Comments on: Dancing lions in a shopping center http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/ Diary of an eccentric Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: rinaz http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10788 rinaz Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:02:37 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10788 Oh yeah, I remembered watching this during chinese new year. One of the officials dotted the eye of lion using a red ink. I'm pretty sure its not chicken blood. They said something about the day being auspicious is the reason why the lion was being dotted :) Oh yeah, I remembered watching this during chinese new year. One of the officials dotted the eye of lion using a red ink. I’m pretty sure its not chicken blood. They said something about the day being auspicious is the reason why the lion was being dotted :)

]]> By: crazyhamster http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10782 crazyhamster Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:08:49 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10782 haha yes. I was one of e lions to be awaken in my school this chinese new year... but im certain that the red pigment is not chicken blood! HAHAH haha yes. I was one of e lions to be awaken in my school this chinese new year… but im certain that the red pigment is not chicken blood! HAHAH

]]> By: rinaz http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10764 rinaz Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:48:08 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10764 Oh! You have to dot the eye before it can be used for performance? I didnt know that. Cool! Something new that I learnt today :) Thank you crazyhamster :) Do they still have to do that now? Oh! You have to dot the eye before it can be used for performance? I didnt know that. Cool! Something new that I learnt today :) Thank you crazyhamster :)

Do they still have to do that now?

]]> By: crazyhamster http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10739 crazyhamster Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:51:50 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10739 hah. when a lion is made, it cannot be used to perform, unless it is being "called alive", we call it "dropping of the eye" because, according to tradition, the lion will not have its' pupil until someone of authority use chicken bloody to paint it on the lion, den the lion could be used to perform! hah. when a lion is made, it cannot be used to perform, unless it is being “called alive”, we call it “dropping of the eye” because, according to tradition, the lion will not have its’ pupil until someone of authority use chicken bloody to paint it on the lion, den the lion could be used to perform!

]]> By: rinaz http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10716 rinaz Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:59:11 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10716 <b>Hisyam</b> I think they didnt eat all the orange because the oranges were used to make the chinese words on the plate. Anyway they took quite a long time to do it. <b>Crazyhamster</b> Cool! Hahaha! I saw the lion throw out alot of things from its mouth, some vegetables, some orange peels. Maybe the orange was to symbolise gold and it was throwing it at the owner, the altar, even the troop playing the music! What do you mean by dropping of the eye? Hisyam

I think they didnt eat all the orange because the oranges were used to make the chinese words on the plate. Anyway they took quite a long time to do it.

Crazyhamster

Cool! Hahaha! I saw the lion throw out alot of things from its mouth, some vegetables, some orange peels. Maybe the orange was to symbolise gold and it was throwing it at the owner, the altar, even the troop playing the music!

What do you mean by dropping of the eye?

]]> By: crazyhamster http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10710 crazyhamster Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:53:58 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10710 hee, Im from my school's lion dance troupe. If I am not wrong, the lion isn't supposed to really eat any of the things, so it will "vommit" it out... e lion will only really "consume" the first veggie when it is being "brought alive" by the dropping of the eye. And supposedly, the things it vommit out will be lucky objects! hee, Im from my school’s lion dance troupe. If I am not wrong, the lion isn’t supposed to really eat any of the things, so it will “vommit” it out… e lion will only really “consume” the first veggie when it is being “brought alive” by the dropping of the eye.
And supposedly, the things it vommit out will be lucky objects!

]]> By: Hisyam http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10705 Hisyam Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:26:02 +0000 http://rinaz.net/2007/08/dancing-lions-in-a-shopping-center/#comment-10705 rinaz.. very nice leh.. i don't know how the the lion ate the orange until finished.. how the guy do seh.. hehe rinaz.. very nice leh.. i don’t know how the the lion ate the orange until finished.. how the guy do seh.. hehe

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