China News Service, Jinzhong, February 13th: How deep is the Shanxi Merchant Courtyard? "Yard Tour" is popular during the Spring Festival holiday
China News Service reporter Yang Jieying
Big red lanterns are hung high among the blue bricks and gray tiles, and the atmosphere of the New Year is rising in the Shanxi Merchant Courtyard. During this Spring Festival holiday, many people traveling to Shanxi choose "courtyard tours" to experience the strong New Year flavor of the hometown of Shanxi merchants.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the Qiao Family Courtyard Scenic Area carries out various forms of traditional New Year activities such as intangible cultural heritage and folk customs. Photo by Wang Wenjiao
Shanxi Merchant Courtyard, how deep is it? Shanxi merchants, who "spanned nine thousand miles across Europe and Asia", created a unique Shanxi compound culture over hundreds of years. The deep and magnificent courtyards of Shanxi merchants not only demonstrate the beauty of folk architecture, but also bear witness to the 500-year history of the rise and fall of Shanxi merchants.
The Qiao Family Courtyard, located in Jinzhong, Shanxi Province, is known as the "No. 1 Courtyard of Shanxi Merchants" and is one of the iconic business cards of Shanxi merchant culture.
During this year’s Spring Festival, the Qiao Family Courtyard Scenic Spot has the theme of “Qiao Family Spring Chinese New Year·Qiao Yuan Society celebrates the New Year”. In the four major chapters of "Blessings", various forms of traditional New Year activities such as intangible cultural heritage, walking on the road, watching social fires, and going to the market are carried out to demonstrate the charm and vitality of Chinese culture.
"There is a courtyard within the courtyard, and there is a garden within the courtyard. Every brick and tile in the courtyard reflects Shanxi merchant culture." Yan Haonan, a tourist from Hebei, said that the courtyard of Qiao's courtyard is very deep, and the accumulation of history is reflected in this In the layers of courtyards and lanes.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the Qiao Family Courtyard Scenic Area carries out various forms of traditional New Year activities such as intangible cultural heritage and folk customs. Photo by Wang Wenjiao
During the Spring Festival holiday, Ms. Cui, a tourist, and her family of four chose to go to Shanxi for a "courtyard tour". "I'm usually very busy with work, so I take advantage of the holidays to take my children to experience the essence of Shanxi merchants and how to do business."
This year is Wu Ziya’s fifth year working in the Qiao Family Courtyard Scenic Area. As a commentator, she said that we should respect culture, understand culture, fall in love with culture, tell the story of Qiao family to tourists from all over the world, and spread Shanxi merchant culture.
According to reports, during the Spring Festival this year, the Qiao Family Courtyard Scenic Area will arrange dozens of exciting programs every day, combining traditional culture with modern fashion to provide tourists with new scenes, new ways to play, and new experiences in the "Year of the Courtyard", allowing tourists to deeply understand Feel the charm of the courtyard culture.
Paper-cutting, pyrographed gourds, shadow puppet shows, sugar paintings, rubbings... It's not just Qiao Family Courtyard. During the Spring Festival, unique folk activities are held in various courtyard scenic spots in Shanxi.
The Wang Family Courtyard Scenic Area in Jinzhong, Shanxi also held a folk custom intangible cultural heritage tour. Carts, donkey racing, land boats, stilts, and dragon poles... these classic shows with unique local characteristics have attracted many tourists. According to statistics, on the first day of the Spring Festival this year, the Wang Family Courtyard Scenic Area welcomed nearly 10,000 tourists.
The Li Family Courtyard Scenic Area in Wanrong County, Yuncheng City, has received a total of about 15,000 tourists every week since the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.
Qiao Family Courtyard, Wang Family Courtyard, Li Family Courtyard... During this Spring Festival, Shanxi's "courtyard tour" attracts thousands of tourists. (over)