The white color of the southern lion represents

The white color of the southern lion represents benevolence and righteousness.

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China, every Lantern Festival or gathering celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer up the performers in the drums and drums under the music, pretending to be a lion, make the lion's various forms of action. Chinese folk tradition believes that the lion dance can drive away evil spirits, so every festive season people will celebrate the lion dance.

Currently, the common appearance of Guangzhou lion dance colors are yellow, red, black, purple, color, gold. Among them, yellow, red, black for the traditional three main colors of the Guangzhou lion dance, the other colors are in recent years in order to increase the spectacle of the lion dance performance and the evolution of the development.

Nanlion performance introduction:

Nanlion, also known as the Waking Lion, is a more powerful shape, and focuses on the horse stance when dancing. Southern lion mainly rely on the movements of the dancers to show the mighty lion type (two people dance a head). The lion's head is colorful with opera masks, and the eyes and mouth can be moved. Strictly speaking, the lion's head is not quite like a lion's head, and some people even think that the southern lion is closer to the beast of the year.

The Southern Lion's head also has a horn, which is rumored to have been made of iron in the past to cope with the martial arts fights that often occur during lion dances. Traditionally, Southern Lion lion heads are white, red, black, and. Three kinds of lion heads. The Southern Lion Dance will be accompanied by a large gong, drum and cymbals. The dance of the lion should match the rhythm of the music.

The lion dance is usually preceded by an eye-dotting ceremony, in which the guest of honor puts vermilion sand on the eyes of the lion to symbolize the giving of life.

Chaiqing is said to be a symbol of prosperous business. The "green" is made of lettuce and scallions (taking the meaning of its cleverness to make a fortune). When the performance of the "green" and Lishui (red packets) hanging up, the lion in front of the "green" dance a few times to the green vegetables in one bite "eat" off, and then lettuce "bite and spit out" to everyone again The lion dances in front of the "green" several times to "eat" the lettuce in one bite, and then "chews up" the lettuce and "spits it out" to greet everyone.