The lion dance of Chongren began in the reign of Qing Xianfeng. It was originally a kind of folk fitness exercise, after more than a hundred years of evolution, gradually become a kind of folk art. Come with me to see the following essay about Watching the lion dance performance, welcome to learn!
Part I: Lion Dance
On September 28 this year, I had the honor of witnessing this rare folk art at the Chongren elevated temple fair.
That day, people came and went, bustling, not lively. I squeezed into the crowd, kneeling on his heels to see the fun. It turns out that here is a lion dance, the dance is unique to our town of Chongren lion dance south lion. The so-called South Street, is not with the artistic set of lion dance activities. Just see around thousands of eyes watching the venue, an eager and excited psychology and tense atmosphere into one.
Suddenly, a drum sound disturbed like a clear sky, only to see an actor with a white scarf, wearing a white lapel suit, waist holding a ball, while somersaulting, while showing the audience on all sides. This move is to lure the lion out of the hole. Sure enough, there were two small lions with golden hairs fluttering their tails and heads out of the cave. They even turned two somersaults and jumped around happily without seeming to notice the bystanders. That naivety, that emotion, is not it unique to the lion cubs? The surrounding audience applauded. But there seems to be a slight anticipation in the eyes, people expect the big lion to come out of the cave.
Just when the little lions are happy to play, another drum sound like a lion roar, shocked the sky and earth. With the accelerated rhythm of life, the two old willow cast a mighty and huge body out of the cave. Than just that naive and cute little lion, really very different. One was clad in green hair, eyes sharp and powerful, body as healthy as steel; the other was clad in red hair, eyes full of warmth, relatively quiet. The two lions strutted around, not losing their majestic nature. Out of the hole of the green lion is really extraordinary, a half a split river and mountain, the body rises up in the air, legs apart, like a sharp axe straight down. The red lion is half squatting on the side, wagging his tail, turning his head back, with his tongue combing its beautiful and soft lion hair. The gentle and childlike appearance of how like a kind mother ah. Just as I was watching, the green lion suddenly came to me, the bloody mouth to me a close, scared me straight shivering, hastily backward a few steps.
When I came back to my senses, the kind and lovely lion cubs under the leadership of the old street children passed by again. I thought the family was probably taking a walk. The sound of the gongs and drums gradually weakened, and the family all yuked down their backs, arched their hips and quirked their tails, as if they were drinking water. Who wouldn't be infected by the joy of watching this family! Finally, the feet return to the hole. They are somersaulting and jumping, and seem to be a little bit reluctant to leave.
From this lion dance show, it is not difficult to see the characteristics of the ancient town of Chongren Nanyu, that is, hidden in the clumsy clever, rough and fine.
Part II: Lion DanceToday, mom and dad took me to see the lion dance. The first out of the team is the Guangxi team, the lion dance team has drums, gongs, they are on the side. The lion dance team has drums, gongs and they are next to each other. One of them is holding a colorful ball on the lion stage, and the other four are wearing the lion's head, which is red, gold and green, and the eyes on the lion's head will also blink and blink, which is very realistic. The lion dancers have to do somersaults and tease the lions. Performances out of the lion people to imitate the lion's movements pouncing, jumping, rolling, but also to jump on the platform and columns than a few meters higher than the people, jumping on the columns, the lion dance on the back of the lion, you do not say that I would, but they are standing on the high columns to perform ah! The audience will give them a warm applause when they perform brilliantly. I was most impressed by the Jiangxi team because of their wonderful performance. I watched four shows in one ****, because I have to go to school tomorrow, so I argued to go home. The lion dance show gave me a deep impression, it is really unforgettable a night, unforgettable a show.
Part III: Lion Dance Performance"Buzz - buzz -" a burst of cell phone ringing into my ears, I opened my aunt's phone to see, oh! It turned out to be the aunt text message over to let us go to her store next to see the lion dance it! I was happy to jump three feet high, immediately set off.
The car wanted to drive to the Dingxin Times Square like a fair, only to see the two lion head hair like a grain snail, the mouth opened wide, as if to eat us like, the eyes are round, like two black pearls. There are several people on the side of the drums beat threat, the two lions play more vigorously, sometimes in the ground roll a three or four circles, sometimes the bloody mouth of the other lion pounced on, sometimes pounced like a big ball, the ball bite up and put back.
