Jiangning has a profound historical and cultural heritage
The cultural and natural heritage is endless
The Year of the Dragon is coming
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Let's go to find the "dragon" hidden in Jiangning
in Nanjing
All kinds of dragon lanterns are prevalent
Danyang dragon lantern in Hengxi street
It is one of the most popular ones
Danyang dragon lantern with bamboo strips tied to the head and tail and coiled into a dragon body, from the beginning to the end of the dragon clothes, guided by dragon balls, the dragon head drives the whole body to shake and roll. The performance team often has more than 200 people, and it is vast and magnificent.
Danyang Dragon Lantern participated in the 2020 Hengxi Street "Rural National Tide Cultural Festival".
The Yokoxi Hand Dragon Show is one
Very lively program
Every Spring Festival
The Hengxi Dragons will walk the streets
Perform a show
The representative dance "Hand Dragon Leaping Hengxi" was completed by 38 art lovers in the street, and its creativity, music and dance are cultural, regional and contemporary.
The dancer holds a wooden stick in each hand and opens the dragon in his hand, and the dragon dances smoothly, cheerfully and flexibly. Each small dragon is connected together to form a huge long dragon, the whole performance is lively and jubilant, the traditional folk customs and modern square dance are perfectly combined, and it is a typical representative of Jiangning regional folk culture.
In the valley
There is a special traditional dragon dance
Bench dragon (bench dragon lamp)
The bench dragon in the valley is tied with bamboo strips to tie the head and tail, the colored silk is pasted, the oil paint (or watercolor) outlines the dragon head and the dragon tail, and the 11 wooden boards are connected into the dragon body, and the dragon head and the dragon tail are connected into one.
As the gongs and drums beat rhythmically, the bench dragon sometimes meanders along, sometimes coils in circles, and sometimes holds its head and tail high. The bench dragon is rich in appeal, and the performance is not limited to the venue, integrating artistry, ornamentation and entertainment.
In Jiangning
There are also many place names named after the word "dragon".
Let's find out
According to folk legend, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the traitor Wang Mang usurped the throne, and Liu Xiu, a powerful man in Nanyang, led his clan to revolt and join the Green Forest Army to oppose Wang Mang and kill corrupt officials. In order to expand his strength, Liu Xiu went to Huaiyin and Jiangdong to recruit troops and horses, and Wang Mang personally led a large army to suppress it. In a battle, Liu Xiu was outnumbered and fled. He rode alone to the side of a fast-flowing mountain stream in today's Flower Arrangement Temple Village, and the sound of chasing and killing behind him started again. At this critical juncture, I saw a mountain village woman with a small yellow flower on her head coming across the bridge. When he was in a hurry, Liu Xiu hurriedly dismounted and asked for help. The village aunt listened to it and asked Liu Xiu to hide in the bridge hole...... thus escaped Wang Mang's pursuit. A few years later, Liu Xiu became the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty and named the small bridge where he was hiding "Hidden Dragon Bridge".
Now the Tibetan Dragon Bridge is located in the north of the Flower Arrangement Bridge, next to the Zanglong Ditch Waterway, the beginning of the construction of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the current bridge is the ancient building of the Qing Dynasty.
Bailong Bridge is located in Baijia Lake, Jiangning. Legend has it that there was a white dragon incarnated as a white-clothed boy who lived in the center of the lake in Baijia Lake, so it was named Baijia Lake, and later moved to the lake to live in more than 100 households, before it was renamed Baijia Lake. Baijia Lake is blessed by the white dragon, the lake water is clear, the water and grass are abundant, the land on both sides is fertile, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment.
Photo: Xu Jie
Photo: Wang Li
Jiulong Lake starts from Niushou Mountain River in the north, reaches the Jiulonghu Campus of Southeast University in the south, borders Shuanglong Avenue in the east, reaches Suyuan Avenue in the west, and is divided into North Lake, Middle Lake and South Lake by Qingshuiting West Road and Chengxin Avenue in turn, with a total storage capacity of about 2.2 million cubic meters, a water area of about 111.69 hectares, and a total length of about 11.5 kilometers of lake shoreline.
Photo: Lin Kun
In 2000, it was excavated, dredged and connected by Ximao Lake, Dahu Lake and other lakes. Because the lake is multi-puffy, it resembles nine dragon claws, so it is renamed today.
Photo: Chen Qing
Jiulong Lake has become an ecological corridor around the lake around Jiangning citizens, a characteristic citizen park integrating leisure and fitness, ecological walking, holiday tourism and cultural experience, and has become a "new landmark" for check-in.
Qinglong Mountain is tortuous because of the mountain situation, like a dragon circling
In addition, the mountain stone is blue, hence the name
Southwest-northeast trending
It is 15 km long and 2 km wide
Photo: Uncle Long's migraine
Qinglong Mountain has Wugang Mountain, Xiaomao Mountain and so on
Peaks above 200 meters above sea level
The main peak is 277 meters above sea level
The mountain is mainly composed of limestone and sandstone
Among them, the limestone is thick and pure
The foothills are densely vegetated
It produces a variety of precious Chinese medicinal materials
Photo: Uncle Long's migraine
Huanglongxian is located in the territory of the archway community of Jiangning Street, a mountain range near is called Huanglongxian, according to legend, there was a divine dragon in the territory, Liu Ji was captured by Ming Taizu, the dragon was hidden in the cave, and later called this mountain chong as Huang (homophonic "emperor") dragon.
Huanglongxian is known as "the heart of the Yangtze River, Huanglongxian tea" and "the first village of Jinling tea culture and leisure tourism", and has won the title of China's most beautiful leisure village, China's rural tourism model, etc., and the place name of Huanglongxian has also been selected as "Jiangsu Province Geographical Names Cultural Heritage".
Longshang Village is located in the northwest of Tangshan Street, located in the Qinglong Mountain and Dalongshan Canyon area, with a mountain forest area of 16,000 acres.
Shuanglong Avenue has a total length of 10,300 meters and originates from Shuanglong Street. Shuanglong Street is an old street village, with long hills on both sides, resembling two dragons, hence the name.
Longmian Avenue is 11,930 meters long, which means that students studying in Jiangning University Town recuperate and succeed in their studies.
Since January 30, the Jiangning Museum has selected 10 pieces/sets of treasures featuring dragons and exhibited them in the exhibition halls of "Thousand Autumns of Jiangning" and "Merry Eastern Jin Dynasty", where the public can enjoy the museum's crawling and coiling, or smart and lovely dragon pattern cultural relics up close, deeply explore dragon culture, and explore the "dragon in the museum".
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Dragon-related elements?
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