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Chinese Dance · Dragon Dance · SE10116
Tongliang Dragon Dance
Home of the great wriggling dragon and the fire dragon
On a dry, cracked plain, eight men in blue robes hold poles to lift a long blue-scaled dragon, while onlookers stand before an earthen altar with a banner. A man at right beats a large drum, with hills beyond.
Introduction
Arose in the Ming; ten dragon-lantern dances and twelve coloured-lantern dances
The Tongliang dragon dance belongs to Tongliang in Chongqing; it arose in the Ming dynasty and reached its height in the Qing. In 2006 it entered the first national list of intangible cultural heritage as the Tongliang item of dragon dance. Its repertoire falls into two series, ten dragon-lantern dances such as the great wriggling dragon, the fire dragon, the straw dragon and the lotus dragon, and twelve coloured-lantern dances such as the carp leaping the dragon gate. The great wriggling dragon is the most distinctive, and sixty pupils of the Tongliang vocational school have rehearsed with two of them, each about 80 metres long. In the fire-dragon show, craftsmen fling molten iron into the air and strike it with wooden boards so that it bursts into showers of sparks. Since the 2022 Spring Festival several of the dragon and lantern dances have been staged together in the outdoor show Chasing Dreams: Tongliang Dragon, which had passed sixty performances by the end of 2023.