Craft dance skill

    Tonglianglong's exquisite production and excellent dancing skills can not be separated from several old artists, but also from Tongliang people who like this sport. "Even if there are hundreds of dragons, we can recognize a dragon in Tongliang." At the first meeting, Zong Heyun, curator of Tongliang County Cultural Center, told reporters. I thought it was just an exaggeration, but when I saw dozens of photos, the reporters found that it was true. Take the tap for example, the Dragon elsewhere has a big mouth half-open, only the Tongliang dragon's mouth open nearly 90 degrees, mouth contains treasure, dignified and benevolent appearance. The dragon's gorgeous body is red and yellow. It's 48 meters long and more than 100 meters long. It's much bigger than other dragons. Fire dragons and competitive dragons are also more exquisite than other dragons. Speaking of it, the development of Tonglianglong today is inseparable from the efforts of three old people - Jiang Yulin, Zhou Jun'an and Fu Quantai. They are the representatives of Tongliang Dragon Zha system in the 1980s. Unfortunately, only Fu Quan Tai is still alive today. He is also the inheritor of Tonglianglong intangible cultural heritage.

    "Jiang Yulin's foundation is solid and his material is exquisite. His dragon skeleton is better. Unfortunately, his son failed to learn his craftsmanship and his craftsmanship was lost after his death. Zhou Jun'an is also from primary school Zhalong. His dragon is elaborate. After his death, his descendants inherited his craft. Fuquan Tai, 75, recalled her colleagues and explained to reporters in detail the changes in the technology of Longzha Tongliang. "At the beginning of the founding of New China, there were paper bundles in the county. Paper bundlers usually made paper bundles for sacrificial purposes, and at New Year's Day, they made dragons. At that time, Tongliang dragon only tied a tap, and the dragon body was tied together with ropes and sticks instead, stressing godlike. Slowly, paper makers began to use bamboo strips to tie shelves, cotton paper on the outside, and then paint scales, dragon fins, forming a complete dragon. The colors are mostly red, yellow and blue, so that the Tongliang dragon has a simple and elegant temperament.

    Fu Quan Tai still remembers that when he was young, he went to school to read the paper. It was this hobby that allowed him to give up the work of high school teachers and onto the way of paper artists. In 1986, Fu Quan Tai set up an individual Zhalong factory in the county, Tongliang Anju paper mill factory. With his own workshop, Fu Quantai thought: the original dragon mouth does not contain treasure, it seems empty, if you want to contain treasure, the dragon mouth must be opened a little bigger to look good, in this way, Tonglianglong mouth into today's nearly 90 degrees of large mouth; the original dragon body with cotton paper paste, easy to damage, he tried to use gauze paste, No. Good-looking, later discovered.