What do you mean by picking the green from the lion?

What do you mean by picking the green from the lion?

1, picking green is a fixed link in lion dance. In the process of lion dance; Especially during the Spring Festival, lions will hunt and kill Li through a series of routine performances, and Li is hung high or placed in a basin. Because Li is often accompanied by green vegetables (mostly lettuce), it is named "Caiqing".

2. Picking green generally includes doing green exercises, scaring green, eating green, spitting green and other routines. When the bride price is hoisted with bamboo poles, the lion dancer will climb up with a ladder (nine people cooperate) to pick it. The higher the ladder, the higher the skill, and the person who hangs "green" will be lucky.

3, the lion picks the green, which means "anti-Qing and regaining sight." Literary inquisition prevailed in Qing dynasty, and most of the literati expressed sentences that were anti-Qing and regained their sight between the lines. But most of them were caught by officials in the Qing Dynasty. The folk custom of lion dance was joined by righteous people to wake up lions to eat lettuce. (Picking green) Because lettuce is blue, it represents the Qing Dynasty, which means eating the Qing Dynasty and making it perish. At present, the lion dance uses green, but it uses intention, that is, to grow and prosper, and the business is booming.

4. The other is "picking green water": put a basin full of water on the bench and put "green" in the basin. Lion dancers jump around on benches to perform various performances, and finally stand on the edge of the basin and grab "green" from the lion's mouth with their hands. Sometimes, lions need to step on their shoulders from the bottom of a "sea of people" five or six stories high. There are two or three people and dozens of people in this "sea of people". This is the climax of the lion dance. Skilled performances bring people a thrilling, warm and festive atmosphere and artistic enjoyment through education.

First of all, the tools needed for lion dance

The lion dance path has: lion head, lion back, lion pants, coat, hydrangea and ball guide clothes. The ball buddy in front is the ball captain, and the lion captain is the lion trainer.

Second, the lion dance taboo

1, it is forbidden to visit the gods in lion dance.

In the tradition of Hakka polytheism, every village and residence has a patron saint, who is the spiritual pillar of every village and residence. The lion dance team must pay homage after passing through the altar, otherwise it will be regarded as impolite and look down on the villagers, and the villagers in the village will not pay for the lion dance team.

It is forbidden to perform lion dance from the new house.

In traditional folk customs, people who dance lions in front of their ancestral houses cannot be invited to dance lions in their new houses. It is said that this provision is related to Hakka ancestor worship.

3. Lion dancing is forbidden to enter the fence from the right.

In traditional folk customs, it is considered that there is a small piece on the right and a large piece on the left, and all the surrounding houses are on the left. Therefore, the lion dance team must enter the surrounding houses from the left, and the lion comes from the left (large), which means that the dragon and lion leap forward, and both people and money are empty. So the lion dance team is forbidden to enter the paddock from the right. Moreover, before entering the enclosed house, you must take the T-step and knock Ding Gong to enter the enclosed house to pay homage, so as to wish the house a prosperous New Year.