Performers stage a dragon dance show on a stone pier in Shiyang town, Taishun county in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. The dragon dance and the stone pier are both national cultural treasures. [Photo/66wz.com]
Dingbulong, or dragon dance on stone pier, is a national intangible cultural heritage that has been observed by residents from Shiyang town, Taishun county in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province since the reign of Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
The stone pier, or dingbu in Chinese, is 130 meters long and made up of 223 stone steps. It resembles a piano when looked at from above and was hence nicknamed the "piano bridge" by locals. The stone pier was listed as a key national cultural relic in 2006.
