By the Zhongshan Bridge and under the White Pagoda Mountain, there is a slightly quiet door face, facing the big river that wanders by, standing quietly, not saying anything is not particularly eye-catching, but the ancient and simple words on the door plaque sometimes make people can't help but look at it - "Wild Valley Art Rhyme". Undoubtedly, there are more people who miss and pass by, if someone is more curious and strolls forward, they will find that what they have walked into is a place with a cave, so that your quiet and turbulent emotions will spread out, and the cultural travel related to Lanzhou has just begun.
In fact, this is a folk art museum that is already quite famous in Lanzhou's cultural circle, with twists and turns, and is four stories high. The small building is nestled against the best mountains and the best water in Lanzhou, layered and staggered. On a sunny day, there will always be people who come to admire, open the rickety brass lock on the gate, step on the mottled wooden steps, and with a faint thought that can't help but go up the stairs. Here, time seems to stand still, the topic is long and long, and the fireworks in the world are everywhere.
As the owner of the small building, The introverted and humble Xu Haifeng and the thin and cheerful An Xiao are all dreamers and dreamers in a sense. What they do is the dream of the journey to find the roots, and the roots of the urban culture on the side of the great river that accompanies them, this feeling has never ended. Over the years, with their dreams in mind, they have relied on and united the forces of all parties to hold a series of cultural activities with strong local flavor, special intangible cultural heritage displays and goldfish competitions. The drunken folk songs that linger on both sides of the Yellow River, the long sleeves of Han clothes flying in the streets and alleys, and the humanistic beauty of the ancient golden city are carved, and they are immersed in the dreams and hearts of citizens and tourists.
A plaque, a can of tea, a bag of cigarettes
Xu Haifeng is relatively old, although he is the chairman of Gansu Yegu Yiyun Culture Communication Co., Ltd., if he does not speak, he always has a simple look of humility, and there is neither business nor pride on his body, and he thinks that he should be a kind of introverted full of wisdom. He always wore that kind of Chinese short shirt, with a neat row of buckles on the clothes, but there was a natural confidence between his hands and feet.
On weekdays, almost all business matters related to the company are handled by the more extroverted general manager Anxiao, and the formation of this structure does not know whether it is the "hard" distribution of work functions or the natural division of labor formed according to personality preferences. When they are together, they feel very harmonious, more casual, more like two good friends.
"The wild wind is blowing in, the valley water is babbling, the art is earnestly cultivated, and the rhyme is simple and real." This is Xu Haifeng's interpretation of the name "Wild Valley Art Rhyme". Anyone who has been here knows that There are three humanistic business cards of Nogu Yiyun: a plaque, a can of tea, and a bag of cigarettes. Here, you can truly appreciate the condensed culture of the northwest region and feel the unique and warm hospitality of Lanzhou. It can be said that every touch of scenery and every detail of Nogu Yiyun pours out the owner's focus on beauty and the pursuit of dreams.
On June 2, 2018, as the first folk opera building in our city, the "White Pagoda Opera Building" under the White Pagoda Mountain, sponsored by Gansu Yegu Yiyun Culture Communication Co., Ltd., was officially inaugurated, and hundreds of people from the opera circles and many opera lovers in our province gathered together to witness this important moment. Since then, the art of opera has deeply injected traditional culture into the "blood" of "Wild Valley Art Rhyme", and the sonorous gong and drum on the stage seem to indicate that in the future, excavating Lanzhou's cultural characteristics and pursuing the beauty of local humanities will surely become the core growth driving force of Gansu Wild Valley Art Rhyme Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
Gansu Yegu Yiyun Culture Communication Co., Ltd. was actually established in April 2009, after years of exploration and growth, has become a number of art, academic, industry associations and other institutions stationed. In recent years, the company has been particularly enthusiastic about promoting the research, display and inheritance of opera arts such as Peking Opera and Qin Cavity, and is also committed to the study and dissemination of "intangible cultural heritage", and has also continuously sorted out and held folk cultural activities in the Lanzhou Basin of the Yellow River culture. It is particularly worth mentioning that in the past two years, the company has also successfully launched a number of local folk song series performances, reaching more than 1,000 in 2021 alone, which has been warmly welcomed by the general public and tourists, and launched a cultural tourism brand of "'s 'singing' Lanzhou to you" on the banks of the Yellow River.
Recreate the "Camel Culture" to tell the story of Lanzhou
"As the only provincial capital city in the country where the Yellow River flows, Lanzhou's riverfront culture has become the broadest urban label in Lanzhou." Xu Haifeng told reporters: "In a sense, Lanzhou has a wider range of cultural landscape and ecological value due to the existence of the Yellow River, and the historical images of Lanzhou are always closely related to the Yellow River. In the definition of urban imaging, the most important background related to Lanzhou is the Yellow River. ”
"From the perspective of the Yellow River image and the urban cultural scene, in the current cognition, the elements and wind objects closely related to the scenery of the Yellow River in Lanzhou are represented by the Lanzhou Yellow River Iron Bridge, the Lanzhou Waterwheel, and the sheepskin raft." He said: "According to the modern history and culture of Lanzhou, I think it is possible to correspond with the flowing Yellow River, and then add a humanistic landscape with the Yellow River as the background, that is, the camel caravan and 'camel farm' culture in Lanzhou's unique 'camel culture'." ”
It is understood that as the main means of transportation and transportation in history, Lanzhou and the entire Gansu and northwest regions, have a deep tea camel culture, starting from the Western Han Dynasty specially set up "Muqi Lingcheng", which is a special official position specializing in camel breeding, "tea camel households" have long existed in the production and life of the northwest, and have had a huge impact on society and economy. The historical camel industry also had an important position in the northwest, especially in Lanzhou, which existed as a transportation hub, and its camel market trade was more developed, and several camel trading markets were distributed throughout Lanzhou, which also produced a special cultural existence of "camel farms", which is directly related to camel carriages and horses.
Xu Haifeng believes that as a "flowing" scenery closely related to the Yellow River culture, the camel caravan occupies an important position in Lanzhou's history and culture, but the camel caravan under its camel culture has long been obliterated in Lanzhou's historical memory due to the development of the times. Therefore, the restoration of Lanzhou Camel culture can not only reproduce important urban historical memories, but also better build a cultural tourism scene with strong regional cultural characteristics for contemporary Jincheng in the context of Yellow River culture.
He said heartily: "I think that if one day the camel farm culture can be reproduced on the banks of the Yellow River in Lanzhou in a historical form, it will most likely become another living cultural inheritance in the riverfront space like the sheepskin raft, and is expected to have a positive effect on promoting the historical and cultural memory of Lanzhou, activating the Lanzhou cultural tourism project, and beautifying the landscape content of the riverside space." ”
In fact, xu Haifeng already has a very complete idea in his mind, he hopes to reproduce the historical scene of "camel farm" in the form of humps, installations, landscapes and beautiful chen in the wetland park on the bank of the Yellow River, and to vividly reproduce the grand situation at that time through operation, while providing a series of business projects to immerse tourists in it, reproducing the unique cultural scenes and commercial phenomena that flourished because of the "camel culture".
In particular, he also envisions an artistic reproduction of lanzhou's historical "camel culture", and uses the evolution of living theater to live theater to interpret the "camel field" scene into a riverbank live theater that tells the story of Lanzhou's local characteristics, contributing to the development of Lanzhou's cultural tourism industry.
"Sculpting" the beauty of the Golden City with traditional culture
Unlike Xu Haifeng, Anxiao's eyes always flashed with a translucent luster, showing that he had extraordinary shrewdness. In recent years, he has visited and consulted everywhere, constantly excavated and sorted out the content of intangible cultural heritage with local characteristics, and tried his best to vividly present it to the people of Lanzhou in the form of public welfare cultural activities at every festival and festival.
During this period, he not only cleverly designed many ways and links that can participate in the interaction, but also invited relevant intangible cultural heritage associations and non-governmental organizations to show their abilities and bloom in these intangible cultural heritage activities in a distinctive way, contributing positive forces to the dissemination and promotion of Lanzhou intangible cultural heritage, traditional Hanfu culture and local festival culture.
"The twenty-four solar terms are the product of the ancient agricultural civilization, and it is also a folk system that carries rich folk events in the lives of our people." Anxiao told reporters: "It not only plays a guiding role in agricultural production, but also affects people's food, clothing, housing and cultural concepts, skillfully combines astronomy, natural rhythms and nationalities, and derives different solar term cultures in different regions, which is an important carrier of people's cultural identity." ”
"Fight spring" when spring is established, "hit the villain" when stinging, "sacrifice to the heavens" during the winter solstice... Under the efforts of Anshaw, these long-forgotten festival activities began to reappear in front of people's eyes one after another, attracting the participation and onlookers of many citizens.
"It turns out that the life of our ancestors is so ritualistic, it feels much better than the boring days now." "I really didn't expect that the meaning of the twenty-four solar terms is so rich and interesting." During the period, everyone who witnessed the process showed a look of amazement, because these distinctive solar term cultures not only greatly enriched their understanding of their hometown, but also deeply "carved" the beauty of the ancient golden city in their hearts.
Qing Dynasty "Flowers" sang "Golden City Four Yan"
In Lanzhou folk, there was a little-known "flower", and the lyrics vividly described the "Golden City Four Yans" that were once popular in the Qing Dynasty, which is also the early humanistic description of goldfish in Lanzhou, which can be called a living cultural symbol of the ancient Golden City. The song sings: "Purple Spot Peony Valley rainy day, Nanshan lily plate Chinese food." Bitter water roses are bright red, and goldfish swing their tails to watch throughout the year. In this simple, rhyming four-sentence lyric, it reflects that the imagination of Lanzhou people in the early years is really rich, and they even mixed three plants such as peonies, lilies and roses with an ornamental fish, achieving such a vivid, vivid and very vivid "Golden City Four Yan".
Not only that, but between careful tasting, I also found that in fact, these four lyrics also express an interesting concept: any peony or lily, rose can not escape the fate of "flowers without a hundred days of red", only the gorgeous and colorful goldfish can "bloom in the water in all seasons", whether it is midsummer or hot summer, you can swim freely in thousands of households in the beautiful golden city, always "blooming" under the background of the turquoise water grass. These petite and colorful goldfish not only bring Lanzhou people a pleasant and eye-catching wonderful enjoyment, but also add beautiful and bright colors to the leisure life of Lanzhou people year after year.
There are clouds in the "Collection of Fish and Insects": "Fish is an elegant thing in the mirror, and it is not only clear in the eyes but also in the heart..." The goldfish symbolizes peace, happiness, beauty and kindness in traditional Chinese culture, and is a symbol of wealth and auspiciousness. Nowadays, with the progress of the times, the relationship between goldfish and human life is becoming more and more inseparable, and has become an important part of the leisure life of many people, bringing endless fun and spiritual enjoyment to people.
"There is no ornamental fish in the world today that carries a thousand years of cultural history like a goldfish." According to Anxiao, goldfish have a long history on the mainland, and the history of fish farming has been recorded as early as the Warring States period. The ancient red crucian carp is recorded in the Jin "Shuyi Ji": "Zhu Yi fish, out of the Yongtai River in Sizhou. "After being raised as goldfish by human conscious animals. In the Ming Dynasty court, there were more goldfish in the pot, and there were goldfish pots in the palace for the emperor to enjoy. In the Qing Dynasty, there was also a special "fish farming office" in the court, and its fish houses and fish ponds were managed by full-time eunuchs.
He said with emotion: "Although these petite and colorful goldfish originate from mountain streams, they were once praised by celebrities and merchants and literati with their beautiful posture, graceful posture and beautiful meaning, and finally scattered into the homes of ordinary people to this day." It can be said that the seemingly weak goldfish is condensed with the crystallization of folk elegant culture, so it is also called 'national fish' and has become one of the important components of national culture. ”
Let more cultural identities hand in hand
In recent years, in order to carry forward the traditional Chinese folk culture, further inherit and carry forward the goldfish ornamental culture in Lanzhou, and add luster to the development of Lanzhou cultural tourism, Gansu Yegu Yiyun Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. has taken the development of the traditional goldfish cultural tourism industry as an important development goal, not only actively prepared and established the Lanzhou Goldfish Association, but also successfully held several sessions of lanzhou "Wild Valley Art Rhyme" cup goldfish competition, and has successively launched the Lanzhou goldfish science exhibition, "Golden City With Fish" national essence goldfish culture exhibition and other wonderful activities.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that the Lanzhou Goldfish Association has also selected and sent contestants to participate in the China (Fuzhou) World Goldfish Competition, China (Zibo) Goldfish Competition and Goldfish Industry Summit Forum and other top domestic activities, and the ornamental culture of Lanzhou's local goldfish has gradually been pushed to a new height.
"In fact, we are obsessed with the excavation and expansion of the local cultural identity of 'Golden City four yans'." Anxiao told reporters: "Therefore, we want to create a 'Golden City Four Yan' cultural expo park, around the peony, lily, rose, goldfish these four local cultural identities for display and presentation, during which many cultural and ecological projects can be derived." ”
"Although Lanzhou has been developing rapidly and people's lifestyles have undergone tremendous changes, I still hope that many representative cultures in history will not be forgotten with the passage of time." He said with emotion: "The culture nurtured by each region is like the soul of the people living in this land, which is the carrier of national feelings and homeland spirit, and we have the obligation and responsibility to protect, excavate and carry forward our traditional culture, so that more cultural identities can be inherited hand in hand." ”
Li Chao, chief reporter of Lanzhou Daily
The picture is provided by Gansu Yegu Yiyun Culture Communication Co., Ltd
Edited by 丨 Wang Xuan