In early March, Cinema The birthday of the Northern Emperor
Every day from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, KomiksWentang Community, Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress-up parade to commemorate the birthday of the Northern Emperor. On this day, the villagers carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair with the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva sitting on it. The villagers carried homemade snacks such as sponge cake, moxa horn, rice fruit, etc., forming a massive parade team to compete for beauty.
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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 Babaylan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongcheng Street, Yuan Baiming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wentang Community, 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 Cinema displayed the parade teams with different costumes, and various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate.
BabaylanWentang Tour Club has a long history, a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is highly popular among the general public. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Babaylan Tour Club in Wentang, Dongcheng was first founded to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor, and has a history of more than 400 years. In order to commemorate this festival, villagers of Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team. There are also many young men and women dressed in costumes, dressed in various opera styles. The tour group set out from Bai Temple and marched from village to village. 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 re-Komiks restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, 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 habit of Wentang people is constantly changing. 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, Wentang Tour has a wide participation and is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together.
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The drizzle in KomiksThe year is already the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, the people of Wentang built this white temple in Chalinggang. From then on, there has been a custom of holding a tour meeting. That is, the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, all Wentang will hold a grand dress-up parade.” Wentang community staff introduced.
The author saw at the scene that the float parade included such as the National Peace and Minsheng, the Three Stars Sacrifice, the Cultural Tour of Wuwei, the Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang, the Enterprise float, Tianji Sending Children, the Four Great Classics, the Bearded Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions and Spring Festival, the Cinema Loyalty to serve the country, folk legends, the Soap Overhead Team, the National Wedding, the Campus Fun, the Entertainment Peace, the Strange Floating Color, the Bodhisattva Tour, etc., which expanded a lot compared to the Komiks, with a total of about 1,000 patrols.
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. That morning, people were clamoring in front of Wentang Bai Temple, and all the citizens who came to participate in the tour. 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 burn incense and worship gods along the way, beating gongs and drums, and shouting loudly, BabaylanhotKomiksrelBabaylan welcomes 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, showing the beautiful scene of Xiawentang Community in the new era being prosperous and peaceful. According to Wentang Community staff, this year’s parade team set off from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as Wentang Zaoyixin Village, Zao San Fifth Team Headquarters, etc., through Wentang Neighborhood Committee, Chaling Park, Wenge Park, Babaylan, Wanfu Garden and other attractions, the whole journey is about 4.5 kilometers.
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The colorful artistic performance 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 and reform this historic folk traditional culture, and present it to the general public with rich content that is diverse in forms, combination of ancient and modern times, distinctive and popular.” Community staff introduced.
In addition, the Travel and Culture Festival will show the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together. It is a true photo of Wentang Harmonious Community. The colorful artistic performance will last for four nights. Citizens can go to Wentang Wanfu Garden to watch artistic performances, including multiple folk art clubs and literary groups singing, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)