Who is the hottest little girl this Spring Festival holiday?
Lin Xiyue from Jieyang, Guangdong, is definitely one of the candidates. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, 7-year-old Xiao Yueyue was practicing lion dance on the side of the road in front of her store, when a local professional lion dance performance team passed by, and the team members beat gongs and drums to cheer her on.
Xiao Yueyue has one move and one style, childlike innocence and professionalism, the cheering of the lion dance team, with gentleness in the strength - the ** taken by passers-by was released on social **, and it became popular all over the Internet.
Lin Xiyue's father, Lin Kairong, said that Xiao Yueyue has been practicing lion dance since she was more than 4 years old, and she usually likes to watch professional lion dances, and will imitate their movements when she gets home after watching them.
Lin Xiyue practises lion dance**.
The Sun Zhengao lion dance team cheering for Xiao Yueyue is a very active lion team in Jieyang City, and they are often seen in major events and festivals in Jieyang.
As netizens commented - "This is the power of inheritance".
A whistle sounds, thousands of sticks are knocked - Chaoshanying, who has been out of the circle during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, is singing and dancing, and the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is still hot.
This time, the "Chinese War Dance" is even more popular on the other side of the ocean. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the British Song and Dance Troupe from Puning, Guangdong Province, performed on the 200-year-old Arcade Street in Burlington, London, to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
In the Chaoshan region, many English singing troupes are organized in their spare time by young enthusiasts. Founded in 1945, the Puning Nanshan Singing Troupe, which performed in London, England, has gone through nearly 80 years of inheritance from generation to generation.
And the base camp of British singing and dancing is even more lively. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, in Chaoyang District, Shantou City, a British song and dance parade attracted thousands of empty alleys.
Surrounded by the audience, a group of singing teams marched along the road, magnificent, and the team members dressed as heroes with oil paint on their faces danced while walking, flying and jumping, opening and closing, drumsticks, footsteps, shouts, overwhelming mountains and seas, and soaring into the sky.
Among them, the Ximen Women's English Song Team is very eye-catching. Different from the heroic and rough men's singing and dancing, the women's singing and dancing are mostly based on the story of Hua Mulan's joining the army or Mu Guiying being in command.
7-year-old twin sisters Lin Yaying and Lin Yahan are particularly conspicuous in the team. They told reporters that they are very interested in British singing and dancing, and have been studying for half a year, hoping that more children will come to learn British singing and dancing and promote Chaoshan culture.
Every explosion seems to be accidental, but there is some kind of inevitability.
Both lion dance and English song have a long history, and their rich cultural connotations are enough to make people fascinated. He Guimei, a professor of the Department of Chinese at Peking University, once said in an interview that since the beginning of the 21st century, one of the most significant changes in China's social and cultural psychology is that people are increasingly able to return, identify with and even nostalgically obsessed with traditional Chinese culture.
Both the lion dance and the song have distinct athletic attributes and a fiery sports core. In Huang Feihong's hometown, Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, lion dancing has changed from a festive and joyful traditional folk activity to a popular mass sport, and even developed into a fierce modern competitive competition.
In the land of Lingnan, whether it is a lion dance team or a singing team, more are spontaneously organized by the people, entrusting nostalgia and nostalgia. Many Yingsong troupes in Chaoshan area, some village councils, village sages, and villagers' associations sponsor costumes, props, food, and travel expenses, but they are only used to maintain training performances, and the team members do not receive salaries, but they are all voluntary.
Lion dance and English song are also being passed on through innovation and breakthroughs. In the short ** era, the traditional culture "breaking the circle" may be at the moment of thumb swing, and now, many lion dance teams and English song teams have opened a short ** number, and many have special personnel or even teams responsible for taking care of it.
The explosion of traditional sports may be originating from cultural identity, sharpening the spirit of sportsmanship, pinning on nostalgia, and inheriting innovation and breakthroughs.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Haoming, Zhan Yijia, Li Xiongying.