The reporter learned from the Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports that the custom of loading worms in Doumen District of Zhuhai City and the guqin cutting technique (the great hugh string guqin cutting process) in Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City were recently officially selected into the eighth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project list.
In 2021, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province launched the recommendation and application of the eighth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects. After the recommendation of various local units, the review of the expert review team of the Provincial Expert Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the deliberation of the Chairman Committee of the Expert Committee, and the study of the Party Group of the Department, 115 items recommended for the eighth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects were proposed, of which 42 were newly selected projects and 73 were expanded.
Loaded with grass worms.
The custom of loading grass insects is a folk activity of southeast coastal folks that use the high tide of grass worms to go to sea in April and August of the lunar calendar every year and make them into delicacies. Grass worms are intertidal organisms, called "grass worms" because they inhabit the roots of rice fields or aquatic plants. Zhuhai has a long history of loading insects, especially in Lianzhou, Baijiao, Doumen and other towns in Doumen District, and grass insect-related gastronomic products are also widely popular in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which has important social value, cultural value and economic value. In April 2016, the custom of loading grass insects was included in the Zhuhai Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
Great Hugh string guqin cutting process.
According to reports, the great Hugh silk string guqin cutting process originated from the great Hugh Shangren (1870-1932), in the inheritance between the master and apprentice, the selection of materials to find a hundred years of fir or paulownia wood as a panel, take it has been stable and no longer deformed, easy to resonate, the bottom board is also old catalpa wood, in addition to stability, because the catalpa wood is harder, paulownia and fir wood is softer, hard and soft combination has the effect of blocking the sound of running. Tools include saws, axes, planers, chisels, etc. Groove belly size, groove belly in different places the curvature is also different, there are differences in size.
In 2008, the inheritor Ding Jianchao came to Zhuhai to teach the art of the piano, and his "Great Hugh Silk String Guqin Cutting Craft" was recorded as the representative list of Zhuhai Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage in June 2015, and his "Guqin Cutting Craft" was recorded as the representative list of zhuhai Xiangzhou District Intangible Cultural Heritage in June 2016, and I was rated as the representative inheritor of the traditional skills of the Zhuhai Xiangzhou District Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (Great Hugh Silk String Guqin Cutting Craft) in June 2019.
[Reporter] Hu Yuzhen
【Author】 Hu Yuyan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client