”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 massive parade team to compete for beauty.
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The festival has been open for 400 years. On the morning of April 16, Wentang Community in Dongcheng held the 2018 Fifth Wentang Tourist Festival as scheduled. Deng Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongcheng Street, Yuan Baiming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wentang Community, and others attended and launched the opening ceremony together. On that day, Komiks, Komiks, and on the streets of Wentang, there were thousands of people parades and various cultural and artistic performances, dozens of parade teams with different costumes were displayed, and various cultural and entertainment performances attracted many citizens to participate. Wentang Tour Club has a long history and a deep and strong mass base. It has a wide influence and is welcomed by the masses. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanities in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng.
It is reported that the Wentang Tourist Association in Dongcheng was first founded to commemorate the birth of Emperor Bei, and has a history of more than 400 years. To commemorate this festival, villagers from Wentang in Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, as well as many young men and women dressed in multiple costumes, dressed up in various opera styles. The tour group departed 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 regained this tradition and held a tour on the same day.cmov.com/”>Babaylan 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 Wentang people have been doing this for a long time. They carry the Bodhisattva fruits before spring plowing, which means that the Bodhisattva hopes that this year will be better than the old year. Moreover, WenBabaylanTang Tour has extensive participation, and is the most solemn, lively and festive festival for the Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together.
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Scene
Drizzle in the scene will never destroy the enthusiasm of the people. “This year is the fifth year. Around the mid-Qing Dynasty, the people of 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 month of the lunar calendar, grand dress parades will be held in all Wentang. “Wentang Community Staff introduced.
The author saw at the scene that the float parade included the national peace and stability, the Three Stars of Confession, the Cultural Tour of Military Affairs, the Dragon and Phoenix Arrival, the Enterprise Float, the Tianji Shou Shi, the Four Classics, the Shout Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions and the Spring, the Loyalty of the Country, the Folk Legend, the Soap Tour, the National Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Entertainment Peace, the Strange Sex, the Bodhisattva Tour, etc. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema has expanded a lot more than before, with a total of about 1,000 people cruising.
The gorgeous float parade has presented a rich audio-visual feast to tens of thousands of citizens. Although the day is not href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema is beautiful and drizzling, but this does not prevent the surroundings of the line from singing and laughing everywhere. On the morning of that day, people were in front of the Bai Temple in Wentang, and all the citizens who came to participate in the tour. The parade of more than 1,000 people sailed in an orderly manner with the Bai Temple as the starting point.
During the parade, the dressed performance team actively interacted with the audience along the way. At the same time, the villagers of Wentang burned incense and worshiped the gods, beat drums and drums, shouted loudly, and warmly welcomed the parade. When each float passed by, the scene was cheering and the atmosphere was very warm. The entire parade took more than an hour, showing the prosperous and prosperous Xiawentang community in the new era.
According to the staff of Wentang Community, this year’s parade starts from Baimiao in Wentang Community, along various blocks of Wentang Community, passes through villages such as the Shaoyi New Village and the Zao San Fifth Team. Through Wentang Neighborhood Committee, Chaling Park, Wenge Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions, the whole journey is about 4.5 miles.
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Colorful and colorful artistic performances will last for four nights
In addition to traditional program performances and fairy floats, this year’s Beidi Birthday Tour Cultural Festival is more fun than in previous years. “We take the promotion of excellent national culture as the main line, relying on displaying the folk customs of Lingnan as our basis, and constantly explore, inherit and reform this historic folk traditional culture, and use rich content to display it to the vast number of people with diverse forms, combination of ancient and modern times, distinctive and popular content.” Community staff introduced href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema.
In addition, the Komiks Travel and Culture Festival will show the scene of people watching, celebrating, and having fun together, which is a true portrayal of the harmonious community of Wentang. The colorful art performance will last for four nights, and citizens can go to Wentang Wanfu Garden to watch artistic performances, including multiple folk art clubs and literary groups singing operas, and Komiks, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang YuKomiksjun)