The eight highlights played for six days, detonating the May Day holiday
On April 17, 2024, the press conference of the 16th Guangzhou Nansha Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival in 2024 was held at the Greater Bay Area (Nansha) International Communication Center. According to reports, in order to carry forward the spirit of Mazu's "virtue, kindness, and great love", build a new carrier for cross-strait and Hong Kong and Macao cultural exchanges, and help the high-quality development of cultural tourism in the Bay Area, the 16th Guangzhou Nansha Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival in 2024 is scheduled to be held from April 30 to May 5 in Nansha Tianhou Temple Scenic Area.
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Mazu culture is one of the characteristic cultural veins of Nansha and an important cultural business card of Nansha District. Every year, nearly 1,000 Mazu admirers from Hong Kong and Macao and Taiwanese businessmen in Guangdong spontaneously organize to exchange and display Mazu beliefs and customs, and Mazu believers from all over the world share their traditional Mazu beliefs and customs activities with each other, build a cultural bridge based on the Bay Area, cooperate with Hong Kong and Macao, and face the world, and help build a humanistic Bay Area and a leisure Bay Area.
This year is the 28th anniversary of the reconstruction of Nansha Tianhou Temple, and it is also the 1064th birthday of Mazu Linmo. The Guangzhou Nansha Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival has been held for 15 sessions, and its influence continues to expand. During this year's Guangzhou Nansha Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival, with the theme of "Same Pulse and Same Origin, Same Worship Mazu", based on the inheritance and deepening of Mazu culture, during the period, a series of wonderful activities will be held, such as Mazu Sea Patrol, Mazu Cultural Seminar, Mazu Peace Banquet, Mazu Meeting, Tin Hau Market, etc., as well as Mazu theme light show, "Tian Lai Shen Yun" light and shadow show, point performance, Nansha Tianhou Temple AR Metaverse Night Tour Competition, Xiangyun Yarn Catwalk, Song Yun Water Wedding and other immersive cultural feasts are waiting for you to play, and jointly open a new chapter of Nansha Mazu culture.
Highlight 1: Linking the resources of the Bay Area to help the construction of the Humanistic Bay Area
During this year's Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival, a leisure and cultural tourism festival will be held in Nansha Bay, one of the three pilot start-up areas in Nansha, in conjunction with Nansha Development and Construction Company, Nansha Hotel, Nansha Golf Club and other units. Relying on the natural flow of the Nansha Bay Cultural Tourism Project, the communication effect of water town activities and the traditional customs of the Mazu Festival, we will join hands with the Bay Area Tourism Association, Mazu Temple and Hong Kong and Macao youths to draw a new picture of "poetry" and "distance" through cultural exchanges, cultural seminars, cultural tourism products, etc., and help the construction of the Humanistic Bay Area.
During the Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival, Shiao Space, Puzhou Square, Water Town Street, and Nansha Yacht Club will simultaneously hold the "Coffee Green Movement" 2024 2nd Nansha Coffee Culture Week, the "Fun on May Day" Parent-Child Carnival, and the "Crossing the Millennium, Dreaming of Returning to the Water Town" - Nansha Bay CityWalk Theme Activities.
In addition, Nansha Hotel, Nansha Golf Club and other units will also launch special preferential products such as golf experience, sailing to sea, summer swimming package (pre-sale), and ferry tickets at the passenger port, so as to create a rich cultural and tourism consumption scene for tourists and enhance their experience in the Nansha Bay area. In addition, Guangzhou Nansha All-for-One International Travel Agency will integrate the cultural and tourism resources of Nansha Bay and launch one-day and two-day boutique routes in Nansha Bay, jointly shaping the business atmosphere of Nansha Bay Area and laying a solid foundation for the creation of Nansha Bay Tourism Resort.
Highlight 2: Sea and land synergy, polishing the characteristic brand of Nansha Mazu Coast Patrol
This year's Mazu exchange activities include the Spring Festival Bay Area Palace and Temple Exchange, Mazu Sea Tour, Family Exchange, "Prayer Ceremony" and other forms, allowing the public to experience the immersive Mazu culture and show the unique charm of the integration of tradition and modernity in the Bay Area.
