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 the audience watching the opening ceremony and parade were about 30,000.
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 tour teams bring the grand style of Nanyue, intangible cultural heritage, golden armor and heroic light, Cantonese wedding customs and other special displays, 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, meaning to send New Year’s greetings.
The dance “Flower·Suming” shows the elegance, nobility, kindness and flexibility of “Suming Beauty”. Frangipani scattered in the ocean two thousand years agoAfter landing in Guangzhou through the sea, Qu Dajun said in “Guangdong New Language” that “the flower market is in the seven gates of Guangzhou, and the ones sold are only simplicity, and there is no difference in flowers.”
The Babaylan‘s martial arts performance “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-style 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-yi, performed the finale and sang “The Successor of the Dragon” together. The magnificent song conveys the pride and pride of the nation that is both Chinese.
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, waving 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, recreating the mighty image and heroic spirit of the South Vietnam Guard more than two thousand years ago. The costumes and weapons of the Nanyue King of the Nanyue King of the Nanyue MuseumThe breastplate and the Yangjiawan Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Xianyang Museum are prototypes, and are processed 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 a good spirit, symbolizing auspiciousness, and the lion dance carries 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 traveling around the sea”, “dragons flying around the sea”, “dragons flying phoenixes dancing”, and “dragons dancing to the sky”, etc., showing the youth’s extremely upward, united and cooperative appearance 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. For three hundred years, Komiks has inherited the miracle of “paper-wrapped fire” from generation to generation. Touring the lanterns is not only for praying for blessings, but also for gathering neighbors and enhancing the emotional bond 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 masters have unique skills
In the Cantonese masters team, folk skills such as stilts, chickens and olives, flower sticks, and wheelbarrows are taking 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 tour include Zhu Xianfeng, the champion of the first Cantonese Got Talent in 2012, and the 2015 Cantonese Got Talent in the first Cantonese Got Talent in 2012.”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksChampion acrobatics expert Pan Xiaorui and others.
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 is full of childlike hearts
The Bay Area CinemaChildren’s team is combined with the Hong Kong Scout Infantry Team, Yuexiu District Middle School Pipa Folk Band, Primary School Martial Arts Team and the Babaylan Candy Group. 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 Komiks 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 KomiksCandy is a child artist team with works including “Starlight’s Dance”. 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 Nichang 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 outstanding craftsmanship and aesthetics of China, 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 Komiks silk and cloth, which were gorgeous and light. In ancient times, it was mostly used by senior officers and imperial guards; “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 parts; there were even rare restorative armor in the team, and the Song Dynasty black lacquer iron armor called “Tiefutu”, which feasted the eyes of Hanfu and armor lovers. Team 11: Yangji Dragon Boat Race Departure
The villagers of Yangji put on uniform uniforms and imitated the movement of dragon boats. While walking, they shouted rhythmic slogans 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 set off for three lives, holding the hands of the child together, 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 “Cantonese wedding” full of happiness and joy to the newlyweds with their unique wedding rap form, 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 + chaotic dragon check-in + intangible cultural heritage exhibition”, and Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine and traditional food (Cantonese cuisine)Intangible cultural heritage projects such as traditional skills and inheritors 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 Food Flower Street of Huifu East Road, based on Cantonese flavor, showing the fireworks of Yuexiu. From February 24th to 22:00, 2Cinema will open every day from February 25th to March 3rd at 10:00-22:00. More than 20 food brands will be selected and more than 100 exhibitors will be 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 a series of surprise activities such as immersive experience of “Dream Nuclear Garden Party”, catering coupon delivery; Xindaxin brings “Dragon Teng Flowers Bloom – Show What to Show” 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, Enjoy New Year”, which not only has exciting performances such as flashing “Flowers Blossom Dance Drama Performance” and “Flowers Guofeng Band Performance”, but also “Flowers New Year Hand Workshop” to take everyone to “make Lantern Festival with clever hands”; Guangbai and Nanyue Wang Museum jointly launched the IP “Red Yun Lion Tailong” to hold the “Tangyuan Small Workshop” handmade glutinous rice dumpling production activity, Guangbai Supermarket products are 15%-10% off, and multiple bank payment platforms are linked to carry out Babaylan 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 front is on the south side 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 to take advantage of the scenery, go to the brothers and Laobiao villages after taking advantage of the scenery. Every year after taking the dragon boats, each village will organize a dragon boat meal 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 exhibit the exhibition.It 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.