The jade rabbit bids farewell to the old year, and the auspicious dragon welcomes the new year. With the sonorous and powerful drums of Changshan War Drums, the more than 20-meter-long dragon and phoenix giant lantern group and the thousands of lanterns on the city wall are lit together, and nearly 1,000 drones paint the Spring Festival blessings of the Year of the Dragon in the night sky.
This event is guided by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, hosted by the Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and Shijiazhuang City, co-organized by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and co-organized by the Shijiazhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, Zhengding County**, and the Hebei Provincial Mass Art Museum (Hebei Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center). There are more than 60 cultural and sports activities in 21 items, including the intangible cultural heritage parade, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei intangible cultural heritage market, the Rongguofu scene performance, the National Drum King Competition, the ancient city cosplay show, and the folk art festival.
The 8-meter-tall Zhao Zilong, the famous general of the Three Kingdoms, the more than 20-meter-long dragon and phoenix giant lantern group, the "Nine Floors, Four Towers and Eight Great Temples" with a high degree of restoration, the stone lion that can blink its eyes, and the Changshan war drum hugged by four people, Cao Cao also wants to play a table tennis game ......with the old Guan Yu when he comesThe lantern festival held on the ancient city wall for the first time gave back to the city wall with a thousand colorful and dazzling lanterns, decorating the ancient city like a street market in the sky, and shocked thousands of tourists. On the 6-meter-wide ancient city wall, from the gorgeous brilliance of the prosperous era, to the profundity of the charm of the Nine Dynasties, to the harmony of the treasure land of Fucheng, the subtlety of intangible cultural heritage ingenuity, and the dream of children's dreams, the five themes of thousands of lanterns are arranged along the left and right sides of the wall, the young girl made of Hanfu, with the elderly, the adult holding the child, the visitors along the winding wall path between the lanterns, sometimes stop and look north, Lingxiao Tower, Sumeru Tower, Hua Tower, The four ancient towers of Chengling Pagoda were built in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the night sky is even more mysterious, and the sense of intersection of history and modernity, and the integration of culture and art fill the thoughts of every tourist.
With the theme of "Celebrating the Year of the Dragon at Ease, Painting the Ancient City with a Thousand Lanterns", this year's lantern festival was produced by the national intangible cultural heritage art team in Zigong, Sichuan, and has been polished many times in terms of modeling settings, color matching, and detail display. Since the news of the Lantern Festival was released, it has instantly rushed to the social ** hot search, and the number of appointments has grown rapidly in tens of thousands......These have become basic operations.
Behind the popularity of a series of activities such as the Lantern Festival in the ancient city, Hebei Cultural Tourism, which "rolls up to fly" and "focuses on persuasion", has already locked the traffic password. In 2023, Hebei Cultural Tourism will live up to the title of "King of Volumes" and become one of the tourist destinations that tourists yearn for across the country. Xiao Wang, who is from Shenzhen and takes his family to visit the Lantern Festival, is considering whether to celebrate the New Year in Zhengding this year.
It is understood that as an important part of the national "Ancient City New Year" Zhengding venue, the ancient city lantern festival will continue until March 11, open to the public free of charge from 18:00 to 22:30 every day.
When the national style meets the new trend, Zhengding, a thousand-year-old city, glows with extraordinary inclusiveness and integration.
In the opening ceremony and intangible cultural heritage parade performances, the national intangible cultural heritage - Changshan War Drum, Jingcheng Latte Art, Taolinping Flower Face Shehuo, Qingyuan Hydrangea Dragon Lantern, Beibai Sand Dragon Dance, Xushui Lion Dance, Wuqiao Acrobatics, Yuan's Flower Lifting Bar and other traditional folk culture projects from all over Hebei were skewered and perfectly integrated.
Happy Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, celebrate the New Year together", more than 90 representative items of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei intangible cultural heritage on the intangible cultural heritage market were unveiled, allowing tourists to taste special food, buy their favorite New Year's goods, and enjoy the rich history and strong New Year's flavor of the ancient city while feeling the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
On the booth of the provincial intangible cultural heritage Wuji paper-cutting, it was full of exquisite paper-cutting works containing a strong New Year's flavor, and the inheritors showed and explained the production process and key skills on the spot. The booth of sugar melon sticky production skills in Xiong'an New Area provides tourists from all over the world with essential delicious snacks for the Spring Festival, and the greedy little tourists can taste the food and experience the skills.
