The lion dance is called "Dancing Lion" in Jiangcheng. The word "dance" is pronounced "懵" in Yangjiang dialect, and "lion" is pronounced "是子", which has the same meaning. This is a taboo, because the word "lion" in Yangjiang sounds the same as "lose", which is unlucky. The following introduction to the Yangjiang lion dance is basically a southern lion.
Jiangcheng in the old days, there will be celebrations will be released firecrackers lion dance, especially the Spring Festival to celebrate the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, there are lions in the early morning to worship the house. The world believes that the lion in front of the door open mouth and tongue wagging head and brain, those hiding in the nooks and crannies of the house will be swept away, and therefore regard this as a "prosperous house" role, are respectful and solemn to the lion dancers to send "red packets".
Freshly built new homes, will deliberately invite the lion dancers into the house, floor by floor dance worship. Newlyweds who want to give birth to a boy early will also invite the lion to enter their bedroom and let it roll over in their beds. Because the Yangjiang language "lion" and "is the son of" consonant, "lion on the bed" is also a metaphor for "is the son (boy) on the bed! The good omen of "yes son (boy) goes to bed" is also implied.
Wealthy families and stores will invite the lion dance team for special performances. It is usually performed on an open field with many onlookers. The lion dance is usually accompanied by a variety of martial arts performances, the climax of which is the "lion" "Caiqing". The host family in the upstairs with a bamboo pole high up a big red bag, next to a bundle of greens, the lion dance team on the ground to set up a ladder, so that the "lion" side dance along the ladder to climb up, climb to the top, open the mouth to the red bag and greens "eat" in the mouth. The most wonderful "picking green" is "picking coconut", that is, the leaves of the green vegetables are replaced by coconuts. "The lion must open the coconut hanging above it. The lion dancers often have to use their teeth to tear the outer skin of the coconut and their fists to burst it, which is not possible without some real skill.
Today's Jiangcheng lion dance activities, not only for the Spring Festival, the usual business celebrations, promotions, often invited the lion dance team to help, the lion dance team has also become an advertising practitioners, skills than the Tang Bai Juyi depicted "gold plated eyes and silver paste ear, Fenxun hair body swing double ears" much more superb. Xushui County, Hebei Province, Beili lion dance can be said to have a long history and long history, known as the northern lion lion lion dance township. The Ming and Qing dynasties in the situation of the flower fair in the Zhangjia Temple Festival, major events and other occasions to perform. The whole village up to the elderly, down to the childish children, everyone hanging, each practicing. Created a lot of stunts, our village lion dance art troupe was formed in 1925 on this basis, so far there have been more than eighty years of history. In the 1950s, the village lion dance troupe went to Romania with the Central Song and Dance Troupe to participate in the Fourth Youth Festival of the World, won the gold medal; visited six countries in Eastern Europe and went to North Korea to perform a great success, by the party and state leaders of the high praise; since the reform and opening up, the village lion dance is more such as a wood in the spring, such as a tiger to add wings, achievements, has participated in and won the Beijing eight, nine, twelve Longtan Cup Invitational Folkloric Games of Excellence The highest award - the winning award; Hebei Province, the best award of the Spring Festival of Music; 94 years Shenyang International Folk Dance Art Competition Jinjiu Award; the Fourth Ministry of Culture Star Award; the fourth and fifth Qingdao Folk Art Festival performance special award; 97 years China Tianjin Dragon and Lion Dance Golden Award; the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the first prize of the Golden Splendor; and successively participated in the Hebei TV Station And has participated in the recording program of the Spring Festival Gala of Hebei TV, the CCTV, is a great variety show, the fortieth east and west, south and north, and the tenth anniversary of the opening of the broadcasting; performance of a hundred lions roar in spring, the grandeur of the magnificent, wonderful skills, known as the lion intimidating, full of reputation in Beijing and China. In celebration of the return of Hong Kong and the fifteenth anniversary of the convening of the National People's Congress, the troupe was invited to Beijing to participate in large-scale programs organized by the Beijing Municipality and the National Tourism Administration, by the party and state leaders Li Ruihuan, Li Tieying, Qian Qichen, array of Muhua, Lei Jieqiong, etc., but also by the countries of the ambassadors of the highly acclaimed and highly praised, over the years the troupe of the city, the provincial level performance of hundreds of performances, footprints all over the country in more than a dozen cities and regions, full of reputation in China! The reputation of China is well-deserved.
