Two folk dancers perform breathtaking lion dance on knives at a downtown arena in Nanning, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Feb. 6, 2010. The folk dance was a prelude of a series of cultural celebrations for the Chinese triditional Spring Festival, or new year on Chinese lunar calendar. [Xinhua]

Two folk dancers perform breathtaking lion dance over the poles at a downtown arena in Nanning, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Feb. 6, 2010. The folk dance was a prelude of a series of cultural celebrations for the Chinese triditional Spring Festival, or new year on Chinese lunar calendar. [Xinhua]

Two folk dancers perform breathtaking lion dance on knives at a downtown arena in Nanning, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Feb. 6, 2010. The folk dance was a prelude of a series of cultural celebrations for the Chinese triditional Spring Festival, or new year on Chinese lunar calendar. [Xinhua]

Two folk dancers perform breathtaking lion dance over bench- ladders at a downtown arena in Nanning, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Feb. 6, 2010. [Xinhua]

Two folk dancers perform breathtaking lion dance over bench-ladders at a downtown arena in Nanning, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Feb. 6, 2010. [Xinhua]