Review of Dragon Dance Performance

Dragon and lion dancing is one of the main festivals in ancient times. As China people emigrate to all parts of the world, I have collected and sorted out the comments on dragon dancing for you. Welcome to read and learn from!

Explanation of Dragon Dance Performance 1: Playing dragon lanterns originated from people's superstition about dragons, with a history of more than 2,000 years. In ancient times, people used dragon dancing to pray for the blessing of dragons, in order to have good weather and abundant crops. The custom of dragon dancing is carried forward by overseas Chinese. Whenever the people of China hold traditional festivals and major celebrations of the Han nationality, they will play with dragon lanterns, showing a strong oriental spirit.

"Playing with dragon lanterns" has become quite common among the people in the Han Dynasty. Playing with dragon lanterns has become a common performance form in the performances of "social fire" and "dance team" in Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, Wu's Dream records: Lin 'an (now Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, "On the night of the Lantern Festival, the grass is tied into a dragon, covered with green curtains, and there are thousands of lights and candles, which are like double dragons." Ancient China people created the image of dragons to express their good wishes. According to legend, the ancients called dragons, phoenixes, unicorns and turtles four spirits. Beautiful shape, bright colors, rigid and flexible lines. It shines with unique artistic brilliance in a long history.

Explanation of Dragon Dance Performance Part II: Dragon Dance Leader. Dance dragon head is a ritual in the ancestor worship activities of She nationality in Fujian, which consists of the sun, the moon and the stars. The faucet is carved with wood and painted with color, which looks simple and solemn. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, leaders make various movements with the drums, either moving forward or backward, dancing or stopping, jumping or squatting, and there are certain rules.

The dance "Leading Dance" shows the birth and growth process of "Kowloon", including "The Birth of Kowloon", "Marrying the Water of the East China Sea" and "Leaving Clouds and Rain".

Explanation of Dragon Dance Performance Chapter III: Dragon Dance Lantern originated in Han Dynasty. The image of the dragon was created by the ancients out of good wishes. The ancients called dragons, phoenixes, forests and turtles "four spirits", among which dragons are especially graceful, vigorous and flexible.

As early as Shang and Yin Dynasties, bronze wares and bones were engraved with dragon patterns. By the Zhou Dynasty, the dragon patterns on bronzes were gradually complete. Although the Lantern Festival began in the early Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the custom of dragon dancing should be inherited from the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. Dragons have long appeared in historical documents, and "playing with dragon lanterns" means praying for good weather, prosperity and national security, so it is called "praying for the New Year".

Dragons are regarded as auspicious things by the ancients, appearing in various celebrations and sacrifices, and praying for the blessing of dragons through dragon dancing. When people take pleasure in colorful dragons tied with bamboo poles and decorated with silks and satins, their sacrificial nature begins to retreat quietly and gradually becomes a folk dance art with various performance skills.