Source: Suining Cultural Tourism
Incense candles, firecrackers, red and colorful, prayers like waves... In a sonorous drum beat of Sichuan opera, a strong old man with white eyebrows held aloft the dragon head and stood in the middle of the empty flat dam in front of the temple.
Bow down and bow your head. Drums beat, dry dragon dances.
The bamboo dragon head has a convex eye and a flying horn; the bamboo dragon body is round and solid, and the golden scales are sparkling. In the gentle and urgent sound of gongs and drums, the dragon head churned mightily, the dragon's body shuttled with it, and the ten sections of the dry dragon became one, and the dance was beautiful and exuberant. The crowd of onlookers laughed and chased, using scoops and pots as tools, and poured water on the dry dragon. For a moment, laughter and joy were like songs, water splashed like fog, a dragon swallowed clouds and spit fog, soaring and churning between the terrifying waves...
The Dry Dragon is an intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province. It refers to the folk dragon dance that originated and spread in the surrounding areas of Ganping Village, Anle Office, Daying County, Suining City, Sichuan Province, and Zhuo Guanjing Town.
The Road to the Dry Dragon has a stone carved dragon king, a bamboo dragon with seven or ten knots, and a bamboo dragon head.
When playing the dry dragon, with the accompaniment of the dragon dance gong and drum, some artists carry the dragon king, some artists dance the bamboo dragon head, and some artists dance the bamboo dragon, and the dance posture is elegant and spectacular. The artists raised their dragon heads and danced in front of the Dragon King Temple, and some prime-aged men brought spring water from the Dragon King's well and poured them on the Dragon King.
The main dragon dance sets are: five dragons returning to the position and dragon tumbling.
Five Dragons Return: The Five Dragons Return is that the dragon head starts from the center point, and heads up to the east, west, south and north respectively, and the dragon body swings accordingly, and after completing the east, west, south and north positions, it returns to the center point at the original beginning.
Dragon Tumbling: Dragon tumbling is a long dragon that rolls back and forth clockwise and counterclockwise in a circle.
