舞龙的洋面孔们

文 |本刊记者 胡 婷 图| 颜 波 巴南团区委提供

11 月9 日，重庆渝北嘉州商圈，2019 重庆时光城市创意秀如期开幕。这是一场宣传重庆山水特色、人文旅游和科技成果的大型城市形象推介公益活动，“非遗”体验等活动项目是其中的重要部分。

上午11 点半，“非遗”表演《龙腾姜家》准时登场，演员们身着中国传统舞龙服饰，每人手持一条长约一米的小“龙”，随着音乐响起，小龙时而各自翻飞，时而拼接换成一条大龙……精彩的表演，赢得台下观众阵阵叫好。作为巴南区的市级“非遗”，姜家舞龙习俗传承两千多年，有火龙、旱龙、女子龙、童子龙、独龙、墨龙等20 多个品种，龙舞品种之多在全国都少见。

仔细一看，在这个表演队伍中，还有四张外国面孔，他们都来自重庆交通大学国际学院。

伯乐来自卢旺达，今年9 月才到重庆学习中文。 “当时，巴南区来学校征集外国人学习体验巴南‘非遗’，我在电视上看过成龙的电影，非常喜欢里面舞龙的片段，于是就报名了。”

来自贝宁的可乐接过话茬，说起第一次看见舞龙时的情景：“去年春节，在我们国家文化中心，我看到了中国人和贝宁人一起表演舞龙，就非常喜欢这个热闹的表演。”

而对于泰国姑娘马梦洁来说，学习舞龙不是因为新奇，“在泰国也有舞龙，只是舞龙常和舞狮一起出现，当我看到中国的舞龙时，就觉得特别亲切。”

别看几个洋面孔在台上舞得有板有眼，台下训练可不轻松。伯乐光是记各种规矩就费了不少脑筋：比如右手拿龙头，左手要拿着龙尾，龙头和龙尾巴方向不能朝下。 训练的时候就更别提了，“比如说在表演龙翻转时，有很多转圈，很容易绕晕，刚开始学习的时候，肩膀很疼。”

“我们当时还把舞龙的道具拿回学校，在寝室里练习。”同样来自泰国的刘凯莉说起学习舞龙时的经历。

虽然练得辛苦，但大家乐在其中。

“我知道在中国，舞龙有几千年历史了，能够参与这个表演，我就非常开心了。”可乐笑着说道。

除了舞龙，伯乐还喜欢中国龙的故事，“今年，我刚看了动画片《哪吒》，里面就有中国的龙王，我还看过电视剧《西游记》《西行记》，里面都有关于龙的故事。”说起龙文化，伯乐头头是道。

李月华是姜家舞龙的传承人，也是这四个外国学生的老师。最近三四年，通过巴南区举办的“我在重庆学非遗”活动，她教了三十来个外国学生，他们来自俄罗斯、巴基斯坦、美国、德国、新加坡等十多个国家，“我非常自豪，能有越来越多的外国朋友喜欢中国的传统‘非遗’文化。”

01 表演结束后，可乐和伯乐哥俩兴奋地举着自己的小龙

02 可乐和大妈们一起表演姜家舞龙

03 泰国姑娘马梦洁手里边挥舞着龙，边听着老师的讲解

04 小龙合成大龙后，可乐和伯乐组成了龙尾

05 泰国姑娘刘凯莉正在学习姜家舞龙

Foreign Faces of Dancing Dragon

Article | Reporter Hu Ting Figures | Provided by Yanbo and Banan District Committee

On November 9, 2019, Chongqing Time City Creative Show opened as scheduled in Jiazhou Business Circle, Yubei, Chongqing. This is a large-scale city image promotion and non-profit activity. Intangible cultural heritage experience and other activities to promote the characteristics of Chongqing landscape, cultural tourism and scientific and technological achievements are an important part of it.

A t 1 1:3 0 i n t h e m o r n i n g, t h e intangible cultural heritage performance "Dragon Dance of the Jiang Family" was staged. The performers dressed in traditional Chinese dragon dance costumes, each carrying a small dragon prop about one meter in length. With the sound of the music, the dragon props turned over and assembled to form a big dragon… The splendid performance won applause from the audience. As an intangible cultural heritage of Banan District, Dragon Dance of the Jiang Family has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, including more than 20 kinds of dragon dance, such as fire dragon, land dragon, female dragon, boy dragon, single dragon, black dragon, and so on. Many kinds of dragon dance are rare in Chongqing and even the whole country.

Looking closely, there are also four foreign faces in the performance team, all of whom are from the International College of Chongqing Jiaotong University.

Bole, from Rwanda, came to Chongqing to study Chinese in September this year. "At that time, Banan District came to the school to recruit foreigners to study and experience the intangible heritage. I watched Jackie Chan's movies on TV and liked the dragon dance scenes very much, so I signed up."

Coke, from Benin, took up the conversation and said, "Last Chinese New Year, at our national cultural center, I saw the Chinese and Beninese performing the dragon dance together, and I really enjoyed the lively performance."

For Thai girl Ma Mengjie, learning to dance dragon is not because of novelty. "There are also dragon dances in Thailand, but dragon dances often appear with lion dances. When I see Chinese dragon dances, I feel familiar."

Though the several foreign faces seemed to be dancing on stage with ease, their off-stage training is not easy. It took quite a lot of effort for Bole just to remember all kinds of rules: for example, the right hand to hold the dragon's head, the left hand to hold the dragon's tail, and the dragon's tail and the dragon's head can not be down. Not to mention training, "For example, when performing dragon flips, there are a lot of turns, it is very easy to dizzy around. At the beginning of learning, my shoulders are very painful."

"We took the dragon props back to school and practiced in our dormitory." Liu Kaili, also from Thailand, talked about her experience learning to dance dragons.

It was hard work, but everyone enjoyed it.