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 Greater Bay Area culture is integrated into 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 the Chu court. 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 Suxin” shows the elegance, nobility, kindness and flexibility of “SuKomiksFunny Beauty”. Frangipani scattered in the ocean two thousand years agoAfter landing in Guangzhou through the sea, Qu Dajun said in “Komiks Guangdong New Language” that “the flower market is located in seven gates in Guangzhou, and the only things sold are only simplicity, no other flowers.”
Craft LiumaluBabaylanThe martial arts performance of primary school children “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 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 power of Nanyue is unstoppable
The head of Nanyue Xiongfeng team holds a long sword in his hand and waves in the middle of the team. The soldier Cinema holds swords and cloud-patterned shields in his hand, 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 Southern Lion Dance Youth Lion Dance Team dances with two dragons and four lions. Babaylan Dance Team form the Dragon and Lion Dance Team. 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. It was popular 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. 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 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 again appeared in “Jianghu” and Yaotai Village, which has a history of nearly a hundred years, made a stunning appearance. Villagers from Yaotai Village, Yongnan Village, Sand and Wangshengtang Village beat the eight-tone gong drums, carry the flags, and pick up the umbrellas 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 walking on stilts, roosters, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows are taking turns to showcase 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 include 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 in 2015.. Team 6: Five Immortals’ OfferingCinemaSui Qibiao 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 postures 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 Team is vigorous and arduous
The Bay Area Childhood Team is composed of the Hong Kong Scout Infantry Team Babaylan and 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 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 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.
TeamBabaylan10: The Golden Armored Xiaguang is heroic
The Golden Armored 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-plated armor, decorated with Song brocade edges, and cleverly connected by various parts; there are even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor called “Tiefutu”, which feasts the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Race Departure
The villagers of Yangji put on uniform team uniforms, imitated the movements of dragon boat racing, 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 pairs of Babaylan, the grandma and four 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 block, and Beijing Road, respectively, with “intangible cultural heritage.” In the form of “Komiks Market + Chaolong Check-in + Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition”, Chaoxu activities were held, and inviting Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional crafts and other intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors to carry out intangible cultural heritage displays and cultural and creative exhibitions, so that traditional art can be revitalized.
The food area sets up a food booth in the Food Flower Street of Huifu East Road. Komiks, based on Cantonese flavor, showing the fireworks of Yuexiu. The market will open from 15:00 to 22:00 on February 24, and from 10:00 to 22:00 every day from February 25 to March 3. More than 20 food brands will be selected and more than 100 exhibitors will be exhibited. Introduce oyster food from Zhanjiang’s “Hundred and Thousand Projects” industrial base, Guangdong Province Cantonese 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”.
In addition, during the temple fair, major business districts in the district carried out a series of themed consumption promotion activities. The Yuechao Building of Beijing Road continues to hold a series of activities on the theme of “2024 Laughtering New Year” in Lantern Festival, and carry out surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Core 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 and Enjoying New Year”, which not only has exciting performances such as flashing “Flowers Blooming and Enjoying New Year” and “Flowers Blooming and National Style Band Performance”, but also href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema has a “Flower New Year Hand Workshop” to take everyone to “play the Lantern Festival with clever hands”; Guangbai and the Wang Museum of Nanyue jointly launched the IP “Red Lucky Lion” and held a “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice ball production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 15% 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 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, 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. Babaylan has dragon boat activities. 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. Every year after taking the dragon boat, each village will also organize a dragon boat meal to talk about the hometown feelings.” Dragon boat sports are the main event of water sports in the southern part of the ridge. The dragon boat flashes on the Beijing Road in Siyou Village, showing not only the dragon boat, but also the spirit of hard work and the hometown feelings carried by traditional culture.
BabaylanYang Weiguo, director of the Yuexiu District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, introduced that as the finale of the “Guangfu Taste and Happy Year” Cantonese cultural activities, the Cantonese Temple Fair was published.Inheriting the Cinema lineage of Lingnan, the Cinema lineage of Yuexiu, integrating culture, tourism, sports, commerce and food elements, continuously polishing the business card of Yuexiu’s “Guangfu cultural source and the core of the thousand-year-old business capital”, building a “small scene” of symbiosis with humanities and economy, and creating a “big exhibition hall” of Cantonese culture.