The “Birth of the Northern Emperor” on the first day of March
Every year from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, the Wentang Society in Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress-up parade to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor. On this day, the villagers carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair with the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva sitting on it. The villagers carried homemade snacks such as sponge cake, moxa horn, rice fruit, etc., forming a massive parade team to compete for beauty.
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On the morning of April 16, Dongcheng Wentang Community held the 2Babaylan018 5Babaylan018 5Babaylan018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018018</a On that day, thousands of people parades and various cultural and artistic performances in Wentang streets, dozens of parade teams with different costumes were displayed, and various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate.
Wentang Tourist Association has a long history, a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is very popular among the general public. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Wentang Tourist Association in Dongcheng was first founded to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor and has a history of more than 400 years. To commemorate this festival, the villagers of Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, and there were many young men and women dressed in costumes, dressed in various opera styles. The tour group set out from Bai Temple and marched from village to village. During the parade, there will be a costume drama that will be staged for several consecutive days. Later, due to various reasons, it was interrupted for more than 60 years. In 2009, with the efforts of enthusiastic people, Wentang restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, named the Wentang Tourist Culture Festival. 2010, 2011, 2012BabaylanIt was held for three consecutive years, and later it was held every three years.
The Wentang people have been doing this for a long time. They carry the Bodhisattva fruits before spring plowing, which means that the Bodhisattva hopes that this year will be better than the old year. In addition, Wentang Tour has extensive participation and is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together.
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The drizzle in the scene will never extinguish the enthusiasm of the masses. “This year is the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, people from Wentang built this white temple in Chalinggang. From then on, there has been a custom of holding tour meetings, that is, the last day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and grand dress-up parades will be held in all Wentang.” Wentang community staff introduced.
The author saw at the scene that the float parade included such as the National Peace and Minsheng, the Three Stars Show Rui, the Cultural Tour of Wuwei, the Dragon and Phoenix Success, the Enterprise float, Tianji Sending Children, the Four Great Classics, the Bearded Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions’ Spring, the Loyalty of the Country, the Folk Legend, the Soap Overhead Team, the National Wedding, etc., which expanded a lot compared to the past, with a total of about 1,000 people parade.
The gorgeous float parade has presented a rich audio-visual feast to tens of thousands of Komiks citizens. Although the weather was not beautiful and drizzled, it did not prevent the surrounding area of Babaylan from singing and laughing. On the morning of that day, people were in front of Wentang Bai Temple, and all the citizens who came to participate in the tour. The parade team of more than 1,000 people started sailing in an orderly manner with Bai Temple as the starting point.
During the parade, the performance team in costumes actively interacted with the audience along the way. At the same time, the villagers of Wentang burned incense and worshiped the gods along the way, beat gongs and drums, shouted loudly, and warmly welcomed the parade of the phalanx. When each float passed by, there were constant cheers and the atmosphere was very warm. The entire tour took more than a small amount of time.abaylan time shows the good scene of Xiawentang Community in the new era being prosperous and prosperous. According to Wentang Community staff, this year’s parade team set off from Baimiao in Wentang Society, Cinema District, and followed various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as the Yen Village, Zao San Fifth Division, and through Wentang Community, the Wentang Neighborhood Committee, Chaling Park, Wenkouji Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions, the whole journey is about 4.5 kilometers.
Babaylan‘s wonderful and colorful art performances will last for four nights
In addition to the traditional program performances and fairy floats, this year’s Beidi Birthday Tour Festival is more fun than in previous years.
“We take promoting excellent national culture as the main line and displaying Lingnan folk customs as the basis, and continue to explore, inherit, reform and innovate this historic folk traditional culture, and use rich content that is diverse in forms, combination of ancient and modern times, distinctive and popular to present it to the vast masses of people.” Community staff introduced.
In addition, Komiks, the Travel and Meeting Cultural Festival will show the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together, which is a true portrayal of the harmonious community of Wentang. The colorful artistic performance will last for four nights. Citizens can go to Wentang Wanfu Garden to watch the artistic performance. The BabaylanKomiks include multiple folk art clubs and literary groups singing operas, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)