[Explanation] The 2023 Yanjiawan Spring Festival Gala in Zhaojia Village, Huacao Town, Minhang District, Shanghai and the villagers went to the appointment again. This welcome event that combines folk customs display, intangible cultural heritage experience and artistic performance has become Zhaojia Village's "cultural business card" to the outside world .
[Commentary] There are more than two hours before the opening of the village Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Youqing, a 71-year-old villager in Zhaojia Village, invited his "old partner" to "occupy a seat".
[Concurrent] Villager Zhao Youqing
It stopped for two years and started again this year. It was very good and very lively.
Originally, Zhaojiacun and Yanjiawan were small villages with few people, but now that they are held in this way, there are more people, and it will be lively once a year. If there are many people, the place is popular enough.
[Explanation] The lively atmosphere attracts the "foreign residents" of the surrounding Huacao International Community to come to "Jia Zuo Busy" (Shanghai dialect: join in the fun).
[Explanation] In front of the "Writing Spring Festival couplets" booth, Saskia Osterloh from Germany was taking pictures with her friends holding the "Auspicious Ruyi" scroll, "Bai Xuehongmei bid farewell to the old year, and spring is everywhere in the world", I don't know Chinese well They also tried to read the Spring Festival couplets.
[Concurrent] German friend Saskia Osterloh
I really like it here.
I think for foreigners in Shanghai, it is difficult to come into contact with more traditional things, because it is a modern metropolis.
The way urban people celebrate festivals is also different from that in villages. I am very happy to come here to see some very traditional things that I don’t usually see. I also learned about people’s customs during the Spring Festival, so it’s really great that we can come here today. it is good.
[Explanation] Tsc Tempest from Australia picked up a camera to record while visiting the characteristic non-heritage folk market.
He participated in the rural Spring Festival Gala for the second time and became the leader of the "foreign residents" team.
[Concurrent] Reporter
How do the glutinous rice balls taste?
[Concurrent] Australian friend Tsc Tempest
Very good and delicious.
I have no travel plans this year, so I will stay in Shanghai.
Planning to walk around and learn more about Chinese culture, such a festival is fun.
[Explanation] The literary "light cavalry" from the Minhang District Mass Art Museum and the "people's stars" from Huacao Town also brought the audience a performance integrating singing, dancing, allegro, opera, magic, and acrobatics. They responded with rounds of applause.
[Explanation] Zhang Qin, deputy secretary of the Party Branch of Zhaojia Village, Huacao Town, told reporters that the rural Spring Festival Gala was originally a traditional event for the New Year. Everyone had fun together, shared the results of the beautiful countryside, and celebrated the Spring Festival together.
[Concurrent] Zhang Qin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch of Zhaojia Village, Huacao Town
This year is of great significance. People's production and life are better and better in an all-round way.
So in such a season, celebrating the Spring Festival together is a stage to show our Minhang, our Huacao international community and urbanized countryside, and it is also a starting point for us to start again with confidence.
Gao Zhimiao Xu Yinkang Yuzhan reports from Shanghai
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]