Traditional folk customs interpret modern elegance, non-legacy paper-cuts are full of vitality, and village ball games become the standard for festivals … … Far and wide, people celebrate festivals in different forms, but they have something in common: they choose more yuan, the way is more fashionable, and the culture is more and more fragrant.
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Anhui — —
Traditional folk customs make the Spring Festival.
Sometimes I blink a few times, lie prone and pretend to be clever, sometimes I leap in the air, and a few somersaults are rapid and violent … … "good!" Accompanied by dragon and lion dances, gongs and drums rang, and the cheers of the masses rose higher and higher.
Near the New Year’s Eve, a large-scale folk street-stepping activity exploded once again on the street in Tunxi Old Street, Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhui Province. The teams of several towns and district sports bureaus showed their elegance, and Liyang drum-beating, Nanxi South lion dance and Yanghu dry boat clam shell dance came to the fore.
Wang Ming’s family from Suzhou traveled to Huangshan for the New Year, catching up with folk customs and stepping on the street. They liked it very much. "Traditional art is noisy and has a good day!"
"This is a provincial and municipal legacy!" Wu Zhe, deputy director of Wenguang New Bureau in Tunxi District, Huangshan City, said that Tunxi was an important commercial town in ancient Huizhou, and every major festival, folk activities were held, and this practice was preserved. "The government set up a stage to organize activities, townships and district units took the lead in rehearsals, and community people signed up to participate. A large number of traditional folk customs are being vividly interpreted by modern girls and boys." Wu Zhe said.
On the morning of February 9, Huizhou Temple Festival was held in Yongxitang, Wentang Village, Shanli Town, Qimen County, Huangshan City. Chen Xiaomin, the inheritor of the Temple Festival, took more than 10 ritual students dressed in ancient costumes to worship heaven and earth and ancestors in strict accordance with ancient laws. After the ceremony, the sound of books came from the ancestral hall, and the children in the village gathered together and read the village convention: honor your parents, respect your elders, live in harmony with your hometown, teach your descendants a lesson, and be safe, and do nothing wrong … …
"Before, I just saw the process of offering sacrifices in the text. Now I watch it on the spot and really feel the richness of Huizhou culture." Kang Jian, an associate researcher in history and sociology at Anhui Normal University, who came to watch the ceremony, was most impressed by the local customs and conventions here. "Little by little, what flows is the power of upward goodness." "The village has had zero petition rate and zero crime rate for many years!" Zhu Peijian, director of the Shanli Town Judicial Office, believes that the rural customs and people’s agreements have contributed.
Anqing is also full of flavor, from the city to the countryside, all kinds of "New Year — The Huimin performance of singing drama is overwhelming. "This is a promising city!" Gan Zhen, a staff member of Anqing Municipal Government, said that during the Spring Festival, the city small theater has daily performances every night; There are various plays and opera performances in communities and squares on a regular basis; In the countryside, a group of art troupes sent operas to the countryside, "Huangmei Opera, Buried Hill Ballroom, Yuexi Gaoqiang, all kinds of operas and tracks are available!"
Guangdong and Inner Mongolia — —
Knife dance, paper rhyme, strong annual flavor
During the Spring Festival, from the snowy Inner Mongolia to the warm Guangdong, the traditional paper-cutting art with different forms and unique features is deeply permeated with the flavor of the New Year, decorating a better life and being loved by people.
Guangdong paper-cut is unique in paper-cut art because of its unique Lingnan charm and distinctive regional cultural characteristics. In houpu village, Xilu Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City, Chen Yanshu, the inheritor of Chaoyang paper-cut, taught students to cut paper, and the red paper-cut changed into various patterns in the hands of children.
In Guangzhou, traditional paper-cutting is equally hot. "All directions Nafu Spring is full of courtyards" invited Lingnan paper-cutting masters to jointly create paper-cutting of Nafu in Spring Festival, which combined traditional art and fashion, and blended 8 classic works and 88 characters of "Fu" into the Spring Festival installation to convey blessings.
