The basic characteristics of the folk lion dance in Fuji County

The Fuji County Lion Dance is a southern-style lion dance, performed by folk artists who usually work while taking time off to train the lion dance, and perform the lion dance for the main family to increase the festive atmosphere during festivals, full moons, birthdays, and openings. Both parties agree on the amount of honorarium, and the host family has to give the corresponding honorarium. The host family also compares the amount of honorarium given to show how rich their family is. The method of lion dance performance is divided into open-footed lion, base-footed lion, high-footed lion, short-footed lion, etc. The lion dance performance focuses on both the image of the performance and the vividness of the spirit. This is the essence of the southern lion art. The basic features of the lion dance in Fuji County are: First, there is a diversity of equipment used Caiqing the whole process is like a dance drama, or a story, to have a start, take off, turn, and with the help of equipment designed to interpret the lion shape of the eight states, expressing the mountains, over the ridge, rock climbing, flowing streams, streams, wading in the water, over the bridge, through the hole and other moods. During the performance, the main family often seals thousands or ten thousand dollars in red envelopes to show their wealth.　　"Green" is mostly divided into ground green, high green, water green, position green and so on. High green is the red packet hanging in the door, and even the second floor, third floor high, so that the lion dancers try to take; ground green is the red packet is placed in the set of heavy obstacles to the place, by the lion dancers try to pick; water green is the red packet placed in a bowl floated in a tank of water, the lion dancers Department of the tank along the edge of the side of the dance while the picking of the green in order to test the kung fu of the lion dancers. Lion dancers for the competition, competing for the skill level, created a lot of subtle and unique method of picking green.　　Each trade and industry combines its own characteristics and auspicious omens to form its own unique "green". For example: fruit rows of green categories such as peach garden fairy fruit green, blossom rich ten thousand Nianqing, etc.; Tea House green categories such as the Eight Immortals across the sea of green, silver plate jade beads carp green; construction of green rows of green categories such as the bridge on the moon in the green, the South Heavenly Gate Tianqiao green; inns (hotels) rows of blue such as the green birds return to their nests green, the dragon and phoenix present good luck green; pork rows of green categories of pork green, pots of stars in the buckets of green, the fire fork of the gold dragon green; fish industry rows of green categories are The green of the fish trade is the green of the dragnet, the green of the dragon palace, the green of the grocery trade is the green of the seven stars, the green of the pot, the green of the water family, the green of the water lantern, the green of the water hibiscus, etc. It is said that the green of the coconut and the green of the seven stars are the same as the green of the dragon phoenix. It is said that the coconut green and the seven stars with the moon green picking method is the most difficult, is now very difficult to reproduce.　　Second, with a specific form of performance (a) specific procedures and routines The lion dance process is divided into about fifteen, six small parts, summarized as the beginning, the theme, the ending of the three major parts.　　The first part: the beginning, starting the drum to worship, touring around the week, observing the green formation, testing the reality, looking for the way forward. The drum method is accompanied by beating drums, chrysanthemum drums, slow drums, fast drums, front drums, center cut drums, single-legged drums, and big-headed Buddha drums, and so on. Part II: Theme, breaking formation, spraying water (no water is exempted), searching for the green, seeing the green, suspecting the green, eating the green, drinking the green, spitting the green. Drums are equipped with seven-star drums, slow seven-star drums, fast seven-star drums, rapid seven-star drums (depending on the situation, as long as one or two of the seven-star drums), chrysanthemum head drums, play water drums, test the green drums, drums, drums, drums, and so on. The third part: the ending, washing the mouth, washing the feet, scratching the itch, rolling on the ground, and paying thanks. Drumming methods include teeth washing drum, feet washing drum, tickling drum, tail rubbing drum, beating drum, and so on.　　Lion dancers are very particular about the rituals of starting the dance. The etiquette of starting the dance, the rules of attending the gods and passing through the martial arts center, the rules of entering the temple, entering the house and exiting, the etiquette of the Lion Dance and the Dragon and Lion Dance Club, the way of welcoming the guests of the Lion Dance, and the rules of entering the lion's head when it is changed, etc., have all been agreed upon.　　