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It's the Lantern Festival soon! As one of the traditional cultural festivals in the mainland, on the day of the Lantern Festival, each region will rejoice and celebrate the Lantern Festival through various folk activities, mainly including flower lantern viewing, eating tangyuan, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, rowing dry boats, twisting rice songs, and playing Taiping drums. In Shiquan, Guizhou, the traditional and simple sons and daughters of the Laolao clan used their traditional festival, the Maolong Festival, to "make" the Lantern Festival "noisy" and noisy.
The Maolong Festival, a traditional festival in Yanming, Longfeng and other villages of the Gelao ethnic group in Longjing, Tangshan and other townships in Shiquan County, Guizhou Province, is a kind of faith and folk activity based on the folk "Dragon God" belief of the Gelao ethnic group, and the activity is from Chinese New Year's Eve to about the sixteenth day of the first month every year. In May 2006, Maolong was included in the "List of the First Recommended Items on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China".
There is no clear historical record of the origin of the "Maolong". Judging from the main production material of the "Maolong" - bamboo, and its performance function of "Seeking Children", the Maolong should originate from the ancient "Bamboo King" worship and fertility worship of the Laolao. According to the "Chronicle of Shiquan County", "lanterns from the Tang Dynasty", in the local area, "Maolong" belongs to one of the "lamps", so it can be speculated that the history of "Maolong" can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. Judging from the main situation of the activities of the "Maolong Maolong" recorded in the "Shiquan County Chronicle" of the Republic of China, until the eve of liberation in the late Qing Dynasty, the "Maolong Maolong" had become popular in the villages of all ethnic groups in the county.
Photo by Yang Daojun
The "Hairy Dragon" has a unique shape, the hairy dragon is shaped like a snake, the tail is like a fish, and the whole hairy dragon is made of four or five hundred fire grass rods, which looks full of hair, which is quite different from other ethnic dragons. In addition, the "Maolong" was originally spread among the People's Republic of China, and later spread to the local Miao, Dong, Tujia and other ethnic groups, and absorbed the excellent culture of other ethnic groups. "Mulao Maolong" is a symbol of the national belief of the Mulao people, which contains totem worship, religious worship and the language, craftsmanship, song and dance of the Mulau ethnic group, which has important research value for the study of the culture of the Gelao ethnic group.
In recent years, around the tenth day of the first lunar month, the county's lantern players will dance maolong to Shiquan County to make a big fuss about the New Year, adding a lot of happy and festive festive atmosphere to Shiquan City and Countryside. At the scene of the dragon dance competition, the gongs and drums were continuous, the yellow smoke rose in the air, the lion dance dragon made the audience stunned, and the hundreds of hairy dragons full of joy rejoiced, showing their skills one by one, showing their wonderful skills.
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