Moon festival lion dance

This weekend was August 15 on the lunar calendar and thus Chinese celebrate the annual moon festival. Zhongqiujie,中秋节, is one of the most celebrated holidays in the Chinese calendar because it was during this time the Chinese farmers gathered their harvest in the light of a new moon. During the reign of the Yuan dynasty by Mongols, Chinese rebels spread message of a revolt through the moon cake, and on the night of the moon festival, villagers slit the throats of all the barbarian soldiers and gained their independence.
In order to celebrate the moon festival, my lion dance group held our annual party complete with lion dance. One of the tricks can be seen to the right, when the head player is lifted by the tail player to make the lion taller. The top performer experiences a tremendous net force upwards in order to be lifted 6 feet off the ground. The potential energy of the head player increases, while the normal force exerted on the tail player increases.