 My first experience with the lion dance was when I was a kid and the lion was coming at me, I was like four years old and when you're that age you don't quite know that it's not a real creature and there's that fear, even though you see there's a person under it that it's a real animal and that's sort of what I, I think because I was afraid of it I wanted to become it when I got older and that's, you're performing but you're becoming something else because the head itself is not that heavy, it's around 15 pounds but moving it all around and trying to make it look alive you can't just hold it like a costume, like you're in a big bird suit or something you clearly want to make it look alive so it can be tiring especially if you don't know how to save power and where people will be switching in and out all the day all the day, nobody does their head for six hours straight and you do the head, you come out, you do the drum you rotate, that's how you make it the main part of it is actually not so much the dance it's the chair that the business puts out and those lettuce and oranges are representing wishes for good luck and the head has to take it in some way, pick it up less the business, a lot of times we would be out for incense we would be lighting incense and power to an altar so there is a ritualistic and folk religion aspect that is different say for other dances or other sports a lot of the cultural stuff is dying in China because they go to the city, so there's this this kind of activity, they hold the generation they're moving to the city to work and then they come back to China through they do have a lot of teams in the city that are more like sports teams I'm sure you'll find a lot of stuff like that so there's something there but that old traditional pass down from family to member to family member that's actually the idea, so what we see now is kind of a moonlight dance taking place in China there's quite a bit of nothing but there is a different content