I have always been interested in intangible cultural heritage, and this intangible cultural heritage market is not only numerous, but also covers a wide range, not only from Hebei, but also from Beijing and Tianjin. Beijing's court painting skills are Qing court painting skills, and they are Danqing art treasures, and now they have also flown into the homes of ordinary people. I also tasted Tianjin jasmine tea, which is known as the 'first fragrance in the north', and listened to the inheritor introduce the blending process, which is really an intangible cultural heritage market full of experience! Tourists from Henan are full of praise for this intangible cultural heritage feast.
One is Langyuan Xianbao, and the other is a beautiful jade flawless ......An ethereal and tactful song "Vain Eyebrows" sounded, and the "Yuan Concubine" wearing a phoenix crown and a xia veil slowly walked slowly surrounded by palace maids. In the filming location of the 1987 version of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" - Zhengding Rongguo Mansion, the live performance "Yuan Concubine Provincial Family" is being staged.
Enter the hanging flower door, wear the flower hall, pass the Jia's mother's house, and enter Sister Feng's house ......Tourists wear red mansion clothes, visit the Grand View Garden, and deeply feel the traditional Chinese culture and the culture of the Red Mansion.
My mother is also a fan of red food, and she has been telling me about "Dream of Red Mansions" since I was a child, and she has made many decisions over the years, and every time she comes, she makes new discoveries. A senior "red fan" from Beijing told reporters. This time, she specially made Hanfu makeup for herself, and followed the mighty provincial team all the way to the dream of Red Mansions, enjoying the "unprecedented satisfaction of red fans".
It is understood that the average daily number of tourists in Rongguo Mansion on daily holidays is about 5,000, most of whom are from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. This live performance selected the chapter "Concubine Yuan" in the book "Dream of Red Mansions", restored the grand occasion of Jia Yuanchun's return to his parents' home, and deliberately reproduced the time nodes in the book and TV series, and arranged it to be performed at night. In the rich and diverse cultural soil of Hebei, pregnant with gorgeous and colorful opera flowers, in the Rongguo Mansion Daguanlou Theater, Shijiazhuang Silk String "King Wen's Visit to Xian", Peking Opera "Bead Curtain Village", Pingju "Flower as the Matchmaker" and other famous opera masterpieces are staged wonderfully, showing the style of Hebei's "Northern Opera Nest", so that tourists are too addicted to opera. During the Spring Festival, there will also be live performances such as "Grandma Liu's Welcome" and "Bao Dai's First Meeting" during the daytime.
With the efforts of Hebei cultural tourism to "pet fans", various services in Zhengding County continue to upgrade. In order to integrate into the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei one-hour economic circle and living circle, 24 new large-scale parking lots have been built in the local area, more than 100 free sightseeing cars have been put into the area, and 4 new parking spaces have been added480,000, all free. In addition to 107 urban public toilets, there are also 402 "shared toilets" of government agencies and institutions open to the outside world, which solves the worries of tourists. In the major scenic spots and tourist service centers, free hot water, free charging, book borrowing, emergency medicine, shared wheelchairs, convenient seats, self-service rental guides, ticket sales, consultation and complaints and other warm services are urgent for tourists, considerate and convenient.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the ancient city of Zhengding has created a New Year scenic spot and cultural feast such as the ancient city lantern festival, live performances, art exhibitions, and intangible cultural heritage markets, welcoming visitors from all over the world. At the same time, the ancient cities of the province are also jointly carrying out their own distinctive and wonderful "Ancient City New Year" series of activities, Luanzhou Ancient City, Wanquan Ancient City, Ulzhou Ancient City, Guangfu Ancient City, Dingzhou Ancient City, etc., have staged a good show, attracting tourists from all over the world to Hebei to feel the charm of the ancient city and relive the traditional New Year's flavor.
Not only that, in order to further create a festive, warm, joyful and peaceful festival atmosphere, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, strengthen the inheritance and promotion of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and better stimulate consumption, the Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism has carefully planned and designed the "New Year in the Ancient City", "Chinese Opera in the New Year", "Village Evening New Year", "Folk New Year", "Visiting the Market for the New Year", "Ice and Snow Hot Spring for the New Year", "Time-honored Brands for the New Year", "Museum for the New Year" and "New Year in the Library" and other ten major scene series of 10,000 activities, a variety of scenes, a variety of gameplay, invite you to travel to Hebei for the New Year in winter.