The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 16, 1978, Page Page 5, Image 7
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Bv DEBORAH JONES
Gamecock Staff Writer ,
The Business Administration
Plaza, usually desolate on
weekends, Saturday became an
outdoor stage jammed with
spectators watching the antics of a
750-pound, 100-foot-long dragon.
The festivities were part of the
Chinese New Year's celebration
sponsored by the Chinese Student
Association.
The green, yellow and pinksequined
serpent was roused out
of its tight coil by a student teasing
it with a stick. The dragon then led
the procession to Capstone for the
seventh annual banquet
celebrating, in 1978, the beginning
of the Year of the Horse.
ONCE INSIDE, the diners
feasted on shrimp chips, egg roll,
barbequed pork, cabbage with
sweet and sour sauce and Chinese
fried rice.
Because of the large turnout,
they were not served individually
as in the past. Instead, platters of
food were passed from one end of
the table to the other, where each
would be shared by four persons.
When the clink of silverware had
subsided somewhat , Peter and
Stella Chow, a brother and sister
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dinner entertainment.
Three students performed the
lion dance, which the Chinese say
wards off misfortune in the coming
year. One performer wearing a
grinning mask swished a tasseled
baton tauntingly in the lion's face,
as the performers in the lion
costume jumped high above the
stage. When the conquered beast
rolled over with precision, the
audience applauded.
THE "FORTUNE GOD," a
mandarin with a stringy black
yam beard, minced about the
stage with a handful of red
packets containing good luck
pennies to throw out to the
audience. He teased a man and a
small boy near the stage by holding
one just out of each one's reach. He
finally relented and, still smirking,
began throwing the packets to the
audience.
A young man and woman,
stamping and clapping performed
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dance. Their movements ranged
from bouncy polka-type steps to
something resembling the
"hustle."
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"Flower Drum" dance originated
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their poor village. After a false
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put on, the three girls gracefully
danced and twirled drumsticks
simultaneously, wearing pink
costumes with contrasting black
aprons.
Moving from mainland China to
Taiwanese costumes, three
barefooted young women wearing
coolie hats and baskets fastened at
their sides padded across the stage
to the "Tea Girl" dance.
BAU TAI WONG demonstrated
kung fu with the help of three brave
audience volunteers. One feat
involved folding a dollar lengthwise
and splitting a pencil in half
with it. After neatly demolishing
two pencils, he split a banana into
first two and then three pieces by
sheer concentration.
As a young woman softly played
a zither, a traditional Oriental
instrument, four artists painted
four pictures in soft inks of the four
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