Elephant News reporter Jin Xiaoli Li Lei.
From the first day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month in 2024, Zhengzhou Longhu Financial Island will hold a unique elephant temple fair. As the highlight of the Spring Festival, the construction of the venue for the Elephant Temple Fair has been in full swing. On February 7, the reporter walked into the financial island and visited the temple fair site to see the construction progress and highlights.
Design: Red and dragon elements to paint the festival scene
Walking into the temple fair venue, the first thing that catches your eye is a busy and orderly construction scene. The whole stage skillfully integrates the essence of traditional Chinese culture, showing a strong national charm through exquisite patterns, gorgeous decorations and elegant colors. On both sides of the stage, red is boldly used as the main color, red lanterns, red ribbons, red flowers... Through the embellishment and decoration of various red elements, the whole stage is more eye-catching and attractive, and the reporters standing in front of the stage feel the joy and peace of the festival.
In addition to the stage, the design of the booths is also full of Chinese elements, in the design of the booths of the temple fair, red is skillfully used in all corners, whether it is parasols, tents, or display boards, decorations, all of which are based on red, creating a strong festive atmosphere.
2024 is the Year of the Dragon, and the dragon, as a mythical animal in traditional Chinese culture, symbolizes strength, wisdom, and wealth. In the booth design, the application of the dragon element is even more ingenious. The top of the stall is decorated with delicate dragon horns, and the display board is painted with lifelike dragon heads and dragon bodies, as if there is really a giant dragon hovering over the stall, adding mystery and majesty to the temple fair.
It is understood that the theme of this year's elephant temple fair is "one island to visit Henan", which fully demonstrates Henan's rich cultural characteristics and food charm. Henan specialties such as Hu spicy incense outside Xiaoyao Town, fragrant noodle skin, Yinmei Coke Runxintian, Wuzhi oil tea fragrance Quartet and other Henan specