Tiger symbolizes bravery and might, driving away evil spirits, auspicious and wishful thinking, in the folk, there are many traditional folk customs and tigers are closely related. Poke the video and look for the elements of the tiger at The New Year event everywhere and see how the various tigers greet the New Year.
In Licheng County, Changzhi, Shanxi, there has always been a custom of making cloth tigers, which is called "Lihou Tiger" by locals. To make a Lihou tiger, you must first draw a shape on the cloth and cut it. Then fill the tiger's body with pearl cotton. Finally, paste or sew the various parts with needles and threads. In this way, a Li Houhu is ready. According to local customs, when a child is born, grandma will sew a cloth tiger by hand to give to the child.
Li Xiaomei, representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, Li Xiaomei: The meaning is to wish children to be as strong as a tiger when they are young, and have courage like a tiger when they grow up.
Henan Shangqiu "Painting Tigers" Peasant painters paint tigers to get rich
In Minquan County, Shangqiu, Henan, there is a "painting tiger village" Wang Gongzhuang Village, and the whole village relies on painting tigers and can sell tens of thousands of paintings every year.
Wang Jianhui, a villager in Wanggongzhuang Village, Beiguan Town, Minquan County, Shangqiu County, Henan Province: The tiger on the mountain rises step by step, the tiger on the mountain recruits wealth and fortune, and there are five blessings at the gate. Selling a hundred (paintings), I can sell seventy or eighty are tigers.
"TuoHu" personally created a woodblock New Year painting to send blessings
Sichuan Deyang Mianzhu is the "hometown of New Year paintings", and the woodblock New Year paintings here are also favored by everyone.
Mianzhu woodblock print Deyang Municipal Non-hereditary inheritor Jia Jun: Gently, gently, you see the little tiger comes out, the tiger baby comes out.
Featuring woodblock engraving and hand-painted paintings, Mianzhu New Year Paintings are national intangible cultural heritage and also carry everyone's wishes for the New Year.
Zhang Yingquan, a villager in the folk village of Xiaode Town, Mianzhu City, Deyang City, Sichuan Province: We ordinary people like it, and we all like it, and we post two posters for the New Year's Festival, which is festive.
Yunnan Shuangbai Jumping "Tiger Sheng": Intangible Cultural Heritage Performance to Welcome the New Year
In Shuangbai County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, dancing "tiger sheng" is a way to celebrate the festival. People dressed as tigers, accompanied by Yi tunes such as tiger ansheng tune, sprinkling rice tune, wearing flower tune, etc., under the leadership of the "King of Tigers", integrate the folk customs and production and life of the Yi people into the dance, and also remind people not to forget to cultivate farming when celebrating the festival.
Source: CCTV news client