About Hoy Ping Kung Fu
Hoy Ping Kung Fu is a lion dance and kung fu club serving Vancouver, Richmond, and the wider Lower Mainland.
Our History
Hoy Ping Kung Fu performs as a sibling team to the Hoy Ping Benevolent Association, an organization whose roots in Vancouver trace back to the 1920s. The Hoy Ping Benevolent Association of Canada has been active in the community since at least that decade, and our club carries that history forward through lion dance and kung fu performance today. Our own standalone founding year isn't precisely documented, but our connection to this community runs nearly a century deep.
The Traditions Behind the Performance
What Is Lion Dance?
Lion dance is a traditional Chinese performance art in which two performers work together inside a lion costume, animating its movements to the rhythm of drums, cymbals, and gongs. Rooted in centuries of Southern Chinese custom, it's performed at celebrations to bring good fortune and ward off bad energy.
What Is Dragon Dance?
Dragon dance is a related but distinct tradition, in which a team of performers carries poles to animate a long dragon figure in flowing, synchronized motion. Traditionally performed at large-scale festivals and celebrations, the dragon represents power, wisdom, and good luck.
What Is Kung Fu?
Kung fu (功夫) is a broad term for the Chinese martial arts traditions developed and passed down over centuries. More than physical technique, it combines discipline, philosophy, and community — and it's the training discipline that lion dance and dragon dance performance is built on.
Why Book a Performance?
Lion dance and kung fu performances are traditionally believed to bring good luck and prosperity while warding off bad energy, making them a meaningful, high-energy addition to weddings/anniversaries, business grand openings, and festivals — a living cultural tradition brought to your event.
Instructors
Howard Wong
Waymen Wong
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