A family of three went to three places to dance dragon.

    On February 13, three days before the Spring Festival, Li Shimin had already set off for Furong Garden of the Tang Dynasty in Xi'an to perform. Lao Li used to be a worker in a local machinery factory. After retirement, he carried forward his ancestral Mars performance and became a local inheritor of non-heritage culture at the municipal level.

    Lao Li's unique skill is a fire meteor. It performs in Xi'an every night for 7 days. Then I went home for a week to rest. Then I prepared to take part in the 40-member Fire Dragon Performing Art Troupe of Tongliang District to go to Taiwan for more than 10 days of cultural exchange performances.

    One day after Lao Li's departure, Lao Li's wife, Zhu Huaying, also set out to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Her performance will last for 15 days until the end of the Lantern Festival. Later, Li Zheng, Lao Li's son, who used to drive a taxi in the main city, returned home. He was also pulled out to perform because he had not enough people to go out. He and his brother-in-law went to Jingzhou, Hubei Province to perform for more than 20 days.

    "Over 10 years, we are used to spending the Spring Festival in this way." Li Shimin said.

    Although busy, but Lao Li feels that the Spring Festival is full, because every day performances have a low wage income of 150 yuan, other clothing props are provided by the local town government, during the performances, meals, accommodation, transportation can be reported. In this way, each Li family can earn about 5,000 yuan of labor income in one month during the Spring Festival, which is a non-negligible income for local farmers.

    "Shangyuan Zhang Lighting, from 89th to 15th day of the first year, is brilliant, and plays dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and other zaju, bustling streets, month after month, people follow the horse's view." According to historical records, the Tongliang Dragon Lantern attracted tourists from Bishan, Yongchuan, Rongchang, Dazu, Tongnan, Hechuan and the eastern and northern areas of Shangchuan to visit Tongliang. Every month in the first month of the dragon dance, the county's tourist stacks are full, and the streets are blocked. The slang of "Dazu Buddha and Tongliang lantern" spread throughout Bayu.

    Li Mingzhong, a staff member of the county's Wen GUANG new Bureau, introduced the traditional custom of dragon dance in the first month of Tongliang. Dragon dancing is often presided over by the Chamber of Commerce and participated by the gangs. Dragon Lantern Festival also has the nature of competition. The level of tie-up, the number of dragon dancers and the level of dragon dancing are all comparative subjects. Participating in the trade shows their respective industry characteristics, such as the "three dragons" of fishing, the "Dragon Dragon Festival" by the iron industry club, the "mussel Theatre", the educational circles playing the "Eighteen Bachelor" and the "fishing Dragon Gate", the Department Store dancing dragon and the Dragon Dragon ball, and the slaughtering industry playing the * "pig eating pumpkin" and "rhinoceros moon". Even the beggars did not show their weakness. Year after year, from beginning to end, famous Caizha artists represented by Liu Lianshan and Li Jiezhi have emerged in Tongliang, and more than 20 classical categories of Tongliang dragon lanterns have been accumulated.

    But in the 20 years since the founding of New China, dragon lanterns were pulled out as poisonous weeds of feudal superstition, and dragon-dancing skills were almost lost.

    Chongqing Tongliang Fire Dragon is crowned as Dragon Dance. This kind of dance uses hot metal to strike golden flowers, with different materials to guide fire, mouth fire, ridge fire, abdominal fire, field fire, sky fire, etc. to form a fanatical three-dimensional fire burst, which is extremely warm and colorful. Every Lantern Festival, people will have money, strong efforts, buy gunpowder, make fire dragons, with smoke racks, Yumen and other flame performances. The longest fire dragon is more than 40 meters long. The performance is spectacular and surprising, which is especially popular with the masses. First of all, its flavor is unique and its routine is changeable. Interwoven sparks, explosive firecrackers, intense percussion music, strong local flavor, fully mobilize people's appreciation enthusiasm. Secondly, close to the Han folk life interest. The dragon dance hand in hand, struggling forward, masculine and full of spirit, reflects people's love for hot life. Folk legend also holds that the fire of dragon sparks attacking people can remove the gloom on the body, dispel illness and avoid disaster for the coming year, and everything is satisfactory. The bigger the spark and the louder the firecrackers, the more interesting the Dragon Dance people and the Dragon watching people are.

    Tongliang Dragon Dance has the characteristics of close connection with local Han folk activities, rich routines and interesting rhythm. It has unique accompaniment music, ingenious props, exaggerated shapes, simple and generous costumes, free dancers, convenient withdrawal, and strong participation of the masses. Tongliang Dragon Dance embodies the spirit of unity and unity, benefit mankind, strive for progress and harmony with heaven. It also has the social functions of entertaining gods and people, and demonstrating power. Tongliang Dragon Dance is famous for only a few species such as Big Vermicular Dragon and Fire Dragon. Most of the Dragon Dance varieties are in danger and need to be protected and rescued urgently.