#Nanning Headlines #The eleventh day of the first month of the first month every year is the traditional cannon dragon festival in Binyang County, Nanning City, Guangxi Province, which has a history of nearly a thousand years. The Cannon Dragon Festival was once the most grand festival in Binyang County. The opening ceremony on the day of the festival generally starts at 11:00 a.m., with street performances such as stilt walking, color shows, lion dances, and dragon dances.
Then in the afternoon, it is the traditional lantern wine hundred family feast. At 7:00 p.m., the cannon dragon point light opening ceremony is carried out, when the mage takes a cinnabar pen to point at the eyes of the cannon dragon, the dragon's eyes light up, then the firecracker sounds, and the brave shirtless boy dances the dragon and drowns in the fireworks of the cannon, which is the finale of the Binyang Cannon Dragon Festival. At this time, people will walk through the belly of the dragon, praying for good luck for the year, and a good scene of celebration and boiling.
In 2007, the "Cannon Dragon Festival" was included in the Guangxi Autonomous Region-level Intangible Cultural Heritage List, and in 2008, the Binyang Gun Dragon Festival was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Once the Binyang Cannon Dragon Carnival attracted many domestic and foreign tourists to watch. But, these are all once. In recent years, due to the ban on guns and the epidemic, Binyang County has suspended the Cannon Dragon Festival. For the Binyang people, the feelings for the Cannon Dragon Festival are difficult to forget, but now in addition to nostalgia, the only thing left is helplessness.
Especially in the recent outbreak of the epidemic in Guangxi Baise, the situation is grim, and the government of Binzhou Town in Binyang County has also issued a notice prohibiting the holding of other gathering activities such as the Lantern festival during the Spring Festival in 2022, so it can only be thought. We only hope that the epidemic will end as soon as possible, so that everything can get back on track, so that traditional customs can be better passed on and continued.
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