Tourists punch in the intangible cultural heritage street
The annual Lantern Festival is coming, and on February 14, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou Yongqingfang have been illuminated, and the goods of various stalls are dazzling, attracting visitors, among which the most cultural Yongqingfang Intangible Cultural Heritage Block has become a concentrated punching place for everyone.
Cultural and creative design has entered the lives of citizens, and tourists have found childhood memories
In the Yongqingfang Intangible Cultural Heritage Block, the first thing that catches the eye is the Guangdong Awakening Lion Museum.
"This is a tradition of Southern Cantonese culture, I lived here when I was a child, and today I took a special look at it, and the scene in front of me can evoke the things I remembered when I was a child." Mr. Chen, a citizen of Guangzhou, said that the awakening lion is different from the northern lion, and is often equipped with a mirror and horns. Every New Year, Cantonese people will definitely put a lion in their homes to take the meaning of all things being safe and auspicious.
It is understood that the culture of waking lions was originally popular among overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese, and few people in China attached importance to it. Now, more and more young people have begun to pay attention to cultural inheritance, explore the old culture for innovation, and have lion dances entering the campus, waking lion dances, ballets, etc.
Near the Lantern Festival, tourists go to Yongqingfang to punch the clock
Strolling through Yongqingfang, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Master Studio, which integrates experience interaction, display and sales, attracts tourists to linger, and the pieces of ingenious and practical cultural and creative products designed by non-hereditary heirs are more and more favored by young consumers.
"The extensive embroidery and olive carving are very exquisite." Ms. Ruan from Guangzhou told reporters that every June, she likes to buy bookmarks and sachets in the Guangxiu Museum, and the special sachets will contain mugwort leaves, which have the effect of dissipating cold and relieving pain, dispelling dampness and itching.
The reporter found that the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage is no longer embroidered with a painting hanging on the wall, but also integrated into fashion elements, into the cultural symbols that are easy for young people to accept, such as the wide embroidery pattern of Hanfu embroidery, bookmarks, fans, bags, small pendant necklaces and so on.
Walking on Yuanhe Street in Yongqingfang, visitors can hear the rustling of nuclear carving knife heads, and the inheritors of olive carving have created a variety of creative daily necessities through ingenious ideas. For example, using a mortise and tenon structure, two olive cores are put into a USB disk, carved with a favorite pattern, and a beautiful portable office object is made.
It contains the unique story of the inheritors and records the traditional customs of the Cantonese people
Visit the workshop of the Master of Intangible Cultural Heritage, where each piece is a microcosm of the lives of the inheritors.
Students experience embroidery in the Guangdong Embroidery Room
In the brick lane of Yongqingfang, there is a Guangdong embroidery hall, which places many works of Chen Shaofang, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, one of which is embroidered with a large red flower and two bald eagles, which is a work designed to commemorate Chen Shaofang's golden marriage, which has the significance of inheriting a better life. "Each embroidery has its own unique meaning and story, which makes the work look more valuable." The master in the museum said.
In the Olive Carving Hall, the works produced by Zeng Zhaohong, the inheritor of Guangzhou Olive Carving, are exquisite and lightweight, and they have paid great efforts behind them. Every summer, the dry weather will make the scrap rate of olive cores increase, so Zeng Zhaohong often makes olive carvings when returning to the southern sky, and needs to be meditated when inlaying, otherwise the strength becomes greater, and it will be restarted.
Children experience olive carving in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Street
Olive core is the raw material of Guangzhou olive carving, every New Year, the older generation of Cantonese people to take a good intention, often choose four-flower olive core (saw open like copper coins), let the children carry on the body, there is a safe and avoid evil saying.
Tourists make the finished pie print
In the new lane of Yongqingfang, tourists can feel the charm of traditional cake printing techniques, many tourists will choose their favorite patterns, homemade cake printing and take away, while children can use glutinous rice flour, flour and lotus paste and other materials to enjoy the homemade cake print knocked out of the cake in the process of experiencing cake printing.
"The shape of the pie print is quite diverse and beautiful." A tourist told reporters that Cantonese people like cake prints with good meanings, such as the dragon and phoenix cakes that marry a woman, a pig that symbolizes wealth from all sides, a fish with more than one year and a lion with high power, etc. Each cake print has its own unique meaning. "This is part of Cantonese culture, and it is of great significance that Yongqingfang brings Cantonese culture together."
[Reporter] Zhu Hongxian Intern Qiu Jiayu
【Author】 Vermilion fresh
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client