Comments on: Chinese New Year 2009 – Lion Dance http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/ Kolkata Chinese Community Blog Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:42:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: leon http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 leon Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:43:35 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1046 after that isn't much show, during midnight all the lion dance troupe started visiting household till morning.. after that isn’t much show, during midnight all the lion dance troupe started visiting household till morning..

]]> By: Banasree Mandal http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Banasree Mandal Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:49:41 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1045 Hi all, I was there at Tangra Chinatown in the 25th evening till 10.15 pm and enjoyed lion dance.... but New Year Programmes were not well started due to power cut... I could not stay there during midnight programmes.... can any one upload videos of New Year events after 10.15 pm? Hi all,

I was there at Tangra Chinatown in the 25th evening till 10.15 pm and enjoyed lion dance…. but New Year Programmes were not well started due to power cut… I could not stay there during midnight programmes…. can any one upload videos of New Year events after 10.15 pm?

]]> By: michelle http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 michelle Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:14:41 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1029 Dan, you a absolutely right and I hope this tradition will be carried on by the new generations too. Dan, you a absolutely right and I hope this tradition will be carried on by the new generations too.

]]> By: Bill http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 Bill Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:17:26 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1023 Dan, Good catch. Yes, that's the tradition for the lion dancers, they should always back out from a residence/business in a low bow. Maybe these youngsters were never taught this. In any event, wonderful job of carrying on the lion dance tradition. I remember going along with the lion dancers as a kid, my Dad was a regular drummer for the lion dance. Dan,

Good catch. Yes, that’s the tradition for the lion dancers, they should always back out from a residence/business in a low bow. Maybe these youngsters were never taught this. In any event, wonderful job of carrying on the lion dance tradition. I remember going along with the lion dancers as a kid, my Dad was a regular drummer for the lion dance.

]]> By: michelle http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 michelle Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:12:10 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1016 Thanks! would love to see more videos which will bring back old time memories to all of us abroad Thanks! would love to see more videos which will bring back old time memories to all of us abroad

]]> By: Dan http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Dan Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:28:36 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1015 The video is lively. Good job by all the Lion Dancers who performed/modelled it so perfectly well - a tradition of gaiety & cheerful spirit kept alive. One thing to note though that should be passed on to all those who perform Lion Dances: Traditionally, whenever a Lion steps into a household in a low bow - be it a family residential home or a business unit (offices, restaurants etc.), to greet, give luck and accept the fung pao (red lucky packet) and lettuce greens with fire-crakers bursting displaying colourful confetti etc., the lion should then bow out with its back towards the exit door - so as to retain the good luck it had brought in - remain with the household or business unit. Let's not be overly superstitious, but this was the traditional rule that may no longer practise, not be known to new generations or the rule had been forgotten. The video is lively. Good job by all the Lion Dancers who performed/modelled it so perfectly well – a tradition of gaiety & cheerful spirit kept alive.

One thing to note though that should be passed on to all those who perform Lion Dances:

Traditionally, whenever a Lion steps into a household in a low bow – be it a family residential home or a business unit (offices, restaurants etc.), to greet, give luck and accept the fung pao (red lucky packet) and lettuce greens with fire-crakers bursting displaying colourful confetti etc., the lion should then bow out with its back towards the exit door – so as to retain the good luck it had brought in – remain with the household or business unit.

Let’s not be overly superstitious, but this was the traditional rule that may no longer practise, not be known to new generations or the rule had been forgotten.

]]> By: Ron http://www.dhapa.com/chinese-new-year-2009-lion-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-1014 Ron Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:43:38 +0000 http://www.dhapa.com/?p=388#comment-1014 More pics and reporting of Chinese celebration of Chinese New Year - 2009 ( Year of the Ox ) in Kolkata, India. Enjoy. See pics at links below:- from Reuters - Jayanta Shaw http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Lunar-New-Year-lion-dance/photo/090126/ids_photos_wl/r3640880112.jpg/ from W/N Bhasker Mallick http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/69/6e/e194d914319bbc2bddd477b42a4e_large.jpg http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/0e/c1/6e17a37f17ecd49b1ebf976df5e1_large.jpg http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/25/f9/d967da503b15cbbddd59e0420bb8_large.jpg http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/19/8d/0e4cfb726b338dff99703f20374c_large.jpg See report at link below from Daily India.com :- http://www.dailyindia.com/show/293656.php More pics and reporting of Chinese celebration of Chinese New Year – 2009 ( Year of the Ox ) in Kolkata, India. Enjoy.

See pics at links below:-

from Reuters – Jayanta Shaw
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Lunar-New-Year-lion-dance/photo/090126/ids_photos_wl/r3640880112.jpg/

from W/N Bhasker Mallick
http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/69/6e/e194d914319bbc2bddd477b42a4e_large.jpg
http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/0e/c1/6e17a37f17ecd49b1ebf976df5e1_large.jpg
http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/25/f9/d967da503b15cbbddd59e0420bb8_large.jpg
http://photolib.wn.com/photolib/19/8d/0e4cfb726b338dff99703f20374c_large.jpg

See report at link below from Daily India.com :-
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/293656.php

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