Visiting the lanterns in the first month is a traditional folk custom that we Chinese. Photo by reporter Yang Jingxiu
Citizens go to Qipan Mountain to welcome the spring lanterns to admire the lights. Photo by reporter Yang Jingxiu
Citizens visit the intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting exhibition in Huanggu District, Shenyang City. Photo by reporter Gao Huageng
Core tips
In the paper-cutting art exhibition, appreciate the beauty of the engraving art of skillful hands and flowers; In Manchu embroidery, taste the most dazzling national style of a needle and a thread; In the visual feast of staggering lights and shadows, enjoy the variety of Golden State Dragon Dance and feel the rich local atmosphere...
The Spring Festival is a grand and lively festival, and the First Month is also a stage for the concentrated display of local customs. With the help of colorful folk special activities, the culture of various parts of our province is rich and fragrant, adding fashion elements to the tradition and integrating innovative connotations into the inheritance.
Let's take a look at the Liaoning New Year Flavor Award, and enjoy the "tiger" -
Shenyang
February 10
"Cut" out of the red hot custom
Reporter Gao Huageng
The Spring Festival is a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and it is also the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Paper-cutting, as a traditional annual custom, is also an intangible cultural heritage, with extremely rich cultural connotations. On February 10th, in the Culture and Arts Center of Huanggu District of Shenyang City, a series of vivid and vivid paper-cut works came into view, filling the exhibition hall, and the festive atmosphere of the New Year also came to the fore.
A piece of red paper is in the hands of the paper-cutting master, and the scissors with the tip poke, turn, and fly up and down; Closing the blade, picking up the paper and facing the wind, during the conversation, a wonderful paper-cut work was born. "Paper cutting, also known as paper carving, window flowers or cut paintings. The difference is that when creating, some use scissors, some use a carving knife, although the tools are different, but the created works of art are basically the same, people collectively call it paper-cutting. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which visually gives people a feeling of permeability and artistic enjoyment. Liu Suping, a non-hereditary heir of paper-cutting in Huanggu District, introduced.
Liu Suping told reporters that in Shenyang's traditional festivals, marriages or life embellishments and other folk activities, traces of paper-cutting can be found. According to the calculations of paper-cutting works that have been discovered so far, the development of paper-cutting art has a history of at least 1500 years.
"Paper-cutting is a unique regional cultural element of China, paper-cutting as a treasure of the traditional handicraft of the Chinese nation, we must not only inherit it, but also continue to innovate, so that China's traditional culture has a higher degree of recognition, while meeting people's new needs for culture." Shenyang's paper-cutting festival this year collected nearly 3,000 works, with themes including 'Sailing a New Journey', 'Welcoming the Winter Olympics', 'Shenyang Heroes City', 'Culture into Ten Thousand Homes', 'Culture of Two Neighbors', 'Folk Customs', etc., including more than ten types of paper-cutting, origami, paper-pinching, paper pile, paper-cutting knife painting, paper-cutting cultural creation, etc. Du Xiaoli, a staff member of the intangible cultural heritage project of the Huanggu District Culture and Arts Center, said.
Yingkou
February 8
Year of the Tiger "Episode 1"
Reporter Tong Lide
On February 8, the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Red Flag Grand Market in Bayuquan District of Yingkou City ushered in the "first episode" of the Year of the Tiger. Gongs and gongs, Fengtian drums, old-fashioned snacks, national tide snacks... In the big market, not only is the red fire still undiminished, but also the crowd feels the inheritance of the Spring Festival culture and full of memories.
Although the Spring Festival holiday has passed, the New Year goods such as raw and cooked meat, fruits and vegetables, clothing, shoes and hats, and dried seafood and fruits in the Hongqi Big Market are still readily available, and the people who rush to the big market are bustling, and the shouts of the sellers and the bargaining of the market collectors rise and fall one after another, and the strong New Year flavor is not reduced.
The opening of the gong is the tradition of the red flag collection to open the new year. Two people carrying gongs interacted with the crowd, and children also rushed forward to ring the gongs. Accompanied by a gong, conveying people's good expectations for the new year.
