The Centipede Dance is a mass recreational and sports activity in Wushi Town, Leizhou City (formerly Haikang County) on the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong Province, a civic event that is usually performed during the Mid-Autumn Festival every year.
The Centipede Dance consists of three teams. One is the gong and drum team. The gongs, drums and cymbals are played by the gongs, drums and cymbals, leading the way in front of the centipede team. The other is the centipede team, by 59 people pulling a big rope of more than 100 meters long, three young and strong people in the front to pull the head of the rope, the waist tie small rope connected to the big rope, wearing a bamboo hat, holding a lighted incense handle, left and right, opposite each other to raise, back to forward. The end of the big rope, by two people each carrying a one full of densely packed incense piggy bank, and then by four strong support, let it pretend to be a drunkard big rope on both sides of the rope by the 50 young and strong people waist tie a small rope connected to the big rope, each wearing bamboo hats, hats inserted full of incense, both hands holding a point of incense on the incense handle, with the rhythm of the gongs and drums, left and right back and forth, along the big rope jumped up the Centipede Dance. The other team is made up of dozens of teenagers holding torches on both sides to light the way forward. Wherever the centipede procession went, the sound of cannon thundered. More than a hundred meters long incense dotted into a line, there are curved and straight, round and square, the scene is spectacular, like a real centipede in the writhing.