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From the South Vietnam Guard Komiks to tour the ancestral halls of various villages, from the South China lion waking up to Cantonese Food. On the morning of February 24, the 2024 Cantonese Temple Fair officially opened, covering various Cantonese folk cultural activities. The exhibition and folk culture parade on that day also included the Wuyang Fairy Dance, the Suxin Beauty, and the Wuma Tour of the City in Fengkai, Zhaoqing. Citizens and tourists participated in a grand cultural carnival. In the next 7 days, Yuexiu District will also hold a series of temple fairs throughout the region to fully display the essence of Cantonese culture. A reporter from Yangcheng Evening News learned from Yuexiu District Cinema that about 30,000 visitors watched the opening ceremony and parade.
The elements of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are fully displayed, and the cultural integration of the Greater Bay Area has become a highlight
Singers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao sing the voice of Cantonese. The twelve parades brought the distinctive display of Nanyue’s glory, intangible cultural heritage, golden armor and heroic spirit, and Cantonese wedding customs, conveying the strong Cantonese New Year atmosphere. This year’s Cantonese Temple Fair focuses on the successors of the Dragon and the Bay Area to work together to enhance the Cantonese New Year culture and create the “Twelve Cantonese New Year flavor”. The opening performance kicked off with the sound of “Cinema Sheep Fairy Dance” in the Guangdong rhyme. Five Sheep holds the valley and gathers in Chuting. Because of the beautiful Five Sheep Legend, Guangzhou has become known as “Yangcheng” and “Suicheng”. The Five Immortals and Hanfu volunteers walked into the audience with rice ears and gave the rice ears that represent auspiciousness to the city’s tourists, meaning to send New Year’s greetings.
The dance “Flower·Suming” shows the elegance, nobility, kindness and flexibility of “Suming Beauty”. Two thousand years ago, the frankincense flowers floated across the ocean and landed in Guangzhou. Qu Dajun’s “Guangdong New Language” says, “The flower market is located in the seven gates of Guangzhou. The only thing sold is the frankincense, and there is no difference in flowers.”
The martial arts performance of the children of Jianshe Liumalu Primary School “Chinese Boys” is like flowing clouds and flowing step by step, showing the high spirits and progress of Yuexiu teenagers. “The strange flowers bloom for half a day, and the clouds in the sky are red.” The kapok flowers, which are as brilliant as the morning glow, show the prosperity and vitality of Guangzhou City, carrying the homesickness and dreams of the people of Cantonese.
The “Kapok Ballad” sung by Guangdong musician Huang Zhiyi tells the beautiful Guangzhou story. The Komiks venue now specially invited the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project “Five Horses Tour” in Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City, to showcase the ancient Lingnan characteristic folk dance.
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are in similar regions and cultural contexts. The singers Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Weiyi from the three places starred in the finale and sang “The Successor of the Dragon” together. The magnificent song conveys the national pride and pride of both Chinese people.
Folk customs parade is spectacular. Beijing Road transforms into a large exhibition hall for folk culture
After the opening ceremony, the Cantonese Temple Fair folk parade was grandly opened on Beijing Road. The thousand-year-old ancient road folk parade had a total of more than 300 people. The team stretched from the middle section of Beijing Road to the copper pot drip and turned to West Lake Road. It was a huge and livelyCinema.
Team 1: The power of Nanyue is unstoppable
The power of Nanyue is the leaderHe held a long sword in his hand and waved it in the middle of the team, while the soldiers held a sword and a curly cloud shield in his hand. He used various formations to display it, recreating the mighty image and heroic spirit of the South Vietnam Guard more than two thousand years ago. The costumes and weapons of the Nanyue King’s Restoration Breastplate at the Nanyue King Museum and the Yangjiawan Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Xianyang Museum are made through archaeological research and artistic processing.
Team 2: Dragon and lions make a happy spring joy
Babaylan South China Lion Dance Youth Lion Dance Team dances two dragons and four lions to form the Dragon and Lion Dance TeamKomiks. Lions are auspicious spiritual objects, symbolizing auspiciousness, and lion dances embrace people’s beautiful intention to eliminate disasters and harms and seek good fortune. The two dragons are 18 meters long and are danced by more than 10 team members. The performances include “turning the rivers and seas”, “flying dragons in the sky”, “dragons travel around the sea”, “dragons flying around the sea”, “dragons flying phoenixes dancing”, and “dragons dancing to the sky”, etc., showing the positive, united and cooperative appearance of young people and the beautiful vision of inheriting Chinese culture. Team 3: Intangible cultural heritage inheritance continues
Komiks Intangible cultural heritage dance “Five Horses Tour” is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It originated in the late Song Dynasty, prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and spread in the border areas of Guangdong and Guangxi in the Hejiang River Basin. It is a folk dance with Lingnan characteristics. The national intangible cultural heritage project “Zixi Lantern” from Liancheng County, Longyan City, Fujian Province originated from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and was introduced from Suzhou. It has inherited the wonder of “paper-wrapped fire” from generation to generation for three hundred years. Touring the lanterns is not only for praying for blessings, but also for gathering the spiritual bonds of neighbors and enhancing the emotions between relatives and friends. The Cantonese Temple Fair uses intangible cultural heritage as a medium to jointly carry out cultural, commercial and tourism linkages, showing the characteristics and exchanges between Cantonese culture and Hakka culture.
