Whenever you hear the performance of Chaozhou big gongs and drums, you will feel as if you are in the midst of the surging pine waves and the raging sea tides, and you will be intoxicated by the spring breeze, and you will be in a state of ecstasy and intoxication.
During the Lantern Festival, the traditional folk art activities in Chaoshan area which are not easy to be seen in normal times are actively carried out, such as "Ying Song", "Centipede Dance", "Four Dragons Struggle for Spring The "Centipede Dance" and the "Four Dragons Fighting for Spring" are some examples. The "Centipede Dance" is colorful and mysterious. The props of this dance are more than 20 meters long, with bamboo gabions tied into a skeleton, covered with plain silk, finely painted, ochre body and green feet, decorated with red and green lights, by more than 20 young people dressed in green pants, each engine a section, in accordance with the provisions of a variety of footsteps, dancing, and constantly spraying colorful fireworks, streams of light and colorful, mysterious, and finally, "turn over and spit out the beads! The last one is "turning over and spitting out pearls". It is said that this "centipede dance" in Chenghai County rural circulation, has a history of hundreds of years; in the 1940s, was invited to Hong Kong to perform "centipede climbing" on Taiping Mountain, a sensation throughout Hong Kong and Kowloon. The "Four Dragons Contesting for Spring" is a spectacular performance. Two green dragons and two bigger and longer golden dragons tumble in the blazing sound of firecrackers and the smoke from the fireworks, changing in all kinds of ways.
The origins of Chinese culture are marked by the dragon. Past historical research has shown that the cradle of Chinese culture, in the Yellow River Valley. Therefore, the culture of the Central Plains has become the representative of the culture of the Chinese nation, north of the Central Plains, known as Hu, south of the Central Plains, known as barbarians. People used to think of the word "hu churning and barbaric", maybe it is the history of the Central Plains of the successive generations of slavery kingdoms and feudal empires, because of the north and south of the repeated failure of the campaigns caused by the troubles and sighs. Someone has made a survey, the 1980s the country's "dragon dance" has more than 40 kinds. And ancient times was known as "barbaric" place of Lingnan region, but also has 36 kinds of more, which is particularly famous yarn dragon, dragon, fire dragon, etc., compared to the Central Plains of the Dragon Lantern, no less.