Title: The cultural background of performing a dragon dance
Abstract: During festivals,one of the most common programes to express happiness and wishes is to wave dragons ,which is a part of Chinese traditional culture ,whose origin ,design and technigues all contain cultural contents .This paper aims to explore the prototype of dragon in reference to archaeological material and written documents,believes that it is a combination of many animals,especially Yan-Huang's Totem .Chinese is a descendant of dragon,and therefore the meaning of dragon-waving, which shows that people worship dragon.This belief has observed from the upperclass to the folk,has a positive effect upon strengthening the cohesive forces of our nation.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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