Lion dance is divided into the lion and lion dance, the lion static and character of the lion lion lion performance of the gentle side, intimidation of fear, mutual intimacy when the kiss, looking forward to when the hope and scratching, licking the hair, stretching, rolling, pulling out the ears, playing Shu Zhang, etc., the form of delicate and realistic, naive and can be constrained, it is really a wonderful.
The lion dance is precisely to skillful, through the lion's outstanding, resulting in, over the mountains and streams, mountaineering upright, jumping, turning, pouncing and other actions, showing the lion's dynamics and character of the ferocious side, especially Plum Blossom Zhuang, three lions stepped on the ball of the show, it is a unique, thrilling variety, another person breathtaking.
From the past to the present our village are still insisting on every good year and the New Year, the Spring Festival are lion dance to celebrate, when the neighboring villages of the villagers also come in groups to see the lion dance, these lions bring hope, bring joy, but also bring happiness. The village people all go out to work with the group, has formed a lion dance industry. And it has been named by the state as a folk art protection program.
Over the decades my village's lion dance art troupe in the inheritance, development, innovation and improvement of the road to greater achievements, and for the country and brother provinces and municipalities to train and transport a large number of professional lion dance performers and talents, teaching to help teach a large number of lion dance groups, in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area enjoys a unique reputation. Stiff lion is a popular in Hubei's Huangpi and Xiaogan two places around the Lantern Festival of a folk activity, is a kind of lion dance lion activities, especially in Wuhan City, Huangpi District of the stiff lion is the most famous.
The lion dance is performed in different styles in different villages in Huangxiao, and is usually held in a bay (a constituent unit of a village) as a unit for an independent lion dance. Before the lion tour, several strong male bareback (now advocating civilization, Huangpi many bay stiff lion are wearing yellow, red lab coat) kneeling in the "head man" (when playing the lion led by the person) home hall, head 緾红巾, and then around the drums and gongs, firecrackers roar, make the house full of smoke and lasted more than ten minutes to dozens of minutes, only to see the red scarf wrapped head of the person jerked up and stood up, the red scarf, the red scarf, the red scarf, the head of the person jerked up, the red scarf, the head of the person jerked up, the head of the person jerked down. The red scarf wrapped around the head of the person suddenly stood up, could not stop shaking, reciting words under his breath, as if he claimed himself to be a god who had just descended to the earth, and then a few "horse feet" (some villages also call it "generals"), and then the lion activities began. In the process of the lion tour, stiff under the feet of the horses have been following the lion, as if the gods, they half bare back, shaking, not the slightest feeling of cold, sometimes stop to play a few sticks and swords and so on, and sometimes hand-held firecrackers to blow up, without fear.
Every year, the first month of the thirteenth to sixteen, the stiff lion began in Wuhan Huangpi's area of the countryside is active, this time of year, a lot of people in the city will go to the countryside to see the stiff lion. The lion dance is also known as the "general lion" (lion dancers are called "generals" or "horse's foot"), while the lion dance in other parts of China is commonly known as the "waking lion". The lion dance in other parts of China is commonly known as the "Waking Lion". Stiff lion is very special, their jumps in many people seem to be playing Tai Chi, stiff lion that is, "horse foot" in the incense, in a semi-conscious state, as if the gods and goddesses of the sky possessed, the lion dancers become extraordinary, very much the flavor of the festival. Especially the fifteenth of the night lights the most lively and wonderful, stiff lion will not only climb to the mountain of tables, will also bite the candles, from the boiling diesel fuel to take the good luck and so on; the lion will also go to every house to play, every family will take out the family to welcome the lion with fireworks and firecrackers, and then next to an elder to say the lights for good luck, praying for the next year's wind and rain, it is very lively, which is in the rest of the world are absolutely any other place! This is a unique landscape that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world, and is the unique cultural heritage of Huangpi in Hubei. The Tianyang Lion Dance has a long history. It is said that as early as 1,000 years ago, there were lion dances in this ancient land of Tianyang. In the 34th year of Ming Jiajing (1555), when Mrs. Wa returned from her victory against the Japanese, the people of Tianzhou went to the outside of the city hall to welcome the old and the young, and the lion dance was used to cheer them up. The custom of the Tianyang people to have fun with lion dances has been inherited to this day during the New Year festivals. Unlike other local folk lion dances, the Tianyang Lion Dance Team formed by the family was changed into the Tianyang Lion Dance Art Troupe under the attention of the county government, and was listed as a career unit management. Every New Year's Day, Tianyang Lion Dance Troupe goes into the streets, villages, factories, mines, schools and other performances for the masses, but also to participate in a variety of construction and completion of celebrations, songs, cultural activities in the countryside, insisting on voluntary performances to serve the masses. It has participated in the Baise Regional Ethnic and Folk Traditional Sports Meet, Guangxi People's Games, National Minority Traditional Sports Meet, etc., and won the first prize. 1996, Tianyang Lion Dance Troupe won the "Golden Lion King" award in the "Eight Gui Longcheng Lion King" competition; in September 1997, Tianyang Lion Dance Troupe won the "Golden Lion King" award in the "Eight Gui Longcheng Lion King" competition. In September 1997, in Fuzhou, Xiamen held in the Chinese folk stunts festival, Tianyang lion dance performance was recognized as the festival's best program.
