Chinanews.com Liancheng, Fujian, April 18 (Huangshuilin Zhang Jinchuan) mud selection, mold making, paper mounting, stereotyping ... The production process of the Hakka Green Lion is cumbersome and very particular.
It is reported that the Hakka green lion is a beast of the Hakka people who exorcise the evil town. In the Hakka areas of Longyan, Sanming, and Meizhou, Guangdong, the New Year ’s festival must be concentrated on performances, home visits, and blue lion dances, wishing good luck. Among them, Liancheng is the most popular, and has become an important part of traditional martial arts in Liancheng County, Fujian.
Huang Lin, the inheritor of the green lion production, is busy making the lion head. Photo by Huang Shuilin
At the Minxi Hakka Green Lion Production Craftsmanship Training Center in Getian Village, Gechuan Township, Liancheng County, the reporter saw that the green lion production inheritor Huang Lin was busy mounting the tenth floor of the model of the green lion head.
Liancheng Leo Dance mainly shows the habit of the lion through the change of the lion's shape. As an important prop for the Leo Dance, the quality of the Leo determines the vividness of the Leo Dance. In June 2018, Liancheng Lion Dance was included in the list of the sixth batch of intangible cultural heritage representative projects by the People's Government of Longyan City.
The production technique of "Liancheng Green Lion" is the same as the inheritance of many traditional skills. For hundreds of years, it has been a single pass, and it is not passed on from the inside, and the son is not passed on. Huang Lin told reporters, "I learned martial arts when I was young, and I have been in contact with the Liancheng blue lion since I was 7 years old. My father Huang Xiaobai taught me lion dance when I was 13 years old. After two years of hard work, I carried the lion head to the lion dance. "
Huang Lin, the inheritor of the green lion production, is busy making the lion head. Photo by Huang Shuilin
Because the production of green lions not only requires excellent production skills, but also requires solid artistic skills, it was not until 30 years old that his father Huang Xiaobai began to pass on the production skills of Liancheng blue lions to Huang Lin. After five years of study, Huang Lin became the sole inheritor of "Hakka Green Lion" in Liancheng County.
The traditional manufacturing process of the green lion is very complicated. According to Huang Lin, the Hakka green lion in Liancheng is completely hand-made. It takes at least 20 days for a green lion head to complete from the mold making to the paper mounting, and the production of a whole green lion needs to go through It takes about a month to select dozens of processes, such as selecting mud, making molds, mounting paper, fixing, painting, making lion tongue, lion mane, lion cloth, and lion tail.
In the Hakka area, every year during the festival, they must concentrate on performances, enter the house and tour the lion dance, wishing good luck. Among them, Liancheng in Fujian is the most prevalent, and has become an important part of traditional martial arts in Liancheng. Photo by Huang Shuilin
"In the production process, the production of the model is the most critical. The quality of the model directly affects the appearance of the blue lion." Huang Lin said that the model needs to select five-color mud with a purity of up to 95%, which is crushed, stomped, and used. The wooden sticks were beaten repeatedly, and finally shaped on a wooden board 80 cm wide and 1 m long.
Today, Huang Lin has made independent innovations on the basis of inheriting the production skills of the Blue Lion. The mounting paper is from pure paper to the combination of paper and cloth, and the materials are from paste to white latex ... The improvement of one process improves the service life of the Blue Lion. Long, the structure is more stable, and the appearance is more refined. The finished Liancheng blue lion is small in size, about 60 cm in diameter, weighs 6-7 kg, and has a prominent forehead. The gossip on the forehead is very obvious, and there is a "lion tongue" written in auspicious words in the mouth, which means good weather. , The auspiciousness of Cathay Pacific people's security.
"As the eleventh generation inheritor of the Green Lion production, I passed on the skills to my daughter-in-law Zeng Fen, hoping that this long-standing skill will last forever and continue to pass on." Huang Lin said. (Finish)