Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Lucky day inquiry - What does big head Buddha mean?

What does big head Buddha mean?

Every year, the vast towns and villages in Guangdong Province have festivals, and there must be lion dances to add to the fun. During the Spring Festival, it is a lion dance, which is very lively. There are also lion dances in festivals in other provinces, but they are completely different from those in Guangdong Province. First of all, the Guangdong lion dance adopts the technology of "lighting and tying", and the lion face is divided into several shapes with anthropomorphic decorative beauty: Guan Gong face (red face and white beard), Zhang Fei face (black face and black beard) and Liu Bei face (yellow face and white beard). The lion's body is made of a "lion quilt" that is four feet wide and more than ten feet long. Guangdong province is also different from other provinces in dance methods. Guangdong province consists of two big men, one is a lion-headed dancer, the other is a lion-faced quilt, and the other is a monk's mask and gown, holding a sunflower fan in front to tease the lion, which is called "Big Head Buddha".

And why is it called making trouble in Cantonese-being a "big head Buddha"?

Because "Big Head Buddha" always leads the way in front of the lion dance, followed by a large group of lion dancers beating gongs and drums, it seems that they are all attracted by "Big Head Buddha", so using this metaphor has caused a lot of trouble.

Then why do you use this festive thing to describe your troubles? In fact, like Cantonese, relatively auspicious words are often used to describe unlucky things, such as "bitter gourd" as "cold melon" and "empty house" as "auspicious house" ......