In the early morning, stroll along the shores of Huizhou West Lake, search for footprints on the eastern slope, and buy Huizhou souvenirs; in the afternoon, stop at the "Huizhou Heavenly Graben" Chaojing Gate, touch the ancient city wall of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and feel the echoes of history; in the evening, climb the Hejiang Tower, overlook the beauty of the ancient city, listen to the huidong fishing songs more and more fashionable; at night, wander the East Street, enjoy the style of the arcade building, and enjoy the light show on both sides of the river...
"Once the Po Gong who is in the South China Sea, the world does not dare to underestimate Huizhou." Famous for its national historical and cultural cities at home and abroad because of the eastern slope, the millennium cultural context is endless, and the cultural landmarks lead the way.
Strive for a new era, stride forward a new journey. Drawing a new picture of the "14th Five-Year Plan" culture, Huizhou will further strengthen cultural self-confidence, create literary and artistic works to tell the story of Huizhou, meet the people's new expectations for a better life, polish the golden signboard of the national historical and cultural city, bloom the modern charm of Lingdong Famous County in the new era, and jointly play the Huizhou music of the beautiful culture of the new era.
The acts of kindness of mortals nurture urban civilization
At the end of July 2021, on Daya Bay Petrochemical Avenue in Huizhou, a 6-year-old boy rode a bicycle across the road alone when a heavy-duty truck sped by, and the danger was imminent. At the moment of a thousand gunshots, Zeng Yongjun, an auxiliary police officer passing through the area, pulled the boy at the speed of "100-meter sprint". Subsequently, the video of Zeng Yongjun bravely saving the boy in the traffic flow attracted the attention of netizens, and the heroic deeds of the "Huizhou Auxiliary Police Brother" were widely known.
Screenshot of the video of the heroic deeds of the "Huizhou Auxiliary Police Brother".
This is a vivid portrayal of Huizhou, the "city of good people". From Zeng Yongjun, the "auxiliary police brother" who saved people in the "100-meter sprint", to Li Zhiwei, the "brother who blocked the knife and express delivery", from Chen Xiaoli, the "sister who lifted up the lift", to Zhao Xichang, the "living Lei Feng"... One by one, "civilian heroes" stepped forward at critical moments, interpreted the great love of the world with the courage of responsibility, and improved the civilization level and happiness index of the entire city.
In fact, the city's "civilization code" doesn't stop there. The positive energy of one person is limited, and the positive energy of a group of people is enough to warm the whole city. According to the statistics of Huizhou Volunteer Service Network, there are 1.234 million registered volunteers in Huizhou, 1 in every 5 permanent residents is a registered volunteer, 6371 registered volunteer service organizations, and 161,000 volunteer service projects. These people and these numbers write a warm footnote for Huizhou's urban civilization.
Trickles of water merge into the sea, and mortals do good deeds to support the city of civilization. Huizhou won the "Five Consecutive Championships" of National Civilized City, which is the height of civilization of a city jointly built by 6 million Huizhou people. It is worth mentioning that Boluo County ranks among the only "pilot experimental zones" in the province and one of the 10 new era civilization practice centers in the country, which will represent Guangdong to contribute low-cost, sustainable, replicable and generalizable new era civilization practice experience to the whole country.
Civilization is not only the inner temperament of Huizhou, but also the background of huizhou people's life. Huizhou will adhere to the creation of civilized cities in the whole region, the whole people and the normalization, promote the construction of civilization practice centers in the new era with high standards, achieve full coverage of civilization practice stations, and strive to become the first prefecture-level city in the province to cover the whole territory of civilized cities in the country.
Fine works build the peak of literature and art
On the evening of June 25, 2021, the Huizhou Culture and Arts Center was brightly lit and the red songs were loud. Sponsored by the Huizhou Municipal Party Committee and the Huizhou Municipal Government and undertaken by the Propaganda Department of the Huizhou Municipal Party Committee, Huizhou's first large-scale original symphonic poetry painting "Ode to the Red East River" was made a stunning appearance here.
"This is a fine literary and artistic work created by Huizhou using its own local strength, and a successful example of telling the story of Huizhou well, reflecting the new style of Huizhou, and composing a new epic of the Red Dongjiang River." Xiong Wei, deputy secretary general of the Chinese Musicians Association, greatly praised "Ode to the Red East River".
2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, huizhou propaganda and culture department dug deep into the red story, innovated and created the "Red Ode to the East River" and the small dance drama "1942 Secret Rescue" and "Gao Tianbo", using literary and artistic masterpieces to guide party members and cadres to inherit the red gene and draw the power of faith.
