Shenzhen's "Our Festival" Lantern Festival kicks off this Sunday

"The sound of gongs and drums beating, everywhere celebrating the Lantern Festival." Spring is warm, and the melting snow is disappearing. "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, The New Night, and the Lantern Festival, which is one of the traditional festivals in China.

The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing flower lanterns, eating tangyuan, guessing lantern riddles, etc., and the lantern festival customs are different in different places. The Lantern Festival in Shenzhen has both the inheritance of Hakka culture and the integration of Cantonese culture, and the festival culture is rich.

In order to fully excavate and display the historical background and cultural connotation of the Lantern Festival and cultivate the feelings of home and country, the 2022 Shenzhen "Our Festival and Lantern Festival" series of activities hosted by the Shenzhen Municipal Civilization Office, shenzhen publishing group Hongwen Media Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Book City Central City will be held at 3:00 pm on February 13 (Sunday) in the multi-functional hall of the south district of the central book city, and will be broadcast live online at the same time.

The interview guest of this event was Nan Xiang, a professor at the College of Literature of Shenzhen University and a first-class writer, hosted by Wang Haidong, a famous host of Shenzhen Satellite TV.

The event will introduce the historical origin, development history and cultural connotation of the Lantern Festival, and based on Shenzhen, focusing on local folk customs such as Longgang Hakka Flower Lantern, Xiasha Village "Big Pot Dish", Songgang Street Seven Stars Lion Dance, Pingshan Dance Qilin and so on. The scene will also be interspersed with Lantern Opera singing and guessing lantern riddles to win prizes to create a strong festive atmosphere.

Shenzhen has always attached great importance to the promotion of traditional culture, and the Shenzhen Municipal Civilization Office will carry out a series of cultural and folk activities around traditional festivals every year, integrating traditional cultural inheritance with scientific and technological innovation. In addition to this interview with famous artists, "Our Festival and Lantern Festival" will also hold an online H5 fun quiz activity to entertain and teach and inherit folk customs.

This year, the "Our Festival" series of activities will continue to innovate forms to attract the general public to participate in the experience and pass on the heritage and connotation of traditional culture.

【Guest Profile】

Nan Xiang, real name Xiang Nanxiang, is a professor at the College of Literature of Shenzhen University and a first-class writer. He is the author of more than ten kinds of novels, essays and reviews such as "Love in the South", "University Anecdotes", "Former Dust: Relics of the Republic of China", "Women's Sunflowers", "Rebellion and Flight", "The Maple Leaf in the Autumn of 1975", "New Theory of Contemporary Literary Creation", "Green Car", "Copying Home", "Earl Cat", etc.; the novel has been listed in the Chinese novel rankings for five times, and has won more than 20 such as the Beijing Literature Award, the Shanghai Literature Award, and the Lu Xun Literature and Art Award; the non-fiction literature "Spring and Autumn on The Hand - Chinese Craftsmen" has been listed in the "Top Ten Literary Books" of the 20th Reading Month in Shenzhen. The 8th Shuxiang Kunming "National Top Ten Good Books" and other lists; the novel collection "Earl Cat" was selected into the 2021 Annual Good Book List of Writers Publishing House.

[Reporter] Guo Yue

【Author】 Guo Yue

【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client