{"id":17598,"date":"2020-01-07T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/cang-county-lion-dance-cang-xian-wu-shi\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T02:44:14","slug":"cang-county-lion-dance-cang-xian-wu-shi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/cang-county-lion-dance-cang-xian-wu-shi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cang County Lion Dance \u6ca7\u53bf\u821e\u72ee"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tAccording to Annuals of Cang County, records and folklore, <strong>Cang County Lion Dance<\/strong>(\u6ca7\u53bf\u821e\u72eeC\u0101ng Xi&agrave;n w\u01d4sh\u012b) goes back to <strong>the Ming Dynasty<\/strong>(\u660e\u671dM&iacute;ngch&aacute;o). And it is very popular all over the country since it is ardent, naughty and vivid. Some of the lions&rsquo; heads are pasted by papers, while others&rsquo; eyes are made of iron sheets. Whatever the kind is, the lion&rsquo;s head is an appearance of violence. Their eyes are wide open, their mouths are big and frightening and their tongues are out of the mouth. The lion&rsquo;s body is woven by the linen that is dyed red, green and yellow and fixed on a piece of yellow cloth with ropes. There is a big cloth ball that is linked with a spring on the back of the lion. So when the lion walk, the cloth ball trembles at the same time. The lion&rsquo;s tail is also made of linen and upward. There are also a string of bells colored silk on the lion&rsquo;s head.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCang County Lion Dance is brilliant and has a substantial content. Most movements are imitated from that of the real tigers and lions, such as a hunger tiger catches the good, lion standing up, shaking the head three times, trundling a silk ball, getting on the high table, yawning, scratching an itch, swallowing the ball, scrambling for the ball and spitting out the ball etc.<\/p>\n<p>  \tAt present, there are more than 200 Lion Dance groups among the people in Cang County. The representatives are <strong>Yinshao Mountain Lion Dance Group<\/strong>(\u6bb7\u5c11\u5c71\u821e\u72ee\u961fY\u012bnsh&agrave;o Sh\u0101n w\u01d4sh\u012bdu&igrave;) of <strong>Liuji Town<\/strong>(\u5218\u5409\u6751Li&uacute;j&iacute; C\u016bn) in <strong>Huangdipu Village<\/strong>(\u9ec4\u9012\u94fa\u4e61Hu&aacute;ngd&igrave;p&ugrave; Xi\u0101ng) and <strong>Zhou Yuqin Lion Dance Group<\/strong>(\u5468\u7389\u6e05\u821e\u72ee\u961fZh\u014du Y&ugrave;q\u012bng w\u01d4sh\u012bdu&igrave;) of <strong>South Xiaoying<\/strong>(\u5357\u5c0f\u8425N&aacute;n Xi\u01ceoy&iacute;ng) in <strong>the Zhifangtou Village<\/strong>(\u7eb8\u623f\u5934\u4e61Zh\u01d0f&aacute;ngt&oacute;u Xi\u0101ng). These two groups show the full explanation of Cangzhou natives&rsquo; vigorousness, boldness and the lion&rsquo;s bravery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-628238868\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Annuals of Cang County, records and folklore, Cang County Lion Dance(\u6ca7\u53bf\u821e\u72eeC\u0101ng Xi&agrave;n w\u01d4sh\u012b) goes back to the Ming Dynasty(\u660e\u671dM&iacute;ngch&aacute;o). And it is very popular all over the country since it is ardent, naughty and vivid. Some of the lions&rsquo; heads are pasted by papers, while others&rsquo; eyes are made of iron sheets. Whatever the kind is, the lion&rsquo;s head is an appearance of violence. Their eyes are wide open, their mouths are big and frightening and their tongues are out of the mouth. The lion&rsquo;s body is woven by the linen that is dyed red, green and yellow and fixed on a piece of yellow cloth with ropes. There is a big cloth ball that is linked with a spring on the back of the lion. So when the lion walk, the cloth ball trembles at the same time. The lion&rsquo;s tail is also made of linen and upward. There are also a string of bells colored silk on the lion&rsquo;s head.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":155,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}