China News Service, Guangzhou, June 25 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) On the 25th, the Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Heritage Exhibition of "Dragon Boat Festival on Paper Tip" opened at Guangzhou City Park Exhibition Hall in Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou. Passage grass paintings and dragon boat culture non-legacy exhibits such as dragon boat dragon head, dragon tail, paddle, gongs and drums, flags, Luo umbrella, Shendou.
Dragon boat racing is an important and ancient traditional folk event on the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, it was the earliest sacrificial activity of the ancient Yue people to sacrifice water god or dragon god. Its origin can be traced back to the end of primitive society. In the past, almost every historic water village in the Lingnan area would spend a lot of money to build its own village's dragon boat.
Photographed by Cheng Jingwei, the dragon boat oar on display
On the same day, Zhang Weichao, a non-genetic inheritor of the dragon boat dragon head production technique in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, came to the exhibition site to tell the audience the origin of the dragon boat, the types of dragon boats, the customs of Lingnan villages, and showed the production techniques of dragon dragon head.
Hand-made dragon tails have complicated techniques and have to go through more than ten steps such as design, wood selection, sample preparation, rough carving, fine carving, sanding, painting, and polishing. "The design part has racked its brains, and the craft part has been meticulous, and the whole process needs to be quite ingenious." Zhang Weichao said that for each faucet, he spent a long time researching and designing.
The teachers and students of the non-legacy grass painting heritage education team and the representative inheritors of the watercolor painting skills of the grass paintings also went to the exhibition site to interact with the audience, introduce the content of the grass paintings, and improvise the grass paintings related to the Dragon Boat Festival.
Guangzhou citizens watch the photo of Cheng Jingwei
In order to deepen the festival atmosphere and convey the customs of Guangzhou festivals, a "Dragon Boat Post Office" was set up at the event site. Many citizens participated in handwriting a "Time and Time Post", sealed with lacquer stamps, and sent the beautiful wishes of welcoming and fortunate, fighting evil and eliminating disasters. .
The Dragon Boat Festival Cultural and Creative Market is also set up on site, and cultural and creative products such as five-color silk bracelets, Cantonese-style shortbread and sachets are impressive. Citizen tourists can not only find items closely related to the Dragon Boat Festival traditions here, but also on the spot Make Dragon Boat Dumplings, Wormwood Youth League, feel the fun of the festival, inherit and carry forward the traditional culture.
It is understood that Yuexiu Park is the city-wide comprehensive park in Guangzhou and the starting point and symbol of the central axis of the old city of Guangzhou. It has witnessed the development of Guangzhou City for more than two thousand years, and is rich in cultural relics and historical sites. The person in charge of the park said that in the future, the park will increase the introduction of non-legacy cultural elements, regularly carry out various levels of non-legacy cultural exchanges, exhibition activities, and gradually make the park a non-heritage cultural dissemination of Guangzhou. (Finish)