Foshan New Year's Eve: A Plastic Lion Dance Toy That Moves | 23:09, 31 Dec 2022

31 December 2022, 11:09 p.m. Foshan, City Island Youth Culture Market. Less than an hour until the new year. Crowds everywhere, music blasting. Then I saw a plastic toy—a plastic child, holding a plastic lion head. ——— Not an ordinary toy. Flip a switch, and it moves left and right with the music. Up and down, like a real lion dance—head rising, falling, rising again. Mechanical. Plastic. Yet somehow, its rhythm echoed the real lion dance team nearby. It just sat there on the stall counter, moving. Lion head swaying, bobbing, dancing. Children gathered around. One reached out to touch; an adult pulled him back. ——— Watching it move, a line came to mind: “When you look at the world with sparkling eyes, the world embraces you with open arms.” This plastic child can't speak, has no eyes. But its lion head keeps bobbing. Up. Down. Up. Down. As if watching the world too. ——— Lion and boy. In Guangdong, the lion dance is a ritual—warding off evil, bringing blessings. New Year's Day, lion teams go door to door, drums pounding, firecrackers popping. Young dancers train for years: horse stance, lion head lifts, drum rhythms. This “lion boy” is plastic. His lion has a switch, batteries, moves at the flick of a button. But so what? The way it was designed. The rhythm of its movement. Its encounter with this new year—same as the spirit of lion dance boys centuries ago. ——— Quirky. Lovable. The vendor said: “New this year. Selling fast.” I asked the name. “Electric lion head. Kids love it.” I stood there watching for a long time. The lion head kept bobbing. Up. Down. Up. Down. Up. ——— Another way into the world. You don't need to really dance to know lion dance joy. You don't need to really be alive to look at the world with sparkling rhythm. #慢下来看世界 #潮玩 #分享给有艺术细胞的你 #大街小巷的显眼龙们 #雄狮少年 #奇奇怪怪可可爱爱 #街头摄影 #醒狮 #我的玩具分享 #广场上从来不缺舞者 #佛山 #跨年夜 #城市岛屿青年文化市集 #塑料玩具 #SlowDownSeeTheWorld #ArtToy #ForTheArtisticSoul #DragonsOnTheStreets #IAmWhatIAm #QuirkyAndLovable #StreetPhotography #LionDance #MyToyShare #TheSquareNeverLacksDancers #Foshan #NewYearsEve #CityIslandYouthMarket #PlasticToy #WanderingWithYeJun #YeJunsWorld #NotesOfAWanderer #WhereToBegin 2022年12月31日，23:09。佛山，城市岛屿青年文化市集。离新的一年还有不到一小时。人山人海，音乐震天。然后我看见一个塑料玩具——一个塑料小孩，举着塑料醒狮头套。 ——— 不是普通的玩具。 拨动开关，它可以随着音乐左右走动。可以像真人玩醒狮那样，把狮子头一上一下晃起再落下。机械的，塑料的，但那种韵律，竟和旁边真正的醒狮队有几分相似。 它就那样在摊位前的台面上走着。狮子头左右摇摆，上下晃动，像在跳舞。几个孩子围在那里看，有一个伸手想摸，被大人拉了回来。 ——— 看着它晃动，想起一句话： “当你用神采奕奕的眼神看世界，世界也会用他宽容的怀抱接纳你。” 这个塑料小孩不会说话，没有眼神。但它的狮子头一直在晃，一下，一下，又一下。好像也在看这个世界。 ——— 醒狮与少年。 广东的醒狮，是驱邪纳福的瑞兽。大年初一，醒狮队挨家挨户采青，锣鼓喧天，鞭炮齐鸣。醒狮少年要练基本功：扎马步，举狮头，学鼓点，一年又一年。 但这个“醒狮少年”是塑料做的。他的狮子有开关，有电池，轻轻一拨就动起来。 可那又怎样呢？ 它被设计出来的样子，它摆动时的节奏，它和这个新年的相遇——和几百年前那些醒狮少年的精气神，好像也没什么两样。 ——— 奇奇怪怪，可可爱爱。 摊主说，这是今年新出的款，卖得特别好。我问叫什么名字，他说：“电动醒狮头，小孩子都喜欢。” 我站在那儿看了好一会儿。 狮子头还在晃。 一下，一下，又一下。 ——— 世界的另一种打开方式。 不一定要真的会舞狮，才能拥有醒狮的快乐。 不一定要真的有生命，才能用神采奕奕的节奏看世界。 #潮玩是一个轮回 #给生活添点艺术感 #显眼包的快乐 #醒狮 #白噪音氛围 #治愈 #被小狮子萌化了 #传统舞狮遇上现代音乐 #我在故宫修文物#如果国宝会说话