Myanmar-Chinese residing in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon held their traditional lion dance competitions Monday evening in celebration of the lunar Chinese new year.
Taking place on a historically famous street named Sint Oh Dan in the Chinatown, the three-day lion dance competitions are participated by six amateur lion dancing groups of local Myanmar-Chinese and the contests will run until Wednesday with a ceremony to present awards to the winning groups to follow on Thursday when the event ends, Zhou Baofu, an organizer, told Xinhua.
These groups are Y.S.L, Global Lion, Dragon, Lion Boy, Pearl Black and the Last Don.
The southern-style lion dance competitions constitute part of the rare activities of the Myanmar-Chinese in celebration of the traditional Chinese new year or Spring Festival.
The competitions started on Monday, the 5th day of the new year, as the participating groups were busy with their new year house-to-house calls at residences of some dignitaries of the Myanmar-Chinese community and some social associations for seasonal greetings during the first four days of the new year according to the traditional practice of spending the festival in Myanmar, Zhou said.
According to the organizer, this year's competitions are the third of its kind and include ground dancing and on-table dancing. The first and second prize winning groups will be awarded with newly-imported lion heads from Singapore and the two groups will perform their wonderful performances again at the prize-awarding ceremony in order to meet the need of the audiences, the organizer added.
During last year's first such competitions, six other lion dancing groups namely "Dragon Tiger", "Blue Blood", "Dragon Head", "Red Lion", "Sky Dragon" and "The Last Don" took part.
Source: Xinhua
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