The Fire Dragon Festival in Fenshuiling Town, Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, is unique among the national dragon cultural activities. It is an outstanding representative of Chinese dragon dance culture, with a long historical origin and rich cultural heritage. The Fire Dragon Festival in Fenshuiling Town was listed in the Sichuan Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2008. The Fire Dragon Festival in Fenshuiling originated from the folk legend "Young man Zhang of Fenshui burned the evil dragon with fire". Legend has it that in ancient times, there was an evil dragon in Fenshuiling, which was covered with fire, the land was cracked, and the seedlings died. The young man Zhang of Fenshui fought with the evil dragon for three days and three nights and burned the evil dragon to death in the "Dragon Lantern Field" in Gongwan, the town. From then on, the weather was good and the crops were abundant. In order to pray for a good harvest and the safety of people and animals, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1863), the gentry surnamed Ye in Gongwan took the lead and founded the Fire Dragon Festival, which was voluntarily participated in and jointly organized by the gentry and the people. Since then, the Fire Dragon Festival has been held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, and has been passed down from generation to generation. After three generations, it was transferred to the street village of Fenshuiling Township, and evolved from family inheritance to the current social inheritance. In 2013, the township was abolished and the town was established, and it was now hosted by the Fenshui Community of Fenshuiling Town. The "Fenshuiling Town Fire Dragon Festival" is a mass sports and cultural activity formed by local people in their long-term farming production and life to pray for a good harvest, with dragon dancing and burning fire dragons as the carrier. The Fire Dragon Festival shows the confidence, wisdom and strength of the people of Fenshuiling to conquer nature and create a happy life, and expresses the good wishes of praying for a good harvest and the safety of people and animals. Every year, starting from the eighth day of the first lunar month, the lamp pole is erected, and dragon dancing is performed every day. The "burning fire dragon" reaches its climax at night on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and ends on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month when the dragon is "sent to the sky". On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival is celebrated. The influence of the "burning fire dragon" in Fenshui has spread to surrounding provinces and cities such as Chongqing, Yibin, and Guizhou. Every year, more than 10,000 people come here to participate in the "burning fire dragon". The production process of the fire dragon: The fire dragon is made of bamboo, cotton paper and special ropes and tendons, and its structure is "four parts and nine sections". The "four parts" are the dragon treasure, the dragon head, the dragon body and the dragon tail. The dragon treasure is about 40 cm in diameter and is embedded in a 50 cm diameter treasure frame decorated with colorful silk flowers. It can be rotated and decorated with lights; the dragon head is high and majestic, and the dragon eyes are large and bright; the dragon body is 22 meters long and divided into nine symmetrical sections. When dancing dragon lanterns and burning fire dragons, the bamboo handle under each section is handled by an artist. Two fire dragons and one colorful dragon are made every year. Each fire dragon requires two shifts of people to dance alternately, plus drummers, lobsters, goldfish, etc., the whole team has more than 100 people. The Fire Dragon Festival in Fenshuiling Town started in the second year of the Tongzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty. After more than a hundred years of historical erosion and selection, it has formed an inherent procedure, including eight ceremonies of opening the eyes, inviting water, returning to the mother's home, paying New Year's greetings, lining up in the streets, filling the dragon, burning the dragon and sending the dragon. It is a large-scale mass cultural activity with the content of entertaining gods and people, and the burning of the fire dragon as the carrier. It contains Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism culture, and integrates Sichuan opera, flower guns, flower boats, quick-talking, lantern riddles and many other traditional cultural contents. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the elders and villagers of Fenshuiling Town held a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the fire dragon with joy, and the "Fire Dragon Festival" and the Lantern Festival Spring Festival activities kicked off. The 22-meter-long fire dragon was led by 12 senior folk artists wearing straw hats, red silk clothes, white silk pants, and black cloth shoes. They came to the memorial pavilion under the guidance of a team of emcees in Taoist robes to hold an opening ceremony, praying for good weather, good harvests, and people's happy lives in the new year. During the ceremony, a local celebrity or official with high moral character will hold a brush to dot the dragon's eyes. After the opening ceremony, water invitation and return ceremony on the ninth day of the first lunar month, the dragon dancer will bring the fire dragon to pray for the people in his hometown to the sound of gongs and drums. The people will hang red silk, light candles, set off firecrackers and put New Year's greeting money on the benches to welcome the arrival of the fire dragon, bring good luck and happiness to their homes, and pray for a good harvest and the safety of people and animals. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the highlight of the "burning fire dragon" officially begins. The dragon dancer will dance the fire dragon through the streets of the entire watershed, and people from all over the surrounding villages will rush here to set off firecrackers and fireworks at the dragon head and body. In the open space next to it, a "iron flower" performance will also be held at the same time. The Fire Dragon Festival ceremony of Fenshuiling Town integrates Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and contains the cultural connotation of the unity of man and nature and the benefit of mankind. It has the value of folk culture research and folk custom research; it integrates bamboo strips, paper cutting, music, drama and other artistic elements, and has high aesthetic value and viewing value; the Fire Dragon Dance and Fire Dragon Burning in Fenshuiling are folk entertainment activities in the auspicious and blessing seasons. The atmosphere is warm and exciting, showing the spirit of unity, cooperation and hard work of the people of Fenshuiling. It is a precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation and has great social value and tourism development value. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)