Liwei Village is located in the middle of Luohu District, Shenzhen. The Qilin Dance in Liwei Village, Luohu (now Shuiku New Village) is a folk dance with a history of more than 100 years. Qilin is a kind of auspicious animal in ancient legends. Qilin Dance is a folk dance brought by the Hakka people in Lingnan who migrated from the Central Plains hundreds of years ago. Liwei Village is located at the intersection of Shawan River and Wutong River under Wutong Mountain in Shenzhen. It is a must-go place for Luohu, Futian to Longgang and Huiyang. As early as the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1906), the young people in Liwei Village advocated martial arts. Among them, the brothers Zheng Huchen and Zheng Yaochen went to Jiangxi and Wuyi Mountain in Fujian to learn martial arts and got the true teachings of Qilin Dance. After traveling with the master for several years, they returned to Liwei Village and taught it to Zheng Chongchuan of Xiawei and Zheng Yubin of Shangwei respectively. At that time, more than 30 boys over the age of seven or eight in the village learned from them, and the two groups of Qilin competed with each other, which was very lively. Zheng Chongchuan's nickname was "Sheng Gong", which means that the Qilin dance was vigorous and his kung fu was also famous. He could use his fingers as hammers to hammer a five-inch nail into the wall, and "killing with a long stick" was his unique skill. The two brothers Zheng Huchen passed down the skill to four generations. From the first day to the end of the Spring Festival, the Qilin dance was performed in Shenzhen Market, Henggang, Buji, Nantou, Shatoujiao, and even the New Territories of Hong Kong. In addition to performing in various places during the Spring Festival every year, the Qilin dance of Liwei Village is also invited to celebrate folk activities such as weddings and the completion of new houses. Accompanied by the strong rhythm of gongs, drums, and suona music and bursts of firecrackers, the Qilin sometimes leaps into the air at the entrance of the village or on the grain drying field, and sometimes crawls forward, dancing with joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, surprise, doubt, drunkenness, sleep and other dynamic and static expressions, showing the wishes of the old villagers to drive away evil spirits and seek good luck, pray for peace, harvest, happiness and auspiciousness. The full set of Liwei Qilin Dance consists of ten sections, including hole-digging, head-scratching, 0-foot, tail-playing, looking for green, picking green, drunk green, shoveling feet, worshipping feet and "chatting in the garden". Among them, "playing water" is the highest skill. The master only bites the Qilin's "chin beam" with his teeth, and the whole Qilin head is fixed by his teeth. He grabs the Qilin quilt with both hands, stands on one leg, and holds his head high. At this time, the host puts the "reward money" in a red envelope and hangs it on the top of a bamboo pole about ten feet high with a bunch of lettuce. The Qilin head master stands on one foot on the "Qilin tail" leg amid the sound of gongs, drums and shouts, and "bites" the red envelope and lettuce in the air, winning the reward money and arousing cheers. The Qilin Dance has strong festive folk characteristics and rich folk legends. The excellent cultural traditions of worshiping ancestors and advocating courtesy and humility before the performance are the inheritance and sustenance of the spiritual beliefs of Hakka immigrants. This has historical value and folk art value for studying the local Hakka folk customs. The Qilin Dance has a broad mass base in the Hakka area of Shenzhen, and the overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas also like to watch it. Performing it during major festivals and celebrations has a certain effect on enhancing the connotation of folk culture, expanding tourism and developing the economy. The Liwei Qilin Dance has been interrupted for more than 20 years since the Cultural Revolution. The fifth generation continued in early 1999 and has developed 30 members. In 2001, it participated in the Shenzhen Dragon, Lion and Qilin Dance Competition and won the first place in the city's Qilin Dance. However, due to the death of the Qilin Dance masters in Liwei Village, the difficult movements of the Qilin Dance have been lost, the Qilin head production process is complicated, and the materials are scarce. No one in the village can make a Qilin head, so the inheritance of the Liwei Qilin Dance is facing a crisis.