Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Li Chunwei Correspondent Zhan Pingping
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From the Nanyue Guards to patrol the ancestral halls in various villages, from the southern country to the Cantonese food, on the morning of February 24, the 2024 Cantonese Temple Fair was 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 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 “Guangdong Romance and Beauty·Wuyang Immortal Dance”. The 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 citizens and tourists, which meant 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 frangipani flower landed in Guangzhou across the ocean. Qu Dajun’s “Guangdong NewCinema” says, “The flower market is in the seven gates of Guangzhou, and the selling is only savory and flowers, and there is no difference.”
The martial arts performance of the children of the Liumalu Primary School “Chinese Boys” is like flowing clouds and flowing, showing the high spirits and progress of the Yuexiu teenagers. “In the midst of the day, the clouds and clouds in the sky are red.” The kapok flowers, as brilliant as the morning glow, show the prosperity and vitality of Guangzhou City, carrying the homesickness and dreams of the Cantonese people.
The “Kapok Ballad” sung by Guangdong musician Huang Zhiyi makes the beautiful Guangzhou<a The story of Cinema was told. The scene was specially invited to the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project "Five Horses Tour" in Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City, to showcase the ancient folk dance of Lingnan. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are close to each other and have a blind date in cultural context. The singers Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Weiyi from the three places played the finale and sang "The Successor of the Dragon". The magnificent song conveyed the national pride and pride of both Chinese people.
Folk custom parade is spectacular Beijing Road transforms into a folk culture exhibition hall
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 dripping to West Lake Road, with a huge and lively momentum.
Team 1: The majestic wind of Nanyue Team was unstoppable
The head of the Nanyue Team held a long sword in his hand, waving in the middle of the team, and the soldiers held swords and curly cloud shields in their hands, showing them in multiple formations, recreating the mighty image and heroic spirit of the Nanyue Guard more than 2,000 years ago. The costumes and weapons of the Nanyue KingKomiksThe Restoration of the King of Nanyue in the Museum and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Xianyang Museum are prototypes, and are made through archaeological research and artistic processing.
Team 2: DragonThe lions make a happy spring bring good luck.
The dragon and lions dance team is composed of the Southern Lion Dance Youth Lion Dance Team, which dances two dragons and four lions. The lion is auspicious spirit, symbolizing auspiciousness, and the lion dance carries people’s good intentions to eliminate disasters and harm 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 Colors are inherited continuously
Zhaoqing intangible cultural heritage dance “Five Horses Tour” is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It originated in the late Song Dynasty, was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was spread in the border areas of Guangdong-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 miracle 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 reappears on the “jianghu”
Yaotai Village has a history of nearly a hundred years and made a stunning appearance. Villagers from Yaotai Village, Shayongnan Village, and Wangshengtang Village, beat the eight-tone gong and drum, carry the flag and draw the Luo 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, folk skills such as walking on stilts, roosters, playing flower sticks, and wheelbarrows took turns to showcase the style of Cantonese masters. The Cantonese Talent Show is one of the highlights of the Cantonese Temple Fair, and it has been built into the most grassroots talent show platform in Cantonese and is a stage for Cantonese experts to realize their dreams, show their charm and gain happiness. Those who participated in this parade included Zhu Xianfeng, the champion flower stick master of the first Cantonese Got Talent in 2012, and Pan Xiaorui, the champion of the 2015 Cantonese Got Talent in 2015. Cinema
Team 6: CinemaFive Immortals Showing the Softs 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 postures 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 Kowloon of Hong Kong Scouts performed traditional scout music for everyone. The team consisted of bagpipe team and drum team. With the deepening of cultural exchanges, more Bay Area teams gathered together to the Cantonese Temple Fair Dance. 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 martial arts routine performance brought by the Jianshe Liumalu Primary School Wushu Team shows multiple martial arts routines; Sweetheart Candy is a team of children’s artists, whose works include “The Dance of Stars” and so on. The “children” heart of the Bay Area, together drawing the “concentric circle” of the Bay Area’s cultural and tourism.
Team 8: Shawan Biao Color is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It has been passed down for hundreds of years and is known as “solidified drama, lively 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 culture enthusiasts from all over the country. The “heroes” from Guangzhou wore Tang silk armor, mainly made of silk and cloth, and were 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, and Song brocade bordersThe decoration, the Babaylan components are cleverly connected; there are even rare restorative armors in the team, the Song Dynasty black lacquered iron armor called “Iron Futu”, etc., which feast the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Racing Departure
The villagers of Yangji put on uniform team 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 the traditional water dragon boat race 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 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, exquisite, magnificent, solemn and luxurious, and full of auspicious words brings the newlyweds a “Cantonese Wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds with a unique wedding rap form, allowing everyone present to feel the characteristics and charm of the 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 exhibition”, and Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine and tradition were invited. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanIntangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors such as food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional skills, and conduct intangible cultural heritage displays and cultural and creative exhibitions, so that the traditional art can be revitalized.
The food area sets up a food booth in the Food Flower Street of Huifu East Road, based on Cantonese flavor, showing the YueKomiks show off his fireworks. The market will open from 15:00 to 22:00 on February 24, and from 10:00 to 22:00 every day from February 25 to March 3. More than 20 food brands will be selected and more than 100 exhibitors will be exhibited. Introduce oyster food from the “Hundred and Thousand Projects” industrial base of the Zhanjiang River, the construction results, cultural display and special food experience of the Guangdong Province Cantonese Cuisine Project – Maoming Gaoliang Cuisine, bringing Hakka, Chaoshan and famous snacks and food brands 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 Beijing Road Yuechao Building continues to hold a series of activities on the theme of “2024 Laughing New Year” in the Lantern Festival, carrying out a series of surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Core Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery; Xindaxin brings “Dragon Teng and Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibition and photo-check-in-check evaluation and gifts on floor attractions; Beijing Road Tianhe City organizes the theme activities of “Flowers Blooming Guangdong and Enjoy New Year”, which not only has flashing “Flowers Blooming Dance Drama Performance” and “Flowers Blooming National Style Band Performance”, but also “Flowers Blossom Hand Workshop” to take everyone to “make the Lantern Festival with clever hands”; Guangbai and the Nanyue Wang Museum jointly launched the IP “Red Yun Lion Tailong” to hold the “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice ball production activity, Guangbai Supermarket Products 8.5-Komiks 10% off, linking 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 spending with designated bank credit cards.
It is worth mentioning that in order to echo the theme of the Dragon Year Temple Fair, the organizer made a special trip to invite a dragon boat from Siyou Village the day before the opening, and it 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, and mainly looked at the dragon boat scenery on the right side of the temple. Because the temple is closest to Guangzhou, the south of the village is the front facing the sun, and the tide is to the south of the village. The dragon boat is 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 the dragon boat to take advantage of the scenery, go to visit brothers and Laobiao Village after taking advantage of the scenery. After taking 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 area. The dragon boats in Siyou Village flash on Beijing Road, showing not only the dragon boats, but also the spirit of hard work and the hometown feelings carried by traditional culture.
Yuexiu District has a wide range of cultureYang Weiguo, Director of the Electronic 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 Cantonese, highlights the thousand-year-old Yuexiu 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” business card, builds a “small scene” of the integration and symbiosis of humanities and economy, and creates a “big exhibition hall” of Cantonese culture.