Dragon lantern dance, also known as dragon dance and dragon lantern dance, is a unique Chinese folk entertainment. From Spring Festival to Lantern Festival, there are dragon lantern customs in vast areas of China's urban and rural areas. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, dragon lantern playing has become a kind of Han dance with lively form, beautiful performance and romantic color.

    On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, besides making lanterns, guessing riddles and eating Lantern Festival, there are also customs of playing Dragon lanterns, dancing lions and walking on stilts among the Han people in China.

    Dragon lantern is also known as "Dragon Dance", also known as "dragon lantern dance". It is a unique traditional Chinese folk entertainment. Playing dragon lantern is quite common among Han Chinese in Han Dynasty. In the performance of "social fire" and "dance team" in Tang and Song Dynasties, "playing Dragon Lantern" is a common form of performance. The dragon lantern show includes two kinds: "single dragon play ball" and "double dragon play pearl". In playing tricks, styles vary from place to place.

    The dragon lantern originated from the superstition of the dragon. It has a history of more than two thousand years. In ancient times, people used dragon dance to pray for the dragon's protection, so that they could get wind and rain, and grain could be plentiful.

    The custom of dragon dance has been developed and flourishing among overseas Chinese. Whenever Chinese people hold traditional festivals and major celebrations of the Han nationality, they will dance lions and play dragon lanterns, showing a strong oriental spirit.

    "Dragon lantern" has been quite common among the Han Dynasty. Dragon lantern playing was a common form of performance in the "social fire" and "dance team" performances in the Tang and Song dynasties. In the Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's Dream Liang Lu, it is recorded that Linan, the capital of Xingdu in the Southern Song Dynasty (now Hangzhou) "The night of Lantern Festival..." The grass bound Jackie Chan, with the green curtain covering the grass, all the lamps and candles were placed, and looked like a winding dragon like a dragon. The ancient Chinese people created the image of dragon for their good wishes. According to legend, the ancients named dragon, Phoenix, unicorn and tortoise as four spirits. Beautiful and colorful, with soft and soft lines. In the long history, it shines with unique artistic brilliance. As early as the Shang and Yin dynasties, there were dragon patterns on bronzes and bones, and the dragon pattern of Zhou Dai's bronze ware had gradually become complete.