At present, the Spring Festival is approaching, and Guangzhou has also begun to prepare various activities to set off the festive atmosphere. On the afternoon of January 26, a press briefing on the New Year activities with the theme of "Guangzhou New Year, Flower City To See Flowers" was held. At the meeting, Guangzhou released the special activities of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger to provide public cultural services during the festival in advance for the general public.
At the meeting, Wang Yunting, deputy mayor of Liwan District, introduced the key activities of Liwan District during this year's Spring Festival to the public. Wang Yunting introduced that this year's Spring Festival, Liwan will carry out a series of colorful cultural and tourism activities with the theme of "Fuhu Shengwei has a big Year, and Xiguan Spring Festival has a New Year's flavor". Watching dramas, walking flower streets, learning intangible cultural heritage, tasting folk customs, viewing art exhibitions, doing handicrafts... Liwan will present the most Lingnan-style festival feast for the public in 2022.

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"Liwan is the birthplace of Cantonese culture, the beginning of the Maritime Silk Road, and the core area of the Lingnan Cultural Center. Spring Festival to Liwan, feel the strong taste of the New Year, have a different kind of cultural Spring Festival. I hope you will receive your sincere wishes and Chinese New Year gifts from Liwan. Wang Yunting, deputy mayor of Liwan District, said at the briefing.
So, what festival projects will be in Liwan District during this year's Spring Festival? What are your dishes? Take a look, pick your preferences, and let us know more about your tastes.
Watch the drama and listen to the Cantonese rhymes. From the first day of the first lunar month to the sixth day of the first lunar month, the Cantonese Opera Art Museum will hold the "Plum Blossom Peony Competition Fangfei" every afternoon - the performance activity of the famous literary and artistic artist GuangfuTai Huimin, and the winners of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award (Li Junsheng, Wu Feifan, Su Chunmei, Cui Yumei, etc.), the winner of the Chinese Quyi Peony Award, Liang Yurong, and the famous Cantonese cross-talk performance artists Huang Junying and He Baowen will walk into the Cantonese Opera Art Museum Guangfutai to take turns to lead the performance.
In addition, the cantonese opera outstanding private partnership bureau team will also carry out exhibition and exchanges, sending a number of wonderful Cantonese opera cantonese opera performances for the benefit of the people to the general public and tourists, and enriching the cultural and entertainment life of the holiday. In addition to the daytime, the nighttime performances are equally exciting. On the night of the first day of the first lunar month, the garden of the Cantonese Opera Art Museum will arrange a nightly live performance of "Cantonese Rhyme Garden Music". Classic plays such as "Dream of Visiting the Garden", "Dream of Taihu Lake", "Dream of Lychee Bay" and other classic plays, music and singing rely on the garden stacked stones, stages, boats, lakes and other real scenes, will bring new visual experiences to the audience.
Line Flower Street, reproducing the water flower market. There is a temple fair in the north, a flower market in the south, a flower street, and a big luck, which is the New Year custom of Guangzhou people.
As one of the most representative folk cultures of Xiguan, the scene of "floating flowers" has a history of 100 years. This year's Spring Festival, Xiguan Yongqingfang Tourism Zone will display the history of the water flower market, Xiguan culture, Cantonese culture, non-genetic inheritance, flower window flower shadow, flower boat parade and other plates through online methods.
Yongqing Wharf will also install water flower market flower boats to bring "Fuhu Market", using a combination of online and offline methods, so that visitors can feel the different Spring Festival between tradition and new tide. In addition, the 2022 Spring Festival Flower Festival with the theme of "Tigers and Tigers Celebrate the New Year" will be grandly opened in Guangzhou Cultural Park on January 31 (Chinese New Year's Eve).
This year's Spring Festival Flower will skillfully integrate the cultural element of "Golden Tiger", which symbolizes "strength, vitality, bravery and wit", into the garden layout, creating a garden landscape with Lingnan characteristics. A total of 14 garden scenery groups were exhibited, more than 25,000 pots of peach blossoms, orange fruits and various seasonal flowers, more than 1,000 pieces of various components and ornaments, and a series of activities such as garden flower tours, photography and painting exhibitions, opera song and dance performances were carried out, and we look forward to celebrating the festival with the general public and tourists.
Learn from the intangible cultural heritage and taste the taste of food. Sponsored by the Liwan District New Era Civilization Practice Center and the District Cultural Center, and hosted by the studios of various intangible cultural heritage masters, the series of activities of "Seeking The Taste of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Passing the Spring Festival in Xiguan" will be held around the Spring Festival. The event will invite anchor talents to help "make Cantonese cuisine for the New Year", "the new year in xiguan intestine powder", "wonton in the heart of lao guang", "lantern tangyuan sweet cooking" and other intangible cultural heritage food experience activities in the form of live broadcast, and emit a strong flavor of Xiguan cuisine during the Spring Festival.