Literature and art are the clarion call for the times to advance. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Huizhou vigorously implemented the strategic project of fine literary and artistic works, and the literary and artistic creations bloomed with a hundred flowers and many branches competed, and the development of the city's literary and artistic undertakings entered a new journey. The song "Remember Nostalgia", the movie "Redemption of the Soul", the radio drama "The Rising Moon in the Sea", and "County Order ZhangJin" were selected into the provincial "Five One Project" award; Huizhou's outstanding works and talents won more than 200 awards at or above the provincial level; Chen Anbang, He Di, and Qiu Jinbei were identified as literary and artistic workers in guangdong Province on the 70th anniversary of their art; Longmen peasant paintings, Huidong fishing songs and other characteristic regional cultures went to Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Mexico and other exchanges and performances...
In 2020, the Huizhou Symphony Orchestra, Huizhou Cultural Think Tank and Huizhou Cultural Research Institute were established one after another, forming a professional literary and art group and academic team to continuously provide intellectual support for the prosperity and development of Huizhou's cultural undertakings and promote Huizhou culture to "go global".
When the wind is good, it is time to raise the sails, and do not wait for the whip to raise their hooves. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Huizhou will launch the "Red Dongjiang" literary and artistic brand, forge an iron army of literature and art, strive to make new breakthroughs in important awards and market exploration such as national art fund projects, national art exhibitions, theater tours, etc., and strive to rank among the "second army" of literary and artistic creation in the province.
High-quality cultural supply enhances happiness
"Go, punch in the new museum!" After the official opening of the new Longmen County Museum, groups of visitors came to visit. Through thousands of cultural relics from the Neolithic period to modern times, the museum fully presents the long history and brilliant civilization of Longmen County, so that citizens and tourists have a more three-dimensional understanding of Longmen County.
At present, Huizhou has built 12 museums (memorial halls), irregularly carry out various theme exhibitions, to see the museum has become one of the main ways of cultural consumption of Huizhou citizens.
A far-looking view is a landscape, and a close-up view is life. In the afternoon, push open the door of the reading room, choose a book from the shelves and enjoy reading - in Huizhou, you can find such a cultural "gas station" in 10 minutes.
This is a vivid portrayal of Huizhou's in-depth implementation of cultural projects to benefit the people. According to statistics, Huizhou has built 6 public libraries, 6 cultural centers, 12 museums (memorial halls), 73 town street comprehensive cultural stations, 1262 village community cultural rooms, 1274 village community comprehensive cultural service centers, and the cultural front extends to the "doorstep" of the people.
At present, the public cultural facilities in Huizhou City, county, town and village have achieved full coverage, with an area of about 1341.87 square meters of public cultural facilities per 10,000 people, and the pattern of urban "ten-minute cultural circle" and rural "ten-mile cultural circle" has basically taken shape, and public cultural services are "within reach".
Polishing the Dongpo Cultural Festival, the Southern Book Festival and the Huizhou Book Fair, the Cultural Huimin Lecture Hall, the West Lake Lantern Expo, etc., have become the brand of Huizhou mass culture; the Huizhou Culture and Arts Center holds 100 high-end performances every year, and mobile cultural services such as sending plays to the countryside and sending movies to the countryside have become the norm... A unique "cultural feast" is delivered to the doorstep of the people, opening up the "last kilometer" of public cultural services.
In the upsurge of rural revitalization, huizhou literary and art workers can be seen everywhere. In the past three years, the Huizhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Art has carried out a series of activities on the theme of "going to the people" to promote rural revitalization and development, sending literature and art to the grass-roots level, and carrying out 344 activities such as 100 lectures, 100 performances, 100 creations and 100 volunteers, with more than 800 participating artists and nearly 80,000 audiences.
In the future, Huizhou will build new cultural and tourism integration spaces and urban cultural landmarks such as Lingnan College, Dongpo Shang bookstore, Cantonese book bar, and Guishan Study Room, promote the construction of municipal art museums and cultural parks, improve the efficiency of public cultural services, promote the sharing and interconnection of public cultural service resources at all levels, significantly improve the level of digitalization, and continuously meet the needs and new expectations of the masses for a better life.
The new landmark highlights the fashion charm of Lingdong Famous County
Strolling through Huizhou, on the land of 11,347 square kilometers, the sense of historical and cultural heaviness comes to the face: 145 pieces (sets) of provincial-level movable revolutionary cultural relics, 67 provincial-level immovable revolutionary cultural relics, 40 provincial-level cultural relics protection units, and more than 150 intangible cultural heritage... Natural scenery and cultural relics shine together here, and the literati of the past generations have come here, writing poems and praising them, making Huizhou famous.
"Ask Ru Ping for his life and deeds, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou." Dongpo Yuhui Qianri, affecting Huizhou for a thousand years. In 2019, a series of activities such as the Guangdong Tourism and Culture Festival and the 10th (Huizhou) Dongpo Cultural Festival were held in Huizhou, and a very attractive and dynamic "Dongpo City" once again attracted the world's attention.
