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00:19 Hello, I'm Carl Ngo from the Sheffield Lion Dance Team.
00:24 And our team was set up by Jimmy Wan back in the '70s.
00:28 And he's been doing lion dance all the way through.
00:31 And since he retired, unfortunately he's passed away.
00:33 We've taken over the team in his absence.
00:37 There's a few main stories.
00:40 Like the one that I normally talk about
00:44 is about a demon called the Nian.
00:47 And he used to, in the past, go to attack these villages
00:51 and raid them every single year during spring festival.
00:56 And then because-- so the people were getting very upset,
01:00 so they prayed to the gods.
01:01 So then the heavens answered.
01:03 So they sent out a heavenly lion.
01:06 So the lion battled with the Nian to shoo him away.
01:10 So every year, the people in the village
01:13 would mimic the lion and pretend to be the heavenly lion.
01:17 So they chased away the bad spirits,
01:19 bringing the good luck for the coming new year.
01:21 So our dance is the-- well, a presentation of that, really.
01:26 So the people dressed up as a lion.
01:30 So we walk around, bless people with good fortune, good luck,
01:35 and to be strong, courageous.
01:39 That's what we promote as well.
01:41 And the significance of the letters and orange.
01:44 The letters in Chinese is pronounced "chai."
01:49 And that is luck.
01:53 And also, the orange, that is pronounced "jin."
01:57 So that would be gold.
01:58 So to give letters is to give luck.
02:01 To give the orange is to give gold and prosperity.
02:05 So whoever catches the gold, he passes the whole year.
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