China News Service, Beijing, February 27 (Reporter Ying Ni) During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon that just passed, "Chinese red" lit up many world landmarks, bringing Chinese New Year blessings to the world.
"Celebrating the Spring Festival in Serbia this year is very different from previous years. It is very lively." Yang Fangxia, an overseas Chinese who has lived in Serbia for many years, lamented.
The "Happy Spring Festival" event has been held in Serbia for six consecutive years.
This year, many intangible cultural heritage arts from Quanzhou, Fujian, including Nanyin, Gaojia opera, Anxi bamboo and rattan weaving skills, and Quanzhou tin carving skills, were performed in major cities such as Belgrade and Novi Sad in Serbia.
At the "Happy Spring Festival" Egyptian National Wushu Championships jointly organized by China and Egypt, the Egyptian exhibition team opened with a dragon and lion dance, which attracted cheers and cheers from the audience.
The essence of Chinese culture such as calligraphy, painting, and tea art has made the Spring Festival "elegant gathering" around the world. Paper-cutting, sugar figures, dough sculptures, New Year pictures, and traditional Chinese snacks not only visually display China's intangible cultural heritage, but also allow overseas people to experience the taste of Chinese New Year. of China.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China also organized Sichuan Zigong Lantern Enterprises to hold "Happy Spring Festival Global Lantern Lighting" in more than 80 cities in nearly 20 countries and regions, including France, Norway, Hungary, Spain, the United States, Canada, Myanmar, and Nepal. "Activity, the number of visitors is expected to reach 30 million.
Among them, seven countries including Norway, Sweden and Nepal held Chinese lantern exhibitions for the first time.
As the key event of the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism, at the French Yuyuan Lantern Festival, 60 lantern groups and more than 2,000 lanterns from China bloomed instantly, and the auspicious dragons and auspicious beasts based on the Chinese mythology "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" instantly shined. , presenting a dazzling Chinese fantasy world to overseas tourists.
During the peak period, the park saw a huge traffic of 4,000 people per hour, and had to initiate traffic restriction measures. The director of the park said, "I haven't seen such a large passenger flow in many years."
When China's various intangible cultural heritages demonstrate the charm of delicious food, beautiful scenery, beautiful things, and wonderful experiences overseas, China's image as a peaceful, friendly, and positive oriental cultural country is also planted in the hearts of overseas people. seed.
The scene of the Lantern Festival in Yuyuan Garden, France.
(Photo courtesy of the Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation, Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
Xiao Fang, a professor at Beijing Normal University and director of the Department of Anthropology and Folklore of the School of Sociology, pointed out that as China intensifies its efforts to rescue and protect intangible cultural heritage, the lanterns with traditional cultural themes in the lantern festival are very eye-catching, and many of them are added with modern elements. Fashion elements make the lantern festival a cultural consumer product that closely follows the pulse of the times; through the combination and changes of photoelectricity and various modern lighting materials, wonderful lighting effects that are both real and illusory are created, which greatly enhances the viewing value of the lantern festival.
The combination of tradition and fashion, and the mutual promotion of new technologies and cultural creativity make the Lantern Festival an important promoter of telling Chinese stories.
According to Wang Xiaofeng, President of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, telling the Chinese story well through inheritance and revitalization requires not only setting up a stage to display the charm and style of China’s intangible cultural heritage, promoting exchanges and mutual learning, and continuously enhancing the influence of Chinese culture, At the same time, it is also necessary to continuously explore the rich heritage of China’s excellent traditional culture, promote creative transformation and innovative development, so that more young people can understand, get involved with, fall in love with, and inherit intangible cultural heritage, enhance cultural identity, and continue to enhance The cohesion of Chinese culture.
He believes that intangible cultural heritage is a bridge and carrier for cross-cultural exchanges. Due to the participatory and experiential nature of many intangible cultural heritage projects, communication can be achieved with almost no need for translation, and can be disseminated using digital and new media technologies. Breaking through language and geographical restrictions, people from all over the world have the opportunity to understand and experience Chinese intangible cultural heritage.
China's Spring Festival is much more than hanging red lanterns and jubilant dragon and lion dances. Officials are actively promoting the Spring Festival's application as a UNESCO World Heritage, and people also expect overseas people to learn more about the profound cultural heritage of the Spring Festival.
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