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Lion Mountain Non-Heritage Buddha Crane Lion Head
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Today (January 29) at 10:00 a.m., CCTV's 13 sets of "News Live Room" column focused on the new year flavor of Guangdong streets, and used a news article "Guangdong Waxing Moon 27 Years of Flavor Gradually Thickening, New Year Flowers Reflecting the New Year, Awakening the Lion Dance new year", focusing on foshan's Annual Flowers and Awakening Lions.
Among them, Ye Jingxun, the non-hereditary heir of the Buddha Crane Lion Head from Shishan Town, showed the story of the Buddha Crane Lion Head of the Lion Mountain and the charm of the New Year of the Lion Dance in the program, revealing a strong New Year flavor and New Year atmosphere.
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It is understood that Ye Jingxun, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of the South China Sea District, has been engaged in the lion head tie industry for more than 20 years.
Video from Guangdong Radio and Television Public Channel (Director: Li Shuitao, Camera: Wu Glory)
It is understood that Ye Jingxun has been exposed to the lion craft under the infection of his father since he was a child, and has been in his words for more than forty years, in his words: "I have thrown myself on the lion's head all my life." When it comes to lion heads, his eyes are always shining and interested, and it is this love that keeps him going to this day.
Bamboo is drawn to make a head embryo, stickers are used to shape, painting patterns are colored and painted, and the upper whiskers are fixed to become male lions... To make a complete set of lion heads, you need to complete four major processes, each one is not simple, only a pair of skillful hands can make a striking lion head. Although the lion's head is passed down from three generations, Ye Jingxun still does not dare to be sloppy at every step.
Buddha Crane Lion Head
Lion's head is a traditional folk art craft in Foshan, with a long history and exquisite craftsmanship, and is a representative of the lion's head art in the south of the mainland. As far back as the early Ming Dynasty, there are four major towns in China known as Foshan Town, Nanhai County, there have been special production of waking lions and gongs, drums, cymbals skilled craftsmen, awakening lion related industries have been formed, according to the "Foshan Zhongyi Township Chronicle" recorded that "the lion head products are excellent, the provincial walls and foreign countries are ordered, mostly in the stone road shop" in the vicinity of Foshan Town, villages, dancing to wake up the lion has been a folk traditional sports project, whenever the New Year festival, or in the event of a major celebration (such as the township people in the lift, the completion of the new clan ancestral hall, etc.), will be out of the lion to help.
According to its shape and dance method, Chinese lion dance is divided into two categories: southern lion and northern lion, and southern lion is prevalent in southern China, especially Guangdong and Guangxi. Among them, Foshan and Heshan in Guangdong Province are considered to be the birthplace of the Southern Lion, so the Southern Lion Lion's head is divided into Buddha costume and crane costume.
Lion's Head Workshop
In the early 1990s, in order to meet the development needs of modern high-pile lions, Ye Jingxun, the ancestral heir of lion head making in Yanfeng Community of Shishan Town, on the basis of inheriting the traditional lion head tie-making technology, improved and innovated the materials, technology and appearance of lion head tie-making, and developed a new variety with the characteristics of both Buddha lion and crane lion: Buddha crane lion.
Each step of the Buddha Crane Lion's Head is made by hand, bamboo bones, paper skin, ink add radiance, fluff shows its might, after four major processes, a week or so, a lifelike lion head can be presented in front of the eyes of the public.
The four major processes of the lion's head
Tie the lion: tie a bamboo strip into the shape of a lion's head, just like a foundation of a house, need a foundation model;
Park Lion: also called flutter paper, flutter cloth, use gauze to paste lion embryos;
Paint lions: color with oil paint, outline patterns;
Loading lions: what color is needed for lion hair, what color is needed for the ball, and collocation.
The head of the Buddha Crane Lion weighs only 4-5 pounds, which is nearly half lighter than the traditional Buddha lion. It not only retains the exaggerated, colorful, colorful and durable characteristics of the traditional southern lion production, but also absorbs the advantages of the crane lion's lightness, which has the advantages of being more colorful and dazzling and more durable.
Interpret the innovation and inheritance of lion culture in Lion Mountain
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In March 2007, "Buddha Crane and Lion Head" was included in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list in Nanhai District. Today, Fohe Lion not only covers many provinces in China and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but also exports to more than ten countries and regions such as the Philippines, France, Belgium and the United States.
Source: CCTV News, Shishan Town Cultural Development Center, Guangdong Public DV Scene
Editor: Foshan News Network Feng Cuiping
Review: Siying Mai, Daimei Yang, Weijian Chen