People's Dragon Dance, known as the soul of the Leizhou Peninsula folk dance, its rhythmic distinctive, strong drums, majestic, inspiring. Leizhou Peninsula existing Donghai Island people dragon dance and Shentang people dragon dance. Shentang Dragon Dance (original type) originated in the Qing Jiaqing years (1523 years), Shentang villagers to celebrate the local official Chen Shikai new Shentang Wei and the beginning of the Dragon (Chen Shikai Gong is a bachelor's degree, rich Leiyang, the Royal Decree to go to Anhui Province, Lingshi County as the Prime Minister's Office of the Governor, the fall full). The dance has been recorded in the "Chinese folk dance integration" (Guangdong volume), is actively declaring the expansion of Guangdong Province for the protection of intangible cultural heritage projects. At the celebration, the villagers performed the original and packaged two different styles, wonderful and unique human dragon dance and other folklore programs, welcomed by experts and villagers.
"Dragon head" by the strong and sturdy students to take charge of, choose a lively and lovely boy with a red silk belt tied to the chest of the dragon head, will be lit incense so that the boy's mouth to bite one for the "dragon tongue", each hand holding a piece of incense for the "dragon's eye". "dragon eyes".
Another small boy riding on the shoulders of the dragon, both hands holding a stick of incense for the "dragon corner", "Dragon Tail" is backed by the dragon's feet, a light, waist strength of a good little boy, hands together a handful of incense waving out of the dragon's tail shape, attracting dragons with a lighted incense inserted in the hat for the "Dragon Pearl", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail". "Dragon Pearl", which formed the predecessor of Shentang's "human dragon dance", it does not disguise, not dressed in costume, the length of the people by the people, to the people for fun.
"Human Dragon Dance" is a popular folk dance around the East China Sea Island (Yue dialect area) in the outskirts of Zhanjiang, originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and flourished during the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty, and it is a kind of large-scale plaza art. In the past, during the mid-autumn festival of the lunar calendar or the harvest season, local people would perform the "Human Dragon Dance" in the streets or squares, and each performance would last for three nights. Donghai Island people dragon dance in the village of the old street carnival
"People dragon dance" is a kind of China's dragon dance, but it all consists of people, the dragon head, dragon body, the dragon tail are using the human body to connect the frame combination. Dragon head by a tall and powerful young man carrying three children, respectively, on behalf of the dragon's tongue, eyes, horns; dragon body by the adult supporting the supine child, section by section to connect up; dragon tail is also an adult carrying a child on his shoulders, feet spread to show that the dragon's tail. The performers wear yellow and red bandanas on their heads and short-crotched dragon suits, and their arms and legs are tied with straps, making them look solid and powerful.
This "human dragon dance" is generally 10 meters long, composed of 50, 60 people, there are dozens of meters long, composed of more than a hundred people or even hundreds of people. Playing dance lightweight and flexible, action rough and mighty realistic, as if the dragon alive, sometimes the left disk right spinning, sometimes Teng dance play beads, sometimes swinging the tail shaking the head, operating freely.
Long Donghai Island people dragon dance through the streets
In recent years, the local artists also "people dragon dance" structure, dance, dance, music, rhythm of the reform process, the formation of the "dragon", "dragon nodding", "dragon through the clouds', "dragon rolling waves" and other performance programs, making it more perfect, warmly welcomed by the masses, known as "Donghai It is known as "One of the best in East China Sea".
The wonderful Leizhou Shentang Dragon Dance.
In the construction of a harmonious society today, Zhanjiang, Leizhou attaches great importance to the construction of folk culture. And Shentang for the excavation of the nearly five hundred years of traditional cultural heritage, to create a cultural brand, so, breaking the old form, from clothing to action in all aspects of the folk art without changing the original flavor on the basis of the "People Dragon Dance" for a new rehearsal guide, so that it blends the power, art, dynamism in one!
Now Leizhou Shentang human dragon dance has been included in the "Guangdong Province Intangible Cultural Heritage" list, and will spare no effort to declare "World Intangible Cultural Heritage"!