Guangming Daily reporter Li Jianbin
Twisting songs, stepping on stilts, playing waist drums, dragon and lion dances... At exactly 10:00 a.m. on the tenth day of the first lunar month, under the guidance of the music played by the military band, the ancient city of Pingyao in Pingyao County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, walked to the street parade composed of 420 people from Gutao Town.
"Sell beef and sell corn!" Every family is happy! "In the performance team, the cargo team shouted hard." The original " New Year's custom performance attracted tourists to stop and watch, and many enthusiastic tourists followed the performance team through the ancient city South Street, Yamen Street, West Street and other places in turn.
Compared with the liveliness of the performance team, the Hanfu parade team is particularly quiet. Dressed in Hanfu, holding folding fans and wearing bells, girls with long sleeves flutter through the ancient city, becoming a beautiful landscape.
From the 29th of the Waxing Moon to the 16th of the first month, the "Our Festival Spring Festival - Pingyao Chinese Year" activity is held in the ancient city of Pingyao, all the attractions in the ancient city are free to open, and 23 annual customs activities with local characteristics of Pingyao are staged in turn, attracting tourists from the south to the north to stroll through the ancient city and enjoy the New Year atmosphere.
Walk into the Yingkao Gate, climb the ancient city wall, stroll through the South Street... Tourists follow the most popular tour routes and start a journey of new year's taste in the ancient city. Looking down from the ancient city wall, the enthusiasm of the "God of Wealth" makes tourists stop again.
"The god of wealth is good to the god of wealth, and the god of wealth sends yuan treasures to everyone." Is it okay to send a big dollar treasure to each of you today? In front of the City God Temple, the smiling "God of Wealth" delivered one "golden treasure" after another that symbolized auspiciousness and blessings to tourists.
"Through these activities rich in traditional Chinese cultural elements, our City God Temple allows tourists to understand the history, culture and folk culture of Pingyao Ancient City." Wang Cailing, director of the Interpretation Office of the Pingyao City God Temple Caishen Temple Management Office, said.
"Taking arrows, hooking strings, opening bows, aiming..." In the North China First Dart Bureau Museum, visitors experience archery activities in one move and one style, and relive the dart game culture of sticking to the guard and fighting righteousness. As the first dart bureau in North China to comprehensively display the history and culture museum of the dart bureau in China, during the Spring Festival, a series of interesting activities such as archery and target shooting, wearing ancient costumes and pushing dart carts were launched, allowing tourists to experience the hardships and difficulties of dart masters while more deeply understanding the Jinshang culture of Shanxi.
Near the Lantern Festival, in the ancient city of Tianxiang Museum, a series of lantern riddles are hung on the walls, attracting tourists to stop and guess. Every day at 10:00 a.m., the Tianjixiang Museum launches 20 sets of lantern riddles every 2 hours, and visitors can feel the festive and peaceful festive atmosphere of the Lantern Festival in advance.
Enjoy the new year customs and taste the food. In the East Lake Old Vinegar Factory located on the South Street of the ancient city, the vinegar is fragrant, and from time to time tourists experience the fermentation of aged vinegar and rake, buy a pot of dumpling vinegar as a souvenir to send relatives and friends; in the adjacent Pingyao Beef Shop, a small piece of independently packaged Pingyao beef is very popular. "A lot of people come to our shop to buy beef." From the beginning of the morning, the clerk was busy without being harsh, selling beef while carefully and patiently explaining the history of Pingyao beef to the guests.
Pingyao Ancient City, with a history of 2,800 years, together with the ancient city of Langzhong in Sichuan, the ancient city of Lijiang in Yunnan and the ancient city of Huizhou in Anhui, is called "the four ancient cities in China" and is known as "the most complete ancient county in China". Since 2000, Pingyao Ancient City has begun to launch the "Pingyao Chinese Year" activities, with ancient city walls, ancient houses, and strong traditional festivals and cultural customs, attracting tourists from all over the world. This year's "Pingyao Chinese Year" activities, which lasted for more than half a month, respectively launched special performances such as "County Taiye Welcome", "Boudoir Catwalk", "Dart Walking", cultural activities such as "Intangible Cultural Heritage Paper Cutting", "String Book", "Hanfu Culture Display", as well as "Writing Bills of Exchange and Sending Yuanbao", "Drinking Fu Congee, Tie Lucky Bags" and other Annual customs, which fully demonstrated the New Year folk customs, New Year customs and New Year culture.
During the Spring Festival holiday, the passenger flow of Pingyao Ancient City reached 346,300. In the ancient city of Pingyao, where the ancient rhyme is leisurely, spring is in full swing.
Guangming Daily ( 2022-02-11 02 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily