Mazu Festival, British song and dance, iron flower...... During the "May Day" holiday, Lingnan Impression Garden launched the "Our Festival - 2024 Lingnan Impression Garden Folk Culture Year" of the ten-step Fangcao • Our Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Road "May Day" garden tour, many popular activities are exciting day and night, and the ultra-long "standby" garden tour is fully opened, attracting many tourists to gather here and enjoy their own holidays.
Mazu blessed the tour
On May 1 (the 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar), coinciding with the 1064th birthday of Mazu Lin Mo, the Lingnan Impression Garden presented an unprecedented "Mazu Blessing Tour" characteristic folk performance for citizens and tourists. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the reporter saw in the Lingnan Impression Garden, the lion dance team, the He Flag team, the lantern team, the Hanfu team, the cheongsam team and other phalanxes assembled in the Dragon Boat Pond Square of the Lingnan Impression Park, and the grand Mazu Blessing Parade team set off from the Dragon Boat Pond Square, passing through the Wenchang Bridge, Zhuangyuan Bridge, Sansheng Palace, Herringbone Street, Watchtower, Huanyuan Trail, and arrived at the Tianhou Temple.
Pu Ningying Cabaret
Since the beginning of this year, Chaoshan Ying song and dance have become popular on the whole network. During the "May Day" period, Lingnan Impression Park brought a majestic and masculine Puning English song performance to citizens and tourists. At 4 p.m. on May 1, the Fumei Youth Singing Team from Puning City made a wonderful appearance in Lingnan Impression Park. Dozens of singers in costumes danced along the scenic trail, holding double mallets, bursting out with enthusiastic shouts, and the momentum was heroic, so that the blood of each tourist was also surging. The wonderful performance of the Ying Song Team directly ignited the atmosphere of the scene, and citizens and tourists raised their mobile phones to record this wonderful moment.
"The Mazu parade and the English song and dance performance are very exciting, and we rarely have the opportunity to experience these folk activities, so the children deliberately wear Hanfu to play and feel the lively atmosphere here. Ms. Li, a citizen, told reporters that the folk activities launched by the Lingnan Impression Park are very suitable for parent-child families, and can also allow children to learn more about traditional Lingnan culture.
Dragon and lion parade
The reporter learned that from May 2nd to 4th, Lingnan Impression Park will launch the "Ten Steps of Fangcao" immersive plot game. The Lingnan Impression Garden has set up ten intangible cultural heritage themed games, combining cultural elements such as Mazu beliefs and customs, dragon boat racing, palace lanterns, cloisonné enamel, puppet shows, Cantonese opera, lion dance, guqin, martial arts, herbal tea, etc., allowing players to immerse themselves in the charm of Chinese culture. Citizens and tourists who come to visit the park can become "learning and art players", in the interesting experience and test of various games, understand the traditional Chinese culture, explore the mysteries of intangible cultural heritage folklore, and finally clear the customs to become a qualified "intangible cultural heritage inheritor", and complete all the challenge tasks and have the opportunity to get a souvenir. At the same time, the Lingnan Impression Park Southern Adventure Night Weiyang returns again, with a new interpretation of Lingnan legends. This theme night tour has 12 interactive interspersed performances, such as Lingnan Rainy Night, Luofu Xianweng, Lingnan Floating Shadow, Palace Lantern Yashang, Mandarin Duck Red Lady, Miss Xiguan, Lingnan Chuanwu, Lion Dancing Boy, etc., bringing a new immersive night tour experience to citizens and tourists.
Members of the public watch the display of intangible cultural heritage skills
"This year, our scenic spot launched the 'Our Festival - 2024 Lingnan Impression Garden Folk Culture Year' activity, hoping to connect various folk festivals in series, so that citizens and tourists can not only immerse themselves in Lingnan culture, but also have parent-child amusement and leisure. According to Shi Jielin, deputy general manager of Lingnan Impression Park, during the "May Day" period, you can not only experience intangible cultural heritage folk events such as Mazu Festival, English song and dance, and iron flowers, but also participate in the one-stop experience of music market and starry sky camping. At the same time, the park has specially launched a special holiday ticket discount, with a 20% discount on adult tickets (matinee) at only 48 yuan, and tickets for southern adventure night (night games) starting at 38 yuan. In addition, the park has launched a limited-time special ticket of 9.9 yuan for college students.
Text/photo: Panyu financial media reporter Huang Zhuopeng, Huang Guohong, Ruan Hanbiao