China News Service, Nanning, January 29 (Huang Yanmei and Lin Hao) Binyang County, Nanning City, Guangxi, the "Hometown of Chinese Cannon Dragons", will hold the "Pao Dragon Festival Hundred Dragons Dance in Binzhou" event from February 12 to February 20 ”, allowing local people and tourists to enjoy the carnival, share the feast of folk culture, and celebrate the New Year together.
On January 28, Binyang County officials held a press conference to introduce the 2024 Paolong Festival Hundred Dragons Dance event in Binzhou. The local government has carefully planned to launch a series of activities such as the Sports Temple Fair, the Paolong Music Festival, the "Dragon Binyang, Intangible Cultural Heritage Trends" Nari Market, folk cultural performances, the "Paolong" folk stage drama, and the Starry Sky Light and Shadow Art Festival.
The picture shows the scene of the Binyang Paolong Dance activity (data map). Photo by Yu Jing
The custom of Binyang Paolong Dance originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years. It is the crystallization of the cultural blend of the Zhuang and Han nationalities and is known as "one of the best in China". The "Binyang Cannon Dragon Festival" is known as the "Oriental Carnival", is included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects, and won the title of "China's Best Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival". Binyang Paolong has also visited Singapore, South Korea and other countries for exchange performances and is quite famous internationally.
"The cannon shakes thousands of mountains, and the dragon rises and all industries prosper." People in Binyang County believe that the cannon dragon dance can get rid of bad luck and bring rain, good harvest, good luck and stability. It expresses the people's good wishes for a prosperous people, a peaceful life and a peaceful country and a peaceful people. The Cannon Dragon Dance is the most lively activity during the Spring Festival for people in Binyang County. Binyang people who have wandered away will come back from all directions.
According to reports, from the third day of the first lunar month to the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Binyang County will launch a series of sports, literature and art, calligraphy and painting, tourism and other activities to meet the preferences of different groups of people, innovatively launch the five major cultural IP images of Binyang, with "Baobao Paolong + "" as the soul, create a cultural line of "roaming Binyang", and launch innovative and popular cultural activities such as "New Year's Cuisine" food exhibition, Paolong Starlight Market, Binyang "New Year's Cuisine" food competition and so on.
Binyang County has established multiple special work teams to coordinate various tasks such as production safety, fire safety, drug safety, food safety, traffic safety, etc., carry out comprehensive safety inspections, supervise the implementation of safety precautions, and formulate and improve emergency plans. Improve emergency response capabilities. At the same time, we will make every effort to provide logistical support services such as accommodation, shopping, medical care, and environmental improvement for tourists to ensure that the entire event is safe, orderly, and smooth.
Binyang County Magistrate Liang Zhanfan said that the county will actively make good use of the Paolong cultural brand, use cultural empowerment to integrate Baobao Paolong elements into cultural tourism, rural revitalization, industrial development, urban construction and other aspects, and continue to improve county planning. Layout and quality connotation. (over)