China News Agency, Zhangzhou, November 4th, title: Exploring the ancient city of Zhangzhou, Fujian: Taiwan compatriots have a strong culture in the ancestral land
Author Zhang Jinchuan Liao Zhenmei
Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, the main ancestral place of Taiwan compatriots, shares the same roots, ancestors and origins with Taiwan, and has common folk beliefs and cultural customs.
The data picture shows that the Zhangzhou Lantern Riddle Art Museum displays souvenirs exchanged between Zhang and Taiwan for the exchange of lantern riddles.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Jinchuan
Recently, when a reporter from China News Agency visited the ancient city of Zhangzhou, they found that the Zhangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, the Puppet Art Performance Hall, the Zhangzhou Ancient City Memory Hall, and the Zhangzhou Lantern Riddle Art Museum contained a strong ancestral land of Taiwan compatriots. culture.
"There is also a big drum and umbrella in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, which is called 'Drum Dance Array' locally, and there is also a dragon art in Changhua, Taiwan..." According to Li Fuping, director of the intangible cultural heritage protection department of the Zhangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, there was once a Taiwanese compatriot in the museum. When I saw the miniature model of Zhangzhou Pinghe Dragon Art, just like the Dragon Art Parade held every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in Changhua, Taiwan, I was so excited that I called my mother in Taiwan in Hokkien on the spot, "I saw Dragon Art in Zhangzhou." .
The Zhangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, located in the ancient city of Zhangzhou, displays 95 national, provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage items, gathering the essence and skills of southern Fujian culture.
Since its opening in 2015, it has attracted many Taiwan compatriots to seek their roots here.
Li Fuping said that among the dazzling array of intangible cultural heritage projects, the skills spread among Taiwanese folk all came from Zhangzhou and southern Fujian.
Zhangzhou Lantern Riddle Art Museum, known as "the first museum of Chinese lantern riddles" by mysteries at home and abroad, has ancient books, riddles, calligraphy and paintings, seals, inscriptions and other lantern riddle cultural relics with a long history in the museum, all of which prove the splendor and longevity of Chinese culture.
According to the staff of the museum, on the eve of the Lantern Festival this year, a Lantern Festival lantern riddle cultural event with the theme of "Fulian Cross-strait", which was broadcast live on the "cloud", attracted many Zhangtai mystery friends to participate and learn about the mystery.
The data picture shows the Zhangzhou puppet show.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Jinchuan
Zhangzhou City has a long history of lantern riddles, which began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The staff member said that the folk lantern riddles exchanges between Zhang and Taiwan have been frequent and in-depth, and they have witnessed a family on both sides of the strait.
Walking into the puppet art performance hall in the ancient city of Zhangzhou, with the sound of gongs and drums, behind the stage, the actors put their palms into the puppets, and their flexible fingers sing, read, do, play, and even happy, angry, Sorrow, music, and vivid performances are breathtaking.
According to Yue Siyi, the head of Zhangzhou Bag Puppet Inheritance and Protection Center, Zhangzhou Bag Puppet Show has a long history and spread to Southeast Asia and Taiwan as early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.
In the cross-strait art exchange activities, Zhuang Chenhua, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, also accepted two Taiwanese puppet performers as apprentices.
The picture shows an aerial photograph of the ancient city of Zhangzhou on October 28. The ancient buildings have distinctive features.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Jinchuan
Zhangzhou and Kinmen face each other across the water. On October 28, the "Kinmen Cultural Tourism Station" also landed in the ancient city of Zhangzhou.
According to Shi Peilin, a professor at Minnan Normal University and a Taiwanese teacher, Minnan culture is an integral part of traditional Chinese culture. The mutual establishment of cultural tourism stations in Zhangzhou and Kinmen is conducive to the integrated development of cultural tourism in the two places.
"Zhang and Taiwan are not only geographically close, but also deeply integrated in terms of language and culture, clan culture, folk beliefs, food culture, and folk customs. In particular, Zhangzhou's southern Fujian culture and Hakka culture have extensive influence in Taiwan. "Tu Zhiwei, president of Zhangzhou Minnan Culture Research Association, said that Zhangzhou is very rich in cultural resources of Taiwan's ancestral land, and it has great potential to promote the spiritual harmony of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
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