World Fengshun Fellowship in 2010, and the 2011 Hakka Twelve Festival "Miaoli Fire Dragons" exchange performance in Taiwan in 2011, and other large-scale activities. In 2011, the wonderful performance of "Puzai Fire Dragon" was honored as "Hakka Treasure", "Superior Technology", "Promising Future", "***", "****", "****", "****", "****", "****", "****", "****" and "****". ""****Creating Brilliance" and other award flags, medals more than 100, won the audience's amazement and praise, and has become a bright pearl of Chinese folk art. At the same time, dozens of media at home and abroad have made special reports. Especially worth mentioning is that from February 13 to 22, 2011, at the invitation of Taiwan Miaoli County Local Culture Exchange Association, Fengshun County "Puzai Fire Dragon Performance Exchange Group" a group of 29 people went to Taiwan to participate in the Miaoli County 2011 Hakchuang twelve festivals "Miaoli Fire Dragon "The exchange of performance activities, aimed at "carry forward the Hakka culture, promote cultural exchanges between the two places Hakka, enhance the level of performance of Hakka folk festivals in the two places," and enhance the global Hakka community's emotional ties.
On the night of the Lantern Festival on time on the Puzai burning fire dragon folk activities, not only shows the people's living standards increasingly improved side, and has become Fengshun Tourism and even Meizhou important channels of foreign exchanges, cohesion of the non-genetic bearers of the spirit of craftsmanship Puzai fire dragon, displaying the Hakka community life is increasingly affluent pleasure and happiness!
Under the guidance of the industrial policy of rural revitalization, the Dabao Mountain Ecological Tourism and Conservation Resort in Tangkeng Town, Fenshun County, puts on a show of national-level non-heritage projects. What's more, through the government-led, private enterprise-led, cultural implantation of the multi-party cooperation model, Fengshun County to explore the folk culture and rural revitalization of the mutual promotion of the development model.
Cultural Pulse Week
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