Our Chinese traditional culture resembles a tremendous treasure, there is …… of kite, calligraphy, go inside among them an ablaze pearl is dance lion, I introduce dance lion today!
我们的中国传统文化就像一座巨大的宝藏，里面有风筝、书法、围棋……其中一颗闪亮的珍珠就是舞狮，我今天就来介绍舞狮吧！
Dance lion is our country's fine folk art, whenever festival or assembly celebration, a lot of places come with dance lion add to the fun. Dance lion has the branch of north and south, the south dance lion performance with Guangdong is most famous. The lion is make it of the cloth that use variety, every lion has two people to perform, head of one person lion, end of one person lion. Performer falls in music of gong and drum, play the part of leonine appearance, make leonine all sorts of configuration.
舞狮是我国优秀的民间艺术，每逢佳节或集会庆典，很多地方都以舞狮来助兴。舞狮有南北之分，南方以广东的舞狮表演最为有名。狮子是用彩布做成的，每头狮子都有两个人来表演，一人狮头，一人狮尾。表演者在锣鼓音乐下，扮成狮子的样子，做出狮子的各种形态。
Dance lion is in Fosan origin. Allegedly in ancient time, fosan of Guangdong Nanhai county is pressed down loyally countryside appears rare animal, height 8 feet, head large body is small, the eye is like cupreous bell, green-faced and long-toothed-terrifying in appearance, first-born one alone horn. Animal of this strange composition appears at evening of the New Year's Eve, destroy civilian crop technically. Because whenever it spends the New Year when appear, so people is its appellation “ year animal ” . Countryside civilian people the decision kills year of animal. Have wisdom person make suggestions, with bamboo thin bamboo strip and paper, tie the appearance of rare animal, again collect neat Trojan tens of people, hold the makes noisy appliance such as boiler to ambuscade fall in one bridge, the place is year of animal to need the ground of classics. When waiting for year of animal to appear, stroke musical instrument gives out the sound such as ” of Zuo of Zuo of ”“ of “ Dong Dong, reverberate like thunder. Year animal saw, feel very aghast, immediately be defeated and flee, disappear from the scene from now on.
舞狮是在佛山起源的。据说古时候，广东南海郡佛山镇忠义乡出现奇兽，身长八尺，头大身小，眼如铜铃、青面獠牙、头生一独角。这头奇作文兽于除夕晚出现，专门破坏民间农作物。因为它每逢过年时就出现，所以人们把它称呼为“年兽”。乡民们决定消灭年兽。有智者献计，用竹篾及纸，扎成奇兽的样子，再集齐勇士数十人，手持锅等打得响的器具埋伏在一桥下，该处为年兽必经之地。等年兽出现时，击打乐器发出“咚咚”“蹡蹡”等声音，如雷贯耳。年兽见了，觉得很惊骇，立刻落荒而逃，从此销声匿迹。
Drive to celebrate paper to plunge into animal head to reach the contribution of year of animal, people is in the Spring Festival when take it wave, name it the lion that it is dance. This is consuetudinary continue all the time up to now, and Yue Chuanyue is wide, become one of traditional culture with the grandest the Chinese nation.
为了庆祝纸扎兽头及驱赶年兽的功劳，人们便在春节的时候将它拿出来舞动，并把它命名为舞狮。这习俗一直延续至今，而且越传越广，成为中华民族最隆重的传统文化之一。(文/张艺栊)