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What do you need to prepare for lion dance and green picking?

Lion dance needs to prepare red envelopes and vegetables. The so-called green picking means that during the Lunar New Year, every household hangs a bundle of lettuce and a red envelope in front of the door to attract lions to offer blessings, or puts a handful of lettuce and a red envelope on the ground for lions to pick. This is a special program unique to Southern Lions.

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.

? Wake up the lion and take off the green.

1, picking green is a fixed link in lion dance. During the lion dance, especially during the Spring Festival, lions hunt for plums, which are hung on high places or put in pots. Because plums are often accompanied by vegetables and lettuce, they are named.

2. Picking green generally includes doing green exercises, scaring green, eating green, spitting green and other routines. The bride price is hung with bamboo poles, and the lion dancer will climb the ladder to pick it. The higher the ladder, the higher the skill, and the luckier the person who hangs green.

3, the lion picks green, which means clear and clear. During the Qing Dynasty, scholars often expressed anti-Qing sentences between the lines, but they were often caught by honest officials. The folk custom of lion dance was added by the righteous to awaken the lion to eat lettuce, because lettuce is blue, which means eating the Qing Dynasty and making it perish. At present, the lion dance uses green, but it uses intention, that is, to grow and prosper, and the business is booming.