Abstract: Dragon and lion dancing is an excellent traditional sports activity of the Chinese nation. The development of dragon dance in China and the development of dragon dance in our school provide some references and suggestions for the inheritance and promotion of national traditional sports. It is the best cultural heritage of traditional folk customs in China. This paper analyzes and explores the innovation and development of dragon dance, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures.
Dragon is the most sacred animal god in China and a symbol of the Chinese nation. Dragon dance is a traditional folk entertainment and sports activity, which is deeply loved by people all over the country. It is an excellent traditional sports activity of the Chinese nation with a long history. During celebrations and festivals, people often use dragon dances to celebrate and celebrate. Dragon dance? 、? Playing with dragons? 、? Dragon lantern? Wait a minute. What are the main props of dragon dance? Dragon? Dragons are made of grass, bamboo, wood, paper and cloth. The dragon consists of a dragon ball, a dragon head, a dragon body and a dragon tail. The number of dragon joints is odd and auspicious, generally 7, 9, 13, 13, and most of them can reach 29. /kloc-dragons above 0/5 joints are bulky and heavy, which are not suitable for dancing and are mainly used for viewing. It has high technical value. Dragon dance is a beautiful form of dragon dance for 65,438+00 people, including dragon ball, dragon head, dragon body and dragon tail, accompanied by the music of four drummers. 1.995 Since the establishment of the Dragon and Lion Club, it has leaped and somersaulted. The domestic competition system is complete, and the international competition has begun to form a system. China has trained a team of dragon dancers with high sports skills, which has been vigorously promoted in schools. After systematic training, the dragon dance teams in some colleges and universities have made great achievements in various competitions, and have established dragon and lion training teams and scientific research bases in many colleges and universities. As one of the dragon and lion training bases, our school has developed rapidly, and won the gold medal in men's routine, optional routine and all-around event in the third college student dragon dance competition, and the first place in women's lotus dragon and optional routine. In the 4th Dragon Dance Competition for College Students, the Dragon and Lion Team of our school won the gold medals in men's traditional routines, women's routines and optional routines. The Dragon and Lion Team of our school has won more than gold medals 1o, silver medals 1o, etc. In recent years, thanks to the efforts of the Social Sports Guidance Center of the State Sports General Administration and dragon dance enthusiasts all over the world, dragon dance, a folk sports event integrating fitness, entertainment, celebration, competition and education, has developed into a national traditional sports event with a certain social popularity and competitiveness and a national and world-class competition scale.
With China's economic development and social progress, dragon dance should keep pace with the times and be endowed with the significance of the times to meet the needs of people's real life. Therefore, as an excellent traditional cultural heritage with profound traditional cultural connotation, it is necessary and obligatory for us to excavate and sort it out. Through the reform and innovation of traditional dragon dance, including dragon dance equipment, dragon dance is more suitable for high, difficult, beautiful and new sports. The reform and innovation in the form of dragon dance make it more suitable for the development of combining sports with art; By selectively inheriting the cultural connotation of dragon dance, we can endow modern competitive sports with higher, faster and stronger sports cultural concepts, make dragon dance more suitable for the development of modern competitive sports, and realize a more perfect combination of how to effectively inherit and carry forward traditional sports culture.
1 Innovation of traditional dragon dance
1. 1 Innovation of Dragon Dance Sports Equipment
In traditional customs, people think that dragons are the embodiment of good luck. The images of dragons have their own characteristics. Generally speaking, they are made of bamboo, wood, paper and cloth. When dancing the dragon, one person plays with colored balls. Besides, they are made of lotus flowers and butterflies? Venice dragon? Made of benches? Wolong? Wait a minute. In recent years, on the basis of traditional dragon dance equipment, we have reformed and innovated dragon dance equipment according to the requirements of modern competitive sports and people's aesthetic needs. We have initially developed and produced independently? Lotus dragon? . ? Lotus dragon? , is a very clever dragon dance. The dancers danced with lotus leaves in their hands. Lotus flowers are closely connected to form a dragon body, and petals become scales on the dragon body, which is very beautiful. The female lotus dragon is based on the gentleness of women and takes lotus as the main body as the carrier. Under the fusion of certain national music, it shows women's unique ideas such as physical beauty, sports beauty, ideological beauty and cultural artistic conception. Make the dragon perfectly combine with female characteristics and female culture, make it meaningful and make people linger in it. Lotus was originally a symbol of kindness, simplicity and beauty, but it was woven with its petals? Lotus dragon? It reflects the kindness and simplicity of the people of China. Nowadays, according to their own characteristics, many colleges and universities constantly innovate dragon dance equipment and produce many kinds? Lotus dragon? Type. So,? Lotus dragon? This dragon dance is more suitable for the development of modern society through the innovation of equipment.
