China News Service, Quanzhou, February 1st (Wu Guanbiao) On January 31st, the online theme event "Why China·Xianghai Quanzhou" entered the Wuli Ancient Street in Yongchun County, Quanzhou, Fujian Province. Feel the beauty of Yongchun’s famous specialties and intangible cultural heritage on the streets.
Yongchun, known as "Taoyuan" in ancient times, is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are 1.2 million overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and they have traveled to 51 countries and regions. In the past, Wuli Ancient Street, as the "important commercial town in southern Fujian", connected the Maritime Silk Road and the inland. Countless Yongchun people set out from here, creating the legend of "Wuli Street is always open for business".
Wuli Ancient Street was once prosperous because of the "Maritime Silk Road" transportation hub, but it also once disappeared with the changes of the times. In recent years, Yongchun County has continued to promote the restoration and reconstruction project of Wuli Ancient Street, giving Wuli Ancient Street new life through "protection, inheritance" and "activation and utilization" based on historical culture, overseas Chinese culture, and intangible cultural heritage. and vitality. On January 7, the comprehensively restored Wuli Ancient Street was officially opened to welcome visitors.
On January 31, Wuli Ancient Street in Yongchun, Fujian Province was crowded with people. Photo by Wu Guanbiao
Today, Wuli Ancient Street has nine major landscape parks, including Haisi Dreaming, Shuxiang Wenyuan, Vinegar Mixiang, Qiaoyun Wuli, Hewu Yongchun, and Zhiwei Chenghua, integrating Yongchun history, hometown of overseas Chinese, Baihe Quan, Cultural connotations such as paper weaving and paintings have attracted a large number of residents and tourists to come to the market.
The Yongchun paper weaving paintings that "see flowers in the mist", the Yongchun lacquer basket that "draws water from the bamboo basket without emptying", the Yongchun White Crane Boxing that "seems hard but not rigid, soft but not soft"... On that day, each and every one of Yongchun's specialties The inheritance inheritors showed "unique skills" to reporters and told the inheritance story.
"Weaving paper weaving paintings requires patience, care, and concentration. One wrong step will lead to wrong steps, and it often takes a whole day to sit." Fang Bishuang, the provincial inheritor of Yongchun paper weaving paintings, said that paper weaving paintings are an art that "does not break or stand up" , in order to embark on the road of innovation, she boldly used golden platinum paper as the weft thread in her new works, allowing the paper weaving paintings to show a unique beauty.
On January 31, Fang Bishuang, the provincial inheritor of Yongchun paper weaving painting, introduced paper weaving painting to people in Wuli Ancient Street. Photo by Wu Guanbiao
"Fragrance" and "vinegar" are the two characteristic industries of Yongchun, and they are also important industries that enrich the people. During the visit, the media reporters also went deep into Yongchun Bindaxiang Cultural and Creative Park and Qiaoxin Old Vinegar Factory Old Vinegar Cultural Park, and learned about Yongchun’s industrial transformation and development path through themed tours, factory sightseeing and other experience activities.
The online themed event "Why China? Xianghai Quanzhou" was organized by the Internet Communication Bureau of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Cultural Relics and Monuments Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (World Cultural Heritage Department), the Archeology Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and the Museum of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Sponsored by the Department of Social Cultural Relics, the Internet Information Office of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, the Fujian Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the Internet Information Committee of the Quanzhou Municipal Party Committee, and People's Daily Online, the Internet Information Office of the Quanzhou Municipal Party Committee, the News Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Quanzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, People's Video, and Quanzhou Radio and Television Station Hosted by China Internet Development Foundation. (over)