China News Service, Beijing, February 4 (Reporter Ying Ni) On the evening of the 3rd, in the square in front of the Ruins of St. Paul's in Macau, the Macau Chinese Orchestra joined hands with Chinese and foreign artists to present "Spring Festival Overture", "Spring Dance" and "Macau Caprice" and other classic music, kicking off the 2024 "Happy Spring Festival"; astronauts stationed on the China Space Station hold the "Happy Spring Festival" auspicious dragon and send the New Year of the Dragon from the "Tiangong" to the audience and Chinese around the world through video. bless……
The scene in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou, Guangxi was a lively scene of the "bridal return" folk custom, with firecrackers going off. Relying on the Dong people's custom of carrying out "Yueye" (that is, a group of villages visiting another village as guests) during the New Year, the main venue of the National Spring Festival "Village Gala" of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China was held here. 1,200 folk art groups from all over Guangxi The remaining people participated in the performance; it was the Spring Festival in the South, and people were busy pounding glutinous rice cakes, making oil tea, and frying oil fruits. They gathered in Fengyuqiao, Gulouping, and on the stage to perform self-written and directed literary and artistic programs, immersing tourists from all over the world. in local folk customs.
The ancient city is the area with the richest and most distinctive Spring Festival customs. Yulin in Shaanxi Province, Pingyao in Shanxi Province, Chaozhou in Guangdong Province, and Zhengding in Hebei Province have successively launched local "Celebrating the New Year in Ancient Cities" activities. During the performances of intangible cultural heritage items such as folk songs in northern Shaanxi and Pingyao Shehuo, as well as lanterns, dragon and lion dances, People and tourists share the beauty of intangible cultural heritage and savor the taste of the intangible cultural heritage. According to incomplete statistics, during the Spring Festival this year, more than 10,000 intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and performances will be held in various places. The good shows of intangible cultural heritage are staged in turn.
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon for Chinese people is getting closer and closer at the pace of the "Little Year".
The lanterns in the north and south have their own characteristics. For the first time, the Forbidden City and the Summer Resort jointly present a Chinese New Year palace lantern exhibition. The exquisite longevity lanterns, flower basket lanterns, cloisonné enamel Taiping elephant lanterns and other palace lanterns are exquisite in shape, colorful and carry beautiful meanings.
The Sichuan Zigong Lantern Festival, a national intangible cultural heritage, brings together thousands of beautiful lantern groups. Some tell Chinese historical stories, some express Spring Festival folk customs, and some show cute and naive "cartoon version" dinosaur images. Tourists expressed their admiration. Wang Chenyang, director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, revealed that according to preliminary statistics, more than 500 intangible cultural inheritance and practical activities of lantern festivals and lantern projects will be carried out across the country.
Shanghai Yuyuan Lantern Festival goes beyond the borders. At the Yuyuan Lantern Festival in France, as 60 lantern sets and more than 2,000 lanterns from China bloomed instantly, the auspicious dragons and auspicious beasts drawn from the Chinese mythological classic "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" shined instantly. The theme was "Mountains and Seas Are Beautiful" "Ling" Lantern Festival is homophonic to "mountain and sea friends", which means that even though China and France are separated by mountains and seas, they still know each other as if they are neighbors.
In addition to the traditional viewing of lanterns, watching "village evenings" online and holding "village evenings" offline have become one of China's new folk customs. As a Spring Festival party that farmers write, direct, perform and appreciate themselves, the "Village Gala" takes root in the local area, carries local accents, condenses nostalgia, sings about things around them, acts out the people around them, and expresses their inner thoughts. "Village evenings" in various places use the countryside as the stage to showcase local folk customs, vividly tell stories about beautiful life, or explore unique food and delicacies, telling local accents, singing nostalgia, and dancing nostalgia.
On this all-encompassing stage, many folk stunts, folk activities and intangible cultural heritage projects continue to be performed, whether it is the "Maojiao Daughter-in-law" paper-cutting competition in Yulin, the Kung Fu tea art display in Chaozhou, the social fire performance in Pingyao, and the ancient city lantern festival in Zhengding , behind the steaming crowds is a vibrant life.
The "Happy Spring Festival" in 2024 will also further radiate around the world. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 2024 "Happy Spring Festival" event will hold nearly 500 performances of various forms and rich content in more than 100 countries and regions around the world, and hold "Global Lantern Spots" in nearly 20 countries. Bright activity". It is worth mentioning that the "auspicious dragon" image launched this year has been widely used in the "Happy Spring Festival" brand activity and has been market-oriented development and operation for the first time.
Recently, "Happy Spring Festival" also entered the Cuba International Jazz Festival for the first time. Pianist Oliva and his mother are both "Dragon". They said that it will be an unforgettable memory to welcome the Year of the Dragon with the Chinese people with the music they created. (over)