Luoshan Village

Merge note (2026-09-30): this is the single entry for the one place Luoshan Village. The culture site formerly carried a second "Luoshan Village" with the same id and slug; under the principle that a place has one entry it has been merged into this one. That entry recorded the dancing scenes of the great dragon and the Ming-dynasty origin legend but had no source for the administrative division, while the entries held here supply the listing and the divisions and were themselves missing the dragon. The grade, batch, safeguarding body and bearers of the Luoshan Great Dragon belong to its entry in the culture site; this entry records only the village as the place where the dragon is transmitted.

Traditional village listing

In its reply of 28 November 2023 the Lishui District Culture and Tourism Bureau records that Luoshan entered the sixth batch of traditional villages of Jiangsu together with Tai Village in Jingqiao, Yangjia Village in Sunjiaxiang and two others, five villages in all. This entry rests on that reply's working account. The reply names only three of the five villages, so the other two remain unnamed and the list cannot be completed from it.

Read against the current divisions

The district government's administrative divisions page records that Hefeng Town has 6 residents' committees and 6 villagers' committees, the latter being Sunjiaxiang, Zhangjia, Luoshan, Shenjiashan, Wucunqiao and Zhongyang, with Luoshan among them. Luoshan, Tai Village in Jingqiao and Putang in Honglan share a pattern: each is both a villagers' committee of its town and a traditional village entered in the list in its own name.

At Luoshan the reply and the administrative divisions page use the same form of the name, so the two sources corroborate each other without any mismatch of level. This differs from Sunjiaxiang Yangjia Village in the same reply, which is a settlement inside an administrative village rather than a committee in its own right.

A lead from the village's intangible heritage

The Luoshan Great Dragon is an intangible heritage item of this village; its grade, batch, safeguarding body and bearers are recorded in the entry for the Luoshan Great Dragon in the culture site, and this entry records only its relation to the village.

The project page for Longwu (Luoshan Great Dragon) on the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network records that the item has a history of more than four hundred years and that its rise is traditionally linked to Yang Pei'an, a jinshi (metropolitan graduate) of the Ming dynasty; the page already marks this as tradition. A report by the district media centre of 14 January 2026 says the Luoshan dragon dance "originated in the Ming dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years", consistent with the "more than four hundred years of history" on the national-level project page. Both refer to the age of the dragon dance's transmission, not to the date the village was founded.

The project page records that the dragon's tail is bare, unlike others; that the dancing season normally begins on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month and ends on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month; and that the performance consists of parts such as tiaozhu and tiaolong. The district government page gives the dragon a length of nearly one hundred metres and more than five hundred participants, and calls it the "greatest dragon south of the Yangtze"; that is promotional wording on that page and is reproduced here in quotation marks, not assessed.

The dancing ground and Shijiu Lake

Luoshan Village adjoins Shijiu Lake, and in the winter dry season the lakebed becomes the ground for the dragon dance; the district government page also records that local people at Luoshan depend on Shijiu Lake for their living and dance on the lakebed at the new year. The waters, area, catchment and protected-area data of Shijiu Lake itself are recorded by the entry on Shijiu Lake in the landscape site of this library and are not repeated here.

Points of doubt

• The formal document for the sixth batch is not held in this library, so the batch year rests on the timing of the reply of November 2023.
• The date of founding, the origin of the name and surviving structures are not recorded in the sources used here; the Ming-dynasty origin of the dragon dance is not the founding date of the village, and no date is asserted on the strength of the dragon's origin.
• The national project page writes Luoshan without the word for village; this entry uses Luoshan Village on the authority of the district government's Folk Customs page.
• "Greatest dragon south of the Yangtze" and "five hundred participants" are promotional expressions carried over from a government page and the media; they are kept in quotation marks and not verified here.
• The selecting body and batch of the dragon dance's inclusion among provincial best-practice cases could not be verified, so nothing is written on it here.