Chasing the Dragon
[During a Chinese New Year celebration in New York's Chinatown, a dragon dances at the entrance to a store to bring it luck in the Year of the Rabbit. Image via AP]
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That's 100% not a dragon. That's a two-man lion dance costume. One handles the head, the other the rear. The eyes, ears and mouth can be articulated. The Dragon dance is different - usually held up by poles, and involve many more men to perform.
The lion in this pic looks pretty small. Usually the lion head is bigger and very heavy (I tried holding it once).
Kids doing the lion dance have to hold up the head the whole time, and still articulate the eyes to make the lion seem lively and "cute". Sometimes while doing crazy martial arts stunts.
World Lion Dance championship:
Oooh look, there are both lions and dragons in this one, from Hong Kong
This one looks more like a lion?? Specifically, the southern lion?? Lion dance is part of the new year ritual. Northern lion has a more "golden" look...
@pseudorocket: Good link. Yeah besides differences between countries - different parts of China, and different dialect groups have different lions.
Green lions are pretty cool too, although not mentioned in the wikipedia article.
Your headline makes me want to smoke some black tar heroin.
@prostule:
THERE'S A PERSON INSIDE THAT DRAGON!!
@PensoTroppo؟: and it's still hungr..... ah, never mind....
