Guangdong lion dance custom

Lion dance, commonly known as "lion awakening" in Guangdong, has a long tradition in urban and rural areas of Guangdong.

In fact, lion dancing is not only a custom to celebrate the New Year during the Spring Festival, but also in urban and rural areas of Guangdong. In many other festivals and weddings, many enterprises invite lion dance groups to play a role. These lion dance troupes entertain themselves with lion dances and perform thrilling programs.

Lion dance is a kind of folk dance that has been passed down since ancient times, and its historical characteristics, folk characteristics and entertainment characteristics are obvious. In the Year of Lion Dance, there are many rules called "Wake up the lion and make the finishing touch". Before the lion performance, there is also a necessary order of "making the finishing touch", which is a single-row ceremony, serious and solemn.

Classification of lion awakening

Lions can be divided into "Northern Lion" and "Southern Lion". The "Northern Lion" has a new look, and the Southern Lion is centered in Guangdong and is popular in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. Although the Southern Lion is also a duet, the lion dancers are all dressed in knickerbockers, and only a colorful lion is danced.

Different from the lions in the north, "Lion Lang" wears a big head Buddha mask, a cassock, a ribbon around his waist, and a cattail fan in his hand to tease the lions, dancing with all kinds of exquisite movements and humor. Guangdong folk "South Lion" emphasizes "meaning", learns from bridges and horses, and is good at generalization and realism.

There are many routines for the appearance of "Southern Lion", such as sleeping, coming out of the hole, ascending, crossing three mountains, going upstairs and showing off the strength of the lion. Happy is happy and broken, angry is angry, sad is close your eyes, happy is jumping and striding. This is the southern lion dance that emphasizes "meaning"

There are also welcoming dances, jumping on the dragon gate, overlapping colors, picking green flowers and so on. Methods can not be separated from broken step, horse stance, lunge, imaginary step, walking step, exploring step, inserting step, Kirin step and swinging back and forth.