Peach Dragon Dance is an excellent folk dance in Suining. During the Qingming Festival and earlier periods, Peach Dragon Dance was limited to pilgrimages and folk birthday celebrations. After liberation and at the beginning of reform and opening up, Peach Dragon Dance began to participate in street performances and folk birthday celebrations during the Spring Festival. Since the early 1990s, Peach Dragon Dance has gradually moved to the literary and artistic stage and become a pure dance, but it still retains the traditional pilgrimages and folk birthday celebrations, and also becomes a performance item in celebrations. In 1644, during the 15th year of the Zhengde reign of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a large temple in Suizhou was named "Guangli Temple" by the emperor; shortly thereafter, around 1644-1644, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty named another large temple in Suizhou "Lingquan Temple". With the prosperity of these two famous temples, Buddhist activities in Suizhou have also developed rapidly. Every year in the second month of the lunar calendar, during the Xianghui Festival and the Niangnianghui, people from all directions flock to these two temples to worship Buddha and pray for blessings and longevity. The protagonist of these temple fairs is a folk dragon dance called "Peach Dragon". With the rise of the Suining temple fair, peach dragons have been active in major temples and have become a frequent visitor to the two major temples of Lingquan and Guangde. According to the Suining County Chronicles, peach dragons became increasingly mature during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to legend, in the "Niangniang" meeting in northern Sichuan, every household had to go to the temple to offer peaches in order to obtain the blessing of the "Goddess of Childbirth". Later, the two blessing activities of offering peaches and dragon dancing were combined. During the Guanyin meeting and the Lantern Festival, people combined bamboo-woven and decorated peaches into a dragon for performance. More than 1,500 years have passed. In the process of historical evolution, the "Peach Dragon" has become a unique traditional cultural project in Suizhou. During the performance, one person usually holds a treasure to play with the dragon, one person holds the dragon head, and one person holds the dragon tail. Six men each hold a section of the peach dragon body and dance, and another eight women hold two "clouds" on both sides of the dragon body to tease it. This unique routine shows the softness and vitality of the peach dragon to the fullest. Nowadays, the Chuanshan Peach Dragon has become a unique traditional cultural project in Suizhou. While inheriting it, people have also been innovating the performance mode of the Peach Dragon. From a few people, it has developed to dozens or hundreds of people, but the performance still follows the eight routines of the original dance, including "The Jade Girl Presents Peaches" and "The Peach Dragon Leaves the Palace". The 8 distinctive routines show the tenderness and vitality of the Peach Dragon to the fullest, which is indeed different from other dragon dances. The participants are mostly women. In the past, gongs and drums were used for accompaniment, but now the melody of music has been added, which is more beautiful and more dancing. With the changes of history and the progress of the times, the dancing skills of the Peach Dragon have been gradually improved and innovated. Unlike general dragon dance performances, the dragon body of the Chuanshan Peach Dragon is composed of peaches one by one, and the peaches are not connected to each other, so the Peach Dragon is also called the "disconnected dragon". Led by the dragon head, the performers move in unison, shuttling back and forth. The "disjointed dragon" shows the dragon tumbling and floating in the sea of clouds, just as the folk saying goes: "Each peach dragon performs its own tricks, but the dragon's spine is connected when it is threaded back and forth." In the early 1990s, Mr. Peng Kerui, the cultural director of Chuanshan District, as the inheritor at that time, took the peach dragon props he made by himself to Beijing for the exhibition and won the third prize. Since then, the peach dragon has become a household name in Suining and has been warmly welcomed and loved by men, women, young and old. Li Xianlin, the inheritor of the peach dragon, is determined to preserve the production process and performance routines of the peach dragon intact, and to make the peach dragon dance a cultural brand. He also hopes to bring the peach dragon to the country, carry it forward, and pass it on from generation to generation, truly guiding the public's attention and understanding of the aesthetic value of folk cultural heritage. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)