1.2 Innovation of Dragon Dance Form
On the basis of traditional dragon dance, according to its characteristics and forms, innovative research and practice are carried out on the dragon dance mode, including increasing the difficulty and speed of male dragon dance, mainly including: ① basic development and innovation such as simple straight-line marching curve and walking around the circus, such as Youlong action in aerial modeling? Run a diagonal circle? 、? Take the circus? 、? One person wears a high gantry? Wait a minute. , large range, smooth movement. ② In the dynamic process, longitudinal movement, lateral movement and horizontal rotation are added, such as? The longitudinal curve leaps forward slowly? 、? The vertical curve leaps fast? 、? Flying dragons chasing pearls? 、? In-situ spiral dragon jumping? And then what? Spiral lions and dragons grinding? 、? Big circle? 、? Reverse jumping dragon? Wait; (3) From the performance of ground movements to the performance of pyramid techniques, the field and space of performance have been expanded. Three trays? 、? Dancing dragons on your shoulders? 、? Standing on your shoulder and dancing the dragon? Wait; (4) Combined movements and performances are the main methods, which increase the movement density, increase the physical requirements for athletes and improve the performance effect; ⑤ The combination of various movements, especially the combination of martial arts and dragon dance, increases the movement density, improves the difficulty, increases the performance atmosphere, highlights the spirit, rhyme, meaning and beauty of dragon dance, and makes the dragon dance meet the development needs of modern sports. At the same time, we initially created it according to the traditional dragon dance in Bai Ye? Female lotus dragon? This kind of dragon dance perfectly combines dragon dance with music, dance and instruments, and presents the characteristics of novelty, rhyme, implication and aesthetic feeling of dragon dance. This independent and innovative project has been highly praised by experts and peers in competitions and performances. In 2007, our college was awarded the National Training Base for University Students' Dragon and Lion, and the current president, Professor Tan Weiping, was awarded the Deputy Secretary-General of the National Dragon and Lion Association, which won the honor for huaihua university.
1.3 selective inheritance of dragon dance cultural connotation
Traditional dragon dance has profound traditional cultural connotation. As a universal cultural phenomenon, dragon dance has been handed down from generation to generation in the Chinese nation for one hundred years. It is inextricably linked with China's traditional festival culture, folk culture and religious culture, and is an important part of China's traditional culture. We selectively inherit it and abandon the conservative, entertaining and superstitious culture. Inherit its inner positive and scientific culture. The dragon's brave, loyal and unyielding talent and spirit should be respected by every member of the Chinese nation. The descendants of the Chinese people should continue to carry forward the spirit of the dragon, form our Chinese nation's indomitable spirit of struggle and advocate the moral concept of honesty and loyalty, thus forming the unique spiritual culture and moral norms of the Chinese nation. Dragon dance has a strong vitality among the people, but it needs active efforts to become a modern sport. It is necessary to constantly update the action structure of dragon dance, improve the level of technology and performance, and endow it with higher, faster and stronger sports cultural concepts of modern competitive sports, so that the dragon dance can present cultural connotations of high, new, difficult, spiritual, rhythmic, artistic and beautiful, and make the dragon dance better adapt to the needs of modern sports development.
2 the development prospect of dragon dance
2. 1 material level
The material level is the most easily influenced by social development, but it is also the most obvious level that makes people feel the cultural connotation. As the material level of dragon dance culture, the variation formed by the influence of social development is more direct and obvious. Although the ancient charm of dragon dance equipment still exists, it has been changing in terms of production technology and materials. The change of equipment will affect sports technology to a certain extent, and the modernization of equipment has appeared in previous national minority traditional sports meetings. Facing the competitive development and fierce competition brought by high technology and materials, national traditional sports need to find a balance between the tradition and modernity of materials to make them more ornamental and practical. In order to meet the needs of the times, as one of the representatives of national traditional sports, the equipment and costumes of dragon dance are a window to show national culture. Therefore, we must pay attention to the nationality, tradition and times of material equipment, which is not only conducive to the inheritance of national traditional cultural connotation, but also can show its fresh flavor of the times, keep pace with the times and innovate.
