Recently, sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center (Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center), the "Awakening the Lion and Celebrating the New Year" - the special exhibition of the Spring Festival Lantern festival of the festival "sighing" was successfully launched 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", this exhibition is divided into three major sections, which is a concentrated display of the awakening lion culture and has a strong Cantonese New Year flavor.
With the sound of the drums playing, the lion awakening performance presented by the team from Zhao Jiashi, the special exhibition "Awakening the Lion to Celebrate the New Year" added a different color and lively atmosphere.
Giant lion head.
As soon as you enter the exhibition hall, the "giant lion" that comes into view 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 2 meters, designed and supervised by Zhao Weibin, the provincial representative inheritor of Guangdong Awakening Lion, and Made by Chen Jinmingza, the representative inheritor of the municipal level, which is the world's largest awakening lion that can dance freely so far.
Guangdong lion has a long history
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. Chinese lion dance originated in the Han Dynasty, found in the "Book of Han Li Lezhi", which has a history of nearly 2,000 years.
In the first section of the exhibition, the audience can understand the historical development of Guangdong Lion through exhibits, pictures and multimedia.
Introduction to the history of the development of Guangdong Awakening Lion
Why is it called "Awakening lion"? This exhibition gives the answer, one from folklore, and the other related to the Cantonese word "awake". The exhibit "Fulu Shou Fine Lion" is created by Chen Jinming, which innovatively paints the image of Fu Lu Shou by hand on the auspicious lion's head, expressing the good wishes of the people to "fu shou double complete, fu xing gao zhao".
"FuLu Shou" boutique lion
Restore the new performance scene of Waking Lion He
The New Year lion dance is a custom of Guangzhou people, commonly used in martial arts halls, civil organizations, rural areas (communities) and so on in Guangzhou.
Wake up the lion and pick the green theme scene
The second section of the exhibition unveiled a new performance scene of the Awakening Lion He: the Xiguan House Spring Festival Awakening Lion Coming to the Door to Collect Green; the "Big Head Buddha" wearing a robe, belt around the waist, holding a sunflower fan to tease the lion; and the two-headed Awakening Lion with the mouth of xiangrui couplet "Smooth Sailing" and "All the Best"; and there is also a "Hundred Lions SendIng Blessings" with 100 exquisite lion heads converging into the word "Fu".
Wake up the lion offering scene
Blessings from 100 lions
Awakening the lion's head to make a skill inheritance is not an intangible heritage
In the third section of the exhibition, the audience can understand the creation process and characteristics of the lion's head tie technique of waking lions in Guangdong.
Lion's head is a craft
Awakening the lion is accompanied by the lion dance, which is divided into four processes: tie, simple, writing, and loading: first use bamboo grate and sandpaper as the main material to tie out the skeleton of the lion's head; then put on sandpaper and gauze; then color with oil paint to outline the pattern; finally with hair, pompom, mirror and other decorations, and use movable connection devices to install the eye curtain, ears and chin.
The lion's head-piercing technique adopts exaggerated and romantic expression techniques in terms of shape and decorative design, creating a majestic, lively and cute image of the awakened lion with both shape and god.
"Liu Guanzhang" traditional lion
The exhibit "Liu Guanzhang" Traditional Lion restores the Qing Dynasty awakening lion weaving technique, and according to the faces of classic characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Cantonese opera as a reference, the most traditional "toothbrush whiskers" are used to wake up the lion's head. Yellow is Liu Bei, red is Guan Yu, and black is Zhang Fei, representing the three beautiful qualities of "loyalty and filial piety, benevolence and bravery", and are known as national models.
"Lion Awakening China" series of jewelry
In order to enhance the interactive experience of the masses on the awakening lion culture, the exhibition also specially set up a cultural and creative area, so that the general public can enter the awakening lion art world, appreciate the pendants, jewelry, awakening lion bricks, keychains and other cultural and creative products with the festive and auspicious elements of the awakening lion; in addition, they can also participate in the activities of painting the lion face, playing the "lion" to operate, playing the role of the lion, unlocking the cultural code of the lion, and experiencing the culture and art of the lion at close range.
Wake up lion series cultural creation
The exhibition runs until February 21.
[Reporter] Guan Yuqing
【Photo】Courtesy of the organizer
【Author】 Guan Yuqing
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client