On March 11, members of the elderly diabolo team in Handan District, Hebei Province were performing the diabolo dance "The Dragon Soars".
Photo by Zhou Shaozong
On March 11, members of the elderly diabolo team in Hanshan District, Handan, Hebei Province were performing diabolo shaking "dragons playing in the water".
Photo by Zhou Shaozong
On March 11, members of the elderly diabolo team in Handan District, Hebei Province performed a fitness dragon swing performance.
Photo by Zhou Shaozong
On March 11, members of the elderly diabolo team in Handan District, Hebei Province demonstrated "Peacock Spreading Its Tail".
Photo by Zhou Shaozong
On March 11, in the Handan Cultural and Art Center Square, the elderly diabolo team members of Handan District performed a diabolo dragon dance performance.
Photo by Li Shen
On March 11, members of the elderly diabolo team in Hanshan District, Handan, Hebei performed diabolo shaking "dragons playing in the water".
Photo by Zhou Shaozong
On March 11, in the Handan Cultural and Art Center Square, the elderly diabolo team members of Handan District performed a fitness dragon swing performance.
Photo by Li Shen
Dragons and phoenixes appear auspicious, fish leap over the dragon gate, and dragons dance... March 11th is the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. There is a folk saying that "the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon raises its head."
In the square of the Cultural and Art Center of Handan City, Hebei Province, the elderly members of the diabolo team in Handan District are performing a pattern of diabolo and dragon dance.
The average age of the senior diabolo team members is 70 years old, with the oldest being 92 years old.
They combined the national intangible cultural heritage diabolo movement with traditional dragon dance performances, created many new diabolo tricks, and performed them every day in parks or squares, inheriting the intangible cultural heritage, creating a new scene of the prosperous dragon, and also dancing for the elderly. of spirit.
(Text/Translated by Wang Tian)