”Bird of the Northern Emperor” on the first day of March
Every year from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, Wentang Community, Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress-up parade to commemorate the Northern Emperor’s birth. On this day, the villagers carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair with the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva sitting on it. The villagers carried homemade snacks such as sponge cake, moxa horn, rice fruit, etc., forming a huge parade team of Komiks, competing for beauty.
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Opening
The festival has a history of more than 400 years. On the morning of April 16, Dongcheng Wentang Community held the 2018 Fifth Wentang Tourist Cultural Festival as scheduled. Deng Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongcheng Street, and Yuan Komiks and others attended and jointly launched the opening ceremony. Babaylan On that day, thousands of people parades and various cultural and artistic performances in Wentang streets, and dozens of parade teams with different costumes were displayed. Various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate.
Wentang Tour Club has a long history, has a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is very popular among the general public. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng culture.
It is reported that the Wentang Tourist Association in Dongcheng was first founded to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor and has a history of more than 400 years. To commemorate this festival, villagers from Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, and there were also many young men and women dressed in costumes, dressed in various mission styles in operas. The tour group set out from Bai Temple and marched from village to village. During the parade, there will be a costume drama that will be staged for several consecutive days. Later, due to various reasons, it was interrupted for more than 60 years. In 2009, with the efforts of enthusiastic people, Wentang restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, which was named Wentang Tourist Culture Festival. It was held for three consecutive years in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and later it was held every three years.
The custom of Wentang people has been around for a long time, before spring plowingCinemaThe parade carrying the Bodhisattva’s fruits means that the Bodhisattva hopes that this year will be better than the old year. In addition, Wentang Tour has extensive participation and is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching and celebrating and celebrating with people and celebrating together.
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Cinema venue
The continuous drizzle cannot extinguish the enthusiasm of the masses
“This year is the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, people from Wentang built this white temple in Chalinggang. From then on, there has been a custom of holding tour meetings, that is, the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, all Wentang will hold grand dress parades in Wentang.” Wentang community staff introduced. The author saw at the scene that the float parade team included the national peace and stability, the Three Stars’ Safari, the Cultural Tour of Martial Arts, the Dragon and Phoenix Tour, the Four Classics, the Shout Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions’ Spring, the Loyalty of the Country, the Folk Legend, the Soap Overhead Team, the National Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Entertainment Peace, the Strange Sex, the Bodhisattva Tour, and other teams. The scale has expanded much more than before, with a total of about 1,000 people parade.
The gorgeous float parade has presented a rich audio-visual feast to tens of thousands of citizens. Although the weather was not beautiful and drizzled every day, this did not prevent the joyful and laughter from spreading everywhere along the line. On the morning of that day, people were buzzing in front of Wentang Bai Temple, and Komiks were all citizens who came to participate in the tournament. The parade team of more than 1,000 people started sailing in an orderly manner with Bai Temple as the starting point.
During the parade, the performance team in costumes actively interacted with the audience along the way. At the same time, the villagers of Wentang burned incense and worshiped the gods along the way, beat gongs and drums, shouted loudly, and welcomed the parade of the phalanx. When each float passed by, there were constant cheers and the atmosphere was very warm. The entire tour took more than an hour, showing a thriving and prosperous Xiawentang Community in the new era.
According to Wentang Community staff, this year’s parade team set off from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passing through villages such as Wentang Zangyi New Village and Zao San Fifth Team. Through Wentangju Komiks Committee, Chaling Babaylan Park, Wenge Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions, the whole journey is about 4.5 kilometers.
Three Wonderful
Colorful and colorful artistic performances will last for four nights
In addition to traditional program performances and fairy floatsCinema, this year’s Beidi Birthday Tour Cultural Festival is more fun than in previous years. “We use the promotion of excellent national culture as the main line and the display of Lingnan folk customs as the basis, and continue to explore, inherit, reform and innovate this historic traditional folk culture of Babaylan, and use various forms, combining ancient and modern times, and are unique in Komiks. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan, the rich content that you like is presented to the general public. “The community staff introduced.
In addition, the Travel and Culture Festival will show the scene of people watching, Babaylan celebrating and having fun together, which is a true portrayal of the harmonious community of Wentang. The colorful artistic performance will last for four nights. Citizens can go to Wentang Wanfu Garden to watch the Cinema literary and artistic performances, including multiple folk art clubs, Cinema literary and artistic groups, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)