The year of nongyin is the year of the tiger, CCTV released the image of the tiger propaganda picture, is a smiling and smiling little tiger, some people say that looking at the tiger's eyes like a tigress, festive and auspicious, giving people an optimistic and upward force.
The New Year festival is full of joy, and these joys are inseparable from some image objects and utensils, such as lanterns, such as lion dances and dragon dance lamps. Although it is the Year of the Tiger, the tiger is the king of the hundred beasts, and the folk rarely play the tiger, probably the big tiger's ass can't be touched.
Dragon is a complex, anyway, there is no dragon in the world, then play with dragons, for example, the dragon dance lamp is a popular way of playing in the folk New Year.
The earlier dragon lanterns were all bamboo rods tied into a skeleton, divided into three parts: the dragon head, the dragon body, and the dragon tail. Now many dragon lamps use wire instead of bamboo grates, make a skeleton, and then apply a variety of brocade costumes, and with heavy colors, outline the texture and scales, so that the dragon comes to life.
The quality of the dragon's head marks the quality of the dragon. The dragon head is very exquisite, the dragon horn, the dragon whiskers, and the dragon qing are exquisite, like a real dragon. The dragon's tail is also key, and the dragon's tail is upturned upwards, like a huge fish's tail.
The dragon lantern is generally one, and the dragon ball dancer is the core figure and the conductor. The dragon head follows the Dragon Ball, and all kinds of movements are dizzying, and laughter comes and goes.
If there are two pairs, "Two Dragon Play Beads" or "Double Dragon Society", the time and the time coincide, rolling up and down, left and right, eight exquisite, handy. The audience applauded, cheered, laughed and watched.
Sometimes, with good luck, you can also see lion dances, there are double lions, and there are also single lions.
The lion dance performance does require some skill, the performance is generally two people together, the front of the person raises the lion's head, the back of the person bends down, can not stand upright, both hands grab the waist of the front person, with the front of the person moving.
Dragon lanterns and lion dances, generally speaking, from the first day of the Chinese New Year to the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, there is more than half a month. This folklore has a history of thousands of years and has a unique charm. In the folk, it often symbolizes the national peace and security, the wind and rain are smooth, the grain is abundant, and the six animals are prosperous.
As the saying goes: "As soon as the dragon lamp goes, the gongs and drums are noisy, the dragon lamp lion roars, and the song and dance rise to peace." "In the sound of gongs and drums, one movement and one stillness, one light and one dark, the lights are dimmed, the winding is meandering, the leaps and jumps are quite spectacular.
The year is getting closer, lanterns are hanging high, lions are dancing, dragon lanterns are making noise, people are rejoicing...
About authors: Ding Huiren, Ph.D., independent writer, senior scholar, best-selling author, senior accountant, senior economist, many articles published in people's daily, Xinhua net, China net, guangming net, market information newspaper, labor times, zhanjiang daily, writers network and writers and other newspapers and magazines.
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