On April 30, the intangible cultural heritage carnival of Mingshan Street, Yuzhou District, Yulin City was held. With the theme of "Seeing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Striving for the Sea", the event allowed visitors to experience the charm of traditional culture in an interactive and immersive experience through activities such as dragon and lion dance parades, intangible cultural heritage performances, food markets, and automobile and home furnishing exhibitions, and presented a fun and delicious "intangible cultural heritage feast" to citizens and tourists.
The scene of the event. Photo courtesy of Yuzhou District Rong Media Center
Money Whip Dance. Photo courtesy of Yuzhou District Rong Media Center
On the same day, the square is full of tourists, accompanied by the sonorous and powerful drums, the double dragon flies, the four lions jump, the lion dance jumps up and down in the "plum blossom pile", and also plays the blessings such as "dragon luck head", "five blessings coming to the door", "good luck head" and "good things again and again", and interacts with the citizens at zero distance. Many citizens have reached out to touch the "dragon head" and "lion head", hoping to welcome good luck.
Citizens and tourists touch the lion's head and pray for good luck. Photo courtesy of Yuzhou District Rong Media Center
The food market is full of fireworks. Yulin specialties such as Eight Treasures Winter Melon Cup, Fortune Bun, Zhuangyuan Dumpling, Mi Keyuan, Tapioca Soup, Tofu Corner and other intangible cultural heritage skills such as paper-cutting gather here, and the public can meet with food and beautiful things during their travels, understand intangible cultural heritage skills and feel the charm of intangible cultural heritage.
Yulin special food. Photo courtesy of Yuzhou District Rong Media Center
The intangible cultural heritage performances were staged one after another, and the representative intangible cultural heritage boutique programs such as Yulin Fuhu Boxing, Zhou Pei Kung Fu, and Qian Whip Dance allowed people to experience the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage at close range. "Today, I watched the performances of Youlong, Plum Blossom Pile and Zhou Pei Kung Fu, which shocked me, and I hope that we can hold more similar activities in Yulin and continue to show the intangible cultural heritage to everyone. Citizen Peng Jiamei said.
Dragon and lion dance parades. Photo courtesy of Yuzhou District Rong Media Center
Audible, tasting, and appreciating, the intangible cultural heritage carnival has not only become a platform to display intangible cultural heritage skills and works, but also built a bridge for people to experience the spiritual connotation of intangible cultural heritage and inheritors up close. (Liu Danping, Liang Peibin)