Dancing fish lanterns, welcoming lions, turning lanterns... The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival of the Chinese nation, on the day of the festival, nantou ancient city is illuminated, in order to let the masses deeply feel the charm of cultural life, in the nantou ancient city with a history of nearly 1700 years to tell a good Chinese story, tell a good Story of Guangdong, tell a good story of Shenzhen, through the virtual live broadcast room, "intangible cultural heritage" project performance, a hundred years of fish lantern dance and Nanshan lion dance dragon dance and other "online + offline" forms of linkage, in strict compliance with the epidemic prevention requirements, let the people of the city live a happy and peaceful festival.
Virtual Live Lantern Festival: Start a magical journey to the Year of the Tiger
On February 15th, the 14th Shenzhen Lantern Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Display Activity and the 2022 Intangible Cultural Heritage Immersive Virtual Live Broadcast were launched in Nantou Ancient City, with more than 4 million viewers on the whole network. The event was hosted by the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, with the aim of providing a sumptuous and excellent traditional cultural feast for the general public.
Walking through the streets and alleys with the camera to open the "intangible cultural heritage" journey of the ancient city, on the day of the Lantern Festival, through the major live broadcast platforms to enter the live broadcast room can not only walk into the streets and alleys of Nantou Ancient City, but also meet the inheritors of the "intangible cultural heritage" in the virtual live broadcast room, and deeply understand the Phoenix single bush tea making technology, Yang's qipao production technology color book porcelain, ancient architectural wood art, purple sand pot making technology, inner painting, joyful calligraphy Zen, Manchu embroidery, Lingnan seasonal dessert making technology, traditional milk tea (Mai's) production technology and dozens of "intangible heritage" projects.
Different from the previous Lantern Festival, this year's Lantern Festival uses the real-time immersive virtual live broadcast room as the carrier, integrates 3D visual effects, integrates the long-standing intangible cultural heritage with modern cutting-edge technology, and displays Shenzhen's intangible cultural heritage with modern visual art, breaking the circle of strength and giving vitality to the new era.
Recreate the Fish Lantern Dance: Lantern Festival Lantern Festival
Nantou Ancient City, also known as "Xin'an Ancient City", Nantou Ancient City has become the administrative center of Lingnan coastal area, coastal defense fortress, sea transportation and foreign trade distribution center for many times in history, and is one of the historical and cultural sources of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. In the well-preserved "Xin'an County Chronicle", it is recorded that in 1688, the people of Shenzhen celebrated the Lantern Festival with "Zhang Lantern Zuole", and what kind of lamp does the "Zhang Lantern Zuole" refer to?
According to the ancient city resident Cai Agong recalled, in the past, the Lantern Festival in the ancient city of Nantou would begin to prepare very early, lifting the pot lid steaming hot air came to the face, after dinner, every household walked to the city, left and right lights were rising, along the street lion dance, fish lamps converged into a piece of starlight.
The fish lantern dance that Shenzhen still retains in Sha Tau Kok is a very important proof. Sha Tau Kok Sha Lan Scary Village A hundred years ago, Sha Lan's scary ancestors created a variety of fish lamps and fish habits dance movements based on the understanding of fish at sea to create a variety of fish lamps and fish habits, which began to become popular, making fish lanterns, fish viewing lights and dancing fish lanterns every Lantern Festival. It is a necessary program for fishermen to celebrate the New Year and worship the gods and ancestors. Nantou Ancient City restored the Lantern Festival on the night of this year's Lantern Festival, and the public can go to the South City Gate of Nantou Ancient City, Baode Square, and Dale Square to watch the lights.
The Lantern Festival in Nantou Ancient City is far more than that, and the Ninth Street Intangible Cultural Heritage Lantern Exhibition, the Lantern Reunion And Joy Party of "Loving Deep Hong Kong and Loving the Homeland" are wonderful.
Lantern solstice, means that the Spring Festival is also gradually coming to an end, Nantou Ancient City Tiger Year New Year activities have come to an end, Nantou Ancient City butterfly change from 2019 to the present, pay special attention to the cultural resource system protection of the overall protection, brand promotion and activation and utilization, on the basis of the protection and activation of the historical context, to "the capital of eastern Guangdong, the source of Hong Kong and Macao" as the positioning, adhering to the "free and fresh, true and original, diversified composite, organic and sustainable" community concept, then Nantou Ancient City will continue to introduce culture, creativity, art into the life of the ancient city, Bring new creative vitality and quality humanistic good life to the ancient city.