Named after the East Slope of Huizhou West Lake, it has now become the "super IP" of Huizhou Cultural Tourism. During the Spring Festival in 2021, the "one lake, two rivers and four belts" urban living room has become a popular travel place in the province, of which the total reservation volume of tourists in the West Lake Scenic Area ranks second in the province.
Looking at the whole city, this national historical and cultural city that makes Dongpo "a Lingnanian for a long time" has a long cultural vein and peaks. Cultural venues such as Gehong Museum, Dongpo Ancestral Hall, Binxing Pavilion, Donghu Hotel, and Gaotan Revolutionary History and Culture Exhibition Hall have been built and opened one after another, becoming new landmarks for cultural tourism of Huizhou citizens and enhancing the "soft power" of the millennium ancient city.
As an important witness to the major historical event of the secret rescue of Guangdong and Hong Kong, Huizhou Donghu Hotel was built as the "Exhibition Hall of Rescue chinese Cultural Celebrities", and in 2020, it was selected as one of the top ten cases of national revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization with unanimous approval and ranking first. The second phase of the East Lake Hotel project is also in close preparation, and Huizhou will design a route according to the rescue operation, so that citizens and tourists can "retake the rescue road".
Local aerial view of the White Horse Kiln Site Group.
On November 12, 2021, Huizhou's cultural relics protection work ushered in significant progress, and Huizhou officially joined the "Hai Silk Road Heritage City Alliance". The report of the 12th Party Congress of Huizhou City proposes to actively participate in the exchange and cooperation of the "Hai Silk Alliance" and jointly declare the World Cultural Heritage.
Relying on the archaeological findings of the Baima kiln, huizhou and guangdong provincial institutes of cultural relics and archaeology are preparing to build the archaeological specimen warehouse of the Huizhou base, and combined with the specimen warehouse to build the Huizhou regional Ming Dynasty imitation Longquan celadon kiln site research center, the Baima kiln site national archaeological park is also planning to build.
Writing a new chapter in the protection and cultural rejuvenation of famous cities, Huizhou will use "embroidery" kung fu to transform and upgrade historical districts such as Shuidong Street, Jindai Street, Beizhimen Street, Andeulu Lake, enrich the cultural connotation of Zhongshan Park, Chaojingmen, Hejiang Lou, Fenghu Academy, and Hangbangge, and glow the fashion charm of Lingdong Ming county.
Cultural tourism consumption stimulates the new vitality of the city
Huizhou, which has "half a city of mountains and half a city lake", has rich mountain water resources and cultural heritage, and there are 40 A-class tourist attractions in the city, and the number of 5A-level scenic spots and provincial-level tourist resorts ranks first in the province.
How to transform resource advantages into industrial advantages? On the basis of building the first batch of national cultural consumption pilot cities, Huizhou once again participated in the upsurge of national cultural and tourism consumption pilot city construction, launched 186 boutique performances such as "Night Hui Wonderful", held the "New Year Hui hui le" activity, launched the Shanhai Huizhou brand, and excavated the blue ocean of cultural tourism economy.
In 2020, Huizhou received a total of 22.11 million tourists, received 12.9672 million overnight tourists, and the total tourism income was 20.5 billion yuan, ranking fifth in the province.
At the same time, Huizhou continues to carry out the "LingdongXiong County, Huizhou Youli" Huizhou souvenir industry promotion and brand project, to create three major engineering systems of brand, product and marketing, and to cultivate new formats of cultural industry. Huizhou intangible cultural heritage products represented by Luofu Mountain Hundred Grass Oil, Rheumatic Plaster, Huizhou Glutinous Rice Wine, Golden Crispy Pills, etc., are listed in the top 50 of Huizhou's souvenirs, promoting the continuous development and growth of Huizhou's souvenir economy, and also making the intangible cultural heritage truly "alive".
Huizhou people's performance in cultural consumption is even more eye-catching. The number of commercial theaters in the city has soared from 11 in 2011 to 68 at present, with a total of 405 screens, the highest annual box office of 366 million yuan, and the average annual added value of cultural industries accounted for more than 5% of GDP. In 2020, among the top 18 prefecture-level cities in the country with annual box office revenue, Huizhou was on the list, ranking 13th with an annual box office revenue of 106 million yuan.
The past is the prologue, and the future can be expected. The report of the 12th Party Congress of Huizhou City proposes that Huizhou will comprehensively cultivate and expand new consumption, increase modern fashion elements, upgrade and transform commercial complexes such as key business districts and pedestrian streets, create a number of net red creative blocks, develop new formats such as holiday economy and night economy at a high level, create a new consumption agglomeration area with integrated development of culture, tourism, business and health care, and build a regional consumption center city in the Greater Bay Area.
