China Youth Daily client news (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Lin Jie) learning Cantonese opera, writing spring, dancing to wake up the lion, cutting window flowers... On January 30th, the Guangzhou Youth Palace on the Pedestrian Street of Beijing Road in Guangzhou city was very lively. "Tiger Year Tide City, Picking Up Folk Customs" - The 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Youth Folk Culture Festival kicked off here. Young people from Hong Kong and Macao, children of frontline workers in the grass-roots fight against the epidemic, and courier brothers participated in the New Year fun. The organizers prepared plates of vegetables, annual flowers and blessing bags for the young people from Hong Kong and Macao who stayed in Sui.
"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, Cantonese opera "Almighty Hua Dan" and member of the Guangzhou Youth Federation, became a Cantonese opera instructor, popularized the knowledge of Cantonese opera to the young people of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area present, performed a number of traditional Cantonese opera, and taught Hong Kong and Macao youth to learn to sing Cantonese opera on the spot.
This year's Spring Festival, due to the epidemic and other reasons, many young people in Hong Kong and Macao chose to stay in the new year. "I hope that every young person from Hong Kong and Macao who stays in Guangzhou for the Chinese New Year can feel the warmth of home." Huo Qiwen, vice chairman of the Guangzhou Youth Federation and chairman of the Guangzhou Guangzhou Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Exchange Center, sent his blessings.
Awakening the lion is a traditional folk activity in Lingnan and a representative project of national intangible cultural heritage. On the same day, the award-winning "Dragon Lion Martial Arts Team" of the Information Engineering College of Guangzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology trade brought a wonderful lion awakening performance. Accompanied by the shouts of the staff, the shrimp dumplings made by the young people of Hong Kong and Macao were sent to the event site.
At the scene, a number of folk traditional craftsmen led the young people to make tiger candy paintings, weave Chinese knots, and paint flowers and birds, so that they could feel the charm of traditional folklore at close range. In addition, six calligraphers from the Guangzhou Young Calligraphers Association waved ink and presented them with more than 500 pairs of Chinese New Year couplets and lucky characters.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Youth Palace, the holding of such an event is to let Hong Kong and Macao youth feel the strong New Year flavor and get a different New Year experience in Guangzhou.
From January 30th to February 6th, Guangzhou Youth Palace will take the folk experience activities as the starting point to 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", so that young people in Sui New Year can feel the warmth of home. In the past two years, guangzhou youth palace has made great efforts in traditional festivals, through the development of different traditional activities, deepening the understanding of traditional culture and enhancing cultural self-confidence.
During the Spring Festival, volunteer docents from the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace Volunteer Service Corps and the flagship station of Guangzhou Volunteer Station will lead tourists to visit the Beijing Road Millennium Ancient Road, the time-honored Street, the Huifu Food Flower Street, etc., to feel the memory of the city.
Source: China Youth Daily client