1. Bay Area Palace and Temple Exchange Time: 11:20-15:00 on May 1
Exchange route: West Gate of Tianhou Temple→ Archway of Tianhou Temple→ Tianhou Temple Square
Nansha Tianhou Temple as Guangzhou Guangzhou Guangzhou Exchange Demonstration Base, every year Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival, there will be nearly 1,000 Taiwanese businessmen in Guangdong spontaneously organized to come to the exchange and display of Mazu beliefs and customs, Mazu believers from all over the world share their traditional Mazu beliefs and customs activities with each other, and spontaneously join in the activity queue, this year will join hands with Zhongshan Shengmu Palace to carry out traditional Mazu cultural performances and exchanges, and will invite the intangible cultural heritage song and dance performance team to participate in the official birthday exchange session, giving the audience a visual and cultural feast. On May 1, the day of Mazu's birthday, citizens and tourists can also make an appointment in advance to watch or participate in the Nansha Mazu "prayer ceremony" (10:00-11:00).
2. Nansha Mazu sea patrol time: 14:00-18:00 on May 1
Coast Patrol Route: Nansha Yacht Club Three Dedication Ceremony→ Yacht Club Pier (Ship Forward) → arrive at the waters of Nansha Tianhou Temple, perform whistle salute→ Pearl Bay waters→ return to the Yacht Club Pier
This year, the three intangible cultural heritage gift ceremonies will be held along the coast of the Nansha Yacht Club, and 13 cruise ships, yachts and sailboats will be organized to participate in the sea patrol ceremony, forming a characteristic formation on the sea, and will cruise through the waters of Nansha Bay on the way, passing through the waters of Nansha Tianhou Temple and Pearl Bay, and honking the horn when arriving at the waters of Tianhou Temple, entrusting fishermen to pray for safety at sea and revere nature, conquer nature, and protect nature.
3. Mazu meeting time: 09:30-11:00 on May 2
Last year, representatives of Nansha Tianhou Temple and Mazu admirers visited Huangge Lianxi Village and Tangkeng Village Tianhou Temple. On May 2, Nansha Tianhou Temple will organize a team of relatives to visit Lujiao and Dagang Tianhou Temple to talk about Mazu and talk about Mazu love. On the same day, the Tianhou Temple of Lianxi Village, Huangge, Nansha will be invited to the Tianhou Temple in Nansha for a meeting and exchange, and combined with the Huangge Qilin intangible cultural heritage folk cultural performance, to show the unique charm of the integration of tradition and modernity in the Bay Area.
Highlight 3: Explore the innovation of water culture and empower the high-quality development of the Bay Area
From 15:00 to 18:00 on the afternoon of April 30, the Nansha Mazu Culture Seminar and Water Culture Lecture Hall will be held, with the theme of "Nansha on the Water - Aquatic Culture and Creativity Empowering the High-quality Development of the Bay Area", focusing on Mazu culture, water Mazu, water culture and other contents, exploring the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture and advanced culture in the development of the cultural and tourism industry in the Bay Area, so that people around the world can truly feel the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture and further enhance cultural self-confidence.
Highlight 4: Make full use of traditional cultural carriers to show the integrated development of Mazu culture in multiple dimensions
This year's Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival is richer than in previous years, in addition to retaining the traditional Mazu cultural activities, the "Mazu Peace Banquet" and Mazu Cultural Bonsai Exhibition have been added. At noon on May 1, the organizer will set up a special peace banquet in Nansha with about 100 circles next to the Tianhou Cultural Exchange Center, and invite guests and tourists to taste. In addition, from April 30th to May 7th, we will join hands with the Guangdong Bonsai Association to carry out the Mazu Cultural Bonsai Exhibition in the Mazu Cultural Park. With the theme of Mazu culture, through the traditional art form of bonsai, people can enjoy the beautiful scenery while also feeling the profound heritage of Mazu culture.
