February 5 afternoon, we ride a motorcycle, after more than one hours journey to reach town Huanglongxi. I saw around town were full of parked around the Lantern Festival went to Huanglongxi to vehicles. Decorated the streets, shop business is booming, tourist shuttle is full of a festive and prosperity. Cars just stop, there are many women and children vie with each other to sell us "flower hat," "Flower Necklace" "WATER LANTERNS" and the local native. The Chinese New Year festive atmosphere not seen for many years in front of us.
With understanding "light a fire dragon" Chinese Spring Festival in town Huanglongxi activities are the most well-known and most traditional cultural and sports activities, but also the climax of Lantern Festival activities. Huanglongxi "light a fire dragon" the source to the Eastern Han, Sheng in the Southern Song Dynasty, the era according to legend. "But each Chinese New Year light a fire dragon, fireworks and enlightenment to vice versa. Line of flame high hundred feet, Dragon and the momentum of people Huan-hung," is to "light a fire dragon" a true portrayal. Fire Dragon Force, which has more than 50 years Huanglongxi professional performance history, with its exquisite artistry and unique fireworks formula, Art Institute of Chicago. Town Huanglongxi "light a fire dragon," must do every year, but each is more Huan, has become a local Chinese New Year celebrations of the most important activities.
7:00 or so, we come to the main venue to occupy the best location and found a lot of holding Changqiangduanpao come from all over the shadow photography friends and Sichuan, Chengdu and other television journalists. Lantern Festival activities are not started, which has affected the faithful had been excited. Most fortunate to be in Chengdu Television "Daily News" reporter's head to our Photographic Society conducted a special interview. Q: how do you know that there Huanglongxi Lantern Festival activities? Where you come from? Photographic Society you how many people, how the personnel structure like? Units of the Photographic Society of whether to support you? Your photography funds come from? Photographic Society have carried out all year round you all the photography activities? You to other places put forward a photographic activities? Head-to-11 answered a reporter's question.
Lantern Festival activities include a lion dance, dragon dance and Sichuan opera face changing, fire-breathing performance. But the finale, or "light a fire dragon." I saw people playing the dragon dance dragon dances, imposing and vigorous figure-wai, the audience attentively to enjoy. Dragon who, after a warm-up, more off his coat, naked, cold temperatures in the fire dragon dance at the same time the audience is also holding a special fireworks, fired from all directions dragon fire dragon and the naked people. Fire Dragon It is in this environment, shuttling among the crowd, the atmosphere is very lively. The final event, along with an end after the fireworks extinguished.
Flames burning again after another high tide, and there are no forbidden fireworks ban, visitors have the size of stalls to buy various kinds of fireworks. Small fireworks, big fireworks, and firecrackers pierced the night sky, people were jubilant, the natural ease of playing music until late at night.
Huanglongxi Lantern Festival activities are a must see is the "let WATER LANTERNS", during the Spring Festival, the town will be Huanglong Temple incense peak, particularly in the temple so-called "blessing light", but also by the visitors and welcomed by the letter-doer . It put its own aspirations, and chrono-color eight-character written on paper, be folded into lotus-type, in the middle put a length candles. After the fire, on the river, it downstream Gone, pray for the new year all wishes come true. At this time, at least he saw little lights flashing Shuoshuo, fluttering sway, the river Ying-tung was red.
Late at night, and we seat in the wooden pillars of the pavilion room and gray tiles, while tasting the Huanglongxi snacks, drink two small wine while watching the fireworks and the government from time to time the sky scattered on the river floating WATER LANTERNS. Jubilant Huanglongxi gradually quiet down. In turn the beginning of a new tomorrow, so Huanglongxi town this altar old wine drunk in the night of our being blurred.