In the Hongqi Collection, intangible cultural heritage is an inseparable inheritance and memory. On the same day, accompanied by the three-string master, Wang Yanjuan, the fifth generation of the Northeast Drum Intangible Cultural Heritage, held the board in her left hand and the drum with her right hand, and sang in a high-pitched and loud voice, which attracted the applause of the onlookers.
Hongqi Daji is a Manchu cultural and folk collection with a history of more than 300 years, during the Spring Festival, the organizers held a series of activities "Greater Than the Chinese New Year", inviting Gaizhou shadow puppetry, full embroidery, paper cutting, traditional wedding concubines and other intangible cultural heritage projects to display on-site, and also held folk performances such as two-person transfer and yangge, so that people can feel the strong New Year flavor and traditional Daji culture.
The lively red flag market not only attracts surrounding villagers to rush to the market for shopping, but also many "city people" drive here to catch the market. "You can buy pollution-free green food in the big market, especially dried vegetables and mushrooms." Wang Shuang's family lives in the station front area, specially driving with children to catch the market, she said she wants children to feel the lively atmosphere and traditional culture of the folk market.
The Spring Festival holiday is tired of eating mountain treasures and seafood, and it is time to take over the ground. The old-fashioned popcorn, fried sprinkles, and sweet and sour sugar gourds not only evoke hungry insects that catch people, but also evoke childhood memories. Jellyfish, mackerel, frozen pears, sticky bean buns, Manchu cakes, etc. sold on the Hongqi Daji are all agricultural and sideline products produced and sold by the surrounding farmers, Xu Zhifeng, general manager of Hongqi Daji, said that Hongqi Daji has been committed to building a sales platform for agricultural and sideline products for the people, and at the same time, combining the manchu culture with regional characteristics with the folk culture of northeast China to promote the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage and enrich the cultural life of the people.
Dalian
February 9
The Intangible Cultural Heritage "Hundred Flowers Festival" will light up the Chinese New Year Lantern Festival
Reporter Lu Li
"Let's go! Look at the lights will go!" As night fell, the vehicles to Dalian Jinshitan National Tourist Resort were already converging into the dragon. The Spring Festival holiday is over, but the New Year flavor is still very strong. The 2022 Golden Pebble Beach New Year Tourism and Culture Festival and Golden Pebble Beach Botanical Garden Lantern Viewing Tour has become the most popular punch card place for Dalian citizens and foreign tourists since childhood Chinese New Year's Eve.
The iron flowers bloom in the sky, the flexible dragon dance is majestic, and the various flower lanterns are full of light... At night, the Golden Pebble Beach Botanical Garden is crowded and bustling.
"This year's garden party not only has a variety of innovative Chinese New Year creative lanterns, but also organically combines with the themes of intangible cultural heritage and winter Olympics to create a festive atmosphere, so that the general public can appreciate the cultural essence of intangible cultural heritage and experience the unique fun of ice and snow sports." According to the person in charge of Jinshitan Tourism Group, the grand situation of the intangible cultural heritage "Hundred Flowers Festival" presented in the first immersive lantern festival is a highlight of this year.
Among them, there are not only Dalian's local national intangible cultural heritage projects Jinzhou Dragon Dance, provincial intangible cultural heritage projects Jinzhou Lion Dance, stick and mallet dance, etc., but also invited the team to perform the national intangible cultural heritage project - playing iron flowers.
Jinzhou Dragon Dance has typical characteristics of southern Liaoning, with a variety of dance styles, including nearly 40 kinds of tricks such as "Panlong", "Dragon Out of the Sea" and "Dragon Pendulum Tail". The Golden State Lion Dance has a history of more than 100 years, in addition to traditional performances such as "DotTing", local elements such as "Treasure Hunting under the sea" have been added. During the iron flower performance, the splashing stars are like electricity, and the flower trees are released at night, just like the Milky Way falling to the earth, and the impact of light and shadow is magnificent. In addition, the shadow puppet dance, overlord whip, Taiping drum music and other intangible cultural interpretations specially choreographed for this lantern festival, such as "Joyful Lantern Festival" and "Sea Oath Mountain Alliance Golden Pebble Beach", make the whole lantern fair step by step and beautiful. "I've already come twice with my kids! It is very rare to be able to see the intangible cultural heritage performances in such a concentrated way. Song Wenhua, who lives in the Shahekou District of Dalian City, said that the intangible cultural heritage performances have both traditional culture and good wishes for the future, which are worth watching repeatedly.
