"How many types of vocal cavities are there in Cantonese opera?" What are the steps to makeup? What is the style of headdress wearing? Wu Feifan, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and member of the Municipal Youth Federation, became a Cantonese opera mentor and popularized cantonese opera knowledge to the youth participating in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth New Year Music Club. On January 30th, under the guidance of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Youth League and the Guangzhou Youth Federation, the 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth Folk Culture Festival was officially launched on the first floor of the Municipal Youth Palace, the First Floor of the Municipal Youth Palace, the Tuanyuexiu District Committee and the Management Committee of the Beijing Road Cultural Core Area. Young people from Hong Kong and Macao, children of frontline workers in the grass-roots fight against the epidemic, and courier brothers participated in activities such as New Year fun, lion dances to welcome the Spring Festival, song and dance to celebrate the New Year, and folk customs experience. From January 30th to February 6th, the Municipal Youth Palace will carry out eight theme experience activities such as "Happy Year", "Happy Year", "Auspicious Year", "Inheritance Year", "Sweet Year", "Memory Year", "Harmony Year" and "Healthy Year" with folk experience activities as the starting point, so that young people in The New Year in Sui can feel the warmth of home.
Young people in the Bay Area run their own Chinese New Year song parties to share new year and new wishes
At noon on January 30, a special Chinese New Year song party was held at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Home in Guangzhou, located on the first floor of the Municipal Youth Palace. Representatives of the Youth League Municipal Committee, the Municipal Youth Federation, the Municipal Youth Palace, the Municipal Youth Foundation, the Hong Kong-Guangzhou Youth Federation and more than 30 Hong Kong and Macao youths who are celebrating the Chinese New Year in Sui participated in the New Year fun.
Wu Feifan, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, Cantonese opera "Almighty Hua Dan" and member of the Municipal Youth Federation, became a Cantonese opera mentor, popularized cantonese opera knowledge to young people participating in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth New Year Music Club, performed a number of traditional Cantonese opera excerpts, and taught Hong Kong and Macao youth to learn to sing Cantonese opera on the spot. Driven by Wu Feifan, the young people of Hong Kong and Macao also took turns to take the stage and performed in a similar manner, instantly narrowing the distance between Cantonese opera and the youth of Hong Kong and Macao. One question after another, the Young People of Hong Kong and Macao who were present listened to them with relish.
"I hope that every Hong Kong and Macao youth who stays in Guangzhou for the New Year can feel the warmth of home..." Huo Qiwen, vice chairman of the Municipal Youth Federation and chairman of the Guangzhou Guangzhou Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Exchange Center, sent his blessings on the spot. At the same time, the organizers also prepared potted vegetables, annual flowers and lucky bags for the young people from Hong Kong and Macao who participated in the event. Young literary and artistic friends from Guangzhou brought many literary and artistic performances such as "In That Distant Place", and the young people from Hong Kong and Macao at the event site also picked up microphones, took to the stage, and performed their own programs.
"Come and come, everyone's own shrimp dumplings are coming..." With the shouts of the staff, the shrimp dumplings made by the young people of Hong Kong and Macao were sent to the event site. The reporter saw at the scene that many partners participating in the activity gathered around the master of the Guangzhou restaurant and asked how to wrap shrimp dumplings. "It turned out that there was so much knowledge in shrimp dumplings, and I added a new skill later." Xu Ruoran, a young man from Hong Kong, happily showed his achievements to reporters.
"It was my first time to participate in a folklore event like bunting shrimp dumplings and it was fun. I didn't expect that the shrimp dumplings that look simple and simple, the wrapping method is not as simple as I imagined. However, the shrimp dumplings that you wrap yourself up feel more unique when you eat them. "Hui Songya, who is currently in graduate school from Hong Kong, chose to stay in Guangzhou for the Chinese New Year." Due to the fact that the flower market in many places during the epidemic is closed, I did not go to the flower market this year, but I also bought some phalaenopsis orchids and kumquats from the Internet, which means happiness and happiness, auspicious and rich. She laughed and said that hong Kong and Guangzhou have the custom of buying new year flowers, even if you can't go home for the New Year, you must have a sense of ceremony.
According to the person in charge of the Municipal Youth Palace, due to the epidemic situation and other reasons, many Young People in Hong Kong and Macao have chosen to stay in the New Year. Holding this event is to let young people in Hong Kong and Macao feel the strong New Year flavor and get a different New Year experience during the New Year in Guangzhou.
"Due to the epidemic situation and work reasons, I chose to spend this Spring Festival in Guangzhou. The New Year Fun Party organized by the Youth League Municipal Committee and the Municipal Youth Federation let us learn to make shrimp dumplings and participate in the New Year Song Festival, and Teacher Wu Feifan taught us to learn to sing Cantonese opera, and there were a variety of folk culture experience learning such as writing spring, painting flowers and birds, cutting paper, painting sugar paintings, etc., which made us feel the warmth of home..." Zeng Xiangsheng, a young man in Hong Kong, told reporters.