Next, there are two staff on the field, the ball tied to the rope, one hand holding the rope. The lion immediately pounced over, the staff to lift the rope, the ball immediately flew up, the lion is not weak, again pounced on, bite the ball, and put down. Not long after, the show is over, we go to the movies.
Today's show is very wonderful, but the world does not have a feast, I hope that next year's show will be even better.
Part IV: Lion DanceOn the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, I heard my grandmother say that there would be a dragon dance and a lion dance show outside. I wanted to go to see it, so I pestered my grandmother to take me out to play.
Once out of the neighborhood, the outside can really be described as a sea of people, my grandmother and I struggled to navigate through the crowd. At this time I vaguely heard the sound of drums, follow the sound to find, only to see the Cao Chancellor House outside a circle of thick "human wall". Children standing in the car or riding on the neck of an adult to watch with great interest, adults are stretching their necks to look inside. I was even more curious, and wanted to go to explore, so I tried my best to get into the wall and stood in the front row. I saw some old men and women beating gongs and drums, and two lions jumping around in the center. These two lions are very good-looking, with big, round eyes, especially spiritual, bloody mouths open and close, and soft whiskers hanging underneath. The two lions, one gold and one silver, looked a bit stupid because their heads were too big, taking up a quarter of their whole bodies.
I was sizing up the two lions when the golden lion strutted toward me, shaking its bulky head violently at me, its big eyes glaring at me, and I was startled. The lion walks away triumphantly. "This lion is naughty." I thought. A moment later the golden lion jumped onto the high platform with a stomp of its hind feet, followed by the silver lion. The golden lion jumped, straight up and jumped down, and then took the red embroidered ball. The stage erupted into a mountain of applause, accompanied by a burst of applause. The golden lion landed on the ground, swaying its tail, holding the red embroidered ball to the silver lion to show off. The silver lion was a little afraid, hesitating on the stage, the audience gave the silver lion applause to encourage the silver lion, the silver lion stood up boldly. "The silver lion's head fell down with a thud. People's hearts were in their throats, but the silver lion stood up again unharmed. It turned out that it hadn't fallen at all, but was just joking with the audience! The golden lion also jumped down, the two lions on the ground twisted together, causing people to laugh. Just when the wonderful time, Grandma came to call me, said it is time to go home for dinner, I had to leave reluctantly.
Along the way, just now the lion dance scene one by one in my mind, is too wonderful. At the same time, I had to marvel at the endless charm of traditional Chinese culture. I wish the time could be reversed, I really want to see the lion dance again.
Part V: Lion DanceOn the first day of the New Year this year, I was very excited to hear that there was a lion dance performance in the town hall, and I couldn't wait to ask my father to take me to see it just after lunch.
To the town hall, although the sky is drizzling, but watching the people are still a lot of people, my father and I occupy the position soon after the show began. *** There are ten lions divided into east and west two teams, red, black, yellow, different colors and forms, with the back of the ear-splitting sound of gongs and drums dance away. The lion dance is very hard, dancing very realistic, sometimes stand up, sometimes down, head constantly shaking, eyes blinking, tail also a swing, won the people warm applause.
To the wonderful green picking. Caiqing is a red rope, tied at intervals on some red packets, the last is with lettuce, oranges and a large red packet tied together, from a section of a section of the upstairs slowly put down, the lion dance should be stacked up with stools or ladders, dance while climbing up, in the process of the lion dance slowly "eat green". I saw the lions dancing happily in front of the "green", and then suddenly jumped up and ate the "green" in one bite, and finally ate the lettuce and crushed it and sprinkled it around. I asked my father what this meant. Dad said: "lettuce and tangerine is the "wealth", "good luck" meaning, sprinkle around is to give these wishes to everyone."
The lion dance ended in a climax, leaving us with endless memories and happiness, and I also know the meaning of the lion dance as a folklore: the country is prosperous and the people are in peace, good luck!
Part VI: Lion DanceOn Saturday night, the Sixth Minority Games in the province kicked off in Dayong Bridge Park.
When my cousin and I arrived at the park, the large circular music square was crowded around the audience, and the bleachers on both sides were also crowded. The show had already begun, and my cousin and I couldn't wait to get into the crowd at the entrance to the plaza, poking our heads in and looking around. An enthusiastic aunty to see us look at the strain, they brought me and my cousin to the front row of the audience.