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The Cultural Spring Festival has connotations
Liwan District has more than half of the city's historical and cultural blocks, 188 cultural relics protection units at all levels, 45 intangible cultural heritage projects, and widely recognized cultural symbols such as Xiguan House, Xiguan Cuisine, and Miss Xiguan. In recent years, Liwan District has adhered to strong characteristics, shaped brands, strengthened cultural self-confidence, continued the cultural traditions of Lingnan with heart and affection, transformed creativity, scientific and technological upgrading and market operation, and transformed unique cultural resources into products and services with strong local characteristics.
This year's Spring Festival, what other festivals with cultural connotations are there in Liwan? Let's keep pulling the menu together!
Taste folk customs and feel the Lingnan New Year. This year's Spring Festival, Yongqingfang prepared a variety of Lingnan cultural experiences: ancient style Hanfu ignited the enthusiasm of the national tide, the Spring Festival lion dance added the taste of the old Cantonese, and harvested the new year small luck.
On the third day of the first lunar month, Nylon Hall will carry out dragon dances, lion dances, new year ceremonies, gifts for entering the museum, creative intangible cultural heritage handicrafts and other "dragon and lion dances for the New Year" activities, in Xiguan, a lively New Year.
From January 22nd to February 15th, the second phase of Yongqingfang will be replaced with new clothes for the New Year, and the cellophane "Yongqing Fuhu" theme flower lantern decoration formed by local craftsman Li Taixin is cute and festive, and sincerely invites everyone to take photos and punch cards.
Do the handicraft and experience the ingenuity. In addition to inviting non-hereditary inheritors such as Guangcai, Ivory Carving, and Xicun Kiln to carry out intangible cultural heritage experience training courses, the 13 Elements Museum will also hold the "Meng Hu Leaping on Paper" grass painting experience activity on the second and third day of the first lunar month, allowing the public to experience the exquisite craftsmanship of grass painting with the tiger pattern on the cultural relics in the collection.
From February 1st to February 6th, Huadiwan Life Hall, Located at No. 309 Huadi Avenue, Liwan District, will also hold colorful New Year celebration activities such as New Year paintings, window flower paper cuttings, Lichun flower arrangements, and lion heads.
View the exhibition and appreciate the century-old collection. The Cantonese Opera Art Museum's "Hundred Paintings Pear Garden - Cantonese Opera Art Museum Tibetan Opera Export Painting Exhibition" brings together the cantonese opera art museum in recent years to collect and display and utilize the research results, more than 100 19th century opera theme export paintings shine brightly, with the four themes of "Drama Painting Tongsheng", "Pear Garden in Painting", "Character Industry" and "Qu Zhi Zhi" respectively tell the background of the rise of export opera painting, wonderful stories in paintings, character trades and qu art activities.
Adhere to the integration and development of cultural and commercial tourism, Liwan District has always been the "most Guangzhou" and "most Lingnan" cultural tourism punch card resort, fully excavate the cultural resources of the jurisdiction, Liwan District continues to improve the Lingnan cultural vein protection and inheritance system, to create "Lizhiwan · New Xiguan" folk culture characteristic brand, to promote the time-honored street, "three sculptures, one color and one embroidery" "Xiguan orthodontic" traditional Chinese medicine cultural innovation and development, was rated as "The Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art", won the "Hometown of Chinese Qu Art", and the soft power of culture has been continuously improved.
Activate the texture of the old street with "embroidery kung fu", let the city leave a memory, and let people remember nostalgia. Liwan has successfully created a provincial Cantonese opera Cantonese opera cultural and ecological protection experimental zone, and the Xiguan Yongqingfang Tourism Zone has been successfully awarded the national 4A level tourist scenic spot and the national tourism and leisure block... In the future, it will also use the global tourism demonstration area to create a more charming tourism and leisure place for the citizens.
Tiger year Liwan, feel the warmth of Lingnan New Year, feel the infinite joy of the festival!
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What are the Most Popular Liwan Chinese New Year Events? (Multiple selections possible) 1. Watch the drama and listen to the cantonese rhymes 2.Xinghua Street, and then look for the water flower market 3.Learn the intangible cultural heritage, taste the food of the New Year 4.Taste folk customs, feel the Lingnan New Year 5.Do handicrafts, experience the ingenuity of the craftsmanship 6.Watch the exhibition, appreciate the centenary collection Submitted
[Southern Daily reporter] Lang Hui, Zheng Huizi, Guo Suying
[Correspondent] Li Xuan
【Author】 Lang Hui; Zheng Huizi; Guo Suying
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client