A lion dance is performed to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Yokohama's Chinatown on Friday.
© Japan Today
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A lion dance is performed to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Yokohama's Chinatown on Friday.
© Japan Today
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Slamdunk
Farmboy never seen Hello Kitty nor Lion dance. Home boi time to get out to the real worlD!
Time for sum Dim suM.
lucabrasi
@slumdog
Yep. You're very astute. : )
Or maybe I'm a bit slow..... : (
BurakuminDes
Happy Chinese New Year!
globalwatcher
I have learned airfares from US/Asia are higher before Chinese New Year. After it is over then the airfare prices normally drop.
slumdog
Chinese lions are supposed to reflect the emotions of the lion, whereas Western depictions reflect the appearance.
lucabrasi
@House
I don't know why, but the Chinese language conflates "lion" and "dog" readily. The famous Shih Tzu breed is literally "Lion dog".
slumdog
I think that is perhaps because the dog looks like a Chinese lion.
nath
Happy Chinese New Year!
House Atreides
Call me crazy but that doesn't look like any lion I've ever seen. Not even Kimba the white lion.
anbinh
I don't know why its name became "lion dance" in English but it is in fact a mythical animal called " kirin" in Japanese, I think.
CrazyJoe
How about some horseplay?