The reporter learned that the enthusiasm of citizens and tourists has not only increased the number of intangible cultural heritage performances of this lantern festival many times, but also extended the time. And on February 15 (Lantern Festival), special activities for the exhibition of intangible cultural heritage will be launched, such as flower lantern viewing, intangible cultural heritage, folk customs, guessing lantern riddles, garden visits... The Year of the Tiger has a taste.
Iron Ridge
Manchu stilts sang and danced all over the "Luxiang" land
Journalist Di Wenjun
"It's new year in the new month, and the gongs and drums outside the village are noisy. Cheerful gongs and drums sounded, and festive songs twisted up. At the beginning of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger, the five yangge teams that had just shown their grace in the county Manchu stilt song performance played the prelude to the mobile tour. Driven by them, in the past few days, more than 20 folk song teams in Tieling Xifeng County have also been active in the "Luxiang" land, jointly sending New Year celebrations and exquisite cultural feasts to hundreds of thousands of peasants in 175 villages.
In order to enrich the cultural life of the masses and celebrate the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the "Welcome the New Year, Celebrate the New Year" Manchu stilt song performance activity sponsored by the Xifeng County Government attracted 5 teams, including the Three Sisters of Dexing Manchu Township, the Rainbow Stilt Performing Arts Troupe of Gaojiadian Town, and the Fenglou Village Song Team of Chengping Manchu Township. They stepped on stilts and held colored fans, taking turns to appear on the stage and shouting at each other, igniting the festive atmosphere of the New Year of the Xifeng Tiger.
The Stilt Song of the Xifeng people has a history of hundreds of years. After generations of inheritance, it has now become an indispensable cultural feast for the local people to celebrate the New Year's Festival, and is well-known in northern Liaoning. With its witty and bold performance style, the Stilt Song of the Xifeng ethnic group vividly shows the warm and simple, rigid and gentle and positive character of the locals.
In the compound of the Yongdeli Vegetable Cooperative in Sanhe Village, Pinggang Town, the vegetable farmers gathered in a large circle and enjoyed the wonderful performances sent by the Manchu Stilt Art Troupe. Seeing the peacock open screen, Hongyun Dang's first-class song performance stunts, the scene suddenly applauded thunderously. "Making New Year noises, twisting rice songs, and watching unique jobs are the traditional customs of our northeastern people for the New Year." Busy in the greenhouse all year round, the New Year has time, see such a festive performance of the song, how happy I am!" Li Precious, a vegetable farmer in Sanhe Village, said with joy on his face.
You sing me out. Approaching the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the performance of traditional folk songs has once again reached a climax. On February 10, Chengping Village and Fenglou Village successively sounded the heavenly gongs and drums, only to see the Chengping Manchu Township Fenglou Village Song Team wearing bright costumes, sometimes tumbling and leaping, sometimes singing and dancing, the performance style was hot and warm, and the feet were like walking on the ground. The festive song twisted out the joy and peace of the new countryside, and squandered the new style of farmers in the new era...
Fushun
Stitch by stitch embroidery with a strong Flavor of the Year
Reporter Cui Zhenbo
On February 10, in the Xinbin Manchu Embroidery Workshop in Fushun Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, more than a dozen embroidery ladies were sitting in front of the embroidery rack and walking with flying needles, stitching and stitching with manchu embroidery works that symbolized festive and auspicious.
"This small pendant with a tiger motif was given to the children by the elders during the Manchu New Year." Sang Ju, a non-hereditary heir of Xinbin Manchu embroidery, said that during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, all kinds of small pendants and hydrangeas are particularly popular, and everyone has been in a state of catching orders since New Year's Day.
