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Lion dance in Lion Country (Sri Lanka)
The Lion dance is an important tradition culture of Chinese, lions express joy and happiness. Lion dance usually performed with the dragon dance on auspicious occasions. A good performance is believed to bring luck and happiness. Lion dance needs more (Kung Fu) skills than dragon dance. There usually are two performers who play the lion. One, handling the lion's head, leads the dance and shows the lion's emotions. The other plays the body and the tail. They hide themselves under a cloth hide attached with the head. The lion is accompanied by musicians playing a drum, a gong and cymbals . This show actually played by a very famous Malaysian team whos 15 times world champion from Kuan Shen Gung in Muar , Malaysia They are invited by one of the Taiwan NGO whos based on Hambantota , the southern of Sri Lanka .A Tsunami permanent houses handover celebration event at Sriripobula , a new town under the project called Rebuild Hambantota Project
article published 5/9/2006
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