Yu Garden, the most characteristic of Jiangnan and the temperament of The Old Town in downtown Shanghai, and the surrounding areas recently launched the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Parade" to welcome the Lunar Year of the Tiger.
Adjacent to the Bund, Yu Garden and its surrounding areas are the areas with the highest concentration of cultural and tourism resources in the Old Town of Shanghai, and one of the areas with the highest concentration of local intangible cultural heritage. On the evening of the 18th, the Spring Festival series of the Year of the Tiger in Yuyuan Garden was illuminated, which was a concentrated display of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project "Shanghai Lantern".
Shanghai illumination is a new type of illumination art developed in the urban environment of Shanghai, which inherits the excellent skills of ancient illumination and develops it reasonably, not only the material has been updated, but also the variety is more abundant. Haipai lanterns include four types: shed lamps, marquee lamps, palace lights, and three-dimensional animal lights. Among them, three-dimensional animal lanterns are the most distinctive, integrating ornamental, artistic and decorative, and are the essence of Shanghai lantern art.
"Tiger Leap east" giant light group. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Ying
The "Zodiac Tiger" with different shapes is the most important element of this year's Yu Garden lights. Yuyuan Mall Central Square, Jiuqu Bridge Square and Golden Square, etc., see "Tiger". The 9-meter-high Zodiac Tiger Lantern Group presents a scene of tigers and tigers looking forward to the future.
In addition to the Haipai lanterns, Yu Garden and its surrounding area, which covers a small area, are also the birthplace of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project "Traditional Cooking Techniques of Shanghai Benbang Cuisine". Located at the intersection of Fuyou Road and Old School Yard Road, the Old Shanghai Hotel is the conservation unit of this representative project.
From fingertips to the tip of the tongue, around the theme of "Shanghai Old Taste, Intangible Cultural Heritage New Experience", the series of intangible cultural heritage tour activities will be unveiled in the New Year of the Tiger. The local self-owned "tip of the tongue" intangible cultural heritage also includes the representative project of the national intangible cultural heritage - the production technology of pear paste candy, as well as the Nanxiang steamed bun and spiced beans, which are inseparable from the intangible cultural heritage skills. This year, the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Market" launched by Yuyuan Garden also specially introduced a group of handicraft craftsmen, involving New Year paintings, paper-cutting, shadow puppetry, sugar painting, batik, tie-dye and other categories, in the form of market exhibitions and art displays, focusing on recommending traditional skills.
Shanghai Yuyuan Garden "Intangible Cultural Heritage Market" welcomes the New Year. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Ying
Luo Yulin, the fifth generation of Shanghai Bengang cuisine, said that there are many ways to inherit intangible cultural heritage, and the intangible cultural heritage of Haipai "on the tip of the tongue" has been constantly keeping right and innovating in recent years, launching new scenes and new experiences, inviting customers to combine on-site tasting and "cloud" viewing, and can also click to place orders to take out the "intangible cultural heritage" to go home, and the old brand is also timeless.
It is understood that a Jiangnan silk bamboo New Year concert is also in full swing. This is the first time that the Yuyuan Huxin pavilion silk bamboo music club, which was rebuilt at the end of 2021, appeared on stage in the form of a big band. Jiangnan silk bamboo is also one of the representative items of national intangible cultural heritage. Old music fans are looking forward to the New Year Jia Energy Saving with the "tiger" related silk bamboo song playing, blessing the Lunar New Year tiger tiger tiger has a "sound" gas.
Reporters: Xu Xiaoqing, Liu Ying
Edit: Chu Hang