Singapore Lion Dance - Mid-Autumn festival

Lion dance competition usually start before the moon cakes festival. In such country like Indonesia, it is called "barongsai". The lion-like "creature" leaps onto a set of poles, its head looking left and right, assessing the area. When it is deemed safe, up it leaps again onto a higher set of poles.

I heard there are many stories of the lion dance, one is about its search for food, but typically there are 8 basic characteristics of Lion dance that the dancers must know; happiness, anger, sadness, merriment, motion, dormant, astonishment, and suspicion.