During the first holiday of the Year of the Dragon, the Spring Festival travel is very popular. As a national 5A-level tourist attraction, Foshan Changlu Tourism Expo Park is in full swing and has launched a number of wonderful activities around major folk themes, presenting the public with the most Lingnan flavor and Bay Area style of the wonderful New Year. From February 10th to 17th (the first day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year), Changlu Tourism Expo Park held a series of Lingnan folk carnival activities such as "Yingge Yan Dance Parade", "Dragon and Lion Dance to Send Good Luck", "Ten Thousand People Write Ten Thousand Blessings", "Money Tree" and "Dapai 8.88 Million Profit Is", and spent a lot of money to build Foshan's first "city that never sleeps", covering six theme blocks and ten major performing arts scenes. According to statistics, the total number of visitors during the Spring Festival in Changlu this year exceeded 250,000, an increase of 5% over the same period last year32%, so that tourists feel the strong flavor of the Spring Festival folk customs.
Tourists feel the charm of traditional culture.
During the Spring Festival, as soon as the reporter entered the main entrance, the super-large Lingnan Cantonese opera mask came into view, and the characteristics of Cantonese opera were fully displayed. All angles of the park are full of festive scenes for the Spring Festival, and it is a one-to-one restoration of the "Xi'an Datang City that never sleeps", filling the atmosphere of the Spring Festival. According to the staff of the scenic spot, the six theme blocks of Changlu Sleepless City built this year give modern people a sense of déjà vu that they have traveled back to a thousand years and have a glimpse of the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. In the "Baili Old Street", visitors can appreciate the scene depicted in the poet's "Huzhou Music" - the carp rises in the wind and the swallows fly obliquely, and the song of the rhizoars enters the mandarin duck Zhu. In the "Sanli Lantern Lane and Ten Mile Flower Street", there are 3,000 Chinese lanterns, which is very lively. In the "Lingnan Memory" neighborhood: the traditional and ancient New Year's memories are awakened, strolling along the Avenue of Poetry, and the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties is rushing to the face. In the "Water Margin Juyi Hall", 108 stories of heroes and heroes seem to be vivid, and you can feel the charm of "Water Margin", one of China's four famous novels. Hundreds of surnames record the legendary stories of each generation; The national tide lantern street, the lanterns gather, the lights are shining, and the tourists enjoy the colorful national tide feast.
10,000 people write the same blessing map.
In addition, the scenic spot specially planned the activity of "10,000 people write the same blessing map" to inherit one of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, "writing the word blessing". The length of the "Ten Thousand Blessing Map" is more than 100 meters, and the tourists work together to write this "100-meter Blessing Scroll", and at the same time entrust the beautiful New Year's blessings of tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world. Coinciding with the Year of the Dragon, some children painted cute patterns of "living dragons and tigers" to add to the festivities. In addition, the "dragon luck head - cash cow" is also favored by tourists, a gong sounds, ** 10,000 taels, the real version of the cash cow can not only exercise, but also harvest the beautiful meaning of "a shake to get rich".
The dragon and lion dance to send auspiciousness", Changlu prepared the dragon and lion dance with Lingnan characteristics and the Wa fire dance with folk characteristics for tourists, the scene was crowded, and the lion dance was a very distinctive activity in Chinese traditional culture, and it is also one of the national intangible cultural heritage, aiming to spread the lion dance culture to the new generation.
Create a "city that never sleeps in Changlu".
Changlu never sleeps in the city, enjoy the bright galaxy, dance with day and night, and light up the year of Ruilong. Changlu Never Sleeps City is a theme project presented by the scenic spot, covering ten theme performances (12 Rites of National Quintessence Welcome, Water Music Rhyme, Dragon and Tiger Leap, Yingge Yan Dance Parade, Paper-cutting Girl, Peach Blossom Smile, Han and Tang Dynasty Style, Peony Oiran, My Fair Lady, Lingnan Covenant, Iron Tree Silver Flower Water Show) and six theme blocks (Baili Old Street, Sanli Lantern Lane Shilihua Street, Lingnan Memory, Water Margin Juyi Hall, Baijia Surname Street, Guochao Lantern Street), presenting a special "Lingnan Night with Lights" to the public.
In Changlu, there are more surprise performances staged during the Spring Festival, and the intangible cultural heritage fire trees and silver flowers make a New Year, which is a beautiful and shocking visual feast. Iron flower is a traditional fireworks in the Yujin region, with a long history dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is a national intangible cultural heritage. a dozen "political and harmonious, iron flowers offer rui"; two dozen "Hundred Blessings from the Sky, Shenzhou Tongle"; Three dozen "abundant grains, prosperous industries". Ms. Zhao from Zhuhai said: "This is the first time I have seen the unique iron flower in the north, which is rare in the south, and I can feel the 'fireworks' of the ancient people, which is very commemorative!" ”
Two furnaces were set up at the performance site to turn iron juice, and many performers took turns to hit the iron juice with a high temperature of more than 1,000 degrees with flower sticks, thus forming iron flowers more than ten meters high, and the scene was spectacular. It is reported that Changlu will continue to upgrade the "Dream Back to Lingnan, Changlu Never Sleeps City" series of night tour theme activities, immersive night tour interpretation gorgeous upgrade, tourists can pay attention to the "Changlu Tourism Leisure Park" WeChat *** or Douyin account to learn more about the fun and interesting activities, Changlu eleven theme parks, wonderful not to be missed.
Text and photo: Foshan News and Media Center reporter Du Daxiong correspondent Zhao Lixian.