Liang Jiarong taught anchor Chen Cheng to master the basic movements of the lion's head.
Huang Yujing performed with the children's lion awakening prop "Guan Gong Lion".
Anchor Chen Cheng challenged the jumping pile, and the distance between the two piles was 1.8 meters.
Blinking, licking, shaking, climbing piles... How to learn these magical lion awakening performance movements? As a business card of Lingnan culture, the lion awakening performance carries many childhood memories of Guangdong Tsai and is also a common cultural symbol of the people of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Nandu, N video "Attack on The Intangible Cultural Heritage" Season 1 look for the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage pearls scattered in the Bay Area, the first phase came to Shenzhen Shanghe Village Shangchuan Huang Liansheng Awakening Lion Martial Arts Team, take you to immerse yourself in the secret of awakening lions!
Look for the Lion Awakening Heir
"You see, lions are alive!"
Last year, the State Council announced the Fifth Batch of Representative Items of National Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the "Shangchuan Huang liansheng Lion Dance" in Shanghe Village, Shenzhen was included in the list of the fifth batch of representative items of national intangible cultural heritage.
In the Bao'an District of Shenzhen, which is lined with high-rise buildings, we have found a training base for the inheritance of this intangible cultural heritage skill. The full trophies and pennants prove the professionalism of this awakening lion team, and also make the reporters who are about to experience the scene play a drum in their hearts.
The canopy slowly opened, the high pile was on the field in front of the base, the banner of "Kamikawa Huang Liansheng" was erected, the drum was swinging, and the residents immediately focused their attention on the members of the Awakening Lion Martial Arts Team - the Awakening Lion Performance was about to begin!
"You see, lions are alive!" Huang Zhihui, the inheritor of the Shangchuan Huang Liansheng Awakening Lion Dance, introduced us to the performance of the Awakening Lion Martial Arts Team. The red lion jumped confidently, climbed the pile with dexterity and agility, and occasionally almost fell off the high stake, hanging the audience's heart one moment, and blinking triumphantly and shaking a body of red hair to climb a new high stake.
After the performance, Liang Jiarong unveiled the head of the lion, and we saw the "behind-the-scenes director" who came to life as a lion. This post-80s youth is not only the inheritor of the Shangchuan Huang Liansheng Awakening Lion Dance, but also the head coach of the Awakening Lion Martial Arts Troupe.
The Shangchuan Huang liansheng lion group not only has the traditional characteristics of "Southern Lion", but also maintains the top level in china in the lion dance skills, and has won gold medals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Lion Awakening Invitational Tournament for many times. The reporter saw that the trophies in the training base were full.
It is understood that the Huang Liansheng Awakening Lion Martial Arts Troupe was born in the early 70s of the last century, Master Huang Liansheng is a well-known patriot, the awakening lion dance created by him, has been passed down for four generations, developed a number of branches, Shangchuan Huang Liansheng Awakening Lion Troupe currently has about 50 people, most of them are teenagers.
Game for the brave
"Come and try the high jump pile?"
"Come and try the high jump pile?" Coach Liang Jiarong issued a "challenge book" to the reporter who appeared on the N video. The high piles on the stage, ranging in height from one meter to two and a half meters, are arranged in a straight line. The distance between the tall piles is as short as half a meter, which is in line with the stride length of most people, and the distance is up to 1.8 meters. The reporter on camera had to challenge the first high pile on the line that needed to be jumped - jumping 1.8 meters from a 1.5-meter-high pile to another high pile.
There are soft cushions under the high piles, and the two lion masters are also ready to prevent accidents. The reporter stood on the high stake ready to jump, and from her line of sight, the distance of the vertical ground cushion was 3.1 meters. After a big leap in the air, he landed on the pile with his feet back and forth, standing firmly on the opposite high stake.
After the success of this high pile challenge, Coach Liang Jiarong also agreed to the reporter's request to learn the basic movements of waking the lion. "Martial arts are very important, wake up the lion dance beautifully, must be the basic skills of martial arts solid." Coach Liang immediately began to demonstrate, horse steps, flutter steps, golden rooster independent steps, these actions not only test the basic physical fitness, but also test the stability of the core strength.
This time to learn the art attracted many residents around and the awakening lion master to watch, the door of the training base, also protruded two small heads, the smaller boy is Liang Zhaobin, the son of Coach Liang Jiarong, and the taller boy is Huang Zhihui's son Huang Mingjing. Compared with the reporter who just learned the art, these two children who are only 10 years old can already be regarded as "master brothers".
Waking up the lion dream is also a hero's dream
"This lion head is Zhang Fei!"
In the middle of the main hall of the training base, there is a lion head that is more than two meters high, and you can feel the full impact and pressure when you look closely, and the black and red lion has a blue nose, a short black beard, a tight brow, and angry eyes. "This is Zhang Fei!" Liang Zhaobin pointed to the lion's head and introduced, and his fingertips revealed pride.
Awakening Lion Head borrows from the historical figures of the Three Kingdoms in Cantonese opera, such as Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other faces to "write color", which is the same as the technique and function of Cantonese opera character makeup. And this "fierce and courageous" lion is the martial lion "Zhang Feishi" in Cantonese opera. Look closely at this lion, there are balls composed of two colors between the eyebrows and the top of the head, which is the same as the headdress in Cantonese opera.
Coach Leung Ka Wing's lion head for performance weighs 4 pounds. "This is too heavy, we practice it ourselves is light." 10-year-old Huang Mingjing explained to us.
The bamboo used for training awakens the lion's head to less than half a kilogram, and there is no complicated decoration, which can help the practitioners see the internal structure of the lion's head. "Hands on this thick pole, one hand pulling the rope to control the lion's blink, the other hand controlling the mouth." Huang Mingjing demonstrated while teaching the reporter to control the lion's head. With the movement of the body and the operation of the lion's head, the lion's head not only has two movements: opening its mouth and blinking, but also has a variety of expressions such as curiosity, exploration, and drowsiness.
It is worth mentioning that the youngest in this training ground is not 8-year-old Liang Zhaobin, while watching the aunt holding a child, while fixing her eyes on the lion dance, she said helplessly: "3 years old is a tiger's head, as soon as you hear the lion dance, you must come to see." ”
"To practice waking lions, first practice martial arts." Coach Leung Ka Wing said. In front of the Dunmu Hall of the Wong Ancestral Hall, Liang Zhaobin and Huang Yujing showed us the Hongmen Fist Routine. The afternoon sun hit the faces of the two serious-looking non-heritage teenagers, and a drop of bean-sized sweat fell from Huang Minjing's eyelashes. Standing in fitness, carried in lion skills, and attributed to martial virtues, here not only the skills of waking lions are passed down from generation to generation, but also the martial spirit of self-cultivation.