【2021 Dancing together in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Exploring the Millennium Context】
In the early morning, the mist cleared, and the reporter looked at the Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall rising from the river, which was tall, majestic, and shining. The guild hall has stepped out of time in the flow of the city, telling generations of gritty and courageous immigrant stories, engraved with the texture of history.
The docent in the museum explains the "Lake Filling Sichuan" Yang Yunxi /photo
Huguang Guild Hall was built in the 24th year of the Qianlong Dynasty and expanded in 26th year of Daoguang. Due to historical reasons, The Huguang Guild Hall, like the fate of most buildings, has suffered many natural and man-made damages, and the houses have been seriously damaged. The newly renovated Huguang Guild Hall seen in front of you was restored by the country's first-class cultural relics construction team at the beginning of this century.
"Hey, hey, the migrants support each other, climb the mountains, cross the river, step by step, towards the destination. Some fall before the dawn, but they live forever in our hearts. The rest of the people came to this barren soil with perseverance and tenacity, and began their cultivation and construction. The docent of the guild hall described to reporters the situation of the migrants who were on the way to "fill the lake in Sichuan" at that time.
When the reporter is immersed in the modern exhibition in the museum, he can immediately immerse himself in the historical picture. "We hope that through the modern exhibition, people above the third grade of primary school can understand the 'lake filling Sichuan', understand the hardships at the beginning of the establishment of the city, and even achieve such an effect without explanation." Yang Lu, director of the Chongqing Huguang Guild Hall Museum, said.
Today's Huguang Guild Hall is essentially a museum of immigrant culture. The migration of farming peoples is very tragic, they will hold the tablets of their ancestors, and even carry the bones of their relatives to migrate. They had to properly place these things, so the guild hall often assumed the function of a public ancestral hall.
Walking inside, the majestic Yu King's Palace stood in front of you. In the past, one of the most important functions of the guild hall was to pay the gods and sacrifices, but today the sacrifice of the gods has become a traditional ritual cultural activity. Every year, the guild hall holds a "Yu King Sacrifice", hoping to internalize traditional moral standards in the hearts of young people through this process, becoming a benchmark for the city's classical etiquette, thus guiding young people to fall in love with traditional culture.
A stage was set up in the hall, and more than ten square tables and long wooden benches were placed on the opposite side of the stage, which was the place to eat "talking about tea". People from all over the world come to Chongqing because the cultural differences in different regions will definitely lead to differences, but by eating "talking about tea" (that is, drinking tea and discussing things), they can seek common ground while reserving differences.
Some exquisite reliefs can be seen on the walls of the stage, which also vividly tell the story of migration to the viewer. Yang Lu told reporters, "When the site was first restored, if the people who lived here took a wooden plaque and a relief and walked away, the government could not control it." But everyone took nothing and preserved the building intact. "It can be seen that people cherish cultural relics and respect history, and the preservation of every place in the guild hall is very precious."
Huguang Guild Hall is not only a building, but also a link between contacts and people, which forms the most basic cultural heritage of Chongqing city. In order to "let the cultural relics live in the present", the guild hall has carried out many innovations, such as holding a youth folk song party. "This year, because of the epidemic, we have made the folk song club online, attracting 10,000 or 20,000 people to watch online. We even did an electric music party at the Yu King's Palace, and the effect was unexpectedly good. Yang Lu told reporters that the guild also held some coming-of-age ceremonies, weddings, and opening ceremonies, hoping that everyone can continue to use the guildhall, rather than drifting away from it.
(Guangming Daily all-media reporters Li Hong and Yang Yunxi also contributed to this article)
Source: Guangming Network