The Inheritance Significance of Dragon Dance

Dragon dance in Tongliang has the characteristics of close connection with folk activities, rich routines and harmonious rhythm. The accompaniment music is unique, the props are cleverly conceived, the modeling is exaggerated, the costumes are simple and generous, the dancers are free to participate, it is convenient to quit dancing, and the mass participation is high. Dragon Dance on Tongliang embodies the spirit of unity, benefiting mankind, striving for progress and harmony with the sky, and has social functions such as entertaining gods and people and showing strength. Only a few species, such as creeping dragon and fire dragon, are famous in the world, and most of them are in an endangered state, which needs to be protected and saved urgently.

The dragon dance of Zhanjiang people has gradually lost its former attraction and is in a state of decline. In order to protect the folk cultural heritage, it must be rescued and sorted out as soon as possible.

Pujiang Bench Dragon retains the folk cultural tradition of "Dragon Belief" in China, especially in the coastal areas of central Zhejiang and south of the Yangtze River. It combines folk art forms such as calligraphy and painting, paper cutting, and inherits art forms such as mass sports and square dance. It has folk customs, historical research value and folk craft inheritance function, and has far-reaching and extensive influence in the coastal areas of Pujiang, central Zhejiang and south of the Yangtze River. However, the impact brought by the changes of the times inevitably falls on Pujiang Bench Dragon, which makes its inheritance in trouble and needs urgent rescue and protection.

As a unique folk dance of Han nationality in China, Changxing Baiyelong has high artistic value. The change of the times has affected the orderly inheritance of the dragon in the Louvre in Changxing, which makes this precious folk art form face the survival crisis. In order to protect and inherit the dragon art of Louvre, Changxing local government has taken a series of effective measures to take precautions, and a good atmosphere for protecting local cultural resources and building distinctive cultural brands is taking shape.

Fenghua Bulong culture has outstanding value, and the ecological environment of folk circulation is facing a potential crisis. The local government has taken the lead in bringing it into the protection category. 1990, Fenghua Bulong was selected as "Chinese Folk Dance Integration (Zhejiang Volume)"; 1996, Fenghua was named "the hometown of Chinese folk art" by the Ministry of Culture. In 2005, Fenghua Bulong was listed in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage representative list by the Zhejiang provincial government.

The faucet of Luzhou Yutan Cailong has a unique shape, which is mainly based on the faucet design of Longnao Bridge, Lu Xian County, a national key cultural relics protection unit. Its forehead is high, its mouth is short, its eyes are prominent and movable, and its chin can be opened and closed freely. Its image is both majestic and naive. The dragon body is made of bamboo sticks and divided into segments, which can be long or short. The whole dragon body is tied in a circle with bamboo sticks and connected in series with each other, so it is flexible and changeable after wearing dragon clothes. The dragon's tail is also different from the general torch tail and snake tail, showing the shape of silver carp, which is very interesting. Represented by Luo and other Roche brothers, it constitutes the inheritance system of Yutan Cailong. In the contemporary era, this system has been greatly expanded. Not only a group of young people have joined, but also people from Chongqing, Tongliang and Chengdu have been sent to study arts, thus expanding the distribution area of Yutan Cailong. Nowadays, Yutan Cailong is also facing the challenges of the new era, and it is urgent to establish a protection and inheritance mechanism.