Read Chongyang poems, taste Chongyang cakes, and dye silk wool scarves with auspicious meanings together by grandparents and grandchildren...... On the afternoon of October 6th, 20 groups of families dressed in Chinese costumes walked into the Huang Daopo Memorial Park to participate in the theme activity of "Double Ninth Day, Strong Family and National Feelings" specially organized by the Xuhui District Culture and Tourism Bureau.
The event was specially arranged in the national intangible cultural heritage Wunijing cotton textile inheritance base, patriotism education base, 3A-level scenic spot Huang Daopo Memorial Park, the participating families visited the Xianmian Memorial Hall, the urban cotton field, in the chrysanthemum tea fragrance and the recitation of Chongyang poems, the grandchildren tasted Chongyang cake together, and the grandchildren made tea salutes to the elders, and spent a happy and warm day in the cultural lectures and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts of "Double Ninth Day of Ninety-Nine • Strong Family and National Conditions".
Aunt Lin is the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Wunijing cotton textile skills at the district level, and she usually gives spinning classes to the young students of the intangible cultural heritage inheritance class, and she is also the watchman of the "urban cotton field" in the memorial park. In the process of carefully cultivating cotton, she also took the little cotton blossom docents to plow and pick together to train them in cotton knowledge. Today's Chung Yeung Festival activities are particularly special for Aunt Lin, who and Li Yuchen, a classmate from Gao'an Road No. 1 Primary School, formed a special combination of filial piety and respect for the elderly. Li Yuchen just participated in the training of the little cotton docent in the Huang Daopo Memorial Park in the summer, and was deeply moved by the spirit of "loving the people and enriching the people, selfless dedication". She hopes that with the help of this intangible cultural heritage handicraft activity, she will return her love and filial piety to the kind elders like Grandma Lin who care for the growth of the next generation, "to give back to the society and warm more people like cotton blossoms".
At the event, a group of families who liked the combination were also very warm. Hua Siyu, an exchange student from Italy, came to Shanghai and was taken care of by the Chinese family, this time as the sister of the family, she and her Chinese sister Hua Siqi presented sweet Chongyang cake to her grandmother, and experienced the Chinese culture of filial piety and respect for the elderly in the event.
This Chung Yeung Festival event is the ninth festival-themed activity of Huang Daopo Memorial Park since it built a traditional festival brand. The "Double Ninth Festival" has always been known as the custom of respecting the elderly to defend against the cold winter. In the handmade "paper pattern silk wool cloth" link, the participating families learned about the cultural meaning of the Chinese plant gardenia dyed yellow and the auspicious meaning of the paper pattern, the ancestors and grandchildren dyed the silk wool scarf together, and the children tied the elders by hand, the interaction of the old and the young made this theme activity of respecting the elderly particularly warm.