ThreeCinemaThe “Bird of the Northern Emperor” on the first day of the second lunar month
Every year, from the last day of the second lunar month to the third lunar month, Wentang Community in Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress-up parade to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor. In this day, the villagers carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair with the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva sitting on it. The villagers carried the homemade snacks such as sponge cake, moxa horn, rice fruit, etc., forming a massive parade team, competing for the beauty of the Cinema.
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Opening
The festival has a history of more than 400 years. On the morning of April 16, Wentang Community in Dongcheng held the 2018 Fifth Wentang Tourist Festival as scheduled. Deng Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongcheng Street, Yuan Baiming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wentang Community, and others attended and jointly launched the opening ceremony. On that day, thousands of people parades and various cultural and artistic performances in Wentang streets, dozens of parade teams with different costumes were displayed, and various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate. The Komiks tour meeting has a long history, a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is popular among the general public. It is a beautiful scenery of the cultural content of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Wentang Tourist Association in Dongcheng was founded to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor, and has a history of more than 400 years. To commemorate this festival, villagers from Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, and there were also many young men and women dressed in costumes, dressed in various mission styles in operas. The tour group set out from Bai Temple and village by villageKomiks parade. During the parade, there will be a costume drama that will be staged for several consecutive days. Later, due to various reasons, it was interrupted for more than 60 years. In 2009, with the efforts of enthusiastic people, Wentang restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, which was named the Wentang Tourist Culture Festival. It was held for three consecutive years in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and later it was held every three years.
The Wentang people have been doing this for a long time. They carry the Bodhisattva fruits before spring plowing, which means that the Bodhisattva hopes that this year will be better than the old year. In addition, the Wentang Tour Conference is widely involved in Cinema and is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for the Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together.
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The scene
The drizzle in the air will never stop the public. “This year is the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, the people of Wentang built this white temple in Chalinggang. From then on, Cinema has developed the custom of holding tour meetings, that is, the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, all Wentang will hold grand dress parades.” Wentang community staff introduced. The author saw at the scene that the float parade included teams such as Babaylan National Peace and Peace, Sanxing Presentation, Cinema Rui, Wenshu, Dragon and Phoenix, Enterprise Floating Car, Tianji Sending Children, Four Classics, Brushing Team, Flower Fairy Congratulations, Lions and Spring, Loyalty to the Country, Folk Legend, Soap Overhead Team, National Wedding, Campus Wedding, Entertainment Peace, Strange Floating Color, Bodhisattack Team, etc., which expanded significantly compared to the past. There are many Cinema, with a total of about 1,000 people cruising.
The gorgeous float parade has presented a rich audio-visual feast to tens of thousands of citizens. Although the weather was not beautiful and drizzled every day, this did not prevent the joyful and laughter from spreading everywhere along the line. On the morning of that day, at Wentang Bai TempleThe predecessors were filled with voices, and they were all citizens who came to participate in the tournament. The parade team of more than 1,000 people started sailing in an orderly manner with Bai Temple as the starting point.
During the parade, the performance team in costumes actively interacted with the audience along the way. At the same time, the villagers of Wentang burned incense and worshiped the gods along the way, beat drums and drums, shouted loudly, and warmly welcomed the parade. When each float passed by, there were constant cheers and the atmosphere was very warm. The entire tour took more than an hour, and Babaylan showed a good scene of the prosperity of Xiawentang community in the new era, with a prosperous country and a peaceful country. According to the staff of Wentang Community Workers, this year’s parade team set off from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as Wentang Zaoyi New Village, Zao San Fifth Team Headquarters, etc., through Wentang Neighborhood Committee, Chaling Park, Wenge Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions, the whole journey is about 4.5 kilometers.
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Wonderful
Colorful and colorful artistic performances will last for four nights
In addition to traditional program performances and fairy floats, this year’s Beidi Birthday Tour Cultural Festival is more fun than in previous years. “We take promoting excellent national culture as the main line and displaying Lingnan folk customs as the basis, and continue to explore, inherit, reform and innovate this historic folk culture, and present rich content to the general public with diverse forms, combination of ancient and modern times, distinctive and popular content.” Community staff introduced.
In addition, the Travel and Culture Festival will show the scene of the people watching, the people celebrating, and the people enjoying each other, which is a true portrayal of the harmonious community of Wentang. The colorful artistic performance will last for four nights. Citizens can go to Wentangwan Fuyuan to watch artistic performances, including multiple folk art clubs, art groups singing operas, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)