Tianyang Lion Dance Art Troupe since its inception, has been in large and small occasions no less than 6,000 performances, the audience nearly ten million times, which participated in various competitions and performances above the municipal level more than 800 times; *** won a variety of medals 67, of which 30 gold medals, 22 silver medals, 15 bronze medals, has been rated as the region (city), the autonomous region and the National Advanced Collective Units.
The most striking thing is that Tianyang Lion Dance is not only famous in China, but also attracted people's admiration in foreign countries. 1992, Tianyang Lion Dance Troupe was invited to perform in Bonn, Germany, and the audience at the scene responded strongly and applauded constantly, and the local media reported it in graphic form and highly praised it as "the first skill in the world", which caused the international community to pay great attention to the Tianyang Lion Dance. The international community has paid great attention to the Tianyang Lion Dance, which has attracted lion dance enthusiasts from Japan, Holland, the United States, Russia and other countries to come to Tianyang to learn lion dance and record lion dance videos.
Skillful but embarrassed by the loss of tradition
Tianyang Lion Dance has the characteristic of being passed down from one family to another, and the traditional characteristics remain relatively intact. The most valuable thing is that Tianyang Lion Dance, in the development of modern times, is not confined to a single inheritance but innovates on the basis of the traditional Lion Dance routines, which improves the technical content and enhances the ornamental character. The members of the Lion Dance Art Troupe insist on practicing for more than 8 hours every day. From learning horse stance, practicing jumping, kicking, piling, prancing, to learning Nanquan and Qigong, to learning various routines of the Lion Dance, etc., the members of the troupe carry out rigorous training, and integrate martial arts and dance in the Lion Dance, striving to achieve the perfect state of the art. Tianyang Lion Dance, on the basis of traditional lion dance routines such as prancing, leaping, tumbling, rolling, etc., through digging, organizing, reforming and innovating, has created "Double Lion Playing Balls", "Lions on the Golden Mountain", "Lion Technique at the Point of the Knife", "Lion Dance at the Point of the Knife", "Lion Dance at the Point of the Knife", and "Lion Dance in the Golden Mountain". ", "lion swimming plum blossom pile" and so on dozens of programs. These programs have beautiful shapes, varied movements and high skills. Domestic researchers say that the Tianyang Lion Dance has the artistic effect of "high, difficult, shocking, dangerous, strange and beautiful", and the Tianyang Lion Dance has pushed the traditional Chinese lion dance technique to a new peak. Tianyang Zhuang lion dance, there are difficult, thrilling, strange and beautiful features, reflecting the rich ethnic characteristics. Since historical records, it has been passed down for more than 450 years, and gradually from the early days of the founding of the country to pay homage to the New Year, celebrations, and to help the development of the ground lion dance to have a "lion on the gold mountain", "lion over the bridge", "knife tip lion skills "high pile flying lion", "golden lion wind" and a series of stunts such as aerial performances, and frequently involved in the sports world, reputation throughout the country and overseas.
