Introduction of Yueqing Jewelry Dragon Works

The "Yueqing Jewelry Dragon" collected by the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center was carefully built by China arts and crafts master, national intangible cultural heritage inheritor Lin and his son Lin Shunkui, which took more than 300 days. The work is about 5m long, 3m high and 2m wide. The dragon body is divided into four layers, with more than 80 pavilions. It has condensed more than 80 plays such as "The List of Gods" and The Journey to the West, and nearly 300 ancient and modern figures of different shapes are dancing. It also reproduces the vivid scenes of 36 industries such as grinding noodles, striking iron and fortune telling. Full of fun and funny, it seems to be a vivid picture of Yueqing folk customs.

Yueqing Jewelry Dragon, a wonderful flower of traditional folk art in Yueqing, was collected by the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of the Chinese Academy of Art. In 2006, Yueqing Jewelry Dragon and Yueqing Dragon File, which were collected by the National Academy of Art, were exhibited in the newly-built exhibition hall of the National Grand Theatre together with intangible cultural heritage products from all over the country. In September 2007, Jewel Dragon arrived in Beijing as an exhibition of achievements in the protection of China's intangible cultural heritage. Experts from China Academy of Fine Arts were deeply attracted, and immediately expressed their desire to collect this jewel dragon. They believe that the jewel dragon is a living folk picture scroll, a flowing sculpture and an active art exhibition, and a manifestation of national artistic creativity. Jewel Dragon, where did the name come from? "It's always been called that." Lin Shunkui said, "Every Lantern Festival, the jewelry dragon must rank first in the parade, and then other performances, so it is called' first'. The jewelry dragon has many decorative parts, so it has the word' decoration'." Every Lantern Festival, the jewel dragons in each village will take a parade and people's blessings and travel around the eight townships, where gongs and drums are everywhere. Because jewelry dragons generally weigh five or six hundred Jin, people can only push them with trolleys. "We usually install more than 200 small light bulbs and more than 200 small round mirrors on dragons. It is said that this can drive away monsters. " Lin Shunkui said that there is a power supply device in the dragon. After electrifying, the jewel Long Bian is glittering and dazzling. After the parade, the villages will send the jewel dragons to the temples and burn them with fire. This is to send a dragon to heaven, and sprinkle sesame seeds and mung beans to express blessing. Lin Shunkui recalled that when I was a child, every village had to hold a competition to gather the jewelry dragon in a venue for the villagers to evaluate the craftsmanship of the jewelry dragon. The master with the best craftsmanship was named "Dragon Boat Brother", which is a high honor. "In the second year, Dragon Boat Brother will receive many orders to make dragons, and he is too busy to get more millet (the salary at that time was millet)."