China is a dragon, lion sport of sources. Dragon and lion dances come out since has been loved by people of all ethnic groups, history Legend has it, its peak popularity, and thus form an extremely brilliant Lion culture.
Dragon and lion dances in China, was originally to a spontaneous, entertainment, characterized by arbitrariness traditional cultural and sports activities. After two thousand years of development, its form, a wide range of styles and schools colorful. South lion and a lion dance lion of the North, North lion lightweight action, jumping, Fanteng to live, and the popular North Central Plains and South Africa, east of the region; South lions are large and Meng action, music and magnificent, it is a very exciting , Prevalent in the Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and other places. Dragon and a variety flames, grass-long, cloth-long, paper dragons, paragraph-long, basket-long, nearly 100 kinds of lights, such as Long. In traditional practice, the people of the auspicious dragon as the embodiment of every joyous festival, dragon dance all over the practice. In the old society, Long drought does not rain in some places, there are dragon Qiuyu customs.
In modern times, Chinese Lion With the relocation of movement spread around the world, over the past 10 years, many Southeast Asian countries and regions have been the dragon dance, lion dance movement developed into a sports events, international competition also Lion Increasing year by year, the dragon and lion dance modern, has been the general performance activities, develop into a set entertainment, festivals, sports, fitness and a variety of functions in one of sports, and began to go towards a standardized, scientific, sports And internationalization of the development track.
To promote the dragon and lion dances popular sport in the country and carry out, and the worldwide promotion, the State Sport General Administration in 1995 established the Chinese Lion Association, and organized numerous international and domestic Lion Match. At present, the international community has also set up "International Association of Lion." Headquartered in Beijing
The lion dance has a long history, it is in fact originated from China and West Asia cultural exchanges.
About more than 1,900 years ago, Persia and the Silk Road through China launched a bilateral free trade
Easy relations. Persian gift lions and other animals Ambassador to China. At that time, mainland China
No lions, when it after other countries in West Asia and the establishment of diplomatic relations, more and more
Number of lions were sent to China. These lions did not bring any trouble to China
Or disaster, the Chinese people generally do not have the lion Juyi or resist the flu. Actual
, They will be regarded as a lion a symbol of courage and peace, they want to take the lion
- The ability to Bixie. That is why everyone is placed at the door to the stone lions
Because of the. Lion dance is not only the introduction of mainland China, it also spread to the local community
There is no lion in South Korea and Taiwan, which several countries of different lion dance art
But its symbolic significance has more or less the same, fully integrate the lion dance culture, calendar
The essence of the history and martial arts, lion dance performances in general have a root martial arts, body
Soft, easily scalable, robust physique, Kongwuyouli, suitable balance higher
Each had the lion dance movements to the accompaniment配上unique melodies, drums with drum
The rhythm of hand, this means that the lion dance and musicians must work closely with the lion dance
A comprehensive look at the quality of the level of difficulty, the steps of the overall performance of accuracy, Festival
Played with sensitivity and lion dances to be the expression of content.
Chinese lion dance in general can be divided into two, namely, North and South lion lion. Two points
The lion dance is another major action, but the most visible difference between the two is
The lion's appearance, the North has the lion's bushy skin, mouth movements do not, and
South lion of the lions are colorful, lion hair shorter, more mouth activities.
