How is the lion dance performed?

The opening performance of the lion-to play the lion's foot, you need to choose two big masks (Tang Priest and Friar Sand), two true and false the Monkey King masks (monkeys), one pig eight quit mask (pig eight quit) and one beauty mask (witch girl).

Lion dancers are generally young adults with good physical strength and strong jumping ability, and the two little monkeys are generally teenagers who are good at somersaults. The rest of the actors let their hobbies.

The lion's last dance is to snatch green. In the old society, the government often hung "green" high and let lions fight for it, so it was called "grabbing green" in all previous dynasties. In modern times, when the country is moving towards civilization, families don't want to fight in front of their own homes when the New Year is auspicious. Generally, it is designated to be picked by lions, so it was renamed as "picking green"

According to the rules, lions spit vegetables at the audience, which is called "spitting green" and "green" head. Lions clubs should wrap them in thank-you letters and send them back to the main house.

Green is mainly divided into two forms, one is "high green" and the other is "flat green". Gao Qing hangs in the sky. Grass lion is a lion dancer, biting the lion's head with his teeth and leaping into the sky with superb lightness skill. Lion dancers break the head of the vegetable with their hands, put it in their mouths, spit leaves at the audience after landing, wrap the head of the vegetable in red paper and send it home.

Bullfighting lions need to be led by people in the form of pyramids. If there are more than four floors, the first floor should be built with 12 people, rattan cards and wooden sticks; There are eight people on the second floor; On the third floor, three people, a rattan card, form a circle back to back; The lion is on the fourth floor. If you can't reach it, another person will climb on his shoulder and pick the green. In addition, there will be steps, and the lion will jump step by step. After climbing to the top, the whole shape will be like a pagoda. Pagoda is a Buddhist term, and the lion originated from Buddhism, so the pagoda is called "arhat". The whole process of stacking ladders is called "stacking arhats". When the lion spits green (with the intention of distributing wealth to the public), not only the gongs and drums are loud, but also the conch is played, which is spectacular and the audience cheers for it.

Dancing a bullfighting lion, regardless of martial arts, is more difficult on this pile of arhats alone. Therefore, although the bullfighting lion is not as fast as the grass lion, it can combine the strength of everyone to dance the lion at high altitude and hit the flower head, which is also a must. So the bullfighting lion also draws a "king" on his forehead, also called the lion king.

In the old days, Lianzhou took the wooden frame as a platform, on which lions performed the actions of falling asleep, waking up and grabbing the first place, so it was called "big-headed dog".

Green on the flat land: the main family puts "green" on the flat land. Plain green is divided into animal green, still life green and literary allusions green.

Animal green: the owner makes "green" into crab, scorpion and other shapes. Such as crab green, first use a bamboo basket, put it on the ground, cover it with lettuce to represent the crab back, then use two fruits to represent the eyes, and then use straw as pliers and several bent feet. The whole shape is like a crab. After the lion dancer held the gift box and worshipped the "green" three times, the lion danced around the crab green and performed a lion-crab battle. Every time he dances, he sticks his head to the crab green, then jumps and leaves. After "beating" a circle, the lion takes off the tongs first, then the tongs, and then the eyes and feet. Then open the bamboo basket and take out the "green" inside; Then break green and spit green. After dancing for a while, the lion bowed down three times with the lion and returned the vegetable head to the main house.

Scorpion green: first build the shape of a scorpion with bricks, decorate your eyes with fruits, put your feet with bamboo sticks, and then put a cane at the tail to represent the tail. When picking green, it should also be performed as a struggle between lions and scorpions. Solve the tail first, and then solve it one by one.

Still life is green: if the basin is green, put a basin of water in the ground, and put six or nine coins (six means "Liuhe" and nine means "Longevity") and a lettuce, as well as other benefits and cigarettes beside the basin. If there is a bench next to it, it represents the river bank, and the ladder on the bench represents the wooden bridge. When picking green, the lion jumped three times, and the lion danced by the ladder to show the joy of watching, and then gradually danced on the wooden ladder; After approaching the basin, lower the lion's head, put his mouth to the basin, suck up the water with a towel at his waist and wring the towel dry; Then take the coin out of your mouth, swallow the "green" into your mouth, and then perform the action of breaking and swallowing the green. After that, step by step, jump off the wooden ladder and bow down to the basin three times.

Literary allusions are green: mainly based on famous legends in history or articles used by celebrities in literary classics, such as the fishing rod used by Jiang Ziya in the list of gods; The Monkey King's golden hoop in Journey to the West; Guan Gong's Guan Dao in Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Zhao Zilong used guns, etc. This green color is collected in the form of "Zanhua".

For example, the fishing rod hooked by the owner on the spot will remind us of the allusion of Jiang Taigong's straight hook to the Wei River in The Condor Heroes. First, take the lion to worship the fishing rod three times, guide the lion to dance for a while, then press the lion down in front of Qing, and then signal the gongs and drums to stop singing the first "Flower":

"The sun shines red, and there is a fishing rod beside Weishui. Eighty Chiang Kai-shek came to keep the appointment. Can a straight hook catch fish? "

After a burst of gongs and drums, I stopped singing the second song "Flowers": "The gongs and drums are loud, and Zhou Wang is ridiculous. King Wen visited all the wise men to sweep away the Shang Dynasty. "

After two gongs and drums, sing again:

"Gong, king wen called WeiShui. In order to save the people and help the wise Lord, put away the fishing rod and see King Wen. "

The lion jumps for a while, then takes it off and spits green, and the person with the lion can put away the fishing rod. For example, putting a guard knife at the door tells the story of Guan Gong going to a meeting alone. If you put a tassel gun, you will tell the story of Zhao Zilong's single-handedly savior; If you put a stick on it, it will tell the story of the Monkey King helping Tang Priest to learn the scriptures.

In short, the host family can make a fool of themselves according to literary allusions, and the lion group should make a concrete analysis and improvise in the form of hairpin flowers.

In 2007, the opening ceremony of the third Lianzhou International Photography Annual Exhibition was celebrated by lions.