Orders have been placed in the Lantern Festival, and Fenghua Bulong’s orders have exploded.

　　"year of the loong Spring Festival orders burst! Our whole family is too busy to mobilize. "

　　The son dances dragons, the daughter designs dragons, and the wife makes dragons … Every Spring Festival, the family of Chen Xingguo, the national inheritor of Fenghua Bulong, also ushered in the busiest moment of the year.

　　Dragon dance orders are scheduled for the Lantern Festival.

　　"Our dragon dance team is busier this year than in previous years, and the orders are scheduled for the Lantern Festival. This year, we received an invitation from Huizhou, Guangdong Province. " Chen Liangliang, the son of Chen Hangguo and the provincial inheritor of Fenghua Bulong, estimated that there were two performances every day in recent days.

　　This year is year of the loong, and dragon dancing has become an indispensable "standard".

　　Recently, the Fenghua Tiaozhai Dragon Dance Team, headed by Chen Liangliang, presented a wonderful dragon dance performance to the audience at the opening ceremony of the non-legacy market in Nantang Old Street.

　　The Dragon Ball moves up and down in the hands of the dragon dancers. The dragon dancers follow the rhythm of the Dragon Ball, sometimes leaping and rising, sometimes swimming and hovering, making the dragon seem to have life.

　　During the performance, the dragon dancers also changed their formations from time to time, sometimes jumping and sometimes sneaking, showing the shape and charm of the dragon to the fullest.

　　"No shortage of orders, lack of people! Our dragon dance team has a full schedule. " When interviewed by reporters, Chen Liangliang and his teammates were on their way to the next village to perform.

　　Careful observation of Chen Liangliang’s palm shows that the yellowing calluses are particularly obvious, which are left by holding the dragon pole all the year round.

　　Chen Liangliang said that the most common thing his father said to him was that the key to dragon dancing is to make the dragon "live", not only in action, but also in expression. There is no shortcut, only persistent training.

　　Chen Liangliang studied dragon dancing with his father since he was a child. He began to dance dragon in Tiaozhai Primary School at the age of 7. At the age of 26, he became an international referee and coach for dragon and lion dancing. Now he is a provincial non-genetic inheritor, which has provoked the burden of inheritance and innovation of Fenghua Bulong.

　　"On the basis of traditional retro routines, we have arranged some new movements, especially combined with local elements in Fenghua, not only to dance with vigor, but also to dance with characteristics, so as to make everyone shine." Chen Liangliang revealed that he is currently studying how to combine Fenghua Bulong with Fenghua’s specialty peaches to create a set of "Peach Blossom Dragons".

　　This year, Fenghua Bulong will also carry out in-depth cooperation with Tencent’s mobile games, which is the first case of cross-border cooperation between Ningbo Intangible Heritage and e-sports games.

　　By then, Fenghua Bulong’s cultural elements, performance routines and the image of the inheritor will be reflected in the game, so that more young people can understand, love and spread the legacy.

　　Young people relay to hold up the banner of dragon dance

　　For Chen Xingguo’s family, making and dancing Bulong is a matter of persistence and inheritance.

　　Chen Xingguo, who is 65 years old this year, has been attached to dragon dancing for nearly 50 years. "Our Chinese nation is a descendant of the dragon. My greatest wish is to hope that Fenghua Bulong can be passed down for a long time and carry forward the spirit of the dragon."

　　"I am relieved that there are successors!" Now, Chen Xingguo is extremely proud to see his son Chen Liangliang become the soul of the Dragon Dance Team, taking the Dragon Dance to a bigger stage, and his daughter Chen Jingjing opening a shop in Taobao and pushing Fenghua Bulong to the world.

　　At present, the "Chen Dragon" produced by Chen Xingguo’s family has broken more than ten thousand pieces, which not only swims in the land of China, but also has been exported to more than ten countries such as the United States, Britain, South Korea, Spain, Japan, Singapore and Turkey, and the dragon culture has also spread all over the world.

　　The Dragon Dance Team of Tiaozhai Village in Fenghua, led by Chen Liangliang, not only inherited the excellent traditional routines and skills of Fenghua Bulong, but also introduced new modeling movements and routines. At present, the Dragon Dance Team consists of 22 young adults, the oldest being 38 years old and the youngest being only 17 years old.

　　Last year, Tiaozhai Village Dragon Dance Team participated in the warm-up performance of the opening ceremony of the 4th Asian Paralympic Games in Hangzhou, and together with several other dragon dance teams from all over the country, staged a wonderful "Hundred Dragons War".

　　"This is an opportunity for Fenghua Bulong to go global. We all hope to present the charm of Fenghua Bulong in the most perfect state, and it is worthwhile to work hard and get tired again." Chen Liangliang, who was the leader, recalled the training scene at that time.

　　In January this year, Chen Liangliang was invited to participate in the 11th annual exhibition "Dragon and Lion Dance Training Course" in He Xinchun, North and South Tianshan Mountains, and carried out the teaching work for half a month. This is the farthest footprint of Fenghua Bulong in China.

　　"I feel very honored to be invited to Fuhai County, Altay, Xinjiang, which is more than 4,000 kilometers away from Fenghua, and to bring the traditional culture of my hometown to the northwest of the motherland." Chen Liangliang introduced that he took 75 class hours of training, trained more than 130 students, and set up six dragon dance teams for the local area.

　　Fenghua Bulong has not only attracted much attention in China, but also "flew" to the international stage many times: he went to London, England to participate in the cultural exhibition of the Olympic Games, the performance of Shakespeare’s Drama Festival, and went to South Korea to participate in the "Daegu Colorful Celebration", which made Fenghua Bulong shine on the international stage.

　　Chen Liangliang leads Fenghua Bulong to perform in South Korea.　

　　"I want more people to know about dragon dance. Now dragon dance is not only a traditional culture and art, but also a sports event. We have also promoted it to kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and even universities." Chen Liangliang said.

　　Chen Liangliang, who has deep affection for dragon dance, made his twins join the dragon dance team.

　　"When I was in kindergarten, my father gave me a stick and asked me to start from the basic skills of the eight-character dragon dance. It took several hours to practice. Now I also give my child a stick. This tradition should start with dolls. " Chen Liangliang said, I have always kept in mind my father’s words, "What my ancestors left behind, if I don’t do it, it will be gone."

　　Dragon dance moves constantly bring forth the old and bring forth the new, making Fenghua Bulong’s performance more colorful; The members of the dragon dance team have new faces one after another and become younger, which makes Chen Xingguo particularly happy: "Young people have already held up the banner of dragon dance."