Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Li Chunwei Intern Liu Yingying
Photo, video / Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Chen Qiuming
At the end of 2021, a "Lion Boy" was popular all over the country. Young people who were infected by the story of the character Ah Juan in the film have entered the Southern Lion Martial Arts Hall. Lion dance in major festivals such as the Spring Festival is the most familiar folk custom in The Canton area. Traditions need to be adhered to, and Zhang Tinghai, nicknamed "Godhead" by the villagers of Liwan, is one of the "Southern Lions" who insists.
Three minutes on stage Ten years offstage
"The Chinese Southern Lion is in Guangdong, and the Guangdong Southern Lion is from Foshan." The Southern Lion is the totem that best represents the regional culture of Guangdong. Zhang Tinghai said that the biggest feature of the Southern Lion is that it is combined with martial arts. "After eating Chinese New Year's Eve porridge for a few years, the lion dance can be danced beautifully." He introduced that in Hong Kong films, Wong Fei Hung often participates in lion dances, which is very realistic. He himself began to practice Zhou Jiaquan with his master at the age of 10, he only began to dance lions at the age of 12, and he began to learn to tie lion heads at the age of 25.
Zhang Tinghai lion dance is like a cloud flowing water
In his view, learning the Southern Lion requires calming down and using a long time to hone the skills. He laughed and said, "In the past, the elders used to say that rowing dragon boats, dancing lion heads, and cutting down tree heads on the mountain are the three most painful and tiring tasks in life. "The lion dance is not just a lion head to pose a shape and dance at will, it has a certain correlation with martial arts routines." After practicing a set of basic skills, the lion dance can be completed in a natural way, and the clouds and rivers flow, "it is really three minutes on stage and ten years off stage."
Tie the lion's head and "tie" the culture throughout Southeast Asia
After the lion dance, some people will slowly touch the lion's head. Tie a lion's head with a hand, the appearance has a personality, and it is more handy to dance.
Zhang Tinghai said that the longer he spent wearing the lion's head, the more he could appreciate the deep cultural meaning inside. He introduced that in order to make a complete lion's head, it is necessary to complete the four major processes of tie, flutter, write and install. The first process is difficult for many people. He said that after the teacher saw the material, the lion's head in his mind was often formed. Novices often do it for half a day, and the framework is not well set up.
After the "tie" process is completed, the workers are next to carry out paper throwing. A layer of sandpaper, a layer of mosquito net cloth, another layer of sandpaper, workers full of paste have to throw 3 layers of bamboo cages, and workers with six or seven years of experience can only throw five or six a day. This process looks simple, but if the paper is not mastered when the paper is thrown, so that there is no concave that should be concave, and there is no convexity that should be conceded, then this finished product basically cannot sell for a good price.
"Writing" is coloring, it is not difficult to get started, but it is difficult to do fine. For example, some gradient colors are difficult for novices to grasp. An excellent lion head, condensing the countless painstaking efforts of craftsmen.
Zhang Tinghai makes lions
Zhang Tinghai introduced that the local lion head manufacturers in Guangzhou insist on slow work and fine work, and the reputation is very good. He himself received orders from Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and other countries, as well as Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Chile and other European and American countries.
It is not easy to stick to the market, and finding the market is the key
According to experts, the lion awakening performance requires at least two lions, plus 1 drum, 1 gong, and 2 cymbals (a pair). However, there are very few cases of single lions, usually double lions, two sides of the drum, one side of the gong, two pairs of cymbals, plus other auxiliary personnel, a complete lion awakening performance requires at least more than ten people.
If you need to use the pile array, then you need to increase the manpower, plus the chores need at least nearly 20 people. According to a survey, it is said that tens of thousands of people in Guangzhou and Foshan are engaged in the lion awakening industry, but in fact, there are very few people who can make money on this day.
Zhang Tinghai has also been teaching lion dance skills in Guangzhou and Foshan for a long time, and he admits that there are not many people who stay in this industry, "not much money, but also have to endure loneliness", "many people go to high school and college, and they slowly stop playing."
Zhang Tinghai improvised his fist
He said, "The traditional color of the lion is painted according to the faces of the three kingdoms, and the most traditional is Liu Guanzhang." Liu Bei lion is relatively light, mostly platinum color, representing benevolence and wealth, often used in traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival or new store opening; Guan Yu lion is mostly red and black, representing bravery and bravery; Zhang Feishi symbolizes bravery and good fighting, so before the martial arts hall went out to fight or kick the museum is to use Zhang Feishi, some old lion heads will also use lion horns made of iron, as weapons to attack each other. "There is an old saying: When liu bei lion is danced, the rich and noble are known; when the guan gong lion is danced, the loyalty and righteousness are known to everyone; when the flying lion is danced, the mighty is known to everyone.
Zhang Tinghai introduces "Liu, Guan, Zhang" among the lions
But with the passage of time, there have been fewer and fewer people who can dance Guan Gongshi and Zhang Feishi. On many occasions, almost all the performances are relatively agile Liu Bei lions.
Zhang Tinghai improvised the lion dance, and the tiger was full of wind
Drumming is also very exemplary
When filming the interview video, Zhang Tinghai weighed the weight of Zhang Feishi, then picked up Guan Yu lion, and finally chose Liu Beishi for the performance. Drumming, lion head dance, saying blessings, a series of movements were done, he waved his hands one after another, signaled to adjust his breathing, laughed and said: "I am not young, the lion dance still wants young people." ”
Zhang Tinghai and the reporter together to the neighborhood to celebrate the Spring Festival
He believes that lion dance is a culture, and culture needs to be creative and find a suitable way to pass it on. The hope of inheritance lies in the creative young generation. He is full of confidence in the development of the Southern Lion.
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