Lantern FestivalⅤ

Loong Lantern Dance is often translated into Dragon Lantern Festival. But as dragon refers to some ferocious beast, which is quite different from the real symbolic meaning of Chinese loong. Loong was and is a great symbol and totem of China. Every Chinese believes he is the son of loong. Loong symbolized imperial power in feudal China. Now it is a mascot which symbolizes auspiciousness. Loong Lantern Dance is exciting and the loong lantern is gorgeous. It consists of a huge lantern shaped as a loong’s head, a long body composed of hundreds of lanterns, and a tail one.