Awaken the lion to awaken the soul of the country, beat the drum to invigorate the spirit, China will rise, the sun and the moon will share the universe.

In May 1840, the warships of Western powers blocked the Pearl River Estuary in Guangzhou, and the first Opium War broke out. China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Chinese nation suffered unprecedented humiliation and suffering. In May 1841, after the forts in the north of Guangzhou were captured, the people of southern Guangdong demonstrated the bloody tenacity of the Chinese nation in their anti-British struggle in Sanyuanli, Guangzhou. The anti-British struggle in Sanyuanli was the first spontaneous struggle of the Chinese people against foreign colonial aggression in modern history. It demonstrated the courage of the Chinese people to fight against Western powers without fear of violence. It was the first glorious banner of the Chinese people's anti-aggression struggle in modern times. .

The dance drama "Awakening Lion" takes the Opium War more than a hundred years ago as the background of the story, and takes the Sanyuanli Anti-British Uprising as the climax. With today's lion awakening people looking back at their ancestors, they begin to review the history of a hundred years ago. Backtrace.

It has taken more than five years to conceive and plan the play. In 2016, the small dance drama "Awakening" won the gold medal in the Guangdong Province Lingnan Dance Competition. After more than a year of polishing and adjusting 13 drafts of the script, the creative team went to Sanyuanli Village, Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, Foshan Ancestral Temple and other places for in-depth interviews many times to fully understand Lingnan history and culture, traditional folk dance, lion dancing, Nan The essence of boxing.

The dance drama "Awakening·Lion" takes "Awakening" as the god, "lion" as the shape, and takes national awakening as the theme. It tells the story of the self-awakening and self-awakening of two young lion dancers when they face different life choices of love, hatred, family and country. Transformation reflects the indomitable spirit of struggle of the sons and daughters of southern Guangdong, shows the process of the Chinese nation awakening to resist and gain dignity and strength, and fully explains the Chinese nation's beautiful vision of "a century-old dream come true" on the road to rejuvenation.