Paper-cutting is not a unique folk craft of Han nationality. In Ji Ya Community of Molidawa Daur Autonomous Banner (hereinafter referred to as Moqi) in Hulunbeier City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, several hanika folk craftsmen are sitting around the kang table making hanika. Hanika is a unique toy paper doll of Daur nationality. The cone-shaped figure body and plane paper-cut figure head, coupled with colorful paper-cut clothing, present a three-dimensional paper doll lifelike. In order to protect the traditional culture of hanika and other ethnic groups, Moqi implemented the Regulations on the Protection of Traditional Folk Culture of Daur Ethnic Groups, set up an interest group for the production of ethnic handicrafts such as hanika in ethnic schools, and set up an ethnic culture lecture hall in the community.
In Moqi, from children to middle-aged and elderly women, almost everyone can make hanika. "Our primary schools in Moqi have this course. My daughter always pesters me to do hanika with her after finishing her homework." Meng Lina, a craftsman in hanika, said that hanika has become a unique cultural card of the Daur people. "Many tourists want to buy some to take back as a souvenir when they see hanika, but we are more willing to teach tourists how to make hanika and let more people know about our national paper-cutting." Meng Lina said.
"The headdress is a particularly difficult part, and it is also the most interesting. Flowers, branches and leaves, antlers and other shapes can be used, depending on your creativity." Du Yueying, a craftsman in hanika, is holding scissors and teaching tourists from Dandong, Liaoning, how to cut headdresses. "The process of learning to make is very interesting." Chang An said, "Although hanika is a unique paper-cut of the Daur people, these paper dolls are particularly fashionable. Look at these paper-cuts framed in frames, which are like a modern work of art."
Fujian — —
Have a basketball game during the Spring Festival.
On the morning of New Year’s Day, in Yangyi Gymnasium, Xinyang Town, Youxi County, Fujian Province, with the whistle of the referee, the 2018 Spring Festival inter-village basketball match kicked off. Folks from all directions came to watch and packed the stadium.
The inter-village basketball match in Xinyang Town has been held since the 1960s and has never stopped. At first, only four villages, Wenshan, Shangjing, Linwei and Chitian, participated. Later, four villages, Kanli, Xiaqiao, Jianxin and Longyi, were added, and now it has expanded to more than 10 villages. There are 13 teams participating in this year, and the basketball team of Sanming Village will be invited to have a friendly match.
"It was originally organized because Xinyang Town had a large population and there were no entertainment and cultural activities in the village. Now it has become a tradition for Xinyang people to celebrate the Spring Festival. " Wang Zhaochao, secretary of the branch of Kanli Village, has been the leader of the basketball team in Kanli Village for more than 20 years. He said, "Every basketball game is watched by 3,000 or 4,000 people. During the Spring Festival, everyone wants to watch basketball games, and bad habits such as gambling are gone."
At the beginning of the new year, the exhibition hall and square of Jinjiang Cultural Center are filled with song and dance performances, high-level opera performances and other activities. In Jinjiang Theatre Center, the puppet show Shi Gong’s Judgment, the children’s puppet show Wu Song’s Killing the Tiger, Chen Xiang’s Saving Mother, Avanti’s Daming Fu, and the large-scale innovative children’s drama Beauty and the Beast are staged in turn.
Anhai, an ancient town of overseas Chinese, has three major festivals with the theme of "Anping Ancient Town and Haisi Famous City", which attracts hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese and relatives at home and abroad to participate every year.
In order to thoroughly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 19th Party Congress, and enhance the effectiveness of benefiting the people through culture, the Propaganda Department of Fujian Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles also organized the "Spring Festival couplets into ten thousand families and ten thousand families hanging Spring Festival couplets" in the whole province in 2018, organized more than 7,200 calligraphers and enthusiasts to write 619,800 copies of Spring Festival couplets, and distributed "cultural red envelopes" to more than 600,000 families (units) around the country. William Gao, an American villager, contributed a couplet, "Hard work, endless practice and innovation; Take the lead, rejuvenate and build a journey, and get praise from experts. Hong Kong compatriot Li Kesheng said: "My couplet is ‘ The 19 th East Wind blows the land of Fujian; Sweet dreams in Qian Fan, sailing for tomorrow ’ I wish the country an all-round well-off society at an early date, and Fujian will get better and better tomorrow! "
