Chinanews.com, Changsha, February 5th (Fu Jingyi) The high-hanging red lanterns are embellished with a strong flavor of the New Year. Civilized lantern riddles are both entertaining and informative, showing the unique charm of traditional culture; international friends, morality Models, representatives of good people, and representatives of citizens grind glutinous rice, make glutinous rice balls, make lanterns, and inherit the customs of the Lantern Festival... During the Lantern Festival, in Chaozong Street, a new cultural landmark in Changsha that combines tradition and new trends, the people happily celebrate the Lantern Festival, Let's spend the festive season together.
On the evening of February 4th, "Love in Changsha, Share the Beauty" theme event of "Our Festival Lantern Festival" in Changsha in 2023 was held in Chaozong Street. Nine districts and counties (cities) in Changsha held a number of various Lantern Festival activities at the same time , the city-wide linkage organically integrates traditional culture, civilized customs and festive atmosphere, promotes traditional culture in a festive and peaceful atmosphere, and promotes Chinese culture to go global better.
Chaozong Street is one of the two major historical and cultural blocks in Changsha. It retains the street pattern formed since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The well-preserved Mashi Ancient Street has been preserved here for more than 400 years, which is where Changsha's cultural context and inheritance lie.
It not only has the most Changsha-like old streets and alleys, the mansions of the Republic of China, and historical relics, but also perfectly integrates time-honored food, immersive experience, cultural and creative space, hotels and homestays, and has become the most popular online celebrity check-in in Changsha. one of the places.
The 2023 "Huanxin Intangible Cultural Heritage" National Video Exhibition attracted many citizens to stop and watch.
Zhou Shuyishe
At night, Chaozong Street is very lively with lanterns and festoons everywhere. At the "Lantern Festival Making Experience Zone", everyone grinds glutinous rice and makes glutinous rice balls with the masters of Jiuruzhai, a time-honored Hunan brand, and experiences the most authentic Changsha glutinous rice balls; in the "Lantern Making Experience Zone" ", craftsmen teach foreign friends how to make lanterns; in the "Hanfu experience area", the simple and gorgeous Hanfu is integrated with the antique flavor of Chaozong Street.
International students from Russia, France, Congo-Brazzaville, Kenya and other countries, after studying and living in Changsha, can not only speak Mandarin fluently, but also fall in love with the profound traditional Chinese culture.
During the event, they experienced the profoundness, warmth and inclusiveness of traditional Chinese culture, and hoped that there will be more similar activities in the future to further deepen their understanding of Chinese culture and Changsha folk customs.
Foreign friends grind glutinous rice and make glutinous rice balls with the masters of Jiuruzhai.
Zhou Shuyishe
"Eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival means reunion." BOUKETE GRACE, a Ph.D. student in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages at Hunan Normal University from the Republic of Congo, listened carefully to Master Jiuruzhai's introduction and couldn't wait to experience the making process.
Under the guidance of the master, he successfully made the first glutinous rice balls in his life, and shared the made glutinous rice balls with friends at the scene to taste and send festival blessings.
The most eye-catching thing at the scene was the passionate Dongjing Dragon Dance. The wonderful performance of the students of Mingde Dongjing Middle School won the applause of the citizens and injected youthful vitality into the traditional culture.
The Dongjing Dragon Dance is an outstanding representative of the Hunan School Dragon Dance, and was listed in the Hunan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2008.
In 2012, Mingde Dongjing Middle School decided to take the dragon culture as the campus culture, and carried out the teaching and inheritance of Dongjing dragon dance in the way of school inheritance.
Students from Mingde Dongjing Middle School performed the Dongjing Dragon Dance.
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Near the main venue of the event, the 2023 "Huanxin Intangible Cultural Heritage" National Video Exhibition attracted many citizens to stop and watch.
The video exhibition selected more than 60 pictures taken from representative intangible cultural heritage projects in Changsha, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Quanzhou and other places, vividly showing the current state of living inheritance and vitality of intangible cultural heritage across the country.
From Qingdao’s Laoshan paper-cutting “Wonderful Pen Blossoms”, to Guangdong’s brave and heroic Wing Chun, as well as local Huogong snacks, Hunan embroidery and Tongguan Kiln ceramics, each photo allows more intangible cultural heritage to be seen, activated, and passed on.
Yanghushui Street in Changsha held activities to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
Photo courtesy of Changsha Civilization Office
During the Lantern Festival, the Lianhua Longdong Poetry Meeting in Lianhua Town, Xiangjiang New District, Changsha, the Lantern Festival Joy Party in Huogong Palace, Tianxin District, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum in Yuhua District, the Lantern Festival activities in Gaotangling Street, Wangcheng District, Changsha County Tianhan Cultural Park The New Year's Lantern Festival and other activities are linked throughout the city, organically integrating traditional culture, civilized fashion and festive atmosphere, promoting traditional culture in a festive and peaceful atmosphere, and blowing a new wind of civilization.
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