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Method for pic green and binding lettuce by lion

Binding method: tie some red envelopes with red ropes at regular intervals, and finally tie lettuce, oranges and a big red envelope together and slowly put them down from upstairs. Lion dancers should stack stools or use ladders, climb while jumping, and slowly "eat green" during the lion dance.

Picking green is a fixed part of lion dance. During the lion dance, especially during the Spring Festival, lions hunt for plums, which are hung on high places or put in pots. Because plums are often accompanied by vegetables and lettuce, they are named. Picking green generally includes exercises, scaring green, eating green, spitting green and other routines. The bride price is hung with bamboo poles, and the lion dancer will climb the ladder to pick it. The higher the ladder, the higher the skill, and the luckier the person who hangs green.

The meaning of lion picking green:

The lion chooses green, which means clarity. During the Qing Dynasty, scholars often expressed anti-Qing sentences between the lines, but they were often caught by honest officials. The folk custom of lion dance was added by the righteous to awaken the lion to eat lettuce, because lettuce is blue, 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.