Why is picking green green lettuce?

Lettuce.

Collecting greens is a regular part of the traditional Chinese lion dance, and it is the climax of the dance. During the lion dance, especially during the Chinese New Year, the lions perform a series of routines to hunt for "lucky money" hanging high above the ground or in pots, which is often accompanied by green vegetables (mostly lettuce). (lettuce is the most common), so it is called "Caiqing".

Picking the green includes manipulating the green, shocking the green, eating the green, spitting the green and other routines. When the colorful gifts with bamboo poles hanging high, the lion dancers will build a human ladder (nine people with) to climb high to pick, the higher the ladder, the higher the skill, hanging "green" people will be lucky.

Features

Another category is "picking water green": on a bench there is a pot of water, pots with "green", the lion dancers should jump on the bench to make a variety of performances, and finally stand on the edge of the pots, with a hand through the mouth of the lions to get the "The lion dancers will jump up on the bench and perform various shows.

Sometimes, the lion is required from as few as two or three people as many as dozens of people "stacked Luohan" from the bottom of the five or six layers of the "human mountain" to step on the shoulders, to pick "LiYi", which is the This is the climax of the lion dance. Skillful performance to bring people thrilling, warm, festive atmosphere and recreational interest in the art of enjoyment.

China's lion dance is divided into the northern and southern lions, the southern lion is also known as the lion dance, and Guangdong South Shenzhen lion dance team is inherited from this, the purpose must be that is: never forget the original heart, but also a feature of the southern lion dance people.