"Eat sweet kueh, watch the tiger and lion" - this is a country saying that many Hailufeng people are familiar with. During the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys will always hear the sound of gongs and drums of tigers and lions to greet the New Year, and many children will always eat sweet kueh while eating in the old daysWhile watching the lively scene of the lion dance, the festive atmosphere is very strong.
Less than ten days before the Spring Festival, whether it is urban and rural, or major shopping malls, they are busy preparing for the Spring Festival folk performances. Recently, a series of Hailufeng lion dances, such as the giant unicorn lion king, appeared in the Haifeng Rainbow shopping mall, attracting many citizens and tourists to check in and take pictures ......
Figure |The set of photos shows the unicorn lion king on display in the mall.
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aThe unicorn was born
In the exhibition hall, the most eye-catching is the giant unicorn lion king. The reporter saw at the scene that a high 36 meters, 3 meters wide unicorn lion king, the overall image is brave and mighty, the demeanor is realistic, its skull is ** has a forward golden yellow corner, the bottom is also decorated with traditional patterns such as gossip, a pair of copper bell big eyes are breathtaking, vivid. "It's the first time I've seen such a big unicorn, it's shocking, and there are many special tiger lions that I only see during the Chinese New Year. Mr. Lin, a citizen who came to **, said.
How exactly is such a huge unicorn made?
As a craftsman of Hailufeng Tiger and Lion Making, Huang Yinan has a lot of experience in making products, and this giant unicorn lion king is from him.
Figure |Huang Yinan is coloring the unicorn.
When they approached me to make a giant unicorn, I tossed and turned at night, thinking about it for two days and two nights before I had a figure. Huang Yinan told reporters. After much thought, he started the construction of the giant unicorn without any design artwork.
Due to the huge size of the unicorn, its craft production is very cumbersome, and the project is huge, and it must be made by hand. According to Huang Yinan, the production of unicorns generally uses bamboo strips and paper as the main materials, and the bamboo strips are first tied into the shape of a lion's head to form a lion frame. And to make a giant unicorn, ordinary bamboo strips simply can't support the entire lion frame. After exploring step by step, he combined iron wire and bamboo strips to complete the model of the lion frame, and then pasted paper, cloth, eyes, ears, mouth and other places glued with pig bristles, horse hair or plant fibers, dried and painted with various colors, and then painted with varnish to set the shape. It took several months to finally produce a giant unicorn work.
Figure |Huang Yinan was interviewed by this reporter.
For Huang Yinan, it is not difficult for the tiger and lion to make a work, but what he is most interested in and willing to tinker with. Talking about his indissoluble bond with the tiger and lion tie-making, he really groped for the tiger and lion tie-making when he was more than 10 years old, when he was very curious about the tiger and lion, and often went to the nearby tie-making master to see them tie all kinds of exquisite lion heads, dragon heads, eight animal heads and other works, Huang Yinan, who grew up in this cultural environment, was exposed to the ears and eyes, and made the tiger and lion model in style. With a strong interest and passion, this hobby has persisted for 37 years. During this period, he also combined modern aesthetics and market demand to create many unique works, inheriting his love for Hailufeng's traditional culture with his hands.
bPost-90s Shanwei Tiger Lion Cultural Creator
The tiger lion is not only the memory of many Hailufeng people, but also one of the most distinctive symbols in the local culture of Shanwei.
In the exhibition hall, in addition to the giant unicorn lion king created by Huang Yinan, Lufeng Lion, Meilong Golden Lion, Wufu Lion, and Fair Qilin Tiger and Lion Elephant created by a number of custom craftsmen, there are also ingenious and exquisite tiger and lion pendants and other cultural and creative products to attract customers to choose and buy.
Liu Jiajing, born in the 90s, is the creator of the tiger and lion cultural and creative products in the exhibition hall, he has loved the tiger and lion culture since he was a child, and he has changed his career to create tiger and lion cultural and creative works from jewelry design, and has been working for 13 years.
Figure |Liu Jiajing is making tiger and lion literary works.
