Why is lion dancing so meaningful?

It means exorcising evil spirits and symbolizes prosperity.

Lion dance is a traditional folk performing art in China. Under the sound of gongs and drums, the performers dressed up as lions and made various movements of lions. China folk tradition holds that lion dancing can exorcise evil spirits.

Therefore, whenever there are festive festivals, such as the New Zhang Celebration and the Spring Festival Sports Meeting, people like beating gongs and drums and dancing lions. Lion dance is also famous with Chinese emigrating overseas, and it is quite popular in Malaysia, Singapore and other places.

Lion dance is mainly divided into southern lion and northern lion.

At first, the northern lion was popular in the north of the Yangtze River. Nanshi is very popular in South China, Southeast Asia and overseas. Another dance method is to combine the two, mainly using the footwork of the southern lion and the northern lion, which is called "Southern Lion and Northern Dance". Lions are mighty in appearance, vigorous in action and changeable in behavior. There are many different legends circulating among the people, which are turned into myths for a while and painted into history for a while, adding a lot of mystery to the lion dance and making it more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

later stage

Lions are powerful and known as the king of beasts, but China is generally not harmed by lions. Therefore, the people have friendly feelings for the lion, and regard it as a symbol of courage and good luck, hoping to use the powerful image of the lion to exorcise evil spirits, resulting in lion modeling to suppress or show martial arts.

China society has always been dominated by agriculture. With the changes of solar terms and agricultural life, various festivals or ceremonies to greet the gods have emerged. In these festivals, people use gods or auspicious animals to exorcise ghosts and entertain gods, which gradually has the significance of entertaining people.

With people's love for lions, they are no longer satisfied with the static artistic image of lions in doorways, eaves, stone fences, seals and New Year pictures. They wanted the lion to live, so they created a dance that imitated the lion's behavior, and then improved it and developed it into a unique art of the Chinese nation.