Mulao Spring Festival Activity-Dragon Grass Dance

Folk sports and folk entertainment are important parts of national social life. There is no obvious boundary between folk sports and folk entertainment of the Mulao people. The two penetrate and complement each other. Folk sports have entertainment parts, and folk entertainment activities have the nature of folk sports such as wrestling competition and competition skills.

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Grass dragon dancing is one of the Mulao Spring Festival activities, with both sports and entertainment activities.

The method of grass dragons is to weave straw into a long straw curtain, the length of which can be determined by the weaver. It is said that when teenagers saw adults making cloth dragons to celebrate the Spring Festival, they did not have the ability to make cloth dragons and dance cloth dragons, they used straw grass to weave grass dragons to dance. Folklore says that it was the first young people in Dizhoutun, Xiaochang 'an Township. They formed into grass dragons and danced grass dragons around the village on the night of New Year's Eve. They accidentally burned the grass dragons at night. Young people danced this "fire dragon" with a unique sense of humor. Adults couldn't help but participate in the activities. Later, adults also compiled and drafted dragons, and dancing dragons became a full-scale cultural and sports activity.