He has been trying to create more new styles in the tiger lion cultural and creative products, while maintaining the unique aesthetics and craftsmanship of the cultural and creative products, the tiger lion cultural and creative products focus on the daily life, creating a batch of practical tiger and lion objects, through the originality of the work to infect the audience, so that more young people know the tiger lion, understand the tiger lion, and like the tiger lion. Liu Jiajing told reporters that after the New Year, he will promote Hailufeng tiger and lion culture to more people through live webcast.
In Hailufeng, there are many young people like Liu Jiajing who are engaged in the study of Hailufeng's culture and art, and are injecting the atmosphere of the times into the traditional culture of Hailufeng through their creativity and skillful hands; And under their persistence and innovation, it has been inherited and developed, and it has a new charm.
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Wonderful tiger and lion performances
In Hailufeng, people are accustomed to refer to unicorns, lions, and elephants as "tiger lions". A delicate Hailufeng tiger lion is placed in the exhibition hall of the shopping mall, and more than a dozen types of exhibits such as unicorn, Lufeng lion, Meilong golden lion, Wufu lion and tiger lion cultural and creative products are exhibited on site, and many citizens and tourists come to watch every day.
Figure |Tiger Lion cultural and creative product pendant.
At the same time, the exhibition hall also invites the lion dance team to perform the unicorn dance from time to time, so that citizens and tourists can experience the dynamic lion dance performance and immerse themselves in the charm of Hailufeng tiger and lion. It is reported that the exhibition will last until February 29 (the twentieth day of the first month of the new year).
When I saw the exhibits of the Tiger Lion Cultural and Creative Museum and the unicorn dance performance, I felt a strong New Year's flavor and felt that I had not been so lively for a long time. Ms. Li, a citizen, said that every Spring Festival, the streets and alleys will always hear the sound of the tiger and lion New Year's gongs, and the festival has a very lively and festive atmosphere.
Figure |A unicorn dance is performed in the mall.
The reporter watched the vivid performance of the unicorn dance at the scene. At the beginning of the performance, the sound of ** and cheers were intertwined, and the venue was crowded, and they couldn't take their eyes off it, and they were all immersed in the wonderful performance. I saw a person dancing the unicorn head, a person swinging the unicorn tail, the two cooperated tacitly, in the accompaniment of gongs and drums, suona, dancing around the venue, performing rolling, sleeping and other funny actions, the legendary unicorn's joy, anger, sorrow, music, surprise, suspicion, drunkenness, sleep and other dynamic demeanor are vividly displayed. This is followed by a martial arts performance, with boxing and stick routines, with compact and coherent movements and great ornamentation.
The unicorn dance is a representative folk form in the New Year activities of the people of Hailufeng. In 2008, the unicorn dance was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative items.
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Looking forward to more new exhibitions of Hailufeng's traditional culture
In recent years, the city has actively encouraged all sectors of society to strengthen their understanding of Hailufeng's intangible cultural heritage, participate in the protection, continuation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage, broaden the new path of intangible cultural heritage development, and help the innovative development of intangible cultural heritage.
I have been very fond of the tiger lion since I was a child, and I am very happy to see the performance of the tiger lion in Hailufeng, and I also feel the charm of the tiger lion. Ms. Dai, a citizen, said that she hopes to inherit the tiger and lion culture of Hailufeng in a variety of different forms, so that our tiger and lion culture can be known to more people.
Not only the Tiger and Lion performances, but also the orthography and white character operas that we have performed here before, including the teahouse that is now set up, are all showing the traditional culture of Hailufeng, so that the masses can better understand and experience the traditional culture of Hailufeng. The relevant person in charge of the supermarket said that to promote the renewal and development of Hailufeng's traditional culture, on the one hand, it is necessary to leverage the popularity of the business district to truly integrate Hailufeng's traditional culture into public life, and at the same time, let the shopping mall carry Hailufeng's profound traditional cultural connotation to achieve mutual promotion and win-win results, multi-faceted high-quality development, and make Hailufeng's traditional culture "live".
Some citizens expressed their hope that with the help of traffic business circles and network platforms, more traditional Hailufeng culture will enter the public's field of vision and promote Hailufeng's traditional culture.
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