What are the new places to go in the familiar city for the New Year? On the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, the Fa Theater of the Huazheng Section of Suzhou Creek is surrounded by the century-old historical buildings of St. John's University with gray tiles and red walls, and on the side of the theater, the ginkgo biloba that has faded leaves is also more than 100 years old, and the theater and the trail are connected by steps, naturally forming a small stage, and the folk performance teams from xinjing area take turns to take the stage, and the folk pop-up activity of "Happy Hi Over the New Year, Changning Intangible Cultural Heritage" was launched.
Originally, the dragon and lion dances, big-headed dolls, Fulu Shou and other intangible cultural heritage performances were deliberately lowered because the performance venue was adjacent to the quiet campus, and the folk music of "Baduanjin" made people feel a rare softness. The music is gentle, but the taste of the year is not diminished. "During the Spring Festival holiday, we made an appointment to bring our children to this new 'net red land' to punch in, where not only the river scenery is beautiful, but we did not expect to encounter such a traditional intangible cultural heritage experience, which evoked the memories of the New Year when we were young." Ms. Zhang, a citizen who held up her mobile phone and couldn't stop taking pictures, told reporters.
Pictured: Huazheng Trail staged dragon and lion dances and other intangible cultural heritage performances Official picture (the same below)
Huang Zhilin, director of the Changning Intangible Cultural Heritage Conservation Center, introduced that folk street performances have a long history in the mainland, combined with local customs and folk stories, etc., with humorous and vivid performances to communicate with the audience and amusing. With the development of the city, these folk art performance forms that originally arose in the fields gradually scattered. In order to protect these traditional skills, Changning District launched the Folk Street Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project as early as 2003, looking for folk artists, and established a street performance team such as lion dance, dragon dance, big head doll, lotus xiang, red silk, etc. This team took to the streets to perform on the spring festival, Lantern Festival and other traditional festivals, and also participated in many performance activities at home and abroad, which has become a brand of Changning intangible cultural heritage, and each performance will firmly attract the attention of audiences of all ages. This folk pop-up activity in the Huazheng section of Suzhou Creek walkway gathered several performance forms such as dragon dance, lion dance, big head doll, Fulu Shou, red silk, etc. The reporter observed that there were few young faces in the performance team, "The dragon dance team of the two dragons came a total of 21 people, 5 lion dancers, if this performance team is all together, there are more than 200 people, of which the oldest is 75 years old and the youngest is 59 years old." Today, because of the performance venue, only 50 people came, and the traditional lake boat and stilt project were cancelled. However, our folklore does not lack the love of young people, and East China Normal University has a special research team. Huang Zhilin said.
Because only a rough stage range is drawn, these folk annual performances are actually very casual, there is no fixed script, fixed time, fixed routine, the instructor performs while directing, the actors interact with the audience while acting and taking pictures, this loose performance method that does not distinguish between each other blurs the boundaries between the stage and the audience, and shows the new taste of "music together".
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. Not only "returning the river to the people", but also achieving a new cultural landscape of the Shanghai school. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)