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
The songs of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are singing 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 BabaylanGuangfu Temple Fair focuses on the successors of the dragon and the Bay Area to jointly enhance the Cantonese New Year culture and create the “Cantonese Twelve Years of the Cantonese”. The opening performance kicked off with the sound of “Guangdong Romance and Beauty·Five Sheep Fairy Dance”Komiks. The Five Sheeps hold the valley, gathered in Chuting. Because of the beautiful Five Sheep Legend, Guangzhou has become known as “Yangcheng” and “Suicheng”. Five Immortals and HanThe volunteers of the service walked into the audience with the ears of rice and gave the ears of rice 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”. 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 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 story of Guangzhou that Komiks listens. The site specially invited the representative provincial intangible cultural heritage project “Five Horses Tour” in Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City, to showcase the ancient Lingnan-style 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 customs parade is spectacular. Beijing Road transforms into a large exhibition hall for folk culture
After the opening ceremony, the Cantonese Temple Fair folk parade was grandly opened on Beijing Road. The thousand-year-old ancient road folk parade had a total of 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 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, wielding 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, reappearingThe 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 team are composed of two dragons and four lions dance teams. Lions are auspicious spiritual objects, symbolizing auspiciousness, and lion dances embrace people’s beautiful intention to eliminate disasters and harms and seek good fortune. The two dragons are 18 meters long and 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. Babaylan 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 5: Cantonese ExpertsBabaylanHave unique skills
In the Cantonese Experts Team, folk skills such as walking stilts, roosters, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows take turns to show 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 Guangzhou Got Movie Show in 2012, and Pan Xiaorui, the champion of the 2015 Guangzhou Got Movie Show in 2015.
Team 6: Five Immortals offer their ears to pray for blessings in Yangcheng
The Southern Red Bean Team is from the Guangdong Cantonese Opera TheaterThe lineup of 30 people in each industry in Shengdan and Jingchou shows the people’s performances of Cantonese opera such as long silk dance, drill circle, and stick flowers. The five immortals hold rice in their hands and fall from the Qiong Pavilion in Xianshan. They descend to Yangcheng to present the people of Yangcheng. They bring the five gods of wealth to send blessings to the general public, which means peace and prosperity, good harvests and 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 SheepKomiks“.
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 was composed of bagpipes and drum teams. As cultural exchanges deepened, more Bay Area teams gathered together to 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 primary school martial arts team of Jianshe Liuma Road shows multiple martial arts routines; Sweetheart Candy is a team of children’s artists, whose works include “The Dance of Starlight” 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.
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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 “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 cleverly connected with various components; there are even rare restorative armors in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor called “Tiefutu” to feast the eyes of Hanfu and armor enthusiasts.
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 land forms, 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, and hold the child’s hands to share the same old hair. The wedding dress used in traditional Cantonese wedding customs is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, solemn and luxurious. The Cantonese women, who speaks 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 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. February 24, 15:00-22:00, from February 25 to March 3, the market will open from 10:00-22:00 every day. More than 20 food brands are selected and more than 100 exhibitors are exhibited. Introduce oyster food from the “Hundred and Thousand Projects” industrial base in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province’s Guangdong cuisine chef project – Maoming Gaoliang Cuisine Construction Results, cultural display and special food experience, 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” Bao Zong.
In addition, during the temple fair Babaylan, 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 a series of surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Core Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery; Xindaxin brings “Dragon and Flower Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibitions and photos and check-in evaluation and receive gifts on floor attractions; Beijing Road Tianhe City organizes the theme activities of “Flowers Blooming Guangdong and Enjoy New Year”, which not only has exciting performances such as flashing “Flowers Blooming Dance Drama Performance” and “Flowers Blooming 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 Wang Bo from Nanyue href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanThe Academy of Physical Education jointly launched the IP “Red Yun Lion Tailong” and held a “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice ball production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 25% off to 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 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 22-person standard dragon, 18.4 meters long and weighs 305 kilograms. “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 Babaylan is closest to Guangzhou, and the south of the village is the front facing the roof. The tide is to the south of the village. The dragon boat fighting 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 rowing dragon boats 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, and the exhibitionIt shows 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.