March 3 is the traditional Chinese folk festival "February 2nd, The Dragon Rises", also known as the Spring Ploughing Festival, heralding the recovery of all things and entering the season of farming. Shifeng Village, Xinjie Town, Guanyang County, Guangxi Province, held a folk culture activity on February 2, and students from 9 countries of Guilin University of Electronic Technology participated in this special cultural tour to experience China's excellent traditional farming culture and the charm of Opera culture in Guilin, China.
International students experience traditional Chinese culture at zero distance. Photo by Qi Qi
At the opening ceremony, the ploughing cattle and iron cattle came into battle, and the 3 ploughing cattle heads worked hard to plough the fields with healthy steps, and the 6 iron cattle next to them also roared, turning the land over, indicating that the new year was smooth and rainy, and the grain was abundant. In addition to the traditional dragon opening ceremony, the folk culture festival also set up traditional fun competition activities such as catching grass flowers and fish, knocking on the gong by the blind, and sandwiching glass beads. There are also hairdressers who "shave their heads" for tourists for free. On the food street, Guanyang specialties are dazzling, traditional foods such as oil tea and hemp yuan can be kept busy, and the cultural performances on the cultural square take turns, and vegetarian meals are also prepared at noon, which makes people feast their eyes and mouths.
International students experience Chinese farming culture. Photo by Lu Shichen
IALA Mohamed (Morocco), an international student from Guilin University of Electronic Technology, said excitedly: "Farming is a new experience for me, and it is also my first time to experience Chinese farming culture in the field, so special! Because there seem to be many ethnic groups in Guilin, I think this activity also made me feel the culture of the surrounding places in addition to Guilin. ”
At the Gui Opera Creation Research Institute, the international students wore costumes and personally experienced a traditional Drama of Guilin - Gui Opera. As the most representative local opera in Guangxi, Gui opera originated in Guilin and has a history of more than 300 years, and its origin is one hundred years earlier than Peking Opera. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Gui opera is sung in the Guilin dialect, pay attention to the character line cavity, Guilin dialect, pronunciation formed the gui opera in the rhythm of the unique local characteristics. Gui opera belongs to the court drama and is usually performed on a formal stage. In the past, many ordinary people did not have the opportunity and conditions to receive school education, in addition to the words and deeds of their parents and elders, they also had a special way to get education, that is, to watch drama. Through watching drama, people understand the truth, goodness and beauty, and learn the truth of doing things, so opera has become a very important carrier of Chinese ritual music culture and traditional values, not only has the function of leisure and entertainment, but also has the important role of social education.
International students experience the culture of Gui opera. Photo by Lu Shichen
Teacher Deng Fei, a national first-class actor at the Guilin Drama Creation Research Center and the inheritor of Gui opera, sighed: "We teach with one gesture and one action, and they also study carefully and try to be perfect, I can feel the international students' liking for Gui opera and the like of Chinese culture." We also hope to take such an opportunity to let Gui opera go abroad and let the whole world know our history and culture. ”
Wang Yue, Secretary of the Party Committee of the International College of Guilin University of Electronic Technology, said: Intangible cultural heritage carries the civilization of human society and is the embodiment of the world's cultural diversity. Doing a good job in the education of international students in China has always been a major feature of the talent training of Guilin University of Electronic Technology, and this intangible cultural heritage into the campus activity not only deepens the experience and love of Chinese culture, especially for Guilin culture, but also boosts the international dissemination of China's excellent traditional culture and promotes Chinese and foreign people-to-people exchanges.
Academician Yuan Longping Workstation in Xiaolong Village, Xinxu Town, Guanyang County, has a scientific research base of 1250 mu. According to Luo Biao, an expert at the Plant Protection Station of the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Guanyang County, in recent years, the base has been closely integrating the high-yield research of super hybrid rice, the construction of beautiful villages and the development of rural leisure and vacation tourism, and is committed to providing competitive agricultural and sideline products for the market, jointly carrying out scientific research and research, and providing technical support for the high-quality development of agriculture in Guangxi. As early as 2017, the yield of super rice and regenerated rice per mu has exceeded 1500 kilograms, realizing the dream of Academician Yuan Longping of "tons and a half rice".
"Academician Yuan Longping is a real scientist, a scientist in the field of hybrid rice, and a person who has made a major breakthrough in science. The rice he grows has helped a large number of people, not only in China, but also in other countries around the world. Bach (Kazakhstan), an international student from Guilin University of Electronic Technology, said.
Tian Feng, secretary of the Party Committee of Xinjie Town, Guanyang County, said that Xinjie Town, Guanyang County, will uphold the promotion of tourism with culture, the integration of cultural tourism, the combination of folk culture and tourism, vigorously implement the strategy of cultural tourism to revitalize the town, take the land circulation of the whole village as the starting point, fully promote "one village, one product" and "one village and many products", dig deep into Hanlin culture, Guiju culture, and Kowloon culture, and innovate and carry out activities such as the "February 2" folk culture festival with new street characteristics and the "February 7" Tang Jingsong guessing street with the characteristics of the new street by holding a special folk culture festival to drive the development of local tourism. Provide new street strength for Guilin to build a world-class tourist city, and work together to promote rural revitalization. (China Daily Guangxi Reporter Station)