What are the new places to go in the familiar city for the New Year?
"The tiger is coming!" In the Suzhou Creek Huazheng Section Trail, St. John's University National Treasure Historic Building Complex and the beautiful scenery of the Su River, a folk pop-up performance of "Intangible Cultural Heritage New Experience" and the arrival of a group of cute tigers add a bit of agility to this "most beautiful trail" in Shanghai.
At noon on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year on February 5th, the folk pop-up activity of "Happy New Year and New Experience of Intangible Cultural Heritage" kicked off on the Huazheng Trail, and the dragon and lion dances, big-headed dolls, Fulu Shou and other intangible cultural heritage performances brought by the Folk Street Performance Team of the Changning Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center took turns on the stage, and the Haipai fashion and traditional folk customs were integrated, which attracted the cheers and applause of citizens and tourists.
"During the Spring Festival holiday, we made an appointment to take our children to this new 'net red land' to punch in, not only the scenery is particularly beautiful, but we did not expect to encounter such a lively intangible cultural heritage experience, which evoked the memories of the New Year when we were young." Ms. Wang, a citizen, told reporters.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Changning Culture and Arts Center, folk street performances have a long history in the mainland, combined with local customs and folk stories, etc., with witty and vivid performances to communicate with the audience and amusing. With the development of the city, these scattered folk art performance forms are gradually scattered, in order to protect these traditional skills, Changning District as early as 2003 launched the folk street intangible cultural heritage protection project, looking for folk artists to set up lion dance, big head doll, lotus Xiang, red silk and other street performance teams, they took to the streets during the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other traditional festivals to perform, but also participated in many performance activities at home and abroad, has become the Changning intangible cultural heritage display brand. "Folk customs flash mobs have gathered six or seven forms of performance, and this year, we specially sent the performance to the Huazheng Trail to form a unique cultural landscape along the Suzhou Creek and an interactive experience of intangible cultural heritage, inviting everyone to have fun together for the New Year."
In addition to the "Intangible Cultural Heritage New Experience" pop-up, the digital screen in the central square of Huazheng Trail also simultaneously presents the content of the "13th International Children's Zodiac Painting Exhibition" being exhibited at the Shanghai Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art, and the children take the traditional zodiac "tiger" as the theme, through colorful colors and rich imagination, draw the image of the tiger in their minds and express their understanding of the traditional zodiac culture. The digital "fork" version will last until February 8.
On the basis of the 11.2-kilometer public space of the Changning section of Suzhou Creek, Changning District has created a series of urban micro-travel destinations along the Suhe River, including the "most beautiful trail" Suzhou River Huazheng section, Hongqiao business circle, Linkong Park, etc., superimposed on elements such as intangible cultural heritage, traditional customs, and Haipai fashion to create an immersive micro-travel experience. Taking the waterfront landscape of the Huazheng section of Suzhou Creek as an example, practicing the concept of people's city, according to the overall idea of "not occupying the water surface and sharing the waterfront shoreline", 18 buildings along the river were demolished, creating a "belt and ten points" cultural landscape, which not only "returned the river to the people", but also achieved a new Shanghai cultural landscape in Shanghai and enhanced the soft power of the city.
Author: Zhou Yuan
Photo: Photo by Zhang Yichen
Edit: Zhou Chen
Editor-in-Charge: Liu Liyuan
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