What festival and folk custom is lion dance?

Lion dance is a folk custom during the Spring Festival. Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or an assembly is celebrated, people come to the lion dance for entertainment. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, many places have the custom of dancing dragons. Dragon represents auspiciousness, dignity and courage in the Chinese nation, and it is also a symbol of power. People have gradually formed the custom of dancing lions at major events such as the Lantern Festival, hoping that life will be happy and everything will be safe.

The legend of lion dance?

It is said that in the early Ming Dynasty, a monster appeared in Foshan, Guangdong. It appears in the suburbs of Foshan every year, destroying crops everywhere and endangering people and animals. People in the countryside are miserable, so they tie bamboo grates into several lion models and paint them in various mottled colors. When the monster appeared, gongs and drums rang, lions danced together and rushed at the monster. The monster was frightened and turned around and ran away.

Therefore, every year during the Spring Festival, gongs and drums are played, and people go door-to-door and dance lions to celebrate the New Year, to show the intention of eliminating holes and insects and predicting good luck.