The Difference Between Guangdong Lion Dance and Ansai Waist Drums

Ansei Waist Drum is a very unique folk large-scale dance art form with a history of more than 2,000 years. The unique charm of Ansai Waist Drums is like a raging wind on the loess land, showing the simple and bold character of the farmers in the northwestern loess plateau, and flaunting a unique artistic personality. It has been displayed in Beijing, the capital of China, in Hong Kong, and all over China, and has attracted the attention of the world. The bold and rugged changes in movement and the vigorous and vigorous dance fully reflect the simple and honest character of the people of the northern Shaanxi Plateau and their courageous and ferocious personality. As early as 1986, Ansai waist drum won the first Chinese folk dance competition, the highest honor award, in recent years, it has been in the 11th Asian Games opening ceremony, Hong Kong's return to the celebration of large-scale activities such as performances, and went to Japan to perform. Ansai waist drum performance can be carried out by several or thousands of people together, majestic momentum, exquisite performance is intoxicated, known as "the world's first drum". 1996, Ansai County was named by the Ministry of Culture as "China's hometown of the waist drum". The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, May 20, 2006, Ansai waist drums approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Ansai waist drum is one of the three best things about Ansai. 'Guangdong lion dance custom during the Spring Festival, Guangzhou people have fun: watching the theater, playing cards, shopping articulation, travel, New Year's greetings, "teasing the Li-Yi's", lion dance. The most attractive is the lion dance. It can be known that the lion dance is one of the major entertainment, folk traditional activities of the Spring Festival in Guangzhou.

Lion dance, commonly known in Guangzhou as "dancing lion", is based on martial arts skills, but also to dance "as a form of unique folk art lion dance. By two people work together, head and tail, dancing a four unlike a "lion", in front of the "big head Buddha" to tease, with a symbol of the lion's roar and the sound of the wind and thunder of the drums, gongs, cymbals, along with the ups and downs of the sound of music, the "lion "With the sound of music rising and falling, the lion's demeanor, joy, anger, sadness and happiness from sleeping to rising up are expressed to the fullest extent. Whenever there are festivals, spring competitions and opening ceremonies, people will beat the gongs and drums and perform lion dances to cheer up the festivities. Guangzhou Lion Dance originated in the late Ming Dynasty, initially to show the martial spirit of the martial arts museum. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it has been widely popular in the two regions, and spread to the South Seas, North America and overseas Chinese inhabited places. Guangzhou Sanyuanli, Pantang "lion" is particularly distinctive. Whenever a festival, lion dance parade, *** to celebrate the harvest, but also for mutual encouragement. If you meet the "lion" at the door, as "drive away evil, shining family, great luck" thing, strewn with colored gifts to thank. Nowadays, there are lion teams in all towns, enterprises and villages in Guangzhou. Guangzhou's most powerful lion team is the Guangzhou workers lion team. In fact, the lion has a "northern lion" and "southern lion" points. "Northern Lion" heavy form, Guangzhou folk "Southern Lion" heavy "meaning", pay attention to the bridge horse, good at abstraction. "Southern lion" modeling routine is very much, sound asleep, out of the hole, start potential, over the three mountains, on the platform, hair lion, all similar; joy is happy and broken step, anger is angry at the bullfight, sadness is to close their eyes steadily, music is to leap and stride. This is the dance of the Southern Lion, which emphasizes the "meaning" of the dance. There are also various forms such as welcome dance, jumping dragon gate, stacking colors, and picking green. The method does not differ from the broken step, horse step, bow step, false step, traveling step, probing step, inserting step, unicorn step, inside and outside the turn and swing feet. "The climax of the Lion Dance is the "Caiqing". People put the symbol of "evergreen pine and cypress, strong and healthy" "green leaf colorful gift" (usually a rooted lettuce, vegetables tied with a liyi is) hanging high or placed in the dish, "lion The "lion" performs from exploring the green, shocking the green, eating the green, spitting the green according to the routine. "Caiqing" has the ground green, high green differences, flower models have water green, bridge green, crab green, array door green, seven stars with the moon, nine fingers in a row and other famous style. "Caiqing" when depending on the green "height, as few as two or three people" stacked Luohan "on the shoulders, as many as dozens of people shoulder tray to five or six heavy, picking the colorful gifts. Lion dancers must be smooth once picked "green", and "green" food, and then spit out the "green" thrown to the owner, the owner to pick up "green After the master receives the "green", it means that he has received a blessing and is extremely happy. There is also a beautiful legend of the Guangzhou Lion Dance. According to the legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, there appeared in Guangdong a flesh-winged tiger, with wings like a bat, flying and eating the flesh of evil-minded people, and its skin could ward off a hundred ghosts and a hundred worms. Guangdong into superstition, all can protect the family home to keep things safe, are regarded as auspicious, therefore, people imitated the image of this beast in the festival dance it, in order to tell the four sides of the living souls, do not bring disaster to the people. Later, people examined in fact, the original this called the meat-winged tiger, is Manjushri Bodhisattva's mount - lion, because the hyena hair over the shoulder, and hair color and the body color is the same, running hyena hair raised as a bat's sake. Now the Guangzhou Waking Lion, the head is horned, which is a very unique shape, named "lion", in fact, is not like a lion, not like a rhinoceros, not like a unicorn, not like a tiger or leopard "four unlike". This "four unlike" there is a legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, there is a one-horned monster appeared in Foshan, harming people and things, people can not rest. Later, someone thought of a way to the beast of the beast, made a bamboo papier-maché head also long one-horned lion, and banging gongs and drums and firecrackers, the beast scared away, and from then on will be the one-horned lion as a good-luck charm to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters