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 Cinema in 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 Long Cinema and the Bay Area to jointly enhance the Cantonese New Year culture and create the “Twelve Cantonese New Year flavor”.
The openingBabaylan‘s exhibition kicked off with the sound of “Guangdong Rhymes·Five Sheep Fairy 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” that “the flower market is in the seven gates of Guangzhou, and the ones sold are only simplicity, 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. “In the long day 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 Cantonese people.
The “Kapok Ballad” sung by Guangdong musician Huang Zhiyi tells the beautiful Guangzhou story. The provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project “Five Horses Tour” was specially invited to showcase the ancient Lingnan characteristic folk dance.
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have similar geographical areas and cultural contexts. The singers Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Weiyi from the three places have finale and sang “The Successor of the Dragon” together. The magnificent song conveys the national pride and pride of both Chinese people.
Folk custom parade is magnificentKomiksSpectacular Beijing Road Incarnated as 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, a total of 12 parade teams exceeded 300, and the team stretched from the middle section of Beijing Road. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan Go to the copper pot and turn to West Lake Road, which is huge and lively.
Team 1: The majestic wind of Nanyue team is unstoppable
The head of Nanyue 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 multiple formations, recreating the mighty image and heroic spirit of the South Vietnam Guard more than 2,000 years ago.v.com/”>Komiks. The costumes and weapons of the Nanyue King’s Restoration Breastplate at the Nanyue King Museum and the Yangjiawan Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the Cinema Museum of Xianyang. They were made through archaeological research and artistic processing. Team 2: Dragons and lions are making a good fortune in spring. The Nanyue King’s Restoration Breastplate at the Nanyue King Museum and the Nanyue King’s Terracotta Warriors and Horses are dancing with two dragons. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema and four lions wake up to form a dragon and lion spring team. The lion is auspicious spirit, and Komiks symbolizes auspiciousness. 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 composed of more than 10 team members. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks dances, and performs fancy styles including “turning the rivers and seas”, “flying dragons in the sky”, “dragons travel around the seas”, “dragons flying around the seas”, “dragons flying phoenixes dancing”, “dragons dancing nine skyscrapers”, etc., showing the positive and united and cooperative appearance of young people and the beautiful vision of inheriting Chinese culture.
Team 3: Intangible Cultural Heritage Colors inherited endlessly
Zhaoqing Intangible Cultural Heritage Dance “Five Horses Tour of the City” is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It originated in the late Song Dynasty, prevalent 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 during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and was introduced by Suzhou, 300Babaylan Over the years, the miracle of “paper-wrapped fire” has been passed down from generation to generation. The lanterns are not only for praying for blessings, but also to gather the spiritual bonds of neighbors to enhance the emotions between relatives and friends. The Cantonese Temple Fair uses intangible cultural heritage as a medium to carry out cultural, commercial and tourism linkages, showing the characteristics and exchanges between Cantonese culture and Hakka culture.
Team 4: Yaotai flag reappears 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 eight-tone gong and drum, carry the flag and beat the umbrella in the parade. This is the villagers’ ownKomiksFaidi retains this folk activity that wishes good weather and peace and prosperity, expressing its yearning and pursuit of a happy life.
Team 5: Cantonese masters have unique skills
In the Cantonese masters, folk skills such as stilts, chickens, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows are taking turns.The formation shows the style of Cantonese experts. 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 in Yangcheng
The Southern Red Bean Team is a lineup of 30 people from the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theater, Shengdan and Jingchou, and performs Cantonese opera figures such as long silk dance, drill circles, 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 is vigorous
The Bay Area Childhood 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 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 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 JinxiuBabaylan is composed of Guanghan Comrades wearing traditional Han nationality costumes. China is known as “Komiks”, “a country of etiquette” and “a 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 is composed of 22 traditional culture enthusiasts from all over the countrybecome. 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 sheets as the surface, decorated with Song brocade edges, and the various 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 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 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, 1Cinema0 pairs of newcomers 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 Babaylan‘s crown and robe are determined to have three lives, holding the hands of the son and sharing the same old head. The wedding dress used in traditional Cantonese wedding customs is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, extraordinary, solemn and luxurious. The Cantonese women, who speaks auspicious words, brings a “Cantonese wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds with their unique wedding rap form, 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 and inheritors, and intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors were invited to display and cultural and creative exhibitions and sales of intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors, so that traditional art would 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. 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 Zhanjiang’s “Hundred and Thousand Projects” industrial base, Guangdong Province Cantonese Cuisine Chef Project – The construction achievements, cultural display and special food experience of Maoming Gaoliang Cuisine, bringing Hakka, Chaoshan and Komiks, 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 to Babaylan, 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 surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Core Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery; Xindaxin brings “Dragon Teng Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibitions and floor attractions taking photos, check-in and receiving gifts; Beijing Road Tianhe City organizes “FlowersKomiks to open Guangdong and enjoy the New Year”<a The theme activities of Babaylan not only include flashing "Flowering Years Dance Show" and "Flowering National Style Band Performance", but also "Flowering New Year Hand Workshop" to take everyone to "play the Lantern Festival with their clever hands"; Guangbai and the Wang Museum of Nanyue jointly launched the IP "Red Yun Lion Tailong" and held the "Tangyuan Small Workshop" handmade soup production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 15%-10% off, and 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 consumption 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, mainly the dragon boat scenery on the right side of the temple. Because the temple is closest to Guangzhou, the south of the village is in front of 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. The dragon boats in Siyou Village flash on Beijing Road, showing not only dragon boats, but also the spirit of hard work and traditional culture.Cinemahome feelings.
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.