Sports gathered non -heritage ｜ Ye Xie Dance Cao Dragon Banda Celebrate Mid -Autumn Festival

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This issue of "body gang non -heritage"

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National Non -Heritage Project -Dance Cao Dragon

On the occasion of the Mid -Autumn Festival

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Appreciate the millennium inheritance of Jiangnan rice culture

Feel the good wish of Guotai Min'an

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Dragon is a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese nation and the soul of the Chinese children. There are traditions of dragon dances across the country. Every festival, people will pray for the wind and rain and celebrate the festivals through the way of dancing. There is also a tradition of dragon dance in Songjiang Yexie area, but the difference is that the grass dragon is dancing here, that is, the dragon here is made of straw, and the straw harvest is approaching the Mid -Autumn Festival. Under the background, the folk celebrates one of the customs of the Mid -Autumn Festival.

According to the legend, during the period of Tang Dezong, Ye Xie suffered a major drought. Han Xiangzi, one of the eight immortals in the legend, gave the flute to the Qinglong in the disaster of the hometown, bringing rainfall to the Ye Xie area. Feng Ganlin.

From then on, the local people have been tied into grass dragons every year, and they have gradually become a folk custom in the Yexie area. Later, the grass dragon gradually evolved into various types of dragon light dances, rolling light dances, aquarium dance and other acting forms.

Type a beautiful festival cheerful

The overall performance of Dance Cao Dragon is divided into seven seven -section of "prayer", "Xingyun", "Rain", "Rolling Dragon", "Turning Tail", "Returning to the Palace".

Dance grass dragon is similar to other dragon dance, but not exactly the same. The grass dragon's skeleton is composed of hair bamboo, and the dragon body is woven from glutinous straw. It is about 10 meters long. There is a handle under each section.

The most important thing is the skin of the grass dragon, that is, the raw materials of the dragon scale cannot be a straw for the harvester, but must be the glutinous straw that is cut. Because the artificially cut straw will be soft and tough after drying, it is easier to show the beautiful posture of the grass dragon.

Cao Dragon consists of cow heads, tiger mouth, antlers, snake body, eagle claws, and phoenix tails. Among them, the tiger mouth symbolizes majesty, the bull head symbolizes hard work, the antlers represent health, the phoenix tail represents auspiciousness, while the dancing grass dragon entrusts the people to pray for the wind and the wind and the Guotai people. Beautiful wish. During the dragon dance, seven or eight people held the handle, turned the dragon body, and combined the traditional dragon dance skills and unique sacrifice rituals, such as "blow flute to the dragon" and "praying for water" and so on.

With the continuous development of society, in recent years, Dance Cao Dragon has expanded new expansion in reducing sacrifice rituals and innovative dance forms. It has become an important part of local folk culture and sports and fitness, and has significant leaf -saving features.

Protection and inheritance selected non -heritage

The long history of Songjiang dance grass dragon has also become a symbol of local cultural customs. The old -fashioned roots are the representative inheritors of the Cao Dragon Project. They have learned handmade bamboo edits since childhood. They have a strong interest and solid foundation for Cao Dragon production.

In the 1970s, Fei Tuen studied the production of grass dragons and rolling lanterns with the famous Cao Dragon heir Sun Yuexian. In 1987, he began to participate in the rolling grass dragon production team organized by the cultural station. Over the years, Feitu root has carefully studied the production process of grass dragons, continuously improved innovation according to the actual situation, cultivated successor talents, and also contributed to the declaration of national and municipal non -heritage projects. In 2008, Songjiang Wu Caolong was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

Since then, Ye Xie Town has established a working group to protect the "Dance Cao Dragon" project, actively promoting the protection and inheritance of non -heritage culture, and promoting dancing grass dragons into the community and school. More and more young people have joined the team of dancing grass dragons to contribute to the protection of traditional Jiangnan farming culture.

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