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Over its thousand-year history, theperformance developed two genres-the northern and southern lion dances.The northern version is popular in itshome territory, which includes Beijing,Hebei and Shanxi provinces, while itscounterpart prevails in the south, ten-tered on the traditions of GuangdongProvince. The northern lion is simplerand similar to the real animal; thesouthern lion is nonrepresentational inits appearance.