Lion of dance dragon dance, estimate major person experience passes. But use bench to plunge into the long dragon that rise, hundreds Zhuang Hanwu moves the setting that rise, has been your saw with one's own eyes witnessed? Old in the dream of Jiangxi Wu source wife and children is pressed down, in rape blossomy season, I have favour to witness a dance " bench dragon " , will describe with two words: Shake! Bench dragon, just as its name implies, plunge into the long dragon that come out with bench namely. Right, the type of Long Fang of a kind of dance that this is folk of area of river short for Zhejiang Province. Take the board of face of stool of a similar bench, need not install bench leg, on stool face both ends digs two holes each, use hard tea tree club to join next, stool face makes up the 2 lanterns that paper to 3 paper, lantern midpoint burns the candle. Head and end part the bibcock with lofty make it and dragon end, join all bench together when dance dragon, wander in the neighbor that in a Bai Qiang black covers with tiles wave. Bench dragon, renown " Mei Zhu lamp " , traceable of according to legend the area of river short for Zhejiang Province of Chinese generation. Folklore, just encounter big drought in those days, a megalosaurus in the East China Sea sees common people is badly off, spat water to fall a heavy rain. Who knows rile of this one behavior the emperor, the emperor becomes megalosaurus behead a paragraph a paragraph, common people uses the figure of the megalosaurus of stool face mount of bench, one rises repeatedly, still with run form, of invocatory megalosaurus renascent. Dance bench dragon, evolve to be in for folk later the section field activity in the first month of the lunar year, use expression the desire with good weather for the crops of invocatory the coming year, restful discrepancy. After Hangzhou of choose a site for the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, of dance bench dragon consuetudinary be able to bigger promotion. So area of present river short for Zhejiang Province, still have many country, can be in festival of the 10 or 20 days following Lunar New Year's Day dance bench dragon. Of dragon of bench of Wu source folk dance consuetudinary, just secure formerly in the first month of the lunar year, the first month of the lunar year this days 13 " remove dragon " , the first month of the lunar year 15 be " round lamp " , arrived the first month of the lunar year 18 be about " fall the lamp " . Wander when the team of bench dragon at end of village head alley, every family wants " borrow " of bench Long Li " Long Huo " , the bamboo of smoke fireworks and firecrackers that will ignite oneself undertakes setting off, celebrate in order to show together. The bench dragon of Wu source is made very careful, above all every bench face needs 4 feet to grow, 6 inches wide, the lantern of manual work out is installed each on stool face next. The lantern needs colligation to be on stool face, even special firm, wave otherwise when walking, the lantern can drop. What do the hardest of course is bibcock and dragon end, onefold a bibcock, do frame besides the thin bamboo strip that use bamboo, appearance papers the colour paper that go up, still need to draw dragon scale, dragon on paper branchial, deserve to go up even additionally eyebrow of dragon beard, longan, , Long Jiao, Long Zhu. Because of bibcock giant, 6 Zhuang Han need to carrying when waving walk, and bibcock Shanghai should latch with rope made of hemp, the person that rope made of hemp involves when dance dragon goes in the first, the rope made of hemp on the hand is the way that uses advancement of dragon of control plate stool. General dragon end needs favour sb of 4 Zhuang Han, because dragon end wants to be in charge of swinging, shake, and tuck diveseethe is bouncing, carry so the person of dragon end needs normally light-fingered. Once upon a time, dragon of the bench that make is each families that allocate the village, with be being given priority to of one's own accord. Every family needs to press formulary dimension, already made stool range oneself, oneself plunge into a lantern. Can do only, also can make range of a few stool more. If just encounter trouble of the be pregnant in him home, marry for instance, parturient, move to a better place or have a promotion, still can write on the lantern on if blessing. Arrived of dance bench dragon that day. Before the dusk, every family can move his work, will to bibcock issue gather. Next an one section bench is ordinal join rises. One side bench needs an adult to hold accuse, one gives a few pieces of bench, be about to give a few men to come dance bench dragon. Because dance bench dragon is an effort work, the hand grasps a meter of tea tree rod that will grow, dart of from time to time, buckjump of from time to time, 100 meters of dragon bodies that will grow, wave rise inertial very big. In a few countryside of Wu source, still withholding " tear open board " traditional. After the activity that should end dance bench dragon namely, direct dance dragon " patriarchal " make fall, everybody wants the bench stool face oneself to tear open unship to come, carry scale having bench next, in the home that runs back to oneself quickly. Who arrives home the first times, who will get in a new year " dragon " shelter. The dance bench dragon of Wu source is consuetudinary, once had achieved length to amount to the record of kilometre. This I am in Wu source dream the bench dragon that experience of town of old wife and children goes to, share two megalosaurus to dance. The length of dragon of every slat stool is in 105 meters, each have composition of 60 stool face, 120 adult come dance bench dragon. When the performance on the neighbor that when two megalosaurus old in the dream wife and children presses down, square gives dragon, You Long and circle a huge extinct reptile, actually originally capacious place, those who squeeze is watertight. Regard Jiangxi as the project of immaterial culture bequest of the province, perform this in what old wife and children presses down in the dream, it is for annual Wu source cole section of beautiful culture travel begins. Dance dragon, representing people to petition happy and in good health desire, I wish we live each days medium, each person, can " Changlongyi gives bench, happy and lucky dream is round " . Author brief introduction: Liu Jianhua photographs (cameraman, traveler, from media person)