Lion and dragon dance spectacle in Malaysia celebrates tradition, diversity, and global harmony

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Preserving culture and embedding moral values in their audiences through a cultural lion and dragon dance performance, The Chinese World Dragon and Lion Dance Extravaganza Malaysia commenced.  The Chinese World Dragon and Lion Dance Extravaganza Malaysia took center stage at Lalaport Bukit Bintang City Centre on Jan 1, attracting mall visitors and pedestrians along Kuala Lumpur’s walkway.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 So today's event actually is a Malaysian Dragon Lion Dance

00:17 Festival.

00:18 So basically, it's a celebration of all Malaysian lion dancer.

00:22 So as you can see, just now, we have a lot of kids lion dance.

00:25 We have multi-racial performers, lion dance performers.

00:29 We have all sorts of Malaysian Chinese culture content

00:33 creators and performers all over Malaysia.

00:36 So this day where we celebrate this Malaysia World Dragon

00:42 and Lion Dance Extravaganza Malaysia edition,

00:44 so it's actually initiated by Hong Kong back, I think,

00:48 about almost 10 years ago.

00:51 When Hong Kong did it for about a few years,

00:54 then they wanted to extend the celebration towards the world.

00:59 I think we started the event back in 2017.

01:02 And back then, when I was the one to initiate this program,

01:08 I actually called up a lot of friends, a lot of buddies,

01:10 because myself, I love lion dance.

01:12 So basically, it's pure passion.

01:15 So I actually called up a lot of my brothers and sisters.

01:18 I said, hey, there's this festival.

01:20 Whether you guys want to do this together?

01:22 And they actually said, oh, why not, Raymond?

01:25 Let's go.

01:25 Let's do it.

01:26 So I told them, because initially, we

01:28 don't have any fundings.

01:29 So no fundings.

01:31 So all the teams actually, they sacrifice their own resources.

01:35 So they pay their own lorry.

01:36 They pay their own lunch and whatever.

01:38 So we perform at a mall.

01:41 So after the first year, the mall actually

01:44 liked the content so much, because the content

01:46 able to pull crowd to the mall.

01:48 And it's like flood the whole mall.

01:50 So we see how culture, in order for the culture

01:53 to be sustainable, you need to have

01:55 this commercialized ecosystem.

01:57 So where clients like our content,

01:59 and the ecosystem where it's stable and sustainable.

02:02 So the lion content provider, they can make a living on it.

02:07 So since last year, LalaPod actually

02:10 supported us for this big event.

02:12 And this is our second year in LalaPod.

02:15 So as you can see just now, we have a lot of performers

02:18 all over the world, like kids and everything.

02:21 So it's a platform where we showcase whatever

02:25 the kids have been learning.

02:26 Because there is no platform to actually showcase

02:29 a lot of content, good lion dance content, deep content,

02:32 so that the public can actually learn through the performance.

02:35 So we are trying to do more development, do more knowledge,

02:40 to work more on the knowledge part, on the educational part,

02:43 so that consumers and public, they

02:44 will understand more about the culture.

02:46 To us, it's a platform to preserve the tradition

02:49 and to pass on.

02:51 We need this platform to give opportunity

02:53 to a lot of performers, a lot of content creators,

02:56 especially the lion dance content creators.

02:57 So our job here is to celebrate, to showcase,

03:01 to preserve the tradition, to educate the public.

03:04 So we hope more people will like what we are doing

03:07 and to preserve the tradition.

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03:13 [APPLAUSE]

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