Tianyang Zhuang lion dance routine, rich program, exquisite technology, integration of martial arts, dance, acrobatics in one. It is divided into two kinds of lions from the nature of the ground and aerial lion: the ground lion dance is the Wenpai lion dance, characterized by lively and lovely naughty image, mainly on the ground performance flash, pounce, move, prancing, rolling or comical movements to attract people, the lion by wearing a naughty monkey and a big head of the Buddha's mask of the smile of the members of the team in front of and behind the road to lure and tease, in the firecrackers and gongs and drums and percussion under the coordination of the performances, generally used for festivals to celebrate, pay tribute to the New Year, congratulations, Rallies, weddings, military and other activities; aerial lion dance is a martial arts lion dance, the main feature is the martial arts, acrobatics, dance movements into the lion dance, to the high platform performance, generally by a lion holding a lion bead lion guide to lead the way, teasing the lion to perform a variety of heart-wrenching stylized movements, you can climb up more than 20 high stools stacked up on the Jinshan show, can be in the mid-air hanging high on a steel cable rope tumbling jumps as if walking on a flat surface, can be performed on a knife tip top belly spinning and so on. The top of the knife on the top of the belly spinning and so on.
For a variety of reasons, Tianyang Lion Dance Troupe from the peak into the doldrums, the number of lion dance troupes greatly reduced, lion dance skills on the verge of being lost, the situation is very serious. The most direct blow came from the loss of talent. Because the lion dance income is too low, so the lion dance personnel have left the group to work abroad. In addition, some foreign lion dance groups to absorb away from Tianyang part of the lion dance team members at high salaries, resulting in an exodus of talent. In the past, Tianyang Lion Dance Art Troupe has nearly 100 people, only 12 people left. A large number of talent loss, resulting in Tianyang lion dance greatly reduced, difficult to develop.
It is hoped that the whole society *** with the inheritance of Tianyang lion dance culture
Thankfully, the Tianyang County government of the Tianyang lion dance dilemma has attracted great attention, calling on people from all walks of life *** with the attention of the development of the lion dance, and actively for the lion dance troupe to solve the problems, for the re-casting of the glory of the lion dance in Tianyang and to contribute to the plan.
An expert pointed out that Tianyang dare to Zhuangshan Song Wei has been famous outside, how to effectively use dare to Zhuangshan scenic area of visibility to enhance the reputation of Tianyang Lion Dance is also a problem worth thinking about, can be held during the annual dare to Zhuangshan Song Wei Tianyang Lion Dance Festival, so that Tianyang Lion Dance program during the Song Wei shine, to attract visitors to expand the impact of the Lion Dance brand, so that the Tianyang Lion Dance Tianyang cultural formation! The new shockwave.
The relevant departments proposed to clarify the affiliation of the lion dance troupe, the lion dance troupe can be unified management by the county culture and sports bureau, a leader of the county culture and sports bureau also served as the honorary head of the lion dance troupe. Lion Dance Art Troupe to implement enterprise management, take the "lion to raise lions" and economic entities "to raise lions" combined with the development of the road. Reform the current family management model, reform the distribution of benefits mechanism, the establishment of a transparent financial management system, improve the basic salary system, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the players. Inheritance and development process, strengthen the market-oriented operation, take the initiative to strengthen contacts and cooperation with the outside world, a wide range of reasonable absorption of social capital support, pouring the whole society *** with the inheritance of Tianyang lion dance culture.
On the Zhuang lion dance there is such a legend: Legend has it that in ancient times, people lived in the hills and deep forested areas, beasts, the Zhuang ancestors were often harassed, crops were destroyed. In order to drive away the beasts, to ensure the safety of people and animals, food harvest, the Zhuang ancestors came up with a "beast to drive the beast" approach, imitation of the king of beasts lion, gongs and drums, dancing lion, also lit torches at night to drive away the beasts. The lion then became the Zhuang ancestors in the eyes of the merit and symbol of good luck, every New Year's festivals are dancing lions to celebrate the wishes.
Suixi County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, the "hometown of China's lion dance"
Suixi County government decided to start from 2005, December 8 every year will be held "Suixi Lion Dance Festival".
The Suixi Lion Dance Festival was held once in 2005; it has not been held since.
The first Suixi Lion Dance Festival in 2004 opened on November 26th. On that day, in the cultural square and the county's main street, held a wonderful lion show and the "Night of the Lion Country" cultural evening, from November 27 to December 8, the lion team around the round performance, the skills. In addition, also organized a calligraphy and photography exhibition related to the lion.
Suixi's folk lion-watching activities have a long history.
