At the beginning of the new year in 2022, a "tiger" shaped running road map connecting some roads in Xuhui and Huangpu in Shanghai became popular on social platforms. South Shaanxi Road, Changle Road, Xiangyang South Road, Fuxing Middle Road, Shaoxing Road, Yongjia Road, Nanchang Road... This line can take you to meet a lot of classic Shanghai city style and neighborhood style, not only favored by running enthusiasts, but even sought after by the general public, everyone has met to go to the "tiger" to run once.
The post-80s "Uncle Wangxiang" (net name) from Hunan is the author of this "tiger" shaped running road map. He divided the entire route into three sections, combined with the traditional Chinese blessing words named "Dragon Leaping Tiger Leap", "Tiger Dragon Disk", "Tiger Tiger Shengfeng", hoping that everyone can use this creative way to welcome the Lunar Year of the Tiger.
After graduating from university in 2008 and coming to Shanghai, the city of Shanghai became an important place in the life of "Uncle Wangxiang". Before the epidemic, "Uncle Wangxiang" would return to his hometown in Hunan on time every year to celebrate the Spring Festival with his family. Since last year, "Uncle Wangxiang" has actively responded to the call of "staying in Shanghai for the New Year" and enjoyed the fun of "Happy Shanghai New Year".
In the eyes of "Uncle Wangxiang", life needs Try Everything. So, what new attempts will "Happy Shanghai New Year" bring him? Making "Chinese New Year's Eve rice" for tigers at the Shanghai Zoo, tearing out a "tiger" character with paper at the Changning Folk Culture Center, the "Le Hi" experience of "Uncle Wangxiang" can be said to be a perfect fit with the theme of the Year of the Tiger, and the sense of ceremony is full.
On June 21, 2021, a pair of South China tiger siblings fell to the ground in the native animal area of Shanghai Zoo. For more than 7 months, under the careful feeding of the tiger mother and the breeder, the baby tiger has grown up smoothly, healthily and healthily, and is about to usher in the first Spring Festival of tiger life. On the eve of the Spring Festival, "Uncle Wangxiang" walked into the "back kitchen" and personally made a delicious "whole meat feast" for the tiger mother, tiger sister and tiger brother's family. In addition, he tried to make small toys for two baby tigers. Although I visited the Shanghai Zoo many years ago to see tigers, being able to see the baby tigers so closely and serve the baby tigers was a particularly interesting attempt by Uncle Wangxiang.
A "tearing paper" intangible cultural heritage experience class in the Changning Folk Culture Center enabled "Uncle Wangxiang" to further understand and explore the Culture of The Shanghai School. Under the teaching of Teacher Hua Xingfu, the inheritor of the tearing paper, "Uncle Wangxiang" tore out a delicate "tiger" character with tearing instead of cutting. "Uncle Wangxiang" said: "Before I only knew paper cutting, I didn't expect to have the intangible cultural heritage skill of tearing paper, which gave me a new understanding of Shanghai's Shanghai culture." ”
In the new year, "Uncle Wangxiang" will continue to practice the attitude of "life to try more". In addition to cycling, frisbee, rugby and other sports, he will continue to work with runners to design more creative exploration routes that show the spirit and style of Shanghai, so that more people can understand the city's human feelings and stories.
New Experiences of Intangible Cultural Heritage:
Tearing paper - Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project
Tearing paper, using the most primitive and ancient folk skills in Chinese folk art, replacing knives with hands, tearing instead of scissors, and making them with bare hands, is an art form that is the same origin of traditional Chinese paper-cutting. In 2015, it was identified as a project of The Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Shanghai.
Hua Xingfu, the inheritor of torn paper from Changning, has been engaged in the art of tearing paper for more than 30 years, and has long been immersed in the teaching and technical innovation of folk paper-cutting and tearing paper creation. He has a special love for the ancient folk art that is on the verge of being lost, absorbing traditional art, drawing nutrition from paper-cutting, knowingly and improvising, tearing out traditional flower and bird patterns and modern multi-themes full of local taste with his bare hands. The works focus on "extra-painting kung fu", unique ingenuity, self-pioneering, forming a rough, naïve and spontaneous artistic personality, revealing a primitive and simple, thick and old charm.
Recommended Route:
Shanghai Zoo - Changning District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center
Recommended Destinations:
Shanghai Zoo
Address: No. 2381 Hongqiao Road
Shanghai Zoo exhibits more than 5,000 animals (heads) of more than 470 species of wild animals. During the Chinese New Year Festival, Shanghai Zoo launched the Year of the Tiger Zodiac Cultural Festival. There will be a demonstration of the "Slippery Food" project in the zoo Shihu Shandong Mountain; in the local animal area, the mother of the South China tiger and the sister and brother of the tiger baby live happily. During the Spring Festival, citizens with the word "Tiger" in their names can enter the park for free with a valid ID.
Changning District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center
Address: No. 95 Beiyu Road
The Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Changning District is a sub-center of intangible cultural heritage protection in Shanghai and a pilot unit for the integration of national culture and tourism in Shanghai. Citizens and tourists can experience a variety of intangible cultural heritage activities here. During the Spring Festival, the Center holds a wealth of activities to welcome everyone to spend the Spring Festival in the new experience of intangible cultural heritage.
Recommended Activities:
Yinhu He Chun Shi Reminiscences: Make frozen rice candy, tie flower lanterns, and visit the New Year in Old Street
Time: February 3 (3rd day of the first year) to 6th (6th day of the first year) 9:00-12:00 / 13:30-16:30 A total of 8 games
Address: Changning District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (Pear Garden, Dance Hall, Classroom, Old Street) (No. 95 Beiyu Road)
New Year's Intangible Cultural Heritage Tear paper zodiac exhibition
When: From now until February 22
Venue: Exhibition Hall of Xinjing Community Cultural Affairs Center (No. 1358 Hami Road)