"Manchu embroidery is an indispensable and important part of Manchu traditional culture." Sangju said that during the New Year, the Manchus will embroider gourds, flowers and grass on the quilt, pillow cover, and curtain, which means that the new year is auspicious and happy. "Rich Peony", "Fushou Double Complete", "Flying With Wings"... They are all more common embroidery patterns. During the New Year, women sit around and embroider together, talk about this year's happy events, nag about new plans for next year, and embroider and embroidery with a special Taste of the New Year.
Xinbin Manchu embroidery was originally mainly popular in the vast rural areas inhabited by manchus, with red, yellow, blue and white as the main tone of various colored silk threads, with a small steel needle pierced up and down, weaving and embroidering a variety of patterns, involving a wide range of themes, profound meaning, expressing the Manchu people's vision of a better life and heavy cultural connotations.
As a skill that has been passed down for hundreds of years, due to the increasingly low demand, the new Binman embroidery has faced the danger of no successor. In order to solve this problem, Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County sought a way out in many ways, and finally through the e-commerce platform, made embroidered dolls for the trendy handmade dolls, and revitalized this traditional skill.
The production of baby clothes is complex, the economic value is also high, and the price of six-point baby clothes with complex patterns exceeds 10,000 yuan, and the supply exceeds demand. Sangju said that the popularity of the full embroidery baby clothes has made more people love the full embroidery, and now it is not busy at all, and the orders are lined up to a year later. Due to the high income, more and more people have joined the ranks of embroidery girls, and the training courses held by the government have also expired.
Nowadays, the traditional craft of man embroidery has returned to people's Spring Festival life. During the Spring Festival, everyone sat together to exchange embroidery skills, embroidered New Year gifts for their families, and embroidered a strong New Year's flavor with one stitch and one thread.
Jinzhou
The cultural heritage of the cloth tiger
Reporter Cui Zhi
"This red tiger is for the little grandson, this green tiger is for the granddaughter, look at how cute and festive this cloth tiger is, the children like it!" On February 10, Wang Fengxia, a jinzhou resident, told reporters with a cloth tiger she made herself. She learned this craft by participating in the cloth tiger making public welfare course held by the Jinzhou Mass Art Museum, and this Spring Festival she made an exclusive cloth tiger for each of her grandchildren to celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Tiger.
"Teacher Yining talked about the cultural inheritance of buhu in class, and also taught us to make buhu in detail, and we learned it seriously." This year, there are nearly 100 students like Wang Fengxia, and the public welfare class of Cloth Tiger Production has been held for 4 consecutive days, and the students are enthusiastic, and each class is full. Paper cutting, cutting parts, needlework... In the class, Yining, the inheritor of Jinzhou Cloth Tiger Culture, demonstrated very carefully. "The Five Elements Culture in the Middle East is green, and the green is also green, so many of our Cloth Tigers in Jinzhou are green..." Teacher Yining introduced the characteristics of Jinzhou Cloth Tigers while making them.
Yining is over seventy years old, and she has been innovating and innovating for many years, one needle and one thread, which has been passed down for decades, so that the "cloth tiger" in Jinzhou has entered the homes of the people and gone to the world. Yining introduced that the embroidery of the cloth tiger is fine, the stitch requirements are very delicate, and the cultural connotation is also deep. The face of the cloth tiger in Jinzhou is more special, which contains the content of the white mountain and black water, the tiger's nose is the shape of the tree of life, and the eyes and ears reflect the poignant tiger.
This Spring Festival, Teacher Yining became very busy because of the public welfare class made by the cloth tiger. Jinzhou Linghe District Baodi Primary School also set up a cloth tiger club, Yining is the guidance teacher, in the 4th to 6th grade students to popularize the cloth tiger culture, comprehensively carry out hands-on creative activities. "I belong to the tiger, Baodi Primary School is still my alma mater, the children love the cloth tiger, and now the cultural heritage of the cloth tiger is being loved by more citizens in Jinzhou." Yining told reporters, "The cute cloth tiger is the wish of Jinzhou citizens for the new year, and I believe that the cloth tiger can bring us good luck and good luck." ”