Highlight 5: The light and shadow show lights up the night economy of Nansha, and the immersive experience leads the new fashion of traditional culture
Visitors can watch the Mazu-themed light show, the "Tian Lai Shen Yun" light and shadow show, the dot-shaped performance, the Nansha Tianhou Temple AR Metaverse Night Tour Competition, the Xiangyun Yarn Catwalk, the Song Yun Water Wedding and other immersive cultural feasts in Tianhou Square and Tianhou Lake. During the May Day period, special activities will be arranged in the park every night, including pop band performances, fun garden parties, national tide acrobatics and other colorful activities, waiting for visitors to come and experience.
During the event, there will also be a Tin Hau Market, where Mazu culture and other intangible cultural heritage cultures complement each other and converge into a colorful cultural picture. Citizens and tourists can experience Mazu cultural and creative ice cream, Guangdong-Guizhou cultural tourism products, special foods and intangible cultural heritage skills, appreciate the infinite charm of traditional culture, and welcome citizens and tourists to come to Tin Hau Market.
Tianhou Temple performance time: May 1-May 5 9:00-22:00
Tin Hau Market activity time: 10:00-17:00 on April 30, 10:00-22:00 from May 1 to May 5
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Highlight 6: The unicorn dance and martial arts meet, and the intangible cultural heritage of the Bay Area is renewed
1. Meet friends with "dance" and pass it on from generation to generation. The opening ceremony will be opened by the martial arts performance and the local Huangge unicorn dance in Nansha, kicking off the grand opening ceremony scene of the collision of intangible cultural heritage. The Huangge Qilin Dance is one of the cultural heritages of Guangdong Province, which began in the Ming Dynasty and is based on the image of the dragon head, lion body, antlers, sheep's head and ox tail of the unicorn in ancient legends. When the unicorn dance and martial arts performance meet, they will make a wonderful appearance during the birthday of Mazu in Nansha, and pay homage to Mazu. There is also a poetry and music "Nansha Tianhou Temple Fu" affectionately interprets the historical story of Nansha Tianhou Temple, and the large-scale traditional Mazu festival ritual performance brings people a visual and cultural feast. Let everyone feel the charm of history and culture at the same time, but also feel the strong cultural heritage.
Opening ceremony: 10:00-11:30 on April 30
2. Bay Area Wuyun Inheritance Event. Organize and carry out martial arts performances, gather martial arts associations and groups from all over the Bay Area, meet friends with martial arts, and jointly explore the essence of martial arts.
Time: May 3-5, 9:00-17:00
Highlight 7: Continue to build the Mazu cultural stele forest with the travel of Zhangwen
In order to enrich the expression of Mazu culture, since 2021, Nansha Tianhou Temple has borrowed from the characteristics of the four major stele forests in China, launched the collection of ancient poems and couplets of Nansha Mazu culture, and invited well-known calligraphers to write inscriptions, and successively built the Mazu culture stele forest project. This year, two cultural monuments have been built in Nansha Tianhou Temple, including the couplet written by Mr. Fok Zhenting based on the development background of Nansha and the integrated development of cultural tourism in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, to strengthen the construction of the Mazu Cultural Exchange Center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
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Highlight 8: Fok Ying Tung Memorial Hall test operation
In December last year, the Fok Ying Tung Memorial Hall was officially unveiled, and the exhibition "Fist and Fist Pure Heart, Yin Yin Sang Zi Love" was displayed in the museum, with the help of physical objects, texts, images, etc. On May Day this year, the Fok Yingdong Memorial Hall will start test operation, and citizens and tourists can make an appointment to visit through the "Nantianhui" mini program.
Operating test hours: Tuesday to Sunday 09:00-17:00, closed on Mondays
This year's Guangzhou Nansha Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival will further promote the spirit of Mazu's "virtue, kindness, and great love", and take Mazu's birthday as an opportunity to display the achievements of Nansha's cultural tourism construction. "Same vein, same origin, same Mazu", so that the public can more deeply feel the Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, Cantonese culture, and Mazu culture, better enhance the spiritual fit, focus on the future, benchmark against the world, jointly tell the story of the Bay Area and Mazu, continue to promote the innovation and development of culture, sports and tourism in the Greater Bay Area, and help the high-quality development of cultural tourism in the Bay Area.
(Liu Liqing Correspondents: Luo Ruixian, Huang Zishan)