”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 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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Opening
The festival has a history of more than 400 years. On the morning of April 16, Dongcheng Wentang Community 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 performances in Wentang streets, dozens of parade teams with different costumes were exhibited. KomiksKomiks said that various cultural entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate.
Wentang Tourist Association has a long history, a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is very popular among the general public. Cinema is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Wentang Tourist Association in Dongcheng 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 of Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, and there were 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 Cinema people, Wentang restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, named the Wentang Tourist Culture Festival. 2010, 2011, 2012It was held for three consecutive years, and later it was held every three years. The custom of Wentang people has been around for a long time. Before spring plowing, they carry the Bodhisattva Komiks parade, which means that the Bodhisattva hopes that this year will be 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, celebrating, and having fun together.
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The scene
The drizzle in the air will never destroy the enthusiasm of the masses. “This year is 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 tour meetings. That is, from 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 in Wentang.” A staff member of Wentang introduced.
The author saw at the scene that the float parade included the national peace and stability, the Babaylan, the cultural tour of martial arts, the dragon and phoenix came to the auspiciousness, the enterprise float, Tianji sending children, the four classics, the head team, the flower fairy congratulations, the lion awakening, the spring service, the loyalty of the country, the folk legend, the soap team, the national wedding, the campus fun, the entertainment promotion, the strange color, the Bodhisattva tour, etc., which expanded a lot compared with the past, 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. On the morning of that day, people were clamoring in front of Wentang Bai Temple, and Cinema 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 people of Wentang Village burned incense and worshiped the gods along the way, beat gongs 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 prosperity and prosperity of Xiawentang Community in the new era<a href="The good scene of Komiks. According to Wentang Community staff, this year's Cinema parade team set off from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as Shaoyi Village and Zao San Fifth Division. Cinema through Wentang Neighborhood Committee, Chaling Park, Wenge Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions around Wentang Community for one week, with a total journey of about 4.5 kilometers.
KomiksThe wonderful and colorful artistic performances will last for four nights
In addition to traditional program performances and fairy floats, this year’s Beidi Birth Festival is more fun than in previous years.
“We take promoting excellent national culture as the main line, relying on displaying Lingnan folk customs, and continuously explore, inherit, reform and innovate this historic traditional folk 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, celebrating, and having fun together, which is a true portrayal of Wentang Harmonious Community. The colorful art performance will last for four nights, and citizens can go to Wentang Wanfu Garden to watch the artistic performance, including multiple folk art companies, art groups, and operas. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan has wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)