Dragon dragon market drives Zhalong industry

    Zong He-yun, director of Tongliang Non-Heritage Conservation Center, introduced that Tongliang is called Longxiang. The mass base of dragon dancing is very strong. It has almost formed a pattern of national dragon dancing. There are 28 town streets in Tongliang District. Each Town Street has its own unique dragon dancing team. At the same time, not only the government departments have dragon dance teams, but also enterprises and institutions and schools have dragon dance teams.

    A good mass base of dragon dancing not only enriches the national fitness activities, but also makes dragon dancing a brand of commercial development. This kind of fire dragon performance in Gaolou Town takes the lead out of Tongliang and moves to the whole country and abroad according to market operation.

    The huge dragon dance market has also promoted the development of Liang Long's Zhalong industry. Zhou Heping, a 50-year-old villager in Taiping Town of Tongliang, started from Zhalong and gradually grew up to be the inheritor of Zhalong non-heritage culture at the municipal level in Chongqing. He became a master of Arts and crafts in Chongqing in 2007. His chameleon stretches to hundreds of meters and once performed in Tiananmen Square on the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China.

    Under his leadership, three other cousins of the Zhou family joined Zhalong industry one after another, and established their own companies, almost monopolizing the local Zhalong market. Zhou Heping introduced that during the Spring Festival, when he was busy, the basic unit price of Zhalong was 10,000 yuan, but Zhalong's orders could not be completed until the seventh and eighth day of junior middle school.

    In 2017, he Zhalong more than 200 throughout the year. He estimates that daily sales of Zhalong in Tongliang are nearly 5 million.

    Zong Heyun said that in addition to dragon dancing and Zhalong industries, Tongliang's dragon culture has also stimulated related tourism, shopping, catering and other industries, which can achieve a direct output value of 340 million. Every Spring Festival from the 1st to 14th nights, in Tongliang Qicai Dream Garden, there are Tongliang Fire Dragon performances, which attract a large number of people from surrounding districts and counties and Chongqing's main cities to watch. During the Spring Festival each year, ticket revenue can reach nearly 10 million yuan.

    Tongliang dragon dance is a dance art form with dragon as the main prop in Tongliang, Chongqing. Closely linked with folk activities, rich routines, rhythm and humor, fireworks and dragons in dance, unique accompaniment music, ingenious prop design, exaggerated shape, simple and generous dress; free participation in dance, convenient withdrawal, strong participation of the masses and so on. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Tongliang dragon dance includes two series: dragon lantern dance and lantern dance. Dragon lantern dance mainly includes 10 kinds of dragons, including Big Vermicular, Fire Dragon, Straw Dragon, Bamboo Shoot Shell Dragon, Huangjinglong, Bench Dragon, Zhenglong, Xiaocailong, Bamboo Banglong and Lotus Dragon, among which Big Vermicular Dragon has its own characteristics. The lantern dance mainly includes Fish Diving dragon gate, loach eating Tangyuan, three, eighteen bachelor, bright lion, mountain tiger, clam shell essence, rhinoceros moon *, pig chew pumpkin, high stage dragon lion dance, wild goose pagoda title, pumpkin shed 12 varieties.

    Tongliang "Fire Dragon" is crowned as the first dragon dance. This kind of dance uses hot metal to strike golden flowers, supplemented by different materials of ignition, mouth fire, ridge fire, abdominal fire, field fire, sky fire and so on, to form a fanatical three-dimensional fire array, which is extremely warm and colorful. Interwoven sparks, explosive firecrackers, intense percussion music, strong local flavor, fully mobilize people's appreciation enthusiasm. The dragon dance hand in hand, fighting forward, masculine and full of spirit, reflecting people's hot life.

    Love. There are also folklore, fire dragon sparks attacking people, you can remove the body's bad luck, for the next year to dispel disease and avoid disaster, everything is satisfactory. As a result, the bigger the spark and the more loud the firecrackers, the more interesting the Dragon Dance people and the Dragon watching people are.

    But in the early days, the Tongliang Dragon Dance was basically "Erlong Dragon Drama Pearl". Now, Tongliang Dragon Dance has developed into more than 30 routines, such as Erlong Dragon Dragon Pearl, Peacock Show Screen, Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang. These routines were developed by the veteran dragon dancers and experts in the dance circle, precisely because Tongliang Dragon is exquisitely made. In 1984 and 1999, Tonglianglong participated in the parade performances for the 35th and 50th anniversaries of the National Day. In 1994, Tonglianglong was also designated as the standard dragon tool by the then National Sports Commission. Tonglianglong Dance also became the standard routine.