Chinese Wedding Lions
Emma and I went down to the city on Saturday to see our friends Slobodan and Liz get married.
There was a beautiful reception dinner with something like 8 courses of Chinese food, including everything from jellyfish to sesame noodles to lobster. But the highlight of the reception by far was the lion dance, wherein two dragon-like male and female “lions” wooed each other with leaps and spins to the rhythm of traditional drums and cymbals.
The lion dance is performed to bring good luck to the new couple and bless their home, and to ward off evil spirits.
My camera battery crapped out before the end of the dance, which featured Slob and Liz “feeding” a silvery wrapped object to the lions from the long end of a stick.
Best of luck and double happiness to the new couple!
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