温哥华新市长就职礼上生菜飞向面门：一张疯传照片背后是华人舞狮采青祝福
据加拿大广播公司（CBC）报道，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华市新任市长Pete Fry 11月2日在Orpheum剧院宣誓就职，就职礼上温哥华警察局舞狮队表演时，一片生菜飞向他面前的照片在Threads、Bluesky等社交平台疯传，转发帖获得约5500个赞。CBC随后专门制作报道，称这张生菜照片成了这场就职礼的「定义性画面」。
照片疯传起初引来不少打趣，但据CBC报道，那片生菜并不是意外或恶作剧，而是华人舞狮传统里送祝福的一环。舞狮「采青」中，狮子把生菜（粤语中「生菜」与「生财」谐音）吃下再抛撒出去，寓意把财运与好运散给在场的人，这个习俗在华人社区里源远流长。飞到新市长面前的那片生菜，按传统正是送给他的好意头。
Fry现年是温哥华第42任市长，也是该市首位绿党市长。他在10月17日的市选中击败时任市长Ken Sim，11月2日与新一届市议会一同宣誓就职。就职礼本身刻意拼贴了这座城市的多种文化元素：原住民领袖致辞、温哥华警察局舞狮队表演与风笛鼓乐队同台出现。
温哥华是加拿大华人最集中的城市之一，舞狮采青出现在市长就职礼上、又以一张生菜照片的方式在社交平台出圈，也让不少当地华人读者会心一笑：新市长上任第一天，先收到了一份按华人规矩送出的祝福。
Lettuce Flung at Vancouver's New Mayor During a Lion Dance: The Viral Inauguration Photo Is a Chinese Blessing
A photograph of a piece of lettuce flying toward Pete Fry, the new mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, during a lion dance at his November 2 inauguration went viral on Threads, Bluesky and other platforms, drawing about 5,500 likes on one widely shared post, according to CBC News, which later produced a segment calling the lettuce shot the defining image of the inauguration.
The picture drew jokes at first, but CBC reported the lettuce was no accident or prank: it was part of a blessing in the Chinese lion dance tradition. In the 'plucking the greens' ritual, the lion eats lettuce - a symbol of prosperity because the word for lettuce sounds like 'wealth' in Cantonese - and scatters it over the audience to spread fortune and good luck, a custom with a long history in the Chinese community. The leaf that flew at the new mayor was, by tradition, a well-wish aimed at him.
Fry was sworn in as Vancouver's 42nd mayor, and its first Green Party mayor, at the Orpheum Theatre on November 2, alongside the new city council, after defeating incumbent Ken Sim in the October 17 municipal election. The ceremony deliberately wove together the city's cultures, with remarks from leaders of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, a performance by the Vancouver Police Department's Lion Dance Team, and the police pipes and drums.
Vancouver is home to one of Canada's largest Chinese communities. A lion dance blessing turning into the viral image of a mayor's first day gave many local Chinese readers a knowing smile: on day one, the new mayor had already received a blessing delivered the Chinese way.
来源：加拿大广播公司
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图片来源：舞狮采青资料图：舞狮将生菜抛向空中（Kurt Bauschardt摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons；2013年加拿大埃德蒙顿传统节画面，非温哥华就职礼现场图）
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