Elephant News reporter Feng Jingwen
Just after the Spring Festival, we are about to usher in another traditional festival in China, the Lantern Festival. The Elephant News reporter learned that the Songshan Mountain Scenic Area located in Dengfeng will present wonderful traditional folk performances for the majority of tourists every day in the Shaolin Scenic Area, Songyang Scenic Area and Zhongyue Scenic Area under its jurisdiction, and the intangible cultural heritage performance programs such as dragon and lion dance, Jin Ying big drum, orangutan monster, dry boat and so on will be brilliantly unveiled in the Songshan Mountain Scenic Area in the World Cultural Heritage Heaven and Earth.
Lion Dance: Songshan Mountain Scenic Area invites the famous Northern Lion descendants to perform a wonderful lion dance program. In the lion dance technique, the northern lion shape resembles a real lion, one female and one male, flexible movements, both mighty and majestic, but also cute, mainly for fun, giving people a lively and cheerful feeling.
Jin Ying big drum: Jin Ying big drum fast rhythm is exciting, mighty and shocking; slow rhythm is delicate, like a spring breeze. Rich in content and colorful shapes, there are more than ten programs and dances such as "Balance Of Prosperity", "Four Seasons of Peace" and "Mountains and Seas", which are the famous intangible cultural heritage of Zhengzhou.
Orangutan Monster: As a unique folk culture element of Dengfeng, the orangutan monster combines with martial arts to produce a new and interesting, ornamental and interactive performance form with Dengfeng characteristics, which is the intangible cultural heritage of Zhengzhou.
Dragon Dance: "Dragon" is a totem worshipped by the Chinese nation for generations, dragon dance is commonly known as playing with dragon lanterns, is the traditional folk culture activities of the Chinese nation, this year, Songshan Mountain Scenic Area invited the famous Yangdian Gaolong. At that time, the double dragons in songshan mountain area will pray for peace and auspiciousness in the year of the tiger in the form of dragon dances such as "dragon swinging tail" and "golden dragon and jade pillar".
Pray for the New Year and welcome the Lantern Festival. The 2022 Lunar Lantern Festival in Songshan Mountain Scenic Area will deeply interpret the essence of Chinese festival culture through large-scale folk activities full of annual flavor, and bring tourists a wonderful, lively, joyful and peaceful intangible cultural heritage performance.