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 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 grand style of Nanyue, intangible cultural heritage, golden armor and heroic spirit, and the customs of Cantonese weddings, and conveyed a 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”.
Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe opening performance kicked off with the Guangdong rhyme of “Guangdong Rhymes·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”. Frangipani scattered in the ocean two thousand years agoAfter landing in Guangzhou through the sea, Qu Dajun said in “Guangdong New Language” Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw “The flower market is located in seven gates in Guangzhou, and the ones sold are only fragrant and fragrant, and there is no other flower.”
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 provincial intangible cultural heritage representative from Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City was specially invited to the “Five Horses Tour” project “Five Horses Tour” to showcase the ancient Lingnan characteristic folk dance. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have similar geographical areas and blind dates. The singers Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Wei-chan performed the finale and sang “The Successor of the Dragon Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw” together. The magnificent song conveys the national pride and pride of both the children of China.
Folk custom parade is spectacular. Beijing Road transforms into a large exhibition hall for folk culture
After the opening ceremony, GuangThe folk customs parade of the temple fair was grandly opened on Beijing Road. The thousand-year-old ancient road folk customs parade was 12 parade teams with 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, with a huge momentum and lively momentum.
Team 1: The majestic wind of Nanyue is unstoppable
The head of Nanyue Xiongfeng team holds a long sword in his hand, waving in the middle of the team, while the soldiers hold swords and cloud-patterned shields in their hands, showing them in a variety of formations, 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 fun
The dragon and lions dance together with two dragons and four lions dancers form the dragon and lions dance. Lions are auspicious spirits, symbolizing auspiciousness, and lion dances embrace people’s good intentions to eliminate disasters and harm and seek good fortune. Babaylan 1990 clothes draw. The two dragons are each long and are 18 meters long. They 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 circulated 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 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 Five: In the Cantonese Masters, folk skills such as walking on stilts, chickens and olives, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows are successively on the Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawBabaylan 1990 clothes draw team, showing the style of the 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 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 to Yangcheng
The Southern Red Bean Team is a team of 30 people from each industry of Shengdan and Jingchou in Guangdong Opera Theater. Babaylan 1990 clothes draw for the masses, performing long silk dances, drill circles, stick flowers and other Cantonese opera figures. The five immortals hold rice ears in their hands, falling from the Qiong Pavilion in Xianshan, descending to Yangcheng to present the people of the ears, and bringing the five gods of wealth to send blessings to the general public, and the Komiks 1960 witch clothes draw wishes for peace and prosperity, good harvests, and a lot of wealth. 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 pipa in hand, 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 has a unique color
ShaWanpiaose 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
Golden Armor Xiaguang team consists of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw22 traditional culture enthusiasts from all over the country. The “heroes” from Guangzhou wore Tang silk armor, mainly made of silk and cloth, which was 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-plated armor, decorated with Song brocade edges, and cleverly connected by various components; there are even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor called “Tiefutu”, which feasts the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Racing Departure
The villagers of Yangji put on uniform uniforms and imitated the movements of dragon boats, while marching Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw while shouting rhythmic slogans and bringing on-land dragon boat performances. Dragon boat racing has a history of thousands of years. The Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw boat tour is an activity that transforms traditional water dragon boat racing into a land form, demonstrating the spirit of unity and cooperation.
Team Twelve: Floral flowers and full moon, witness the romantic witness of the Cantonese Temple Fair, witness the power of love Babaylan 1990 cloth draw! Ten years ago, 10 pairs of Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawnewcomers took a classic car 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 to have three lives, holding the son’s hands together with a white hair, the wedding dress used in traditional wedding customs in Cantonese is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, extraordinary, solemn and luxurious, and full of auspicious words. The Cantonese lady who speaks a unique wedding rap form,A “Cantonese wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds, allowing everyone present to feel the characteristics and charm of the traditional wedding customs of Cantonese.
Intangible Cultural Heritage Chaoxu Food Awards, which are delicious, fun, shopping and making money. During the temple fair, three non-intangible cultural heritage sites were set up in Zhongyou Square, intangible cultural heritage sites, and Beijing Road. The drawhealth area holds Chaoxu activities in the form of “intangible cultural heritage market + Chaolong check-in + intangible cultural heritage exhibition”, inviting intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors such as Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional skills, etc. to conduct intangible cultural heritage displays and cultural and creative exhibitions, so that 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 Yuexiu fireworks. From February 24th to 22:00, 2Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Opened from February 25th to March 3rd every day, and selected more than 20 food brands and more than 100 exhibitors to participate in the exhibition. The oyster food from the “Hundred and Tens of Million Project” industrial base in Zhanjiang, the construction results, cultural display and special food experience of the Guangdong Cantonese Cuisine Project – Maoming Gaoliang Cuisine, 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 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 the immersive experience of “Dream Core Garden Party”, catering excellence and other surprise activities; the new big new brings “Dragon and Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibition and floor attractions taking photos and check-in and receiving gifts; the Beijing Road Tianhe City organized the theme activities of “Flowers Blooming and Enjoying New Year”, which not only included exciting performances such as flashing “Flowers Blooming and Enjoying New Year’s Day” and “Flowers Blooming and National Style Band Performance”, but also “Flowers Blooming New Year Hand Workshop” to take everyone to “make the Lantern Festival with clever hands”; Guangbai and the Nanyue Wang MuseumThe name launched the IP “Red Yun Lion Tailong” and held a “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade dumpling production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 25% off to 10% off. It is 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 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 standard dragon of 22 people, 18.Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw4 meters and weighs 305 kg. “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 the temple is closest to Guangzhou, the front is in the south of the village, 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 boats to take advantage of the scenery, go to visit brothers and Laobiao Village after the scenery. After the dragon boats every year, each village will also organize dragon boat meals to talk about the hometown feelings.” The dragon boat movement is LingnanCinema 1950 witch clothes The main event of water sports in the draw area, the dragon boat in Siyou Village flashes on Beijing Road, showing not only the dragon boat, but also the spirit of hard work 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” business card, builds a “small scene” of the integration and symbiosis of humanities and economy, and creates a “big exhibition hall” of Cantonese culture.