Choy Lee Fut Martial Arts
Business Services in Sydney

A team with 20 years of experience in traditional chinese liondance. A cultural experience that's also fun and guaranteed to get the crowd excited! we are available year-round across greater sydney. Perfect for weddings, corporate functions, restaurants, festivals and chinese new year. Extra options: chinese firecrackers, big head buddha, kung fu demonstration.

The Chang Dynasty was a time of war and inside problems. At the time, the Emperor of China had a vivid dream after a day in battle. The dream was of a strange beast playing. This beast was lager than a dog but smaller than a horse and although it looked savage its behavior was unseemly for a tiger. The following day, being very interested to know what the beast was, the Emperor went to consult his official advisers. The advisers explained to him that this beast he saw was called a lion. This time being very upset by the recurrence of the dream he went to consult his senior and maximum experienced advisers and consultants. These people explained to the Emperor that the lion was a gift from the gods. Since no lions existed within China, the gods’ gift to him was to let the Emperor have everything. (This was deemed a appropriate omen from the gods who favored the Emperor). Despite the mass celebrations of the success in battle, the Emperor’s mind was on the dream of the strange beast. The following battle the Emperor had, the lion became the symbol of appropriate fortune for the armies. The fight was won and since then the result of this good omen is what we now call the lion dance. As a result, today we now demonstrate the lion dance at all important festivals and occasions as the lion dance brings happiness, prosperity and appropriate good luck to all the people attending the celebrations. There are many regional differences in how the performance is held and the customs that are followed. In the north of China, the lion usually lengthy orange yellow fur and performs acrobatics, such as balancing on a ball. The southern lion originates in Guangdong and is the style practiced by our team. It involves the alike low stances typical of southern Chinese Hung Au has an explosive, martial energy (while still retaining some of the acrobatic moves). In Southern lion dance, the lion can take on many colors, however the most common are 3 canonical lions which represent the 3 main characters from the epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. These styles are mainly practiced in Cong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore and Malaysia. Their lion is a lot lighter with more jumps and acrobatics. Although we seek to bring variety to our performances, our main aim is to practice conventional lion dance based on our traditional Chinese Hung Au.