This Spring Festival, people can feel the fireworks in the city in the traditional customs and taste the cultural feast in the unique intangible cultural heritage folk performances. Let's go to various places to appreciate intangible cultural heritage and taste the taste of the New Year.
Fujian Liancheng: Bizhou Village Dragon Lantern Parade Ancient customs shine on the New Year's Eve
During the Spring Festival, Bizhou Village in Juxi Town, Liancheng County, Fujian Province, has become a beautiful landscape. The dragon lantern parade here is in full swing, and people use ancient folk customs that have been followed for more than 800 years to pray for good weather and peace in the country.
Bizhou Village Dragon Lantern Parade
At the scene of the dragon lantern parade, people move with the dragon, and the colorful Bizhou lanterns and ancient buildings such as Wenchang Pavilion, Tianhou Temple, and Yonglong Bridge are reflected in the scene. Everywhere the procession went, every household lit relaxing incense, firecrackers rang out, and ceremonial flowers bloomed, attracting many villagers and tourists to watch.
"Bizhou lanterns are both ornamental and cultural, I specially came to the scene to watch, not only can feel the strong flavor of the New Year, but also appreciate the charm of Liancheng's traditional folk culture. Tourist Chi Linlin said happily.
Traveling lanterns are a major feature of Bizhou folk culture, which completely retains the exquisite skills and travel regulations of lantern making in the Southern Song Dynasty, and is a folk activity that has been passed down from the Southern Song Dynasty after the Shangshu "Wu Liulang Gong" moved south to Bizhou to open the foundation, and has a history of more than 800 years. Bizhou lanterns are also quite distinctive, using pure handmade "10,000 eyebrows", upper, middle and lower three layers, left and right sides, a version of the lantern as many as more than 20 lights.
Bizhou Village Dragon Lantern Parade
In order to better inherit and protect this intangible cultural heritage, Bizhou Village holds a "lantern tour" activity on the 14th and 15th of the first lunar month and the first and second days of February every year. In 2018, this tradition was included in the sixth batch of representative items of municipal intangible cultural heritage in Longyan City. Since 2016, Bizhou Village has successfully held four Lantern Cultural Festivals, with a variety of activities, including You Gongtai, Spring Ploughing, Lion Dance, Songfu Catwalk, etc., attracting guests from all over the world. During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon this year, Bizhou Village has specially added a dragon lantern parade to provide villagers and tourists with a richer cultural experience, so that everyone can feel the strong traditional New Year flavor in a festive atmosphere. (Text/Picture Huang Shuilin, Jiang Yunhua, Chi Qilang) Source: Liancheng County Rong Media Center
Foshan, Guangdong: Watch the lion dance and visit the temple fair to feel the flavor of the New Year in the intangible cultural heritage
In the ancestral temple of Xujiang in Lubao Town, Sanshui District, Foshan, Guangdong, the dragon and lion parade performance is lively, the long dragon flies up and down, and the four male lions are smart and lively, accompanied by the joyful sound of gongs and drums, lively and festive. Tourists visited the Spring Festival temple fair, enjoyed traditional food, rang bells and drums to pray for blessings and make wishes, and felt the strong flavor of the New Year.
Xiangyang, Hubei: Welcoming Spring and Blessing Folk Culture Joyful Homes
Let the traditional culture return and let the New Year's flavor reappear. In Yaozhihe Village, Baokang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, the New Year's folk cultural activity of "returning to the village for the New Year and the Year of the Dragon" in the village made a wonderful debut. The dragon and lion and dry boat teams spontaneously organized by the villagers are in full swing to send blessings and auspiciousness for the New Year.
Cangzhou, Hebei: Acrobatics and folk customs are used to make a New Year
In the Wuqiao Acrobatic World Scenic Area in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, various wonderful programs such as light shows and folk variety shows are staged in turn. The "New Year Intangible Cultural Heritage Temple Fair" organically integrates local acrobatic art and folk culture, and citizens and tourists enjoy acrobatics, watch big plays, and feel the full flavor of the New Year.
Jincheng, Shanxi: The Spring Festival temple fair has a strong flavor and folk performances are staged in turn
In Jincheng, Shanxi, the Imperial City Xiangfu Scenic Area at night is staging the New Year of the Dragon Temple Fair. The temple fair takes the theme of "Imperial City Prime Minister's Mansion, Dragon Flying and Phoenix Dance", including four parts: "Living Dragons and Tigers" for the New Year, "Qile Dragon Dragon" theme lantern exhibition, gathering of northern and southern food, and "big set" of national style and New Year's flavor. Folk performances such as dancing the "fire dragon", running donkeys, and picking lanterns attract many tourists to participate.
Luoyang, Henan: Peony lanterns will light up the night and add color to the New Year
In Luoyang, Henan Province, the peony spring lantern festival attracts many tourists, and 13 groups of large-scale themed lanterns show the blooming scenery of multiple peony varieties. Among them, the 24-meter-high vertical lantern "National Color Tianxiang" made its debut, and the lantern was supported by 6 layers of "petals", which was made by more than 200 craftsmen in 17 days.
Source: Xinhua News Agency, CCTV news client