Why is there always a dragon or lion dance in Chinese New Year parades and celebrations? World wide there are lion dances which are local to their area and unrelated to the Chinese dance. Chinese Lion Dance Ireland’s Conventional Chinese lion Dancing and Kung Fu / Wushu displays can be found for rent. Throughout the Chinese New Yr, lion dance troupes will go to the homes and retailers of the Asian group to carry out the normal custom of „cai qing“ (採青), literally meaning „plucking the greens“, whereby the lion plucks the auspicious inexperienced lettuce either hung on a pole...