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Moral of lion dance: China folk tradition holds that lion dance can drive away demons and ghosts, so as to pray for good luck and life safety.

According to legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, a monster appeared in Foshan, Guangdong. Every time I meet a new acquaintance, I come out to destroy crops, hurt people and animals, and the people complain. Later, it was suggested to scare monsters with lion dance, which really worked. Monsters run away every day.

Locals believe that lions have the power to exorcise evil spirits and have auspicious omen, so they beat gongs and drums every Spring Festival and go door-to-door to dance lions to celebrate the New Year, so as to eliminate disasters and predict good luck.

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People like to beat gongs and drums and dance lions to add to the fun every festive season, such as the new Zhang celebration and the Spring Festival group worship. Lion dance is also famous with Chinese emigrating overseas, and it is quite popular in Malaysia, Singapore and other places.

In fact, the number of folk lion dances in Chinese mainland has been decreasing. Overseas Chinese living in Europe and America have also formed many lion dance clubs. Every year during the Spring Festival or major festivals, they will dance lions around the world to celebrate.