The types of dragon dance competitions are individual events and all-around events. Dragon dance competition can be divided into men's group and women's group according to gender. Dragon Dance Competition is divided into adult group (18 years old or older, inclusive), juvenile group (12 years old to 17 years old, inclusive) and children group (12 years old or younger). Dragon dance competition can be divided into grade competitions according to the competition results.

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Competitive dragon dance, one of the dragon dance sports. It has become an official event of large-scale sports events such as the national sports conference. There are also competitions in the world. There are prescribed routines and optional routines in the competition. Each set of routing consists of five types of actions, namely "8", Youlong, threading, tumbling and group drawing modeling. The competition was held on a 20-square-meter field. Each team has 16 players, including a team leader, a coach and 14 athletes (including 4 substitutes and drummers).

Dragon dance mostly completes the entertainment, ups and downs, tumbling, jumping, twisting, weaving and other actions of the dragon in the dynamic progress. Using various postures of the human body, the strength, amplitude, speed and endurance are rubbed into the dragon dance skills to form a beautiful dragon sculpture, showing the essence and charm of the dragon.

Routine arrangement should be rich in content, ingenious in conception, novel in structure and unique in style. The skill, difficulty and innovative movements of dragon dancing conform to the dragon's patterns of spinning, swimming, turning, rolling, wearing, flying, winding and beating. Dragon dance movements should be organically linked with movements, and movements and accompaniment music should be harmonious and unified. The whole routine should not only have ornamental value, but also have the function of exercising and strengthening physical fitness.