Philippines celebrates Chinese New Year too!
Today, we have been visited by this group of dancers to present lion dance. Lion dance is parted of Chinese culture performed mostly during Chinese New Year. Lion dance tend to repel bad elements and attract good fortune and good lucks. Filipino adopted this Chinese traditional dance for a long time. Nowadays, in our place the observance of group of dancers are visiting the establishments to do the lion dance.
Lion dance is fascinating. It’s colourful and festive costumes would really makes us good vibes . It’s music makes us dance in its beat and rhythm. It is performed by two person inside a lion custom mimicking the movement of a lion.
This group of lion dancers have schedule for our municipality today to perform the lion dance in different establishments and offices. Our office the MSWD is one of the offices that was visited by this dancers all the way from Tacloban City. About 45 kilometers away and an hour travel from the city.
Lion dance is performed with the music made by the drum and cymbals. Performing both the dance and music I guess would takes a lot of practice to perfectly execute such movements. It has to be perfect in its own because for this people performing the lion dance it is sacred.
The office has to give money to be placed inside a red envelope or we call it locally as ampao! Lion dancing believes to give lots of fortunes and lucks to where the lion visits.
But for me no matter what we believe in I still believe that hard work , perseverance and prayer will not disappoint you to have a better life in the future!
Happy Chinese New Year every one!