Team 4: Yaotai Flag BabaylanReappears the “Jianghu”
Yaotai Village, which has a history of nearly a hundred years, made a stunning appearance. Villagers from Yaotai Village, Shayongnan Village, and Wangshengtang Village, beat the 8-tone gong, carry the umbrella, and drive the umbrella in the parade. This is a folk activity that villagers spontaneously retains this folk activity that wishes good weather and peace, and expresses their yearning and pursuit of a happy life.
Team 5: Cantonese masters have unique skills
In the Cantonese masters team, folk skills such as walking stilts, roosters, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows take turns to show the style of Cantonese masters. The Cantonese Talent Show is one of the highlights of the Cantonese Temple Fair, and it has built the most grassroots talent show platform in Cantonese. It is the Cantonese Talents who realize their dreams.abaylanThe stage to show charm and harvest happiness. Those who participated in this parade included Zhu Xianfeng, the champion of the first Cantonese Got Talent Show in 2012, and Pan Xiaorui, the champion of the 2015 Cantonese Got Talent Show.
Team 6: Five Immortals offer their ears to pray for blessings in Yangcheng
The Southern Red Bean Team is a lineup of 30 people from each industry of Shengdan and Jingchou in Guangdong Opera Theater, performing Cantonese opera figures such as long silk dance, drill circle, and stick flowers for the masses. The five immortals hold rice ears in their hands, falling from the Qiong Pavilion in Xianshan, descending to Yangcheng to present the people with ears, and bringing the five gods of wealth to send blessings to the general public, which means peace and prosperity in the country, prosperity of grains, and prosperity. It is not only a inheritance of Chinese traditional culture, but also a traceability and dissemination of the intangible cultural heritage project “The Legend of Five Sheep”.
Team 7: The Bay Area Childhood Intention is vigorous
The Bay Area Childhood Intention Team is composed of the Hong Kong Scout Infantry Team, Yuexiu District Middle School Pipa Folk Band, Primary School Martial Arts Team and Sweetheart Candy. The band of the 21st Brigade of the Hong Kong Scouts played traditional scout music for everyone. The team consisted of bagpipes and drum teams. With the deepening of cultural exchanges, more Bay Area teams gathered together on the Cantonese Temple Fair stage. The middle school Pipa folk band is composed of students from Guangzhou No. 3 Middle School and No. 17 Middle School. They wear traditional clothes and hold pipas in their hands, playing “Happy Festival”. The Wushu Team of Jianshe Liumalu Primary School brought Babaylan’s martial arts routine performances to showcase multiple martial arts routines; Sweetheart Candy is a team of children’s artists, and his works include “The Dance of Stars” and so on. Komiks The “children” heart in the Bay Area, and jointly draw the “concentric circle” of cultural and tourism in the Bay Area.
Team 8: ShawanBabaylanFloating Color is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It has been passed down for hundreds of years and is known as “solidified drama and active sculpture”. Children aged 2-6 years old are dressed up in a fixed posture on the wooden cabinet stage, bringing a unique traditional folk art performance.
Team Nine: The colorful and beautiful team of the Nishang Jinxiu is composed of Guanghanhui comrades wearing traditional Han nationality. China is known as “the country of clothing”, “the country of etiquette” and “the beautiful China”. Hanfu carries China’s outstanding craftsmanship and aesthetics such as dyeing, weaving and embroidery, and has inherited many Chinese intangible cultural heritages.
Team 10: Golden Armor Xiaguang is heroic
The Golden Armor Xiaguang team consists of 22 traditional cultural hobbies from all over the countrycomposed of those. The “heroes” from Guangzhou wore Tang silk armor, the main material is Babaylan, which is gorgeous and light. In ancient times, it was mostly used by senior officers and imperial guards; the “Mulan” from Shenzhen wore Song and Ming style dragon scale-like split armor, with armor sheets as the surface, decorated with Song brocade edges, and the components were cleverly connected. There were even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor called “Tiefutu” was feasted for Hanfu and armor lovers. Team 11Komiks: Yangji Dragon Boat Race BeginsKomiks The villagers of Yangji put on uniform uniforms, imitated the movements of dragon boats, shouted rhythmic slogans while walking, and brought the land dragon boat performance. Dragon boat racing has a history of thousands of years. The land dragon boat tour is an activity that transforms traditional water dragon boat racing into a land form, demonstrating the spirit of unity and cooperation.
