Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Babaylan Li Chunwei Correspondent Zhan Pingping
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From the Nanyue Guards to patrol the ancestral halls in various villages, from the South 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
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 Rhymes 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”. Frankincense two thousand years agoAfter traveling across the ocean to land in Guangzhou, Qu Dajun’s “Guangdong New Language” says, “The flower market is located in the seven gates of Guangzhou, and the ones sold are only fragrant and fragrant, 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 from Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City was specially invited to “Five Horses Tour” to showcase the ancient Lingnan folk dance.
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have similar geographical areas and blind dates. The singers from three places, Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Wei-chan, performed the finale and sang “The Successor of the Dragon” together. The magnificent song conveys the pride and pride of the nation that are 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: Nanyue’s magnificent spirit is notKomiks can be stopped
The head of Nanyue’s magnificent spirit 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 the position with multiple formations,The mighty image and heroic spirit of the South Vietnam Guard more than two thousand years ago are revealed. The costumes and soldiers of the Nanyue King of Wind Team are based on the Nanyue King Restoration Plate of the Nanyue King of Museum and the Yangjiawan soldiers and horses of the Xianyang Museum. They 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. The lion is auspicious spirit, symbolizing auspiciousness, and the lion dance embodies the 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 performances include “turning the rivers and seas”, “flying dragons in the sky”, “Dragons and phoenixes” and “Dragons and dancing in 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. It has inherited the miracle of “paper-wrapped fire” from generation to generation for three hundred years. In order to pray for blessings, Cinema is also a spiritual bond that unites neighbors and enhances 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 in Liancheng to demonstrate 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 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 came from 201Zhu Xianfeng, the champion of the first Cantonese Got Talent Show in 2 years, and Pan Xiaorui, the champion of the 2015 Cantonese Got Talent Show, etc.
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 masses, 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 “Komiks 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 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”, “Komiks”, and “Bright 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, and were 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, and SongThe Cinema is decorated with clever parts, and the components are cleverly connected; there are even rare restorative armors in the team, the Song Dynasty black lacquered iron armor called “Iron Futu”, etc., which feast the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Racing Departure
The villagers of Yangji put on uniform uniforms and imitated the movements of dragon boats. While walking, they shouted the slogans of rhythm, bringing on-land dragon boat performances. 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 child’s hands together with a white hair, the wedding dress used in traditional Cantonese wedding customs is gorgeous, graceful, exquisite, 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 the traditional Cantonese wedding customs.
Intangible Cultural Heritage Chaoxu Food Awards, delicious, fun, shopping and making money
During the temple fair, the href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan Set up three intangible cultural heritage areas 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”, it held Chaoxu activities, inviting Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), traditional crafts and other intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors to conduct 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 Cinema Food Flower Street on Huifu East Road, based on Cantonese flavor, showing the Yuexiu fireworks. February 24th 15:00-22:00, February 25th to March 3rd opens every day at 10:00-22:00, with more than 20 selected itemsFood brand, more than 100 exhibitors are exhibited. Introducing oyster food from the industrial base of “Babaylan”, Guangdong Province Cantonese Cuisine Project – Maoming Gaoliang Cuisine Construction, bringing Hakka, Chaoshan and famous snacks and food brands 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 a series of surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Nuclear Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery; Xindaxin brings “Dragon and Flower Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibition and photo-check-in-check-in-appreciation evaluation and gifts; 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 the Wang Museum of Nanyue jointly promote Cinema released the IP “Red Yun Lion Tailong” and held the “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice ball production event. Guangbai Supermarket products are 25% off to 10% off. 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 is closest to Guangzhou, the south of the village is the front facing the sun, 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 boat 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 dragon boat meals to talk about the hometown feelings.” Dragon boat sports are the main project of water sports in Lingnan area. The dragon boats in Siyou Village flash on Beijing Road, showing not only the dragon boats, but also the homesickness carried by the traditional culture of striving hard.
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 activities, the Cantonese Temple Fair was publishedInheriting the cultural context of Lingnan, it highlights the thousand-year-old Yuexiu city lineage, integrates culture, tourism, sports, commerce and food elements, and continues to polish Yuexiu’s “Guangfu cultural origin 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.