What's wrong with burning dragon lanterns? How can there be such a pervert?

Playing dragon lanterns (dragon dancing) is a traditional activity in Guanghan to celebrate the New Year, which is deeply loved by the masses. There are many dragon lantern teams in towns and villages. In ancient times, people regarded dragons as auspicious gods. Playing dragon lanterns is not only to pray for good weather in 1 year, but also to have a festival to enjoy the country and enrich the people. Dragon lanterns are played from the fifth day of the first month to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. They are often baptized by fire in towns, streets and fields, and some are burned in the yards of rich people. Whether a dragon dance is good or not is the second, and whether it can stand fire or not is the key. Because it can stand the fire, the unit that runs the lamp will be glorious, otherwise it will lose face. Therefore, it is very important to choose the dragon lantern team, and special attention should be paid to the members who sing the leading role. If other members are burned, they can be replaced temporarily, and the leader and tail should not be replaced. Otherwise, this is "loose belt". Among them, the people who play the dragon tail dress up as "three sides" in the play, and their manners are harmonious and interesting. The dragons danced by other members are linked together, which can block some sparks and burn the body when dancing. The dragon's tail is a single knot, and people love and pay more attention to this kind of foot color. They should pay special attention when setting off fireworks. Even if you get burned, you should behave innocently or have another fun (such as twisting your waist and hips, swinging a broom, hanging bean sprouts and garlic seedlings on your ass, etc.). ) to show the "hard elbow" of this throwing team.

Lantern Festival is very lively. Since dusk, a dragon lantern parade has been performing in various towns and urban areas, beating gongs and drums and carrying red gauze lanterns with the words "Dragon Lantern Festival" (some lanterns are marked with the names of the docks or gangs that operate lanterns). If someone stops you, stop dancing on the spot and accept the light. People hang firecrackers with long poles and light them. They extend firecrackers to the dancing dragon lantern and explode. Some people violently aim at the dragon lantern (naturally, there is a certain distance) with sticky combustible materials such as special fireworks, iron spray, "Didi Jin", pig coat cells (including gunpowder, rosin, sulfur, butter or bacon, and even fine iron sand). These fireworks are colorful, and the saltpeter of fireworks is like falling English. It is sticky and hot when sprinkled on clothes and body. Skin burning bubbles, clothes burning holes and dragon lanterns burning holes are common things, and they are the climax of lantern burning.

Dragon lanterns roll in the smoke of loud gongs and drums and sparks, the crowd clamors and shouts, the people who burn the lanterns laugh and are excited, and they don't "diarrhea" when they burn, and sometimes they shout "Let's burn". The most lively center in the evening is in the county town, watching the lively speculation with lanterns. Some streets are covered with traces of smoking pipes, and dragons and their members are burnt and scarred. It was not until late at night that the crowd began to disperse and the dragon lantern team ended up going home. As the saying goes, "burning dragons, burning fireworks, burning today, red for a whole year."

Since the 1980s, during the Chinese New Year, the number of folk dragon lanterns in counties and towns has been increasing, and those who burn dragon lanterns have reappeared, but the scale is far less than before.