Five Rivers Land Boat Dance
The dry boat dance in Chengguan Town, Wuhe County is a comprehensive folk performing art that integrates a variety of boat movements, performances, rap, and gongs and drums. Chengguan Town borders two provinces and three counties in the east (namely Anhui Province, Jiangsu Province, Wuhe County, Sihong County, and Jiashan County), Toupu Town in the west, Zhuding Town in the south by the Huaihe River, and Shuangzhongmiao Town in the north. The special geographical location has created a unique environmental advantage for Chengguan Town, and the well-connected waterways and dry roads have brought different cultures from north to south. Because of this, the dry boat dance in Hengtai Community, Chengguan Town, has gradually formed its own unique style after the careful processing of several generations of artists. The dry boat dance has become a typical representative of folk culture and is widely circulated in Wuhe and surrounding areas. The dry boat dance has various performance forms, distinct characters, and lively language. The performers use delicate performance movements such as punting, rowing, sailing with the wind, sailing against the wind, steering, shaking the boat, counting docks, and playing tricks, as well as humorous language, to make the dry boat dance performance vivid and popular among the masses. Land boat dance is a folk performance art of the Han nationality. After continuous innovation by several generations of folk artists, the performance form of land boat dance has been enriched. It occupies an important position in the folk art forms of this region. It is one of the outstanding folk performing arts in the Huaihe River Basin.