Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Li Chunwei Correspondent Zhan Pingping Photo/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Liu Chang From the Nanyue Guards to the ancestral halls of various villages, from the South Country to the American Babaylan Food. On the morning of February 24, the 2024 Guangzhou 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
Singers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao sing the voice of Cantonese. The twelve parades brought the grand style of Nanyue, intangible cultural heritage, golden armor and heroic spirit, Cantonese wedding customs and other characteristics, 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 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”. Two thousand years agoThe sweet flowers float across the ocean and land in Guangzhou. Qu Dajun’s “Guangdong New Language” says, “The flower market is located in the seven gates of Babaylan. The ones sold are only fragrant and there is no other flower.”
KomiksThe martial arts performance of the children of Malu 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 bright morning glow of the kapok flowers show that Guangzhou City is prosperous and vibrant, and Komiks carries 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 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 bronze pot. It was dripping and turned to West Lake Road, with a huge and lively momentum.
Team 1: The power of Nanyue is unstoppable
The head of Nanyue Xiongfeng team holds a long sword in his hand, and is in the team CinemaWu Central waving, while soldiers held swords and curly cloud-patterned shields in their hands, displaying them in multiple formations, recreating the mighty image and heroic spirit of the South Vietnam Guard more than 2,000 years ago. The costumes and weapons of the South Vietnam King’s Restored Breastplate at the South Yue King Museum and the Yangjiawan Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Xianyang Museum were archaeological research and artistic processing.
Team 2: Dragon and lions make auspiciousness in spring
The teenage lions danced in the South Kingdom, and formed the Dragon and Lion Spring Team. The lion is auspicious spirit, symbolizing auspiciousness, and the lion dances embodies people’s good intentions to eliminate disasters and harms and seek good fortune. Two Komiks Each dragon is 18 meters long and is 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”, “dragons dancing in the sky”, etc., showing the positive and united and cooperative aspects of young people.
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Team 3: Intangible cultural heritage color inheritance continues
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Team 4: Yaotai flag reappears the “jianghu”
Yaotai Village has a history of nearly a hundred years. Villagers from Yaotai Village, Shayongnan Village, and Wangshengtang Village beat the eight-tone gong, carry the flag, and play the umbrella in the parade. This is a folk activity that villagers spontaneously retains this wish for good weather and peace of the country, expressing their yearning and pursuit of a happy life.
Team 5: Cantonese experts are in a vainCinemaSkills
In the Cantonese Expert Team, folk skills such as walking on stilts, chickens and olives, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows are taking turns to take turns to walk on stilts, playing with chickens, and playing with flower sticks.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 were Zhu Xianfeng, the champion of the first Cantonese Got Talent Show in 2012, and Pan Xiaorui, the champion of the acrobatics in 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 each industry of Shengdan and Jingchou in Guangdong Opera Theater, performing Cantonese opera figures such as long silk dance, drill circle, 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 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 Kowloon Kowloon performed 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 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 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 Jinxiu is composed of Guanghan Comrades wearing traditional Han nationality costumes. 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. “Women from GuangzhouKoMiks Heroes Wear Tang silk armor, mainly made of silk and cloth, is gorgeous and light. In ancient times, it was mostly used by senior officers and imperial guards. “Mulan” from Shenzhen was wearing Song and Ming style dragon scale-like split armor, with armor sheets made of armor, decorated with Song brocade edges, and the components were cleverly connected. There were even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black painted iron armor, called “Tiefutu”, which feasted the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers. Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Race Departure
Yangji villagers wore uniform uniforms, imitating the movements of dragon boat paddles, shouting while walking. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan rhythm slogan brings the performance of the onshore dragon boat. Dragon boat racing has a history of thousands of years. The onshore dragon boat tour is an activity that transforms traditional water dragon boat competitions into land forms, demonstrating the spirit of unity and cooperation.
Team 12: A romantic witness to the Cantonese Temple Fair, witnessing the power of love! Ten years ago, 10 new couples took classic cars to visit the temple fair. 10 After the New Year, the “Full Flowers and Moon” traditional wedding customs formation of 5 couples, grandmaids and 4 newly decorated floats together. The phoenix crown and red robe are set to make three lives, and the hands of the son are holding white hair. The wedding dress used in traditional wedding customs in Cantonese is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, extraordinary, solemn and luxurious. The Cantonese Grandmaid, who speaks auspicious words, brings the newlyweds a “Cantonese wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds with a unique wedding rap form, allowing everyone present to feel the characteristics and charm of traditional wedding customs in Cantonese.
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 inviting intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors such as Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), and traditional skills to conduct intangible cultural heritage displays and cultural and creative exhibitions. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema revitalizes 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 spirit of Yuexiu. February 24th 15:00-22:00, February 25th to March Komiks opens the market every day at 10:00-22:00 on the 3rd, with more than 20 selected products.Food brand, more than 100 exhibitors are exhibited. 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 surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Nuclear Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery; Xindaxin brings “Dragon Teng Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibitions and floor attractions taking photos and check-in and receiving gifts; Beijing Road Tianhe City organizes the theme activities of “Flowers Blooming Guangdong See You Happy 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 YearBabaylanHand Workshop” takes everyone to “play the Lantern Festival with clever hands”; Guangbai and the Wang Museum of Nanyue Museum 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 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 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 3Komiks International Standard Dragon. “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 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 first, go to the scenery. After the scenery, Babaylan will visit brothers and Laobiao Village. After rowing dragon boats every year, each village will also organize dragon boat meals to talk about the hometown feelings.” Dragon boat sports is the main event of water sports in Lingnan. The dragon boats in Siyou Village flash to the northKomiks Jing RoadCinema dragon boats flashed northKomiks Jing RoadKomiks Jing RoadCinema Dragon boats in Siyou Village flashed northKomiks Jing RoadBabaylan, 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.