”Bird of the Northern Emperor” on the first day of March
Every year from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, Wentang Community, Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress parade to commemorate the birth of Emperor Bei. On this day, the people in the village carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair, with Beidi Bodhisattva sitting on it. The villagers carried homemade snacks such as sponge cakes, moxa horns, rice fruits, etc., forming a marching procession with a huge witch cloth draw, competing for beauty.
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Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw Festival has a history of more than 400 years. On the morning of April 16, the Wentang Community in Dongcheng City held the 5th Wentang Association 2018 Babaylan 1990 clothes draw. Dongcheng Komiks 1960 witch cloth Down Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Cheng Street, and Yuan Baiming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wentang Community, attended and jointly launched the opening ceremony of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw. On that day, a thousand people parade and various art shows on the streets of Wentang were held. Dozens of parade teams with different costumes were displayed. Various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate.
Wentang Tour Club has a long history, has a deep mass base, has a wide influence, and is very popular among the general public. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Wentang Tourist Association in Dongcheng was first founded to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor and has a history of more than 400 years. To commemorate this festival, the villagers of Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, and there were many young men and women dressed in costumes, dressed in various tasks in opera. The tour group departed from Bai Temple Babaylan 1990 cloth draw and marched from village to village. During the parade, there will be a costume drama that will be staged for several consecutive days. Later, for various reasons, Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw was interrupted for more than 60 years. In 2009, with the efforts of enthusiastic people, Wentang resumed this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, named Wentang Tourist Culture Festival. It was held for three consecutive years in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and later it was held every three years.
The custom of Wentang people has never stopped for a long timeBabaylan 1990 clothes draw, and parades carried the Bodhisattva fruits before the spring plowing, which means that the Bodhisattva hopes that this year will be better than the old year. In addition, Wentang Tour has extensive participation. Babaylan 1990 cloth draw is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for Wentang people.day. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together.
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The drizzle in the air will never destroy the enthusiasm of the masses. “This year is the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, people from Wentang built this white temple in Chalinggang. From then on, there has been a custom of holding tour meetings. That is, from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, all Wentang will hold grand dress parades.” Wentang community staff introduced. The author saw at the scene that the float parade included such as the National Peace and Minsheng, the Three Stars’ Excuses, the Cultural Tour of Wuwei, the Dragon and the Feng Chengxiang, the Enterprise Flowers, the Tianji Sends the Children, the Four Great Classics, the Bearded Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions’ Spring, the Loyalty of the Country, the Folk Legend, the Soap Overhead Team, the National Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Entertainment Peace, the Strange Sex, the Bodhisattva Tour, etc., which expanded a lot compared with the past, with a total of about 1,000 people parades. The gorgeous Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw float parade has presented tens of thousands of citizens with a rich audio-visual feast. Although the weather was not beautiful and drizzled every day, this did not prevent the joyful and laughter from spreading everywhere along the line. That morning, people were clamoring in front of Wentang Bai Temple, and all the citizens who came to participate in the tour. The parade team of more than 1,000 people started sailing in an orderly manner with Bai Temple as the starting point.
During the parade, the performance team in costumes actively interacted with the audience along the way. At the same time, the villagers of Wentang burned incense and worshiped the gods along the way, beat gongs and drums, shouted loudly, and warmly welcomed the parade of the phalanx. When each float passed by, there were constant cheers and the atmosphere was very warm. The entire tour took more than an hour, showing a thriving and prosperous scene of Xiawentang Society in the new era.
According to Wentang Community staff, this year’s parade team set out from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as Wentang Zaoyi New Village and Zao San Fifth Team. Through Wentang Neighborhood Committee, Chaling Park, Wenge Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions, the whole journey is about 4.5 kilometers.
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The colorful artistic performance will last for four nights
In addition to traditional program performances and fairy floats, this year’s Beidi Birth Tour Cultural Festival is more fun than in previous years.
“We take promoting excellent national culture as the main line, relying on displaying Lingnan folk customs as the basis, and continuously explore, inherit, reform and innovate this historic traditional folk culture. We use rich content with diverse forms, combination of ancient and modern times, distinctive and popular content to present it to the general public. “Community staff introduced.
In addition, the Travel and Culture Festival will show the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together, which is a true portrayal of Wentang’s harmonious community. The colorful artistic performance will last for four nights, and citizens can go to Wentang Wanfu Garden to watch artistic performances, including multiple folk art clubs and literary groups singing operas, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw table Babaylan 1990 cloth draw performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)