”Bird of the Northern Emperor” on the first day of March
Every year from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, Wentang Community, Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress-up parade to commemorate the Northern Emperor’s birth. On this day, the villagers carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair and sat on the face of Cinema. The villagers carried homemade snacks such as sponge cakes, Komiks, rice fruits, etc., forming a large parade team of great spirits and competitions.
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Komiks opened the festival for more than 400 years. On the morning of April 16, Dongcheng Wentang Community held the 2018 5th Wentang Tourist Conference Cultural Festival as scheduled. Deng Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongcheng Street, Yuan Baiming, Secretary of the Working Committee of Wentang Community, attended and jointly launched the opening ceremony. On that day, a large parade of thousands of people and various cultural and artistic performances in Wentang’s streets, dozens of parade teams with different costumes were displayed, and various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate.
Wentang Tourist Association has a long history, a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is highly welcomed by the vast majority of people. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Wentang Tour Conference in Dongcheng Cinema was first 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 marched from village to village. During the tour, many Komiks costume dramas will be staged continuously. Later, due to various reasons, it was interrupted for more than 60 years. In 2009, with the efforts of enthusiastic peopleWentang restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, named Wentang Tourist Culture Festival. It was held for three consecutive years in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and was later changed to one session every three years. The custom of Wentang people has been going on for a long time. They carry the Bodhisattva fruit before spring plowing. They have the meaning of hoping that the Bodhisattva will bless this year better than the old year. In addition, Wentang Tour has extensive participation and is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching and celebrating and celebrating together.
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The scene was 2019 at the scene. “This year is the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, people from Wentang built this white temple in Chalinggang. From then on, there has been a custom of holding tour meetings, which is the day after the end of the second month of the lunar calendar. From the third day of the third month, all Wentang will hold a grand dress parade.” A staff member of Wentang Community introduced.
The author saw at the scene that the float parade included such as the National Peace and Minsheng, the Three Stars Show Rui, the Cultural Tour of Wuwei, the Dragon and Phoenix Success, the Enterprise Float, Tianji Sending Children, the Four Great Classics, the Bearded Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions and Spring, the Loyalty of the Country, folk legends, the Soap Overhead Team, the National Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Entertainment Peace, the Strange Floating Color, the Bodhisattva Tour, etc., which expanded a lot compared to the past, with a total of about 1,000 people parade.
The gorgeous float paradeKomiks, and Cinema are the most numerous Cinema. Cinema. 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, people were vocal in front of Wentang Bai TempleTeng, Babaylan are all citizens who come 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 dressed performance team actively interacted with the audience along the Cinema. 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, showing the good scene of prosperity and prosperity in Xiawentang Community in the new era.
According to Wentang Community staff, this year’s parade team set out from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as Wentang Zaoyi New Village and Zao San Fifth Team. 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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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 the promotion of excellent national culture as the main line, relying on displaying Lingnan folk customs as the basis, and continuously explore, inherit, reform and innovate this historic folk traditional culture, and use rich content that is diverse in forms, combination of ancient and modern times, distinctive and popular, and present it to the general public.” Community staff introduced. In addition, the Travel and Culture Festival will show the scene of people watching, people celebrating, and people celebrating, and people celebrating, which is a true portrayal of the harmonious community of Wentang. The colorful art performance will last for four nights. At that time, the city’s citizens can go to Wanfu Garden in Wentang to watch the art performance, including multiple folk art clubs and literary groups singing operas, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, and classic Cantonese opera performances. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)