Foshan lion head of the lion respectively

Lion has a north-south division, the southern lion is known as the "waking lion", originated in Foshan, Foshan lion zazhou belongs to the Han folk crafts in the color of the zazhou. Foshan Zhazuo lion is mainly divided into three categories of cultural lions, martial arts lions, less lions. Wen lion with Liu Bei, Guan Yu as a face, showing pure and gentle demeanor; martial arts lion with Zhang Fei as a face, reflecting the character of fighting, courage; less lion is designed for children to play with the lion head masks. Foshan color tie lion head has more than 50 varieties, mainly divided into large lion head, small lion head (children's toys) two categories. Large lion head is divided into special, first-class, second-class, third-class, etc., the number of grades to do the work of fine and coarse and points; and specifications are to color tie the width of the mouth of the lion head said the large lion head has 47, 45, 41, 37cm 4 kinds of specifications. Small lion head has 33.5, 29.5, 26, 22, 18.5cm 5 kinds of specifications. Foshan lion's head has been less favored than in the past, engaged in the zha zuo people about 200 people, many are halfway out of the family, as if the Lai family, such as by the family from generation to generation, and mastered a full set of zuo zuo skills of the master has been extremely rare. Lai Wei's only daughter is not interested in inheriting the mantle, but Lai Wei believe that Foshan has a deep cultural foundation of lion art, many factories and individual workshops in the operation of the craft, it should not be lost.

The production of Foshan colorful tie lion head is divided into tie, mounting, painting, assembly 4 processes. First of all, to gabion made into a framework for the shape of the lion head, and then mounted to paper, yarn, silk, etc., generally 6 layers, so that it is strong and sturdy, not easy to damage, the appearance of a flat, not wrinkled. Painting is in accordance with the face and different requirements, hand-painted specific decorative patterns. Finally, assembled with pom-poms, tassel celluloid, small copper mirror, small metal pieces, rabbit hair, pony tails and so on. The weight of the whole colorful lion head shall not exceed 4kg, easy for people to play and dance. Foshan Zazuo lion head, rich in strong local color, it is based on the Guangdong stone lion styling characteristics, based on God-like, both from the styling and decorative design on the use of exaggerated and romantic means of expression, to create a powerful and majestic, lively and lovely and both God and the image of art.

1, gabion gallery (modeling skeleton)

2, pouncing on the paper (molding)

3, the surface assembly (decorative)

4, made of exquisite and powerful lion head lion dance is generally composed of six people: the lion dance, a person dancing lion long, a person unloading the tail (was) to show the form of the long body movements, a person wearing a "Buddha Gong" mask in front to guide, a person wearing a "Buddha Gong" mask in front to guide, a person wearing a "Buddha Gong" mask in front to lead, and a person wearing a "Buddha Gong A person wearing a "Buddha Gong" mask in front of the guide, hand pulling the "big sunflower fan to attract the lion to move forward (there are also "Yao Gong", "peach grandmother" two people cooperate with the guide), with the lion competing in the play, the lion dance adds a lot of fun. This adds a lot of fun to the lion dance. Three people walk behind the lion with gongs and drums. Lion dance two action closely match, with the drums and gongs fast, slow, light, reason will make the lion alive, dancing out of the thousands of forms, giving people an artistic enjoyment. Lion dance completely listen to the sucking sound command, with martial arts combined together, this is a highly generalized typical southern lion dance performing arts, and the northern lion dance is completely different.

One of the features of the modeling is that the eyes are drawn longer than the other lion faces; and Zhao Yun's face is predominantly white; in addition, there are Ma Chao's face and Huang Zhong's face, and the latter two faces are seldom used. The lion dance is also divided into civil and military face, the civil face is mostly used in the celebration of the scene, while the martial arts face is used in the lion fight.

The pattern of Foshan lion head pattern, the line is rough and bold, strong, flexible, compact and vivid, rich in decorative effect. Foshan lion head color, distinctive levels, bright colors, strong sense of rhythm, more clever expression of the lion anthropomorphic face of the artistic image, fully express the different styles and character traits of the lion. Foshan lion head focus on the decorative effect, different colors of the face, assembly of different colors of decorations, the lion head decorated with living, colorful.