Dragon dance is a unique folk entertainment activity in China. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, China has the custom of dragon dancing in both urban and rural areas. After thousands of years of development, dragon dance has become a kind of folk dance with lively form, beautiful performance and romantic color.
Dragon dance originated from people's superstition about dragons and has a history of more than two thousand years. In ancient times, people used dragon dancing to pray for the blessing of dragons, so as to achieve the purpose of good weather and abundant crops. In modern times, with the migration of China people, the dragon dance spread all over the world. Nowadays, no matter where China people live, there are dragon dances.
There are many ways to play dragon dance, among which the trick within nine knots is the key. The common moves are: dragon swimming, dragon drilling, head and tail drilling, dragon wagging its tail and snake molting. The dragons in sections 1 1 and 13 focus on action performance. The golden dragon chased the orb, jumped up, sometimes flew into the clouds, and sometimes broke the waves into the sea, which was very beautiful.
The custom of dragon dancing has also developed overseas. Whenever people in China have traditional festivals and major celebrations, they will dance lions and play with dragon lanterns, showing a strong oriental atmosphere.