"Ode to the Red East River" sets a new benchmark for Literature and Art in Huizhou
Heroic epic, striving symphony. On the evening of June 25, 2021, it was the boiling night belonging to the people of Huizhou - the wonderful premiere of the large-scale original symphonic poetry painting "Ode to the Red Dongjiang" created by 15 local original works, and the dream journey of the children of Dongjiang in the past 100 years painted a magnificent picture of the times.
"Ode to the Red Dongjiang River" takes the major historical events and historical figures in Huizhou in the past 100 years as the node, runs through the whole venue with symphony music, integrates various art forms such as song and dance, performance, sitcom, poetry recitation, rapping, etc., and reproduces in a panoramic manner the revolutionary spirit and turbulent and magnificent struggle process of the people of Dongjiang led by the Communist Party of China in the past 100 years.
The Propaganda Department of Huizhou Municipal Party Committee gathered outstanding literary and artistic talents from all over the city, and with the Huizhou Symphony Orchestra as the team, it made every effort to create "Ode to the Red East River", and about 500 cast members and service support personnel participated in the rehearsal.
In the performance program "Echo", many revolutionary historical figures traveled through time and space to the stage to tell the story of the Red Revolution in Huizhou. The sitcoms "The Party Flag in the Heart" and "The Great Rescue" deeply touched the audience.
"Red culture is a precious spiritual treasure." The relevant person in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Huizhou Municipal PARTY Committee said that "Ode to the Red East River" is an artistic display of Huizhou's red culture, an excavation and sublimation of the city's spirit, and a beautiful new business card of Huizhou.
The premiere of "Ode to the Red East River" was a great success, and the online graphic live broadcast attracted 2.3 million online views that night, and the total number of views on various online platforms exceeded 10 million.
"'Ode to the Red East River' is a concrete expression and vivid embodiment of comprehensive overall art." As the general director of the program, Lin Bo was deeply touched by the entire theme literary and artistic activities. He said that the repertoire collection pays attention to the "sense of historical correspondence" in artistic expression, the performance is close to life, close to reality, close to history, the creative team has repeatedly polished, and the joint efforts of all parties have given the work a high artistic appeal.
During the year-long preparatory period, the Propaganda Department of the Huizhou Municipal Party Committee held several script seminars, inviting experts in culture, literature and art, party history, songwriting, music and other fields to study and improve the conception, intention and presentation of each program and chapter.
In the view of Xiong Wei, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Musicians Association, the creation of literary and artistic masterpieces is inseparable from innovative breakthroughs in creation, and "Ode to the Red Dongjiang River" is through innovation in artistic creation that the repertoire performances are vivid and grounded, especially full of artistic charm.
"This is a rare literary and artistic masterpiece in Huizhou, which has set a new benchmark for Huizhou literature and art and created a new peak of Huizhou literature and art." According to the relevant person in charge of the Huizhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, "Ode to the Red East River" has created a number of wonderful plays that the masses like to hear, providing rich cultural nourishment for the people of the city.
The successful premiere of "Ode to the Red East River" also greatly encouraged the confidence of the majority of creative personnel. As a new business card of Huizhou culture, people in the literary and art circles will take this as a new starting point to fully promote the creation of fine works of art, create more literary and artistic masterpieces, highlight the cultural charm with literature and art, and tell the story of Huizhou with fine works.
●Huizhou has a total of 885 "Huizhou good people", 77 "Guangdong good people", 40 "Chinese good people", and the "city of good people" is well-known throughout the country. There are 1.234 million registered volunteers in the city, 1 in every 5 permanent residents is a registered volunteer, 6371 registered volunteer service organizations, and 161,000 volunteer service projects.
●There are 6 public libraries, 6 cultural centers, 12 museums (memorial halls), 73 township (street) comprehensive cultural stations, 1262 administrative village (community) cultural rooms, and 1274 village (community) comprehensive cultural service centers. Huizhou Digital Library was built. Municipal, county, town and village public cultural facilities have achieved full coverage, with an area of 1341.87 square meters of public cultural facilities per 10,000 people.
●There are 3 national key cultural relics protection units, 40 cultural relics protection units at or above the provincial level, 3 items of national intangible cultural heritage, 22 items of intangible cultural heritage at or above the provincial level, and 2 people are listed as the inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage.
●There are 40 national A-level tourist attractions in the city, and the number of 5A-level tourist attractions and provincial-level tourist resorts ranks first in the province. There are 68 cinemas and 405 screens, the highest annual box office reached 366 million yuan, and the average annual added value of the cultural industry accounted for more than 5% of GDP.
Source: South + Client
Written by: Mi Chaoxia
Photo: Wang Changhui (partly courtesy of the correspondent)