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. Babaylan A reporter from Yangcheng Evening News learned from Yuexiu District that about 30,000 visitors were watching 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 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 Komiks and Hanfu volunteers walked into the audience with rice ears and gave the rice ears that represent auspiciousness to citizens and tourists, meaning to send new spring blessings.
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. “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 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 customsKomiksThe parade is spectacular. Beijing Road becomes a large exhibition hall for folk culture
After the opening ceremony, the Cantonese Temple Fair folk parade was grandly opened on Beijing Road, a thousand-year-old ancient road folk parade, a total of 12 parades<a The team has more than 300 people, and the team stretches from the middle section of Beijing Road to the copper pot drip to West Lake Road, with a huge and lively momentum.
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 shape of the South Vietnam Guard more than 2,000 years ago./”>CinemaElephant and heroic spirit. The costumes and weapons of the Nanyue King’s Restored Breastplate in the Nanyue King Museum and the Yangjiawan Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Xianyang Museum were made through archaeological research and artistic processing. Team 2: Dragon and lions make auspiciousness in spring
The Southern Lion Dance Team danced two dragons and four lions to form the Dragon and Lion Dance Team. The lion is auspicious spirit, symbolizing auspiciousness. The lion dances embodies 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/”>Babaylan dances, and the performances include “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 color inheritance
Zhaoqing 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. From Longyan City, Fujian Province Liancheng County’s national intangible cultural heritage project “Zixi Lantern”, originated from Suzhou during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It has been passed down from generation to generation by the miracle of “paper-wrapped fire” for generations. 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 8-tone gong and drum, carry the umbrella, and ride the umbrella. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks advances 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 stilts, chickens, olives, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows take turns to show the style of Cantonese masters. The Cantonese masters show is the Cantonese Temple Fair One of the highlights of the Cantonese Grassroots Talents is to build the most grassroots talent show platform in Guangzhou, and it is a stage for Cantonese experts to realize their dreams, show their charm and gain happiness. Those who participated in this parade include Zhu Xianfeng, the champion of the first Cantonese Talents Show in 2012, and Pan Xiaorui, the champion of the acrobatics in Guangzhou, etc. Team 6: Five Immortals offer blessings to Yangcheng
The Southern Red Bean Team is a lineup of 30 people from each industry of Shengdan and Jingchou in Guangdong Opera Theater, performing long silk for the masses. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan Cantonese opera figures such as dance, drilling circle, stick flower. Five immortals hold rice ears in their hands, fall from Xianshan Qiong Pavilion and descend on the earth to Yangcheng to present the people of Yangcheng, and bring the five gods of wealth to the crowd. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe blessings of the people are symbolizing peace and prosperity, good harvests and wealth. It is not only a inheritance of Chinese traditional culture, but also a trace and dissemination of the intangible cultural heritage project “The Legend of Five Sheep”.
Team 7: The Bay Area Child Intentions are vigorous
The Bay Area Child Intentions are composed of the Hong Kong Scouts and the Yuexiu District Middle School Pipa Folk Band. The elementary 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 bagpipe team and drum team. With the deepening of cultural exchanges, more Bay Area teams gathered in the Cantonese Temple Fair stage. The middle school Pipa folk band consisted of students from Guangzhou No. 3 Middle School and No. 17 Middle School, wearing traditional costumes and holding pipas, playing the “Happy Festival”. The martial arts routine performance brought by the Liumalu Primary School Wushu Team Cinema displays multiple martial arts routines; Sweetheart Candy is a team of children’s artists, whose works include “Starlight’s Dance”, etc. The “children” heart of the Bay Area, together paints the “concentric circle” of cultural tourism in the Bay Area.
Team 8: Shawan Blossom Color is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It has been passed down for hundreds of years and has “solidified drama, active sculpture”Cinema reputation. Children aged 2-6 years old dressed up as dramatic characters in fixed positions on the wooden cabinet stage, bringing a distinctive traditional folk art performance.
Team Nine: Nichang brocade and beautiful style
Nichang brocade and beautiful team consist 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 Nine: The golden armor and heroic figure are valiant.
Team Ten: The golden armor and heroic spirit
>The Golden Armor Xiaguang Team consists of 22 traditional cultural enthusiasts from all over the country. The “Heroes of the Heroes” from Guangzhou wear Tang silk armor, mainly made of silk and cloth, which is gorgeous and light. In ancient times, it was mostly used by senior officers and imperial guards; the “Mulan” from Shenzhen wears split armor imitated with Song and Ming style dragon scales, with armored pieces made of armor, decorated with Song brocade edges, and the components are cleverly connected; there are even rare restorative armors in the team, and the Song Dynasty black painted iron armor called “Tiefutu”, which feasts the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Race Departure
The villagers of Yangji wear uniform uniforms, imitate the movements of dragon boat racing, and while walking Babaylan shouted rhythm slogans and brought the performance of the onshore dragon boat. The dragon boat race has a history of thousands of years. The onshore dragon boat team parades is a way to transform the traditional water dragon boat competition. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema turned into a land-based event to show the spirit of unity and cooperation.
Team Twelve: Romantic witness of the Cantonese Temple Fair, witness the power of love! Ten years ago, 10 couples took a classic car to visit the temple fair. Ten years later, the “Flower and Full Moon” Cantonese traditional wedding customs formation consisted of 5 couples, grandma and 4 newly decorated floats. The phoenix crown and red robe were set to set three lives, holding the son’s hand to share the same white hair, the wedding dress used in traditional wedding customs in Cantonese is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, magnificent, solemn and luxurious, and full of auspicious words brings happiness and joy to the newlyweds in a unique wedding rap formBabaylan‘s “Cantonese Wedding” allows everyone present to feel the characteristics and charm of Cantonese traditional 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 block and Beijing Road. In the form of “Intangible Cultural Heritage Market + Chaolong Check-in + Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition”, Komiks held a Chaoxu event, and invited Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional skills and other intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors to display intangible cultural heritage and cultural and creative exhibitions, so that traditional art can be revitalized.
The food area sets up a food booth in Huifu East Road Food Flower Street, based on Cantonese flavor, showing the fireworks of YuexiuCinema. 15:00-22:00 from February 24, open from February 25 to March 3 every day, with more than 20 food brands selected and more than 100 exhibited varieties for exhibition. The oyster food from the “Hundred and Thousand Projects” industrial base in Zhanjiang was introduced, and 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 that citizens and tourists love. Citizens and tourists have the opportunity to taste “Fanhua” Bao Zong.The same style as “dry fried beef river”.
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 immersive experience of “Dream Hunting Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery and other surprise activities; the new big and new brings “Dragon Teng Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibitions and floor attractions taking photos and check-in and receiving gifts; Beijing Road Tianhe City organized “Flowers Blooming in Guangdong” The theme event of “Enjoy the New Year” not only includes exciting performances such as “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 a “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice ball production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 15%-10% off, and it is linked to multiple banks’ Komiks payment platforms to carry out promotional activities. Users can receive special discount coupons on UnionPay Cloud Flash Payment App, and enjoy full discount discounts on the purchase of 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 who looked at dragon boats mainly looked at the dragon boat scenery on the right side of the temple. Because the temple is closest to Guangzhou, the front is flat 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 a dragon boat activity every Dragon Boat Festival. Go to the Dragon Boat first to take advantage of the scenery. After taking advantage of the scenery, go to visit brothers and Laobiao Village. After taking the dragon boat every year, each village will also organize a dragon boat meal 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 the dragon boats, but also the spirit of hard work and the hometown feelings carried by traditional culture.
Yuexiu District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports BureauCinemaDirector Babaylan Yang Weiguo 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.