Educational DVD-New Year’s at Niga

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Initially, the dragon lantern festival begins with a lantern welcoming team composed of the entire village's residents, who gather at the ancestral temple to retrieve the dragon's head. Then, professional drummers and gong players proceed to each household in the village, connecting a section of bench to the dragon lantern in order. The traditional bench dragon lantern of Jinhua is thus formed by connecting these sections one by one, stretching for hundreds of meters and winding its way around the village, circle after circle. As the climax of the festival, the盘龙灯 (Panlongdeng, literally "coiling dragon lantern") concludes the celebration by bringing the entire bench dragon lantern to the center of the most spacious playground in the village, where it begins to coil inward in circles until the dragon's head is at the innermost point, and then coils outward circle by circle.  

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