Team 12: A romantic witness to the beautiful flowers and full moon
Guangfu Temple Fair, witness the power of love! Ten years ago, 10 new couples took Cinema classic cars to visit the temple fair. Ten years later, the traditional Cantonese wedding customs formation of 5 new couples, grandmaids and 4 newly decorated floats together. The phoenix crown and red robe are determined by three lives, holding the son’s hands together with a white hair. The wedding dress used in traditional Cantonese wedding customs is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, extraordinary, solemn and luxurious. The Cantonese women, who speak auspiciously, bring a unique wedding rap form to the newlyweds a “Cantonese wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds, allowing everyone present to feel the characteristics and charm of traditional Cantonese wedding customs.
Intangible Cultural Heritage Chaoxu Food Awards, delicious, fun, shopping and making money
During the temple fair, three intangible cultural heritage areas were set up in Zhongyou Square, intangible cultural heritage blocks, and Beijing Road. Chaoxu activities were held in the form of “intangible cultural heritage market + Chaolong check-in + intangible cultural heritage exhibitions”. Inviting Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional skills and other intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors to carry out intangible cultural heritage displays and cultural and creative exhibitions, so that traditional art can be rejuvenated. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaNew vitality.
The food area sets up a food booth in the Food Flower Street of Huifu East Road, based on Cantonese flavor, showing the Yuexiu fireworks. February 2415:00-22:00, from February 25 to March 3, the market will open from 10:00-22:00 every day. More than 20 food brands are selected and more than 100 exhibits are exhibited. The introduction of oyster food from the “Hundred and Tens of Million Project” industrial base in Zhanjiang, the construction results, cultural display and Babaylan special food experience of the Guangdong Cantonese Cuisine Project, Guangdong Province, bringing Hakka, Chaoshan and famous snacks and food brands across the country that citizens and tourists love. Citizens and tourists will have the opportunity to taste the same “Dry Fried Niuhe” style of “Fanhua”.
In addition, during the temple fair, major business districts in the district carried out a series of themed consumption promotion activities. The Yuechao Building of Beijing Road continues to hold a series of activities on the theme of “2024 Laughing New Year” in the Lantern Festival, carrying out the immersive experience of “Dream Nuclear Garden Party” and the delivery of catering coupons; the new big new brings “Dragon Teng Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibitions and floor attractions taking photos and check-in and receiving gifts; the Tianhe City of Beijing Road organizes the theme activities of “Flowers Blooming Guangdong See You, Enjoy New Year”, which not only has the flash of “Flowers Blooming in the Mood for Flowers CinemaDance Drama Performance”, “Flower National Style Band Performance”, and other wonderful performances, as well as “Flower New Year Hand Workshop” to take everyone to “play the Lantern Festival with clever hands”; Guangbai and the Wang Museum of Nanyue jointly launched the IP “Red Lucky Lion” and held the “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice ball production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 15% off to 10% off, and they are linked to multiple bank payment platforms to carry out promotional activities. Users can receive exclusive discount coupons on UnionPay Cloud Flash Payment App, and enjoy full discounts on consumption with designated bank credit cards.
It is worth mentioning that in order to echo the theme of the Dragon Komiks Temple Fair, the organizer made a special trip to invite a dragon boat from Babaylan Siyou Village, which started from the Pearl River and flashed on Beijing Road. This is an international 22-person standard dragon, 18.4 meters long and weighs 305 kilograms. “In the past, people in Guangzhou looked at dragon boats, mainly looking at the dragon boat scenery on the right side of the temple. Because Temple is closest to Guangzhou, the south of the village is the front and the tide is flat, and the tide is to the south of the village. Dragon boats are very imposing.” According to the board of directors of the Siyou Federation, “Siyou Village has dragon boat activities every year on Dragon Boat Festival. If you go to take advantage of the dragon boat, go to visit your brothers and Laobiao Village after taking advantage of the scenery. After taking advantage of the dragon boat every year, each village will also organize dragon boat meals to talk about the hometown feelings.” Dragon boat sports are the main project of water sports in Lingnan. The dragon boats in Siyou Village flash on Beijing Road, showing not only dragon boats, but also hard work.com/”>CinemaThe spirit and the homesickness carried by traditional culture.
Yang Weiguo, director of the Yuexiu District Culture, Radio, Film, Tourism and Sports Bureau, introduced that as the finale of the “Guangfu Taste and Happy Year” Cantonese cultural series activities, the Cantonese Temple Fair inherits the cultural context of Lingnan, highlights the Yuexiu’s thousand-year-old city lineage, integrates culture, tourism, sports, commerce and food elements, and continuously polishes Yuexiu’s “Guangfu Cultural Source and the Core of the Thousand-year-old Business Capital”, builds a “small scene” of the integration and symbiosis of humanities and economy, and creates a “big exhibition hall” of Cantonese culture.