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The lion dance is part of traditional Chinese culture. People often perform it the night before the Chinese New Year. They ________ perform it for other happy occasions. People think the lion dance can ________ good luck and success.

There are many different stories ________ how the lion dance began. One of them is like this: Hundreds of years ago, a monster called Nian came to a village in China. The villagers were ________. A lion chased Nian away. A year later, Nian came back again, but this time the lion couldn’t ________. So the villagers made a “lion” by themselves. Their “lion” danced, jumped and chased Nian away. For this ________, people began to perform the lion dance before the Spring Festival to chase bad luck away.

There are ________ different kinds of lion dances. In the southern lion dance, the dancers ________ hard to perform like a real lion. Their “lion” may shake its body. The dance can be funny. The ________ kind is the northern lion dance. It has more martial art skills like rolling, leaping and jumping. Both kinds are very interesting to watch, but it takes a lot of ________ to perform well.