Urgent request! Who knows what the characteristics of the traditional folk lion dance in the Guangdong region?

Lion dance, commonly known in Guangzhou as the "dance lion", is based on martial arts skills, but also to dance "for the form of the unique folk art lion dance. By two people, the head and tail to cooperate, 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, with the rise and fall of the sound of music, the "lion "With the rise and fall of the music, the lion's demeanor, joy, anger, sadness and happiness from sleeping to rising up are expressed to the fullest extent.

Whenever there is a festival, a spring festival, or an opening ceremony, people will beat the gongs and drums and perform lion dances. Guangzhou lion dance" activities originated in the late Ming Dynasty, the first for the performance of martial arts museum of martial spirit. 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 of welcome dance, jumping the Dragon Gate, stacking colors, and picking green. The method is not different 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, which flew and ate the flesh of people with evil hearts, 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 to rule the beast, made a bamboo woven 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 an exorcism to eliminate the mascot

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