Time goes back more than 600 years.

One night during the joyful autumn harvest season, a group of children in the alleys of Foshan made dragon shapes out of wild bamboo shoot shells, put incense on the dragon's body, danced the fire dragon with bamboo poles, chanted drums, and danced in the streets late at night.

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Since then, every autumn harvest season, Foshan people will gather together, bring fresh vegetables and fruits, sing and dance, and parade through the city, forming a folk event belonging to Foshan people - Autumn Colors.

●According to incomplete statistics, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to 2014, Foshan has held 15 large-scale autumn color parades with detailed records***.

●The earliest large-scale autumn colors show since the founding of the People's Republic of China was held during the Spring Festival in 1956. There was no parade, only exhibitions.

●From the 1980s to 2009, there was almost no fixed time for the Autumn Color Parade.

Since 2010, it has been a joy festival and is held every year.

Time theme 11956 Spring Festival Foshan Autumn Colors, Paper-cutting and Potted Plant Appreciation 21957 Mid-Autumn Festival Foshan Autumn Colors and Lantern Color Exhibition 31960 National Day Parade 41979 Folk Autumn Colors Parade 51982 November Foshan Autumn Colors Competition 61988 Year of the Dragon Large-scale Autumn Colors Event 71989

Foshan Autumn Color Art Exhibition on New Year's Day 8 1993 Foshan Autumn Color Exhibition Parade 9 December 31, 1999 "Historic City, Century Pride" Celebrating the 2000 Foshan Autumn Color Festival 10 November 6-8, 2009 "Charming Foshan, brilliant autumn colors

"2009 Autumn Parade 11 September 21-October 3, 2010" Happy Autumn, Wisdom Foshan "2010 Foshan Autumn Fun Festival 12 September 30-October 2, 2011 2011 Foshan Autumn Fun Festival 13 November 2012

23rd-25th 2012 Foshan Autumn Colors Fun Festival 14 November 8-10, 2013 2013 Foshan Autumn Colors Fun Festival 15 November 7-9, 2014 2014 Foshan Autumn Colors Fun Festival 2014 Autumn Colors Parade will be held from November 7th to 9th

Held in the evening.

The parade included 28 participating units, more than 30 performance items, 6 floats and 1 performance float, with more than 1,000 people participating.

This year’s autumn colors have four highlights.

Highlight 1: The Big-headed Buddha "makes noise" at the traffic lights. The cute Big-headed Buddha and his naughty and cute dance moves... Tonight's autumn parade will use "Buddha Playing with Lanterns" as the opening dance, integrating the three elements of traffic lights, Big-headed Buddha and lion dance.

Together, we kick off the parade.

Highlight 2: Four famous town floats make their debut tonight. There are 6 floats in the parade, including "Charm of Famous Towns", "More than Years Ago", "Good Weather", "Lingnan World", "Colorful"

Autumn Colors" and "A Hundred Flowers Bloom".

Among them, the "Charm of Famous Towns" float gathers representatives of four famous towns - Foshan Lion Dance and Young Man Huang Feihong, Jingdezhen Ceramics, Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year Pictures, and Hankou Town Sailing Boat.

Highlight 3 Folklore performances from four famous towns compete in the autumn parade tonight. The four famous towns also brought their own folk performances, including the "Pan Drum" performance in Zhuxian Town, Henan, and the whole dance was as powerful as a rainbow.

The biggest feature of this dance is that it moves like a wave, there is dancing in the dance, and the music is powerful.

The performance of "Gao Long" in Hankou Town, Hubei Province is an expression of emotion through movement.

"Gaolong" is a national intangible cultural heritage. It is different from ordinary dragon dances. It consists of a high dragon head, a 12- or 13-section dragon body, and a dragon tail. It is mainly performed through knocking, sweeping, lifting, shaking, lifting, and supporting.

Dance skills and expressive expressions.

The "Hand-Lion Dance" in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province is a performance in which one person can perform lantern games in groups with one lion, and can also perform two-lion dances separately.

The hand lion dance is unique in the country. By moving the lion with your hands and matching the dance movements, it is a great test on physical strength.

Highlight 4: Ten people performed together to carry the "Lotus Dragon". Tonight's finale show, "The Dragon and Lion Show", in addition to the "Golden Dragon" and "Silver Dragon" performances in previous years, also added a "Lotus Dragon".

"Lotus Dragon", as the name suggests, the dragon's body is in the shape of a lotus. With LED lights, the whole dragon looks jubilant and soft at night.

However, this dragon is not easy to dance. Zhang Zhihua, the coach in charge of the dragon dance rehearsal, said that the weight of the "Lotus Dragon" is ten times that of ordinary dance dragons. One dragon head alone weighs more than ten kilograms, and each section of the dragon body is equipped with LEDs.

Lights and batteries.

The dragon dancers have to perform eight movements within two minutes. In order to ensure the performance, members of the "Maibian Dragon Dance Team" were specially invited to perform.

At the same time, there are 6 dancers holding large lotus leaves beside them, which means "six leaves of support".

2013——Returning to the traditional Foshan Autumn Colors Festival, in addition to retaining the three major links of previous autumn festivals, rural drinking ceremonies and autumn color parades, the "Autumn Colors Competition" has been specially added.

What is the "Autumn Colors Competition"?

It turns out that in traditional autumn color activities, people spontaneously produce various autumn color crafts for public selection, which is called the "Autumn Color Competition".

In recent years, all the tie-making activities in the Autumn Color Parade have been arranged and produced in a unified manner, which to a certain extent has weakened the "game" nature of the folk tie-making skills competition.

In the “Autumn Colors Competition” session of this year’s Autumn Colors Fun Festival, the collection content includes various types of performances and autumn color tie-up artworks.