Siulam HungGar KungFu Association - Italy

The Lion Dance (Mou Si) it is, a today's day, one of the most important trainings, often neglected also from the most serious students, that it preserves the fundamental cultural aspect in the practice of the Chinese Martial Arts.
In a recent past it was subject of study in all the styles of KungFu of southern China and, the good news is that, recently the Lion Dance has arrived in the schools of European KungFu, and particularly in the schools of Italian HungGar. It got his official start in China during the dynasty Ching (1644-1911). The history tells that the emperor dreamt a night a strange animal that saved his life; the following morning described the dream to one of its ministers which it told the emperor that the strange animal represented a creature of the west called lion. The lions were not native of China, therefore the animal of the dream took characteristics of the Chinese dragon and the phoenix, even if as a whole its aspect was a lot next to that of a lion. This animal that saved the life to the emperor, became symbol of good luck in the whole China. The belief wants that the Lion Dance sends away away the bad spirits, belief that continues today still, in fact with such dance, importance is given Chinese to the ceremonial opening of the new year, to the commerce and to particular events.
There are two types of dance of the lion in China, that northern and that southern. The northern lion is very similar in aspect to a dog, with hairy body, face like a dog and dancing athletes with very hairy leggings that represent the legs of the animal. The southern lion from the color resembles a lot to a dragon-lion, whose body is long as a dragon and with the head as a lion, with a wide mouth and the prominent teeth; the athletes of the southern lion, traditionally wear pants and shirts of the practice of the KungFu, and belonging to his own school. The lion dance of the northern was reserved, originally, only to the real parties. Only the Chinese aristocrats had the privilege to assist to the demonstration of the dance. Instead that southern was a ceremony for the middle people, and specifically for the martial artists; of facts the athletes of the southern dance, were always of the professionals of the KungFu in how much the execution asked for a strong position, the head of the lion resulted heavy and the tail brought to hold an uncomfortable and awkward position. Being the long dance of the thick lion, it asked for a physicist excellent and great ability of resistance.
Another reason for the why the apprentices of the southern KungFu performed the Lion Dance, it was that to earn a great popularity during the revolutionary period in the late dynasty Ching (1800-1911), when the Chinese patriots rebelled him against the rulers of the dynasty manchurians. The exhibition of the lion dance was performed of village in village under the appearance of a celebration; in this way, revolutionary martial artists passed information and the picked money they served for financing the revolution in fact, the lion all of a sudden some dance ate some lettuce containing money and secret information. The athlete set all of a sudden under the head of the lion howled "Choi-Ching" (to reconstitute the dynasty Ching). The lion dance is very important in the schools of southern KungFu, every authentic school that cannot offer this cultural aspect and utensil of precious training cannot consider him complete. The southern KungFu without the lion dance is as a flower without leaves.

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