Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Li Chunwei Correspondent Zhan Pingping
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From the Nanyue Guards lined up 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 on that day also included the Wuyang Fairy Dance, the Suxin Beauty, and the Five Horses Tour of the City of the Fengkai, Zhaoqing. Citizens and tourists participated in a grand cultural carnival. In the next seven days, the entire Yuexiu District will also hold a series of activities in the temple fairs 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 parade teams brought Nanyue’s heroic spirit, intangible cultural heritage, golden armor and heroic light, Cantonese wedding customs and other special displays, conveying the strong Cantonese New Year atmosphere. This year’s Cantonese Temple Fair focuses on the successors of the dragon, Babaylan, and the Bay Area, jointly 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”. Five ImmortalsHanfu volunteers walked into the audience with rice ears and gave the rice ears that were showing good luck to citizens and tourists, meaning 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 frankincense flowers floated across the ocean and landed in Guangzhou. Qu Dajun’s “Guangdong New Language” says, “The flower market is located in the seven gates of Guangzhou. The only thing sold is the frankincense, and there is no difference in flowers.”
The martial arts performance of the children of Jianshe Liumalu Primary School “Chinese Boys” is like flowing, and it is full of wind, showing the high spirits and progress of young people. “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 are in similar regions and have a blind date in cultural context. The singers Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Wei-chan played the finale, singing “The Successor of the Dragon” together. The magnificent song of Cinema conveys the national pride and pride of both Chinese people.
Folk customs 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, and the Thousand-year-old ancient road folk paradeKomiks, a total of 12 parade teams exceeding 300. The team stretched from the middle section of Beijing Road to the copper pot and turned to West Lake Road. It was a huge and lively and lively.
Team 1: The heroic spirit of Nanyue is unstoppable
The head of the Nanyue Xiongfeng team held a long sword in his hand, waving in the middle of the team, while the soldiers held swords and cloud-patterned shields in his 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 King Restoration Breastplate of the Nanyue King Museum and the Yangjiawan Terracotta Warriors in Xianyang MuseumCinemaCinema, which was produced through archaeological research and artistic processing. Team 2: Dragon and lions make auspiciousness in spring.
The dragon and lion dance team are dancing with two dragons and four lions. Babaylan. The lion is auspicious spirit, symbolizing 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 danced by more than 10 team members. The performance style includes “turning the river and turning the river. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaHaiCinema“, “Flying Dragons in the Sky”, “Dragons Traveling in the World”, “Dragons Flying Phoenix Dance”, “Dragons Dance Nine Skyscrapers”, etc., show the positive, united and collaborative appearance of young people and the beautiful vision of inheriting Chinese culture.
Team 3: Intangible Cultural Heritage Colors Continuously
Zhaoqing Intangible Cultural Heritage Dance “Five Horses Tour” is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project, originated in the Song Dynasty. At the end, it was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and spread in the border areas of Guangdong-Guangzhou 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. The lanterns are not only for praying for blessings, but also for gathering neighbors and enhancing 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 to show CantoneseCinemaThe characteristics and exchanges between culture and Hakka culture.
Team 4: Yaotai flag reappears the “jianghu”
Yaotai Village has a history of nearly a hundred years and has made a stunning appearance. Villagers from Yaotai Village, Shayongnan Village, and Wangshengtang Village, beat the eight-tone gong, carry the flag, and pick up the umbrella in the parade. This is the villagers spontaneously retaining this wish.Folk activities with good weather and peace and prosperity express their yearning and pursuit of a happy life.
Team 5: Cantonese masters have unique skills
In the Cantonese masters team, folk skills such as walking stilts, roosters, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows take turns to show 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 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 lineup of 30 people from each industry of Shengdan and Jingchou in Guangdong Opera Theater, performing long silk dances, drilling circles and other Cantonese opera figures 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 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 Komiks shows multiple martial arts routines; Sweetheart Candy is a team of children’s artists, whose works include “Starlight’s Dance”. 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, 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
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, which was gorgeous and light. In ancient times, it was mostly used by senior officers and imperial guards; the “Komiks” from Shenzhen wore Song and Ming style dragon scale-like split armor, with armor sheets as the surface, decorated with Song brocade edges, and each component was cleverly connected; there were even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor called “Tiefutu”, which feasted the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Race Departure
The villagers of Yangji put on uniform 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, 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, graceful, exquisite, extraordinary, solemn and luxurious. The Cantonese women, who speak auspiciously, bring a unique wedding rap form to the newlyweds a “Cantonese wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds, 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 Exhibition”, and inviting Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional skills and other intangible cultural heritage projectsKomiks art. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks Project and inheritors conduct intangible cultural heritage displays and cultural and creative exhibitions to revitalize traditional art.
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. February 24 15:0From 0-22:00 to March 3, the market will open from 10:00 to 22:00 every day from February 25 to March 3. More than 20 food brands are selected and more than 100 exhibitors are exhibited for 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” and the delivery of catering coupons; the new big and new brings “Dragon Teng Flower BlossomsKomiks—— Show something” outdoor exhibition Komiks and floor attractions to take photos, check in and receive gifts; Beijing Road Tianhe City organizes “FlowersBabaylan to open Guangdong The theme event of “Enjoy the New Year” not only includes exciting performances such as “Flowering Years Dance Drama Performance” 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 Lucky Lion” and held the “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice dumpling production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 15% off to 10% off, and they are 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. They 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 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 taking advantage of the scenery. 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.
BabaylanYang Weiguo, director of the Yuexiu District Culture, Radio, Film, Tourism and Sports Bureau, introduced that as the finale of the “Guangfu Taste, 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, 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.