"Lion Awakening China" series jewelry Guangdong Provincial Culture Center Courtesy photo
(New Year grassroots) lion head tie-up, interactive performances Wake up lion New Year exhibition is full of Cantonese New Year flavor
Zhongxin Network Guangzhou, January 28 Title: Lion's Head Tie- and Interactive Performance The Awakening Lion New Year Exhibition is full of Cantonese New Year's flavor
Cheng Jingwei, a reporter from China News Network
At the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center, with the sound of drums, the lion awakening performance presented by the Zhao family lion team added a different color and lively atmosphere to the "Awakening Lion New Year" - festival "sigh" Intangible Cultural Heritage Spring Festival Lantern Special Exhibition.
Recently, the "Awakening the Lion and Celebrating the New Year" - The Special Exhibition of the Spring Festival Lantern festival of the Festival "Sigh" organized by the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center (Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center) opened in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center. With the theme of "Awakening the Lion to Celebrate the New Year", the exhibition is divided into three major sections, which is a concentrated display of the culture of waking the lion, with a strong Cantonese New Year flavor.
Walking into the museum, the audience was deeply attracted by a giant lion. This is one of the four giant lions that shocked China and foreign countries at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, with a diameter of two meters, designed and supervised by Zhao Weibin, the representative inheritor of the Guangdong Awakening Lion Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, and made by Chen Jinmingza, the representative inheritor of Guangzhou Municipality, and is one of the largest awakening lions in the world that can dance freely so far.
Lion head piercing technique display Guangdong Provincial Culture Center Courtesy of
Lions are one of the beasts in the minds of the Chinese people, and lion dance activities often pin their hopes on the people to eliminate disasters and seek Genefour. In the first section of the exhibition, the audience can understand the historical development of Guangdong Lion through exhibits, pictures and multimedia. The Chinese lion dance originated in the Han Dynasty and is published in the Book of Han and Li Lezhi, which has a history of nearly 2,000 years. After thousands of years of evolution, the lion dance has become a symbol of the unique culture and art of the Chinese nation, and even the Chinese spirit.
Many viewers wonder why it is called "waking lion"? The exhibition gives the answer, one from folklore and the other related to the Cantonese word "awake". The exhibit "Fulu Shou Boutique Lion" was innovatively painted by Chen Jinming on the auspicious lion's head, expressing the good wishes of the people to "be blessed with both happiness and happiness and high stars".
The New Year lion dance is a custom of Guangzhou people, all martial arts halls, civil organizations, and rural areas (communities) in Guangzhou have dispatched lion teams on the first day of the New Year, stepping on the mighty gong and drum sound, led by the big-headed Buddha, going door to door to collect green, the scene is very lively. In the second section of the exhibition, it can be seen: Xiguan Dawu Spring Festival lions to the door to collect green; there are also wearing robes, waist ribbons, holding sunflower fans to tease the lions of the "big head Buddha"; there are two mouths spit Xiangrui couplet "smooth sailing" and "all the best"; there is also a painting of 100 fine lion heads into the word "Fu" "Hundred Lions Send Blessings", rendering the exhibition a festive atmosphere, let people immerse themselves in it, lingering.
"Liu Guanzhang" traditional lion Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center Courtesy of the photo
In the third section of the exhibition, the audience can learn about the creation process and characteristics of the lion's head piercing technique of the Guangdong lion. According to reports, the awakening of the lion is accompanied by the lion dance, which is divided into four processes: tie, simple, writing, and loading: first use bamboo and yarn paper as the main material to tie out the skeleton of the lion's head; then use plain gauze paper and gauze; then use oil paint to color and outline the pattern; finally with hair, pompoms, mirrors and other decorations, and use movable connection devices to install the eye curtain, ears and chin.
According to reports, the lion's head tie-making technique adopts exaggerated and romantic expression techniques in terms of shape and decorative design, creating a majestic, lively and cute artistic image with both form and god. Among them, the exhibit "Liu Guanzhang" Traditional Lion restores the Qing Dynasty awakening lion tying technique, according to the faces of classic characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Cantonese opera as a reference, za made the most traditional "toothbrush whiskers" to wake up the lion head.
The exhibition also specially set up a cultural and creative area, so that the general public can enter the art world of waking lions, and appreciate the pendants, jewelry, waking lion blocks, keychains and other cultural and creative products with festive and auspicious elements of waking lions. In addition, the public can also participate in games such as painting the face of the lion, playing the "lion" to operate, and playing the role of the lion. The exhibition will run until February 21, 2022. (End)