2.2 System level
If we look at the physical, institutional and spiritual levels of sports culture, then the institutional level plays an important role in these three levels, and it has a great restriction and incentive effect on the other two levels. Therefore, the development of dragon dance urgently needs to establish and improve a sound organization to lead and coordinate the organization and management of dragon dance, straighten out the relations in all aspects and adapt to the new situation. Promote its healthy development. 1995 the official establishment of the dragon and lion sports association and the international dragon and lion association marks that the dragon and lion sports have entered a standardized and orderly management track and have been accepted by the world. Under the leadership and organization of the Dragon and Lion Association, a series of systems have been established, such as the training system for senior and intermediate coaches and referees, the training system for dragon and lion management cadres, the examination and approval system for dragon and lion personnel going abroad, the evaluation system for the hometown of dragon and lion sports, the management and assessment system for dragon and lion groups, teams and clubs, and the management system for dragon and lion markets and the assessment system for dragon and lion referees, which have been officially listed in the four categories of national sports events. From June 5438 to February 2003, the Dragon and Lion Branch of China University Sports Association was also announced. The establishment of these dragon and lion associations is of great significance for carrying forward Chinese traditional culture, inspiring national spirit and promoting the popularization and improvement of dragon and lion sports. This also marks that the development of dragon and lion sports has entered a brand-new historical stage. Today, their own dragon and lion organizations have been established in Asia, Europe and America, which are playing an increasingly important role in the further development of the international dragon and lion movement. In order to highlight the characteristics of dragon and lion sports and the need to unite with the world dragon and lion sports organizations in the future, especially to enter the international single sports organizations, it was decided at the Congress of the International Dragon and Lion Association held in Indonesia in February 2006 to rename the International Dragon and Lion Sports Federation. At present, China hosts an international dragon and lion invitational tournament every year, and the International Dragon and Lion Association also hosts an international dragon and lion championship and several international dragon and lion invitational tournaments every year. With the improvement of its system level, the dragon and lion dances have gradually become educational, competitive, market-oriented and international.
2.3 Spiritual level
Dragon dance is the carrier and symbol of China culture. With the improvement of China's comprehensive national strength, China's influence in the world is increasing day by day, and more and more foreign friends come to learn and understand China culture. At present, the dragon dance movement has been internationalized to a certain extent, and more and more foreign dragon dance groups have participated in some international dragon dance competitions, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and other East Asian countries. It also includes Italy, the United States, Canada, France, Brazil and other western countries, and the internationalization of dragon dance is gradually strengthening. The improvement of China's international status is an indispensable factor in the internationalization of dragon dance. With the prosperity of China's national strength, more and more foreigners know about China, like the traditional culture of China, and are eager to have extensive cultural exchanges with China. Overseas Chinese from all over the world are also an important factor in promoting the internationalization of dragon dance. Judging from the people who participated in the international dragon dance competition, there are many people in China, which just shows that they have brought dragon dance, a traditional culture of China, to take root and develop abroad. The charm of dragon dancing is self-evident. I believe that with the progress of history, more foreigners will participate in the internationalization of dragon dance. It will make the dragon dance more scientific, educational and market-oriented, and gradually become a world-wide sports event, which is also of positive significance to the spread of China's traditional sports culture around the world, the promotion of China's soft power and the construction of a harmonious sports and society.
3 Conclusions and suggestions
In recent years, under the new development form of national traditional sports in China, dragon dance, as a traditional sports event with national characteristics, has been excavated, sorted out and standardized by sports authorities at all levels and social sports workers. Dragon dance has also begun to move towards the road of competition, welcoming new development space. In the process of its development, we should emphasize the self-preservation and self-renewal of the dragon dance movement, and realize the unity of tradition and modernity, nationality and world. Efforts should be made to strengthen and improve the standardization, socialization, marketization and fitness of the dragon dance, so that the dragon dance can go global, face the future and serve the national physique and culture.
Governments at all levels and sports authorities should intensify their efforts, give support such as funds, venues and equipment, standardize the dragon and lion market, and adopt ways such as government support for private fund-raising to ensure the healthy and smooth development of dragon and lion sports.