Three Kitchens Crane Dance …

"Three Kitchens Crane Dance" is a national intangible cultural heritage project in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province. According to the records of Xiangshan County Chronicle in Jiajing 27 years of Ming Dynasty, "Xiaolan He Yong, in the use of words, is also one of the words. In the history of books, drums and pianos tune cranes to amuse themselves, because they are from the east of the harp and crane. In Chenghua, Hanji of Beijing Normal University came in and out of the public gates. They are all poems written by Fuqin and Hedong people. The official preface of Qiu Wenzhuang briefly states that Zhao Qing, in the Song Dynasty, went to Shu with a piano and a crane. This passage records Zhao Qingxian, a Xiangshan native of the Song Dynasty, who was skilled in crane dancing and introduced crane dancing to Sichuan. In the Ming Dynasty, another master of crane dancing, He Yong, from Xiangshan County, was recognized by the Ming Dynasty government because he was famous for crane dancing. He Yong, therefore, was awarded seven grades of official, and performed crane dancing for famous families and scholars in Beijing Normal University.
In the Qing Dynasty, Crane Dance has become a popular folk recreational activity. Three Kitchens Crane Dance has also developed to its heyday, the whole Xiangshan County Crane Dance singing Crane Song has become popular. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of Japanese invaded Sanzao Island, and the Crane Dance declined gradually because of the war.# Reading City#