The Youth Folk Culture Festival kicked off, and the New Year was uninterrupted for 8 days
The lively and jubilant lion dance performance kicked off the "Tiger Year Tide City, Picking Up Folk Customs" - the prelude to the 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth Folk Culture Festival.
Subsequently, the wind music quintet and the national style dance performance presented by the volunteer service team of the Municipal Youth Palace Art Troupe pushed the atmosphere to a climax again. The reporter walked into the first floor of the City Youth Palace, and the stalls such as writing about spring, painting flowers and birds, cutting window flowers, painting sugar paintings, and weaving Chinese knots attracted a large number of young people. "You see, this is my painting!" "In the future, I don't have to buy Chinese knots, I will make it myself!" At the event site, the young people and citizens of Hong Kong and Macao who participated in the activity shared the joy of completing the works under the guidance of teachers.
According to the staff of Guangzhou Youth Palace, the teachers who conduct on-site experience teaching are folk traditional craftsmen with rich experience. Under the leadership of the teachers, in two or three minutes, you can make a lifelike tiger candy painting and an auspicious and festive Chinese knot, so that young friends can experience the charm of traditional folklore at close range. In addition, the Municipal Youth Palace also invited 6 calligraphers from the Guangzhou Young Calligraphers Association to splash ink on the spot and present more than 500 pairs of New Year couplets and lucky characters to the youth.
From January 30th to February 6th, the Municipal Youth Palace will carry out eight theme experience activities such as "Happy Year", "Happy Year", "Auspicious Year", "Inheritance Year", "Sweet Year", "Memory Year", "Harmony Year" and "Healthy Year" with folk experience activities as the starting point, so that young people in The New Year in Sui can feel the warmth of home. In the past two years, the Municipal Youth Palace has made great efforts in traditional festivals, deepening the understanding of traditional culture and enhancing cultural self-confidence of young people through different traditional activities.
Traditional culture is equipped with new media, and the dissemination is interesting and powerful
In order to let more young people understand the customs of Guangfu, the Municipal Youth Palace specially invited Zeng Yingfeng, an expert on intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong Province and vice president of the Guangdong Cultural Society, Wang Meiyi, director of the Institute of History of the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, Rao Yuan, a folklore expert in Guangzhou, and other 3 folklore experts and Hong Kong youth representatives who spent the New Year in Sui to interact live with young friends online to introduce the knowledge of Cantonese folklore to young people. Three folklore experts introduced the folklore knowledge to the youth in a simple and in-depth manner through a series of vivid and interesting short stories.
Zeng Yingfeng introduced: "Guangzhou people are willing to accept new things, but do not forget the local culture. Looking at the various customs of Guangzhou, there is not only the shadow of the Central Plains culture, but also the charm of the ancient Yue heritage, and the taste of boldly absorbing new things overseas. This is highlighted in the old Guangzhou's annual culture. Rao Yuan told young friends about the annual custom of "selling lazy songs": "Chinese New Year's Eve get up early in the morning, parents wake up the child, let the child take an egg, insert the incense to run three laps outside the village, and the child will sing the lazy song in his mouth." ”
Care for the young people who have left sui and pay tribute to the struggling youth
"The Spring Festival is also one of our busiest times, and our family can only come to Guangzhou. The organizers of the event invited professional teachers to take family portraits for us, watched the New Year movies together, and sent us Chinese New Year blessing bags, which was very warm and happy. Mr. Li, a courier brother who participated in the event, told reporters. It is reported that on the day of the event, the Municipal Youth Palace also launched the "Warm Bee Action" of the New Year Care Express Brother, inviting 20 express delivery practitioners to experience folk activities, leaving warm moments for them to take "family portraits", sending holiday greetings and "New Year blessing bags". At the same time, in order to carry forward the action spirit of "you for everyone, I help your family", the Municipal Qinggong, the Yuexiu District Federation of Trade Unions, the Tuanyuexiu District Committee, the Yuexiu District Women's Federation, and the Beijing Road Cultural Core District Management Committee jointly launched a "Inheriting Red Genes and Carrying Forward the Anti-epidemic Spirit - Yuexiu District Epidemic Prevention and Control Frontline Personnel Children Care Action", inviting 20 Yuexiu anti-epidemic frontline staff families to visit Beijing Road and participate in this activity to experience the charm of youth folk culture and jointly welcome the New Year of the Tiger.
The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Youth Palace said that the Municipal Youth Palace will also carry out activities such as the New Year parent-child tea party, the "interest theme circle" single youth dating, and the "Love Me China" New Year science popularization experience. Young friends can pay attention to the "Guangzhou Qinggong" WeChat public account to understand the relevant activities.
[South + Reporter] Feng Yandan
[Correspondent] Sui Tuanxuan
【Author】 Feng Yandan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client