Ethnic songs and dances, aerobics ...... performances are one better than the other. I think the most beautiful is the Jishou team's lion dance performance. Accompanied by a burst of gongs and drums, a vivid lion appeared in front of people. It blinked its big eyes and waved its head and tail, exactly like a real lion. Come to the pre-built wooden table about two-story high theater in front of the lion bowed to everyone, the back feet a pedal, front feet a lift, easily jumped on the first table. The lion stretches his waist, kicks his legs, nods at the audience, and leaps onto the second level of the table. Immediately after, the lion two hind legs upright, two front legs hanging in the air, in only two or three square meters of the table
surface surprisingly majestic stand up. "Snap snap snap ......" the audience erupted in thunderous applause, many audience members coincidentally exclaimed "good job!" . To climb the last level, only to see the lion's whole body force, force a turn, the rear feet of the trend to vacate on the first floor, the lion pretends to be very afraid of the appearance of a front leg carefully pressed the table, the other front foot steadily and up. Standing high on the stage, the lion once again humbly bowed y to the audience, and then with its wide mouth a mouthful of hanging in the highest place of the red embroidered ball, thrown into the air to the audience. Next, the lion stood on one leg on the inverted table leg, the other three legs in turn on the rest of the table leg above, and then slowly raised the left two legs rubbing against the table leg, a look of carelessness. At this time, my heart has long been hanging in my throat, the stage is also a pot of porridge, people have applauded and praised. After the lion has made a big splash, proudly twisted his butt, ready to get off the stage. Back legs hanging on the ground, the front legs move freely, only a few dozen seconds of work, the lion easily down to the first level of the table. Suddenly, "bone", the lion intentionally rolled down from the table, looking at the red embroidered ball previously thrown, as if not recognize, with the foot touch, and quickly retracted; and then licked his feet with his tongue, pretending to be a pitiful look, really cute! At this time, I seemed to think it was not a lion, but a mischievous kitten! "Oh", only to see the lion open the bloody mouth, a mouth will swallow the red hydrangea, and then sleep on the ground, with the front legs leisurely patting the stomach, as if eating full.
Part VII: Lion Dance ShowNew Year's Eve can collect New Year's money, wear new clothes, firecrackers, but the most interesting is to see the lion dance show. I still remember the scene of last year's trip to Guangzhou. On that day, there were no clouds, the streets were crowded with people, very lively, everyone was full of red, joyful. Suddenly, the sound of firecrackers, I followed the sound of the place to go, found that the original lion dance team in the lion race! The lion is very realistic, open mouth, eyes are blinking, especially bright, everyone is full of praise. The lion dancers had a good understanding of each other, sometimes the lion shook its head, sometimes jumped around. At this time, a few people to move the ladder, we are more excited, "the lion" began to walk the ladder, while walking and shaking his head, people clapped and applauded, "the lion" to the top of the bamboo poles hanging lettuce, the lion pounced on the lettuce. I was very strange, asked: "Mom, why did the lion grab the lettuce?" Mom patiently told me: "That is to use the harmonization, lettuce as 'raw wealth'. Everyone wants to be rich!" So that's how it is, I understood at once. Ah! Chinese traditional culture is really a thousand and one, too interesting!
Part VIII: Lion DanceToday my father's company held a wonderful lion dance to celebrate the New Year.
Before going out, I heard the gongs and drums of the "dong dong" sound, drums boiling, the scene is magnificent, two people into the body of the lion, then a brush, a golden lion jumped on two stakes, and jumping, doing complex movements, not paying attention to will fall down. The most admirable thing to me is, standing in front of the lion holding the head, but is a thirteen, fourteen-year-old boy, they jumped back and forth between the stakes, and the stakes between the stakes there is a large distance, but they gently leaped on the past, without the slightest hesitation. One moment they were standing on their own, one moment the uncle behind them picked up the boy in front of them, one moment they jumped over and over, as the saying goes, "One minute on the stage, ten years of work under the stage." It seemed to be easy for them, but they must have put in a lot of hard work and sweat. At this time a blue lion also jumped up, the two lions in the stake kept exchanging positions with each other jumping, as if in a duo dance, a moment left, a moment right, a moment up, a moment down. Then they actually walk up the wire, if you want to walk over, must be two people with good, or only fall down, they step by step carefully, finally walked over. At this time, the two lions rose up in the air, standing straight on the stake, the lion's mouth opened, Xu fell two sets of Spring Festival couplets "prosperous business", "financial resources into the", the stage resounded bursts of applause and warm applause .......
Today's lion dance show really opened my eyes, not only wonderful to see, and let me know: to do a good job of every thing is to pay efforts and sweat.