Practicing for Chinese New Year Event

Time flies as arrow, we just keep practicing our dragon dance and lion dance for the coming Chinese New Year events.

Wushu Performance

Chinese martial art or "Wushu" is one of the popular item during Chinese New Year and Cultural event.Sabre(刀),Qiang(枪),Sword(剑),Long Stick(棍),Quan/martial art without weapon(拳法)are the most popular performance items you can see during various events.

Dragon Dance Performance . 舞龙表演

Dragon Dance Performance (舞龙表演)is one of the popular traditional performances during the Lunar New Year. Event companies also engaged Dragon Dance as one of the Cultural show programme.Basically for Dragon Dance, space is a factor. For Dragon Dance performance to commence, a bigger space is required unlike the Lion Dance as the latter required lesser manpower that the Dragon Dance.
As long as there is ample space, we will perform more interesting stances.

Roving Mascot

Our pre Lunar New Year engagement by Carrefour Singapore..roving mascot of Tiger (to usher the year of the golden tiger) & God of FortuneOur mascot attracted lots of Carrefour shoppers!Yup! Roving mascot is one of our event items besides the traditional Lion & Dragon Dances.

Chinese New Year Event at Grand Shanghai Restaurant Singapore

Talking about lion dance performances for opening ceremonies, other than the basic lion dance skills and techniques that we have acquired, there are much more things that require us to take note.Examples are excessive props on the limited stage size..one of the great challenge as great care have to be taken to avoid any accidents..the props might be fagile..the stage may not be firm enough to accomodate big baffalos like us.

Lion Dance Opening for Yahoo! Chinese New Year Event

Our last stop for tonight:-Lion Dance performance for Yahoo Singapore's Lunar New Year Event held at Mandarin Oriental Hotel.Our Lion Dance comrades.

Plucking Green at Singapore Cricket Club

For every Lion Dance Clubs, Chinese New Year is our peak period...the only time of the year rushing from one location to another, forgoing our loved ones, our meals our families...just for our passion....lion & dragon dances.
This evening, we are proud to be engaged to present our professional 'Plucking of the Green' for Singapore Cricket Club.'Plucking of the green' is the highlight for Lion Dance performance, be it during the Lunar New Year or the Opening Ceremony of business concerns. Zero mistake is allow for 'plucking of the green' as a minor mistake may be critical.

Swift, professional, firm, sharp and stable is the few words I always instilled in the mind of my comrades. !My dear daddy was engaged for one of the fringe activities by providing Chinese Calligraphy services.

Chinese Wealth God

Chinese Wealth God or God of Fortune (财神）is one of the highly demand 'Mingling Artiste" during the Lunar New Year period. It is forever one of the most popular items that is requested by our clients to usher good luck and prosperity.You can easily witness the Chinese Wealth God roving around shopping malls during this auspicious period of the year.

Not only the Chinese welcomed the Wealth God. Many other races also loved the Wealth God!

Plucking the Green in Lion Dance . 采青

Usually, after the lion dance performance for either Chinese New Year or opening ceremony, the related party will pay us the fees, other than events booking.

In traditional and standard lion dance way, the payment will put in the Chinese Red package (红包袋) and tie with green vegetables and then put them on the floor or hang them on bamboo .
All of us see this ‘Lion’ as a live animal; hence we let it ‘eat’ its ‘food’ in an animal’s habit, which was the reason. At the end of the performance, the lion will ‘eat’ it ‘food’, the name given of this ‘food’ is called “青” in Chinese Character, in English is called “Green” while we translate directly.

In pure stage lion dance performances we may not see the lion do any ‘food eating action’, but it will happen commonly during Chinese New Year events and Opening Ceremony.

The ‘food eating action’ in lion dance performance in Chinese word is called “采青”, means “Plucking the Green”, we believe this will bring lucks to everyone especially the related parties.

Big Head Doll with Lion Dance

In carnival type of events, lion dancing performance will be walk together with wealth god and big head doll. Big head doll which is a lion dance member that worn a big head mask with a smiling face that holding a Chinese fan and playing a role that like a clown to create some atmosphere in the event.

Chinese New Year – Chinese Wealth God

Chinese New Year – Chinese Wealth God During Chinese New Year, one of the most popular people that everyone loves to see ---- that is Wealth God ( 财神爷)。

Wealth God is one of the god that believed can bring the family good luck and wealth, hence it play the very important role in every heart of Chinese.

Happy New Year!

Time fly as arrow, today is first day of 2010!
After yesterday’s celebration, you can found that the decoration of the street and shopping centers are changing to Chinese New Year themes, many shops was selling Chinese New Year stuffs.Talking about Chinese New Year, for those in the Chinese Cultural related industries, which providing lion dance, dragon dance and related entertainment and merchandise will be having the busies period starting from this month January and February.

Lion Dance and Mei Hua Zhuang (梅花桩)

To do the lion dance, you definite need to went through the basic foot job steps of Kung Fu training, usually is the ‘ma bu’ (马步), because this is the most important basic requirement in doing lion dance yet follow by how good you coordinate with your partner. In advance Kung Fu foot job steps training, we need to do our basic step posing on top of the wooden poles (木桩)with about the palm size thickness which start from the height about 1 foot height, and these poles were called Mei Hua Zhuang (梅花桩).
In higher level, these Mei Hua Zhuang (梅花桩) poles could be in about 5 foots to about 12 foots!

Since lion dance is Chinese martial art with performance criteria, doing lion dance on the wooden poles (nowadays all of us was using metal based poles) is a very interesting art.

Lion Dance . 醒狮表演

Lion Dance is traditional Chinese Cultural. It was commonly seen in Chinese New Years and various opening ceremony, the welcoming ceremony of important VIP in the events and more.Due the Kung Fu movie had been became popular in the world, everyone know what is lion dance and especially Chinese sure commonly seen it a lot in ‘Wong Fei Hong’(黄飞鸿) film.

I think the more impressive version for the younger generation, should be the ‘Wong Fei Hong’ film which act by Jet Li (李连杰) and the film named “Once Upon China”, which this film in Chinese named “黄飞鸿”, using the name of one of famous Chinese Kung Fu Master directly.

Acrobatics

Acrobatics is one of the popular item in many events like dinner and dance, family days, private functions like birthday parties, and especially in Chinese theme events like Chinese New Year, ‘Shanghai Theme’ event, Cultural theme events.Talking about acrobatics, the acrobatic performer must have the Chinese Kung Fu training background like the legs split, backward stands, upside down by using hand stands and etc…Why people like to see acrobatics performance? Because most people like to watch how the performer does the dangerous or stunning actions without and hurts; the effect could be same as watching magician doing some dangerous magic.

Lion Dance

Lion Dance is one of traditional Chinese custom that commonly use during Chinese New Yearin China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

Other than Chinese New Year event, you can see Lion Dance performance during product launching and various events in Asia country.