Wearing traditional native cloth costumes to dance the rumba, cha-cha dance, walking on the stage, weighing the wooden pole scale of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and making engraved paper works with a knife...
On October 23, at the 57th Little Shanghai Folk Culture Exhibition held in Zhoupu Park, a series of local folk customs were staged, showing a unique charm.
The main highlight of the day's exhibition will be "Soil Cloth Is Not Soil, Native Cloth Raw Flowers". A group of aunts with native cloth turbans and wearing native cloth costumes not only performed waist drums, but also carried hoes, scythes, walked the catwalk with rice ears, and even danced rumba and cha-cha dance... The life of the rural aunts keeps pace with the development of the new era, and the local folk customs are integrated with fashion, so that the tourists on the scene continue to clap their hands and praise.
At the same time, in the park art museum next to the folklore exhibition site, there is also an intangible soil cloth creative exhibition of "soil cloth is not soil, cloth is raw flowers".
This folk culture exhibition is full of people. Pan Jianrong, a resident of Zhoupu Town, who has been collecting wooden pole scales for many years, has taken out many mahogany large wooden pole scales from the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of which are sixteen old scales during the Xuantong and Guangxu years. Some parents took their children to ask Master Pan to weigh them, stared at the scale on the scale and studied them carefully, and obtained satisfactory results.
The traditional paper-cut booth was also crowded. Under the guidance of the teacher, the members of the paper-cutting team of the students of Lixi Middle School deftly manipulated the knife in their hands to produce a lifelike paper engraving work, which amazed the viewer.
It is reported that Lixi Middle School has vigorously developed the construction of traditional culture and established the "Junqiao Paper-cutting Club", which has become a special project of the school. In addition to learning the traditional paper-cutting paper-cutting knife method, the society has also made some innovative attempts, processing photos into portrait paper-cutting, and then printing paper-cut works as templates to t-shirts, bags, etc., forming cultural and creative products and making works of art come to life.
Master Wang Xingrong, who sharpens his knife and scissors, wears an old straw hat and an old coarse cloth coat, showing the unique local style of the older generation of craftsmen. For more than forty years, he walked through the alleys and villages to sharpen knives and scissors for the masses, and used the magnetic "sharpening scissors" to shout and shout, and continued to pass on the memories of a generation.
It is reported that the small Shanghai folk culture exhibition held for many years has become a characteristic brand project of Zhoupu Town, often held on traditional holidays such as Spring Festival and National Day, so that folk nostalgia can be preserved.
Column Editor-in-Chief Zhang Qi
Responsible Editor Liqi Ni
Photography Chen Junxian, part photography Zheng Guiyong