From "Liujialong" To Hakka Water Dragon Festival

Hakka is the only Han nationality whose native language is Hakka dialect and not named by region.Hakka people,originated from the Central Plains,are the most mobile,dynamic and widely distributed special branch of the Han nationality.From the end of the Western Jin Dynasty(320 A.D.),they moved to the south of the Yellow River Basin,and then moved to home and abroad due to war,natural disasters,politics and other reasons.In the process of migration and emigration for more than 1000 years,the unique folk customs of Hakka people have been constantly improved with the change of their living places,enriching their connotations.The unique folk customs that have retained the core and kept pace with the times have become an important part of the intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.Dragon dance and praying for rain is a traditional folk activity of Hakka people in Fujian,Guangdong and Jiangxi.In the early Qing Dynasty,when Hakka people in these areas moved to Luodai,they also brought their dragon dance customs.Every year Hakka people hold all kinds of dragon dance activities,especially water dragon dance.Among the many dragon dance teams,"Liujialong",from Jiangxi Province,has inherited the ancient Chinese dragon dance rituals and procedures completely,which is an outstanding representative.Since 1989,"Liu Jialong" has participated in many cultural activities in cities,districts and townships,and is deeply loved by the masses.In 2000,Luodai town successively held two featured tourism activities,"Fire Dragon Festival" and "Water Dragon Festival",both of which were highly successful,and "Liujialong" and "Hakka Water Dragon Festival" began to enjoy a good reputation.In 2018,Luodai Hakka Water Dragon Festival was selected into the fifth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list of Sichuan Province.Nowadays,the development trend of Hakka Water Dragon Festival is good,"Liujialong",as the core content of Hakka Water Dragon Festival,has been preserved,which is a successful example of folk intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance.This paper takes Liujialong and Hakka Water Dragon Festival in Luodai as the field research object,starting from the perspective of intangible cultural heritage,studies and analyzes the origin,activity process,cultural connotation of Liujialong and Hakka Water Dragon Festival,as well as its transformation process from Liujialong in Luodai to Hakka Water Dragon Festival.In the late 1990 s,under the background of promoting tourism and advocating intangible cultural heritage protection,Luodai and "Liujialong" seize the opportunity to cooperate with each other in developing tourism and protecting folk customs.While choosing Luodai,Liujialong and Luodai in the context of the times,the conditions of Liujialong and Luodai,such as the historical origin of Liujialong,dragon dance technology,dragon dance ceremony,Hakka cultural resources advantage,location conditions and public attitudes of Luodai,are also in line with it.The reasons for the transformation of "Liujialong" into a Hakka water dragon are diverse: first,under the situation of globalization and modernization,the rapid development of domestic urbanization process,the township enterprises in Luodai are facing new opportunities for development;second,the local Hakka cultural resources in Luodai are rich,and the people’s thoughts are open,which has the operability of resource capitalization;third,the expert team,the government department The joint efforts of the door and the enterprise make "Liujialong" and the Hakka Water Dragon Festival closely combined,supporting its transformation from the academic,political and economic perspectives.The author has noticed that in the study of traditional intangible cultural heritage,the transformed form like Hakka Water Dragon Festival is relatively rare,so its successful development mode,such as integration development mode,building cultural brand mode and industrial cluster mode,can provide a valuable experience for the protection of Chinese intangible cultural heritage.