Lion dance, Chinese lion dance belongs to the Southern Lion, a native of Guangdong folk dance, dance Court in Guangdong is a treasure.Historically the lion dance was born out of the palace of the Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms after, with the south Central Plains immigrants, lion dance culture into the Lingnan region. When the Ming Dynasty, lion appeared in Guangdong, it originated in the South China Sea County. Now spread to countries overseas Chinese middle Guangdong, Guangxi and Southeast Asia; in Foshan in Guangdong are mainly distributed in Suixi, Guangzhou and other cities and counties. Guangdong lion is considered to be evil Nourishing Jixiang Rui matter, every festival, or there are major events, there will be lion dance performances, focused, ancient legend.

Lion is the financial and cultural activities as one of the martial arts, dance, music and so on. During the performance, beating gongs and drums, lion people hit while Nan Quan, which is called "open pile" and played by two people playing lion dance, another man wearing a smiling face "big mess", holding a big spade lead Lions debut. Lion people mostly action-oriented Nan Quan horse, lion action has "eyes open", "to be washed," "licking body", "shaking hair" and so on. The main routine of "greens", "high-water", "Lion spit ball", "hit Plum" and so on. The "greens" is the essence of the lion, and from there, commitment, transfer, and other processes together, with dramatic and narrative. "Greens" after the change, derived from a variety routine, widespread.

Guangdong traditional lion dance and martial arts skills skilful, generally consists of two or three persons. One of them lion head, lion tail a person, another dance big mess, holding a large spade for guidance, back there with percussion, with the lion's action fast and slow, light and heavy rhythm of the drums posture dance out of thousands attitudes . Lion commonly used basic movements have licked hair, scratch Shatter, Pathfinder, bathing, and other 20 kinds of green color, hi places emotionally, anger, sadness and joy, greed, doubt, avoid, consider, eat, hungry , sleep, wake-based, step-shaped, there are 20 kinds of Siping horse, the meridional horse, opening and closing horse, dragon-riding and other footwork. Both highly skilled master a variety of dance mentality of a lion, but also be able to set the story from the high-performance hard lion tip. The only way to truly achieve the South sent the lion's superior effort. Lion was performing co-ordinated with the hit music of drums, gongs, cymbals. Drummer is the heart and soul of the lion dance.