The local government follows the principle of "active protection, rational development, effective utilization and encouragement of competition", and adheres to the idea of "giving equal importance to modernity and tradition, and advancing the overall development of cultural undertakings", and actively develops the art of folk lion dance, and the lion dance team is growing continuously. The folk lion dance team is growing, there are 255 folk lion dance teams, including 28 high pile lions, 227 ground lions, performers over ten thousand people.
Lion dance is a comprehensive art that combines martial arts, dance and gongs and drums. Suixi's lion dance team, there are men's and women's lion dance team; single lion, double lion; ground lion, high stakes lion; high stakes single lion, high stakes double lion, etc., to form a unique lion dance art style, a number of lion dance team won awards in the national competitions, which the Wenche lion dance team also went to Paris to participate in the "Sino-French Cultural Year" exhibition, in December 2003, the county was recognized by the Chinese Folklore Association as one of the best lion dance teams in China. In December 2003, Suixi County was named the "Hometown of Chinese Lion Dance" by the Chinese Folk Literary Artists Association.
Suixi lion dance belongs to the southern lion, enjoys the reputation of the hometown of lion dance, and has visited many countries on behalf of China.
And served as the special guest of honor for the lion dance performance at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Xinchang's lion dance is also extremely rich in resources, and also loves to use the "lion dance" as a way to look forward to good weather, peace and good fortune in the year. Therefore, there are many lion dance teams in the county, and the more famous ones are the Hongtang Lion Dance and Shangdao Lion Dance in Ruzhao Township, the Xiazhou Lion Dance in Chengnan Township, and the Zhailing Black Hair Lion Dance in Dashiju Township, and so on.
Shangdaodi village lion dance activities since the Qing Dynasty Qianlong period (AD 1736-1796) has become a climate, has never stopped. The Shangdaodi lion dance troupe usually consists of 13-16 people, including a band of 3-5 people (which can be changed and alternated). Generally performed on the sunbathing field: a member of the team swings a colorful ball thrown into the sky, two members of the team are busy drilling into the lion's skin, one dances the lion's head, the other puts the lion's tail, a fierce lion rises up in the air and chases after the colorful ball, stepping on the drums and the music, waving its head and tail, the mighty wind Ling Ling, the lion's witty and interesting life state and the lion dance team's superb lion dancing skill is instantly shown.
More than 80 percent of the people in Hongtang Village know how to do the lion dance. Hongtang village lion dance is also often linked with martial arts performances, the program has three: the first for the lion player to hold the play rope embroidered ball led to the lion, for the simulation of the four corners of the town dance; the second for the martial arts performances, martial arts division of boxing and equipment two parts, the performers rubbing their fists, manipulating stick fist, knife and light, "stick" shadow, dazzling; and finally performs The last performance is "Lion Chanting Embroidery Ball", in which the lion player uses the embroidered ball as bait to fight with the lion. The whole performance is accompanied by percussion all the time.
The lion dance of Xiazhou Village, Chengnan Township, began with the sound of trombone accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums of "Rush Wind", and the double lion jumped out of the lion dance by one person dancing with the head of the lion and one person dancing with the tail of the lion, which jumped from time to time and was quiet at times, crouched or sat, stood up or walked, shook his head and swung his tail, looked to his right and left and looked forward to the eight directions, and the coordinated head and tail movements were as vivid as the performance of the whole body. In the tight rhythm of the drums and gongs, "lion drilling bridge holes", "lion swallowing mace" and other stunts danced one by one. The lion dancers are trying their best to make the most of the real skills they have practiced in the past.
The Zhailing village in the town of Dashiju is surrounded by mountains and is known as "Little Liangshan" in the neighborhood. Zhailing's lions are different from lions in other places, and all the fur is made of black Tongma, so it is called the black lion, which means brave and mighty, invincible in the world. Zhailing black hair lion class, a **** about 20 people, performances with the drums and gongs knocked up "anxious wind", and blowing a loud and clear Meilian long horn. Young men in samurai attire hold embroidered balls and guide the lions to the stage, with one dancing the lion's head and the other the lion's tail. A very brave black lion rises up in the air, showing the lion dancer's martial arts skills with a variety of difficult movements and humorous life-affirming actions. In the lion holding the embroidered ball after another change in martial arts performance, when the "small Liangshan" good man on the stage one by one, "big fish fist", "small fish fist", "Single leg", "double leg", "single leg", "double flying leg", "Inverted Crawler", "Carp Crossing the Beach" and so on.