Lion dance performance has a certain set of movements, in the meaning of the performance, equipment set up, performance method also has a program. Set of movements are lion rolling ball, waking up the lion over the pagoda, the lion swimming plum pile, the lion on the platform, broken bridge to pick the green, lion manipulation of the sea, the air to take the treasure and so on. Requirements for the entrance and exit politely and elegantly, neat and tidy formation, consistent movement.　　(ii) Specific steps, footwork and movements As the lion dance is developed to perform on the pile formation, it is necessary to jump and fly on the pile formation to perform various difficult and thrilling movements of the lion, therefore, it is required that the dancers of the lion's head and the lion's tail work together to make the performance seamless.　　There are bow step, horse step, ding step, false step, servant step, etc.; step method has a lift step, reverse step, leaning step, jumping step, trip step, swing step, lying step, etc.. Steps, steps require the use of the law, and more changes, but also to achieve the same step.　　(C) specific drums and music with the drums and music beat should be clear, with the lion dancers performances and the storyline of light and heavy fast and slow order, strength and weakness of the slow and strong, to retain the traditional due to the percussion, but also to join the innovative rhythms, such as can be more changes, it will be able to make the lion dance action with the drums and music, to play the effect should be. Therefore, there are high requirements for drummers, gongs and cymbal players. Beat music drums, gongs, cymbals accompaniment is to make the lion art performance to the best effect of the important part of the lion art in the form of God realism, set of completion or not play an important role in determining, should be highlighted: light, heavy, fast, slow, urgent, slow, stop and other types. Light: the light hit, point hit, the use of wrist power. Heavy: the heavy hit high up and high down, the use of the elbow and shoulders, waist, legs of the combined force. Fast: fast beat, fast beat to beat, utilizing the power of the wrist and elbow. Slow: slow beat, slow beat to beat. Rapid: the number of drum beats between each beat is high. Slow: fewer drum beats per beat. Stop: all kinds of striking music does not stop for more than one beat.　　Third, with artistic ornamental lion dance to show the lion's demeanor, the lion form eight states of joy, anger, sadness, happiness, movement, static, shock, doubt, wake up the lion in the process of picking up the green to deduce one by one. To reflect the lion sometimes powerful and fierce, majestic and powerful, sometimes playful and joyful, humor and harmony, then we must be happy, angry, drunk, happy, fierce, shocked, doubtful, moving, static, wake up and other demeanor performances to be subtle and exquisite, out of the ordinary, the best. Successful performances often let the audience see or realize that the lion in the performance of a variety of thinking, a variety of actions, the purpose of the lion dance performance anthropomorphism, endowed with human thought. Let people in watching the lion dance performance sometimes nervous, sometimes surprised, joyful, intoxicated, so as to get life perception and enlightenment, sublimation of ideas, get a beautiful artistic enjoyment.　　The Fuji County Lion Dance, especially the Huenzhou Lion Dance, has developed its own unique concepts in the design of high piles and lion dance movements, and has created a series of high pile lion dance movements such as "Monkey Climbing a Tree" and "Steel Wire Somersaults", as well as the side-flip off the piles, the one-legged on the steel wires, and the upward piles. Ape and monkey climbing trees, explore the peaks and climb the cliffs and other highly difficult movements and flying distance of 2.8 meters (the tail of the lion to the landing point), a single pile of holding the waist to turn 450 ° stunts, skills shocked the four seats, can be called the best in the country, known as Southeast Asia, reputation Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.　　In the performance of the Fuji County Lion Dance with the powerful drums in the high pile pouncing, leaping, jumping, rolling, prancing, straddling, exploring, holding, turning, flying pile, the whole set of movements combined with static, rigid and flexible, sometimes the spirit of the lion adventure, and sometimes the lion shaking the power, but also the cash lion hanging upside down, drunken lion peaks alone to enjoy the moon, the lion break into the cliffs and climb the cliffs, the cliffs to pick Ganoderma lucidum, the performance of a perfect combination of strength and beauty in the thrill to give the audience the enjoyment of beauty.