Tongliang Dragon Dance is a wonderful dance, gymnastics and acrobatics at the same time. Tongliang Dragon Dance is closely associated with Han folk cultural activities, rich in routines, rhythmic harmonies, fireworks and dragon burning during the dance, unique accompanying music, props cleverly conceived, exaggerated modeling, simple and generous costumes, as well as participation in the dance is free, easy to retreat from the dance, and the crowd is very strong and participatory characteristics. It has the cultural connotation of the spirit of the Chinese nation, such as unity and cooperation, benefit to mankind, upward mobility, and harmony with the sky. Tongliang Dragon Dance is a kind of Han dance art form with dragons as the main props, which has been passed down in Tongliang County of Chongqing Municipality. It emerged in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and has become famous all over the world in contemporary times.
In 1984 and 1999, the Tongliang dragon went to Beijing twice to participate in the 35th and 50th anniversary of the founding of the country, and danced in front of Tiananmen Square with the momentum of a long rainbow. Tongliang fire dragon is even more unique, playing iron water, spraying sparks, people dancing in the fire, the dragon flying in the fire, the scene is warm and colorful.
Tongliang Dragon Dance consists of two series: Dragon Lantern Dance and Color Lantern Dance. The dragon lantern dance mainly includes ten varieties, including the big creeping dragon, fire dragon, straw dragon, bamboo shell dragon, yellow wattle dragon, bench dragon, dragon, small colorful dragon, bamboo bang dragon and lotus dragon, among which the big creeping dragon is the most distinctive.
Colorful lantern dance mainly includes fish leaping dragon door, loach eating dumplings, three stripes, eighteen bachelors, bright lion, open tiger, mussel shell spirit, rhinoceros looking at the moon, pig gnawing pumpkin, high platform dragon and lion dance, wild goose pagoda title, twelve varieties of pumpkin scaffolding.
Tongliang Dragon Dance embodies the spirit of unity and cooperation, benefiting mankind, upward mobility, and harmony with the sky, and at the same time, it has the social functions of entertaining the gods and people, and demonstrating the power. Tongliang Dragon Dance is famous for only a few varieties of dragon, fire dragon, most of the dragon dance varieties are on the brink of extinction, in urgent need of protection and rescue.
On May 20, 2006, Tongliang Dragon Dance was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
On June 8, 2007, Chongqing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Tongliang Dragon Dance Performance Team won the first Cultural Heritage Day Award issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.