Barongsai


Barongsai is a traditional Chinese dance to it using a glove-like lions [1]. Barongsai has a history thousands of years. Note about the first dance can be in the Chin Dynasty around to three centuries BC
Barongsai art popular in the era of North-South Dynasty (Nan Bei) years 420-589 BC. At the time of the king's troops Song Wen Di assault troops overwhelmed the elephant king from the land of Fan Yang Lin Yi. A war commander named Zhong Que create copycat dolls lion king troops to drive the fan. Apparently successful efforts to end the dance barongsai melegenda.
The lion dance consists of two main types of the North that has a lion surai loop and four-legged. Singa Utara look more natural and look like a lion rather than have the lion South squama and the number of feet that vary between two or four. Lion Head South with horns sometimes so similar to the animals' Kilin '.

Movement between the North and Singa Singa South also different. When the famous Lion South movement of his head with a hard and bumpy as the wasp gong and drum, the movement tends to be more Singa Utara lincah and dynamics for the full four feet.

One of the main movement is a dance movement Barongsai lions eat the envelope containing the money which is called by the term 'Lay See'. At the top of the envelope is usually ditempeli vegetable salad with water symbolizing the gift of the Lion. The process of eating 'Lay See' this takes about half of all the lion dance
According to Chinese belief, the lion is a symbol of happiness and joy. The lion dance is a show that can bring good luck so generally held on various important events such as the establishment of the restaurant, the pagoda, and of course the new year.


The lion dance consists of two main types of the North that has a lion surai loop and four-legged. Singa Utara look more natural and look like a lion rather than have the lion South squama and the number of feet that vary between two or four. Lion Head South with horns sometimes so similar to the animals' Kilin '.

Movement between the North and Singa Singa South also different. When the South, the lion's head movement is hard and bumpy as the wasp gong and drum, the movement tends to be more Singa Utara lincah and dynamics for the full four feet.