2025 AXHUers’ mascot—‘Lion Dance’  

Jul 31, 2025, International Office，5-minute read

AXHU delegation debuted at the 17^th China University Dragon-and-Lion Dancing Tournament, Jul 15-19, 2025, at the Hunan First Normal University.

Honorarily, six-people faculty team with the Gen Ed Department, including ZHANG Liang, LING Shuchang, WANG Jun Jr., FANG Tao, DONG Luohan, and CHEN Junwei, earned the first place of Teacher Group, while a combination of eight AXHU current students ranking 8^th at the Chinese traditional ‘Southern Lion’ discipline of Student Group A.

This traditionally performing art event sponsored by CHINA STUDENT SPORTS FEDERATION (CSSF), gathering 67 delegations comprising nearly 900 college-level athletes and PE faculty, based in 21 provinces (or autonomous regions, boroughs and municipalities) of China.

Getting dressed as the lion-like mascot—symbolic auspicious figure—to bring that to life and the audience to good luck, in particular, the AXHU student-faculty combinations in harmony performed the highly conventionalized movements galvanized by the charming, adorable, and sharp-witted repertoires, every time it did blink, titillate, stroke, wiggle..., aligned with the beat of gongs and drums,—also live streaming on the gymnasium jumbotron.  

AXHU team members’ low-profile appearances but apprenticeship engagement—especially sparking the Southern Lion-style to observe a sense of mightiness, spirituality, solemnity, but also creativity and elfishness, keeping to itself overall,—have roundly been applauded by the generous, excited audience—mostly remaining AXHU Education and the people at heart.

AXHUers—always learning from championships and wrestling challenges, as did the Chinese traditional “Dragon-Lion spirit and sincerity” convey and transmit from generation to generation, pledge: “The roots of Chinese educational cause should be deepened into our everyday actions and common efforts for improving individuals’ teaching, research, as well as transformation and innovation to the upper level overall.