China News Service, Shuozhou, February 5th (Gao Yuqing) The southern lion is delicate and lifelike, while the northern lion is rough and mighty.
On the 5th, on the occasion of the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, Guangdong's plum blossom pile lion dance and Hebei's lion and dragon dance competed on the same stage in Pinglu, Shuozhou, Shanxi, the "hometown of door gods".
On the day of the Lantern Festival, a series of intangible cultural heritage folk customs were staged in Pinglu District, Shuozhou, Shanxi Province, attracting the public to watch.
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Lion dance, an excellent Chinese folk art, was also called "Taiping Le" in ancient times.
Lion dance can be divided into north and south, and the southern lion is also called "dancing lion", which originated in Nanhai, Guangdong, "the hometown of Huang Feihong".
Lion dance activities are also widely spread in overseas Chinese communities, becoming a cultural bridge for overseas compatriots to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors.
On the same day, the Pinglu District of Shuozhou held the 2023 Lantern Festival "Spring with Gongs and Drums" street art performance.
Among them, the Guangdong Plum Blossom Pile Lion Dance performed by the Hongxi Dragon and Lion Troupe, as the "opening scene", attracted many people to stop.
Liu Xiaofei, the leader of the troupe, introduced that there were 11 members performing this time, with an average age of 17 years old. Their performance originated from the authentic "lion dance" in Guangdong.
Red, yellow, blue, and purple "wake-up lions" of different colors, with their eyes blinking and their bodies leaping about.
Photo by Gao Yuqing
The reporter saw at the scene that amidst the sound of gongs and drums, four "wake-up lions" of different colors, red, yellow, blue, and purple, blinked their eyes and danced their bodies, jumping and moving on plum blossom piles of different heights. , Dodge, flutter, roundabout, leap and other difficult movements.
On the square, "yellow lions" change their formation from time to time, dancing up and down, left and right, showing their might.
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"The most difficult part of the plum blossom lion dance is the leap into the air, which is the most exciting part of the performance." Liu Xiaofei told reporters that to complete this movement, two team members need to work hard.
"Lion Awakening" completes the jumping action on the plum blossom pile.
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Bei Yuanyang is one of the performers of the plum blossom pile lion dance. He is under 20 years old and has been practicing lion dance for seven or eight years.
"I came to Shanxi for the first time, and felt the local folk culture of the Lantern Festival."
The lion and dragon dance performance in Hebei was completed by 170 people.
On the square, five "dragons" and dozens of "lions" walked through the crowd and filled the square in a short while. They changed their formation from time to time, dancing up and down, left and right, showing their might.
Shuozhou Kicking Drum and Flower Folk Performance Photo by Gao Yuqing
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Shaanxi Ansai Waist Drum Performance Upward Shot
In addition to the lion dance performance, a series of intangible cultural heritage folk customs such as waist drums in Ansai, Shaanxi, local iron bar juggling, drum kicking and flower pulling were performed in turn, attracting tens of thousands of people to watch.
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