Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, May 28 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) Guangzhou’s more than 150-year-old "Dragon Boat in Chebei Village" has been suspended this year due to the need for epidemic prevention and control.
And a micro-film "The Most Dramatic Dragon Boat" that gathers Chebei Dragon Boat culture is currently being filmed and is expected to be launched during the Dragon Boat Festival this year.
Chebei was built in the Tang and Song dynasties. The dragon boat activities in this village retain the traditional steps of raising dragons, picking green, racing dragons, hiding dragons, and dispersing dragons. It can be called the representative of the dragon boat culture in Guangfu.
In 2017, "Stealing Dragon Boats in Chebei Village" was selected as the sixth batch of representative intangible cultural heritage projects in Guangzhou.
At present, Chebei not only retains more than 30 ancestral temples, the number is the largest in natural villages in Guangzhou, but also has more than 50 traditional dragon boats.
In 2019, the environmental theater "Dragon Boat Opera · Ancestral Hall Edition", led by the Guangzhou Grand Theatre and the Chebei Ancient Village in collaboration with seven universities in Cantonese, gave the audience a taste of the Lingnan water town and the unique Cantonese dragon boat. And ancestral hall culture.
Based on the good foundation of the ancestral hall version, the Guangzhou Chebei Dragon Boat Culture Promotion Association and the local youth drama troupe MEGA Opera Zhenduo Studio jointly created the "Dragon Boat Drama·Micro-Film Version" and "The Most Dramatic Dragon Boat".
Guangzhou's "Stealing Dragon Boat in Chebei Village" has a history of more than 150 years.
Photo courtesy of the Folk Artists Association of Tianhe District, Guangzhou
The newly upgraded micro-film uses dragon boats as the medium to continue its adherence to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.
The actors participating in the micro-film include professional entertainers, local villagers in Chebei, and non-genetic inheritors of the "Stealing Dragon Boat in Chebei Village".
Dong Yue, deputy director of the Drama and Film Committee of the Folk Artists Association of Guangzhou Tianhe District, and co-founder of MEGA Drama Studio, who is responsible for the screenwriter, said that the micro-film still uses local themes as the blueprint for the story and digs into true folk stories. And for artistic processing to form film and television works.
According to the main creative team, the micro-film version is the "prequel" of the ancestral hall version. The plot tells the story of Su Weihang, a descendant of Chebei who moved to Macau with his father since childhood, eager to return to his hometown to explore his father and hometown. The family story of Su Gong Temple is the main thread, revealing the development history of generations of people in Chebei who have struggled hard.
"They are actually a collection of Chinese people. The film aims to show the charm of excellent traditional culture three-dimensionally through the unique experience of the parents of ordinary families and the villagers of Chebei." Dong Yue said.
Su Yingchang, the non-genetic inheritor of "Stealing a Dragon Boat in Chebei Village", participated in the filming of the micro-film. “Choosing the dragon boat culture into a micro-film is more conducive to cultural dissemination, so that more young people, especially the new Guangzhou people, can understand the historical and cultural heritage of the ancient village of Chebei for thousands of years, and better integrate into the community and Guangzhou.” Su Yingchang said. (Finish)