Editor's note: The people are the mother of literature and art. Originating from the people, serving the people, and belonging to the people is the fundamental stand of socialist literature and art, and it is also the driving force for the prosperity and development of socialist literature and art. Literary and art workers shoulder the great mission of educating people with culture, educating people with culture, and cultivating yuan with culture, and are the backbone of promoting the great development and prosperity of socialist culture. All along, Guangdong has firmly promoted the construction of a culturally strong province, and the Southern Network Culture Channel has launched a series of reports on "People's Literature and Art", inviting literary and artistic workers in various fields in Guangdong Province to be interviewed to talk about their feelings about the construction of a culturally strong province, cultural self-confidence, and cultural inheritance and innovation.
The Guangdong Folk Writers Association (hereinafter referred to as the Provincial Folk Writers Association) is a professional and academic people's organization composed of folk writers in the province, and is a group member of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature. As a bridge and link between the party and the government and the vast number of folk literary workers and folk writers, in the past five years, the Provincial People's Association has been going deep into life, taking root in the people, disseminating Lingnan's excellent traditional culture in a diversified way, and striving to find a new path for modern expression of literature and art, and has achieved fruitful results. Recently, the reporter interviewed Li Lina, chairman of the Guangdong Folk Writers Association.
In October 2018, the Shanwei Fishing Song Special Session sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Association of Nationalities was performed at the Beijing National Theatre
"The Provincial People's Association should go deeper, play the brand activity of Guangdong folk literature, and use the expression method that everyone can understand, understand, and be interested in, unite and lead folk art workers, and tell the story of Guangdong well and thoroughly." Li Lina said that Guangdong is a large province with very rich folk resources, and the work of the Provincial People's Association involves many aspects of folk literature, folk crafts, folk performing arts, folk etiquette and customs, which are closely related to the daily life of the people, so it is necessary to combine the mass and life of this folk art in the dissemination of Lingnan culture.
In November 2020, the 12th China Folk Art Festival, undertaken by the Guangdong Provincial Association of Nationalities, was held in Zhongshan
In recent years, the Provincial People's Association has held various kinds of folk art brand activities to promote the development of folk art communication in Guangdong, and has created a number of influential folk customs and cultural brand activities such as the Lingnan Folk Culture Festival, the Guangdong Lantern Festival, the Guangdong Folk Song Festival, the Guangdong Qixi Cultural Festival, etc., in addition to undertaking a series of major national art activities such as the 11th and 12th Chinese Folk Art Festival, the 13th and 14th Chinese Folk Art Mountain Flower Award Ceremony, and the China (Guangdong) Folk Craft Expo. Attract folk art workers from all over the country to Guangdong.
Guangdong People's Association organized folk artists to "go to Los Angeles, USA, foreign cultural exchange activities"
In terms of foreign exchanges, the Provincial People's Association actively planned the brand activity - Lingnan Culture World Tour, bringing Lingnan culture to the rest of the world, and telling the story of China and Guangdong.
In recent years, the Provincial People's Association has also strengthened academic exchanges and seminars, and carried out heavyweight cultural seminars such as ancient village seminars, folk culture and inheritance seminars under the background of urbanization, and maritime Silk Road cultural summit forum.
In October 2021, the Guangdong Provincial People's Association invited Mr. Feng Jicai to conduct research in Guangdong province and talk about mural protection in Longhu Ancient Village, an ancient village in Guangdong Province
In October 2021, he organized and planned the famous cultural scholar Feng Jicai to investigate Chaoshan cultural activities, and successively went to Shunde, Chaozhou, Shantou and other places to investigate folk literature and art, and inspected ancient villages, folk crafts, intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance. Li Lina introduced that the Guangdong Provincial People's Association began to investigate the ancient villages in the province in 2007, and by December 2021, Guangdong has carried out eight batches of ancient village identification work, walked more than 700 villages, and completed the identification of 368 ancient villages, 74 folk art towns and heritage bases (including 30 national level).
Materials for the declaration of ancient villages in Guangdong Province throughout Guangdong Province
In addition, in order to protect the folk culture of Lingnan, the Provincial People's Association has produced and released books such as the Guangdong Folk Story Series, the Guangdong Rare Drama Script Series, the Guangdong Ancient Village Series, the Guangdong Top Ten Folk Craft Series, and the Folk Craft Integration, which have enabled many Lingnan folk cultures to be preserved, recorded and preserved, leaving valuable cultural resources for future generations.
"The biggest result of our work is cultural identity, which enhances the love and self-confidence of the broad masses of people for traditional culture, returns to the recognition of excellent traditional culture, and protects our common spiritual homeland." Li Lina said.
It is understood that in the future, the Provincial People's Association will record, store and disseminate Lingnan folk culture by means of science and technology, build an open source map of Lingnan folk culture, and create a data storage and development utilization platform for the Lingnan cultural gene bank and the Lingnan cultural material library.