Luminous dragon dance is that the dragon whose body is spread with luminous colours dances in a dark environment with luminous light. Team spirit between dragon dancer and drum music player is required. Also, function of heart and lung, self-reaction and flexibility can be trained. More importantly, it is helpful to develop communication skill with trust of the teammates.

Dragon dance is a kind of popular sports in the world and it is divided into five categories including 8-shape, cruising, jumping-through, rolling and figure forming movements. For the competitions, there are different competition items such as optional routine, compulsory routine, traditional events, racing dragon dance and obstacle dragon dance. Dragon dance mainly focus on the body postures and it is similar to Luminous Dragon Dance. As a result, it also requires high physical quality and skills.

In order to help dragon express its feeling, powerful drum music is needed and it includes drum, big gong, small gong, big cymbal and small cymbal. In recent years, lots of music instruments like suona horn, whistle and erhu fiddle are included as well.