National intangible cultural heritage Tongliang Fire Dragon Dance, Nantou County and surrounding areas tens of thousands of people rushed to the scene to watch the news. The dragon dance team won the audience's exclamation, cheering and applause with a wonderful and thrilling performance.

    This is the "Longyaobao Island" Chinese Tongliang Fire Dragon Show held by Chongqing Tongliang Fire Dragon Team during the Lantern Festival at the invitation of Nantou County Culture and Art Society of Taiwan for two consecutive years. The first "Longyaobao Island" Chinese Tongliang Fire Dragon Exhibition held during the Lantern Festival in 2017 caused a sensation in Nantou, Xinzhu and other places, attracting more than 160,000 spectators.

    The troop set off from Chongqing on March 1 and dedicated a perfect performance that evening. At 19:50 local time, eight stoves in the Yarn Plaza set off a flaming fire. The Firedragon team's flower fighters went to battle barefoot and danced their arms. As they scooped and threw one after another, a plate of molten iron burst into the air with the sound of "bang-" and "bang-". With the cheering of the audience, the two colored dragon rose to the sky. Dragon flying in the fire, people dancing in the fire, the magnificent scene, once again let tens of thousands of Taiwan audience experience the magical charm of Tongliang Fire Dragon. Tongliang Fire Dragon also offers New Year's greetings to the Taiwanese people with its unique action language of "Shuanglong Cave Out", "Jinlong Fire Out" and "Thursday".

    "Wonderful! It's too exciting! " "Last Lantern Festival, I also saw the Tongliang Fire Dragon here. The more I looked at the Tongliang Fire Dragon, the more I wanted to see it, the more I could see it!" A crowd of spectators rushed to express their impressions. A viewer who is shooting videos on her mobile phone said that she only recorded the phone for 8 minutes last year and it was out of power. This year, she brought a special rechargeable treasure, which must be recorded and forwarded to relatives and friends who did not come to the scene.

    Li Shimin, 65, a high-rise peasant in charge of fireball dancing, is a city-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. Li Shimin has been performing with the dragon dance team in countries and regions for decades. He is a "master class" dragon dancer. "I am very happy to have a family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and play dragon for Taiwan compatriots. We must dedicate good performing arts to the audience in Taiwan. Li Shimin said that as long as there is an opportunity, we should strive for more performances in Taiwan and be good ambassadors to inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

    Chongqing Tongliang Fire Dragon is listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, is one of the ten cultural symbols of Chongqing, known as the "One Dragon of China". According to Qurui, the leader of the delegation, Standing Committee of Tongliang District Committee of Chongqing and Minister of Propaganda, the Tongliang Dragon Dance Team will exhibit six times in Nantou County Yarn Plaza and Nantou Puli Middle School, and carry out cultural exchange activities at the same time. Li Shimin, the inheritor of Tongliang Fire Dragon Performance of Chongqing Municipal intangible cultural heritage, has been engaged in Fire Dragon Performance for more than 40 years. In an interview with a reporter from China News Agency, the 66-year-old said that he hoped to show the essence of Chinese traditional culture to the Taiwanese people. He also welcomed the Taiwanese Dragon Dance Group to exchange with Tongliang in Chongqing to jointly promote Chinese traditional culture. Inheritance.

    Lin Mingqin, head of Nantou County, told reporters that the exhibition attracted about 10,000 people to watch that evening. Cultural exchanges between the two sides are very necessary, which will help promote peace and harmony between the two sides. He expects more and more cultural exchanges between the two sides.

    Guo Yuexiang, a Kaohsiung photographer, took a special tour with his more than 10 friends on the same day to shoot the Dragon show. She told reporters: "Fire dragon performance is very festive, very lively, hope to record a wonderful moment with the camera, but also hope to have the opportunity to visit the Tongliang Fire Dragon Culture in the future."

    That night, the Lantern Festival activities in Taiwan were wonderful. Among them, the Taiwanese Lantern Festival 2018 held in Jiayi County includes water, land and air shows, covering an area of 50 hectares, with a large scale. Lantern Festival combines art, technology and humanities elements to attract tens of thousands of people and tourists.