IT WAS LIKE BEING IN A HUANG FEI HONG MOVIE when the kids of the San Francisco Day School paraded their My First Lions® all around the school and into the gym. Hundreds and hundreds of lions in every color of the rainbow! They completed their parade with the obligatory dragon dance—two jovial, glittering beasts performed by the youngest students at the school.

IT’S BLING MEETS BLING when two of the jewels of Lung Kong Physical Culture Club’s lions grab and keep the ladies’ attention even more than the diamonds do in this jewelry store, one of many stores and businesses blessed by their custom traditional lions this year. And below, two more of Lung Kong’s finest are making the crowd feel young again at a senior home. Hard to tell who’s having more fun (the audience or the performers) at joyous shows like these!

JUST ABOUT EVERY LION DANCER KNOWS that having a gorgeous lion is practically a license to flirt up close and personal. Here, lion dancers from the San Francisco Wushu and Lion Dance Team put that knowledge to good use at a wedding banquet. The lions they custom-designed serve them well at all their performances, but as you can see, they really make it easy to break the ice at weddings. Don’t forget to retrieve the digits fellas.