Lion dance performed in folk hero's hometown

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-08-02 16:30

Performers from the Huang Feihong Lion Dance Association practise at a training base in Foshan, south China's Guangdong province July 31, 2007. The association which was founded in 1999, has some 100 professional performers, according to local media. Huang (1847-1924)was a martial artist, healer, and revolutionary who became a Chinese folk hero and the subject of numerous television series and films. [Reuters]