The process of making a lion

The process of making a waking lion is as follows:

Materials preparation: a cup filled with water, a dry piece of cloth, and a set of tools for pottery use.

1, take out the clay and place it on the cloth, and pat the clay lumpy into a clay plate.

2. After the clay plate is patted and cut, use a bamboo stick to roughly draw the outline of the lion.

3. After the outline of the base plate is drawn out, use the clay strips and pieces of clay to decorate the lion's hair and features, and then refer to the picture or use your imagination to decorate.

4, the last will be done with the use of bamboo sticks for the treatment of hair, and so dry, if possible, sent to a professional place of coloring and firing, but also can be naturally sun-dried.

5, and finally their own DIY coloring at home with paints.

Characteristics of waking lion:

Waking lion takes the lion head as the first step, the oil color of traditional waking lion's head is based on the Cantonese Opera faces of Liu Guanzhang, Zhao, Ma, Huang, the six characters of the Three Kingdoms heroes, and is designed according to the characters' images in Cantonese Opera, with different colors of the faces matched with different decorations. At the same time, they are divided into two types of lions according to the Cantonese opera characters: the literary lion is represented by the Liu Bei lion, while the martial arts lions are represented by the Zhang Fei lion and the Guan Yu lion.

Waking lion is one of the lion dance culture, excellent traditional folk dance art, every Lantern Festival or gathering celebration or store opening, the folk are lion dance to cheer. Cantonese people will hang a lettuce in front of the store just opened, meaning wealth, the lion dance will stand up to pick lettuce. The lion dancers' movements are mostly based on the Nanquan horse stance, and the lion's movements include "opening the eyes", "washing the beard", "licking the body", "shaking the hair" and so on. "

The lion's movements are mostly based on the Nanquan horse stance.