On February 10, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the colorful flags and gongs and drums of Nanao County Cultural Square in Shantou City were lined up. A Spring Festival Fishing Lantern Contest hosted by the Nanao County Party Committee and the County Government, and undertaken by the Propaganda Department of the County Party Committee, was held here, and the wonderful folk cultural performances filled the island Spring Festival atmosphere.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, with the sound of a gong, the students of Nanao High School beat the traditional Chinese drum, and the passionate drum beat was inspiring and inspiring. At the event site, the parade performance team composed of the county education system, the county chamber of commerce, the county rural revitalization talent station, the Nanpeng Islands Conservation Area, China Telecom Nanao Branch, the county Guoxin Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. and 30 teams from various villages in the county showed their skills in the cultural square performance area before departure, attracting many people to stop and watch and take pictures.
Immediately afterwards, the parade performance team started from the county cultural square, through Ruixiang Road, the county government compound, Longao Street, Longbin Road (middle section), Nanao Hotel, Jinlong Road (east section), the top of the mountain, Haibin Road, to the end of the parade at the entrance of the national fitness square, the parade route is about 4 kilometers long, the formation is constantly changing, the wonderful car drumming, dragon dance, unicorn dance and other popular folk performances are staged in turn, the performance has both dance movements throughout the whole process, and interspersed with opera performances, Juggling and difficult skill performances have high artistic appreciation.
At the head of the team is the team composed of the county education system, including the Chinese Drum Team, the Bunting Team, the Wing Chun Boxing Team, the Teochew Gymnastics Team, the Drum Band and the Star Torch Team. They were dressed in beautiful costumes and marched with sonorous steps, and the young pioneers in the new era showed a vibrant, high-spirited, and enterprising spirit.
In the procession, the young men who performed the British songs and dances were vigorous and bold, holding special double short sticks and dancing violently; groups of little girls dressed in ancient costumes, carrying the jeweled "cannon barrels", sang all the way to the spring breeze; the models of fishing lanterns carefully made by the island fishermen themselves, the shapes were realistic, the forms were vivid, and they were all vivid; the lightboats, auspicious fish, and seahorses of the fishing villages also shuttled through the sea of people, and the lovely shapes attracted countless people to watch and take pictures. Interspersed, there are five special floats with different themes of "Sailing", "Tracing Tour", "Accumulating Strength", "Jumping" and "Soaring" to participate in the parade, full of beautiful expectations for the New Year.
Every New Year's Folk Parade, Nanao Che Qi has become the highlight of the island's folk activities, and the folk dance has been included in the first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list of Shantou City. In this cruise, the car inspiration is also eye-catching. Each performer has unique skills, juggling, dancing, and skills to push (tow) the cart drum performance, showing the heroic story of "Water Margin" Liangshan Bo Hao Han Ying Wai rescued Lu Junyi.
It is reported that Nanao has a long history of holding the Fishing Lantern Competition, which has a history of more than 300 years, and the Houzhai Fishing Lantern Competition has been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage protection in Guangdong Province. Traditionally, fishermen from various villages on the island will design and produce various fish lanterns, colorful boats, flags, etc., and write and direct their own wonderful folk cultural performances such as car drumming, unicorn dance, English song and dance, and Buma dance, singing and dancing along the way, expressing their joy for the harvest of the past year, and praying for smooth weather and peace in the next year.
Southern + reporter Zhang Weiwei
Correspondent Chen Jizhong
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【Author】 Zhang Weiwei
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