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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 in the entire 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, jointly promotes the Cantonese New Year culture and creates the “Twelve Cantonese New Year flavor”.
The openingBabaylan‘s performance kicked off with the sound of “Guangdong Rhymes·Five Sheep Fairy Dance”. The Five Sheep holds the valley and gathers in Chuting. Because of the beautiful Five Sheep Legend, Guangzhou hasCinema is known as “Yangcheng” and “Suicheng”. Five Immortals and Hanfu volunteers hold riceKomiksThe ears walked into the audience and gave the rice ears representing 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 “Flower Beauty”. Two thousand years ago, the frank flowers floated across the ocean to Guangzhou, and Qu Dajun’s “Guangdong New Language” says, “The flower market is in the seven gates of Guangzhou, and the selling of frankness is no different flowers.”
The martial arts performance of the children of Jianshe Liumalu Primary School “Chinese Boys” is like flowing clouds and flowing, showing the high spirits and progress of the Yuexiu teenagers. “In the midst of the day, the clouds and clouds in the sky are red”Komiks, the bright morning glow of the Kapok flowers show the prosperity and vitality of Guangzhou City, carrying the homesickness and dreams of Cantonese people.
The “Kapo Ballad” sung by Guangdong musician Huang Zhiyi tells the beautiful Guangzhou story. The scene specially invited the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project “Five Horses Tour” in Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City, to show the ancient folk dance with Lingnan characteristics.
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Folk custom parade is spectacular Beijing Road Incarnates Folk Culture Exhibition Hall
After the opening ceremony, the Cantonese Temple Fair Folk Parade was grandly opened on Beijing Road. The Thousand-year-old Ancient Road Folk Parade, with a total of 12 parade teams of more than 300 people. BabaylanThe 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 grandeur of Nanyue is unstoppable
The head of Nanyue Xiongfeng team holds a long sword in his hand, and is in the teamBabaylanWu Central waving, while soldiers held swords and cloud-patterned shields in their hands, showing 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 dragon and lion dance are the youth lion dance team in the South Kingdom, forming the dragon and lion dance team. The lion is auspicious spirit, symbolizing auspiciousness, and the lion dances empower people to eliminate disasters and eliminate harm and seek Jina. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan‘s beautiful wishes for blessing. 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”, “dragons dancing nine skyscrapers”, etc., showing the positive, united and cooperative appearance of young people and the beautiful vision of inheriting Chinese culture.
Team 3: Intangible cultural heritage colorful inheritance endlessly
Zhaoqing intangible cultural heritage dance “Five Horses” “Zhixi Lantern” is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project. It originated in the late Song Dynasty, prevailed 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 lantern tour is 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, showing the characteristics of Cantonese culture and Hakka culture. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksSex and communication. Team 4: Yaotai flag reappears the “jianghu”
Yaotai Village, which has a history of nearly a hundred years, made a stunning appearance. It comes from Yaotai Village, Mineral Street, Shayongnan Village, and Wangshengtang Village. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanThe villagers beat eight-tone gongs and drums, carry flags, and play silk umbrellas in the parade. This is the folk activity of the villagers spontaneously wishing for good weather and peace, expressing their yearning and pursuit of a happy life.
Team 5: Cantonese masters have unique skills
In the Cantonese masters, they walk on stilts, roosters, play with flower sticks, KomiksFolks and other folk skills took turns to showcase the style of Cantonese experts. The Cantonese Talent Show is one of the highlights of the Cantonese Temple Fair, and it has built the most grassroots talent show platform in Cantonese. It 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 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. Babaylan brought the five gods of wealth to send blessings to the masses, 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 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.
Team 10: Golden Armored Xiaguang is heroic
The Golden Armored Xiaguang team consists of 22 traditional cultures from all over the countryComposition of enthusiasts. 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 the components were cleverly connected. There were even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor, called “Iron Futu”, etc., which feasted the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers.
Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Race Departure
YangCinemaThe villagers of Ji 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 used to set off 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, extraordinary, solemn and luxurious. The Cantonese wedding lady who speaks auspiciously speaks the unique wedding rap form, bringing 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 24th 15:00-22:00, February 25th to March 3rd opens every day at 10:00-22:00, and selects more than 20 food brands, and is super Komiks has participated in the exhibition with over 100 exhibitors. 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 Guangdong Chaolou Building of Beijing Road continues to hold a series of activities on the theme of “2024 Laughter New Year” in the Lantern Festival, and held a series of surprise activities such as “Dream Hunting Garden Party” and catering coupon delivery; the new big and new brings “Dragon Teng Flowers Bloom – Show What” outdoor exhibition and the building’s Komiks floor attractions, taking photos, check-in and receiving gifts; Beijing Road Tianhe City organizes “Flowers Blooming Guangdong See you The theme event of “Enjoy the New Year” not only includes exciting performances such as “Flowering Years Dance Show” 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 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 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 flashed from the Pearl River to the north CinemaBeijing Road. This is an international standard dragon with a length of 18.4 meters and a weight of 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 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. Dragon boats are 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 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 area. The dragon boats in Siyou Village flash on Beijing Road, showing Komiks are not only dragon boats, but also the spirit of hard work and the hometown feelings carried by traditional culture.
Yuexiu District Culture, Radio, Film and Television TourismBabaylanYang Weiguo, director of the Sports Bureau of Tourism 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.