”Bird of the Northern Emperor” on the first day of March
The last day of the second lunar month of the lunar calendar every yearBabaylan By the third day of the March, Wentang Community in Dongcheng, Dongguan will hold a grand dress-up parade to commemorate the Northern Emperor’s birth. On this day, the people in the village carried the Bodhisattva sedan chair with the Northern Emperor Bodhisattva sitting on it. The village people were wearing homemade snacks such as sponge cakes, moxa horns, rice fruits, etc., forming a massive parade team to compete for beauty.
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The opening festival has a history of more than 400 years. On the morning of April 16, Komiks, Wentang Community in Dongcheng City held the 2018 Fifth Wentang Tourist Festival as scheduled. Deng Tao, Secretary of the Dongcheng Street Party Committee, and Yuan Baiming, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wentang Community, attended and jointly launched the opening ceremony. On that day, thousands of people were parades and various cultural performances in the streets of Wentang, 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, a deep mass base, a wide influence, and is welcomed by the masses. It is a beautiful landscape full of humanistic content in the cultural construction of Wentang and even Dongcheng. It is reported that the Dongcheng Wentang Tour Club was founded to commemorate the birth of the Northern Emperor and has a history of more than 400 years. To commemorate this festival, villagers of Wentang, Dongcheng formed a massive parade team, and there were 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 days in a row. Later, for various reasons, Babaylan interrupted Cinema for sixty years. In 2009, with the efforts of enthusiastic people, Wentang restored this tradition and held a tour meeting on the same day, 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. In addition, Wentang Tour has extensive participation and is the most prosperous, lively and festive festival for Wentang people. The Cultural Festival shows the scene of people watching, people celebrating, and people having fun together.
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The drizzle in the air will never destroy 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, from the last day of the second lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, all Wentang will hold grand dress parades.” Wentang community staff introduced.
The author saw at the scene that the float parade included such as the National Peace and Minsheng, the Three Stars Show Rui, the Cultural Tour of Wuwei, the Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang, the Enterprise Float, Tianji Sending Children, the Four Great Classics, the Bearded Team, the Flower Fairy Congratulations, the Lions and Spring, the Loyalty of the Country, the Folk Legend, the Soap Overhead Team, the National Wedding, the Campus Wedding, the Entertainment Peace, the Strange Floating Color, the Bodhisattva Tour, etc., which expanded a lot compared to the past, 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, it did not prevent the Cinema from singing and laughing everywhere along the route. That morning, people were clamoring in front of Wentang Bai Temple, and all the citizens who came to participate in the tour. The parade team of more than 1,000 people starts with the White Temple.The sailing was set in sequence. 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 drums and drums, shouted loudly, and warmly welcomed the parade. As each float passed by, there were constant cheers and the atmosphere was very warm. The entire tour took more than an hour, showing the good scene of prosperity and prosperity in 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 Zaoyi New Village and Zao San Fifth Team. Through Wentang Neighborhood Committee Komiks, Chaling Park, Wenge Park, Wanfu Garden and other attractions around Wentang Community for one week, the whole journey is about 4.5 kilometers.
CinemaThe wonderful and colorful artistic performances will last for four nights
In addition to traditional program performances and the fairy floats, this year’s Beidi Birth Tour Cultural Festival is more fun than in previous years. “We take promoting excellent national culture as the main line, and rely on displaying Lingnan folk customs as our basis, and continue to explore this historic folk traditional culture, inherit and reform and innovate, and use rich content that is diverse in forms, combination of ancient and modern times, rich in characteristics, and enjoys the public.” Community staff introduced.
In addition, the 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 artistic performance will last for four nights. Citizens can go to Wanfu Garden in Wentang to watch artistic performances, including multiple folk art clubs and literary groups singing, as well as wonderful singing and dancing performances, classic Cantonese opera performances, etc. (Text/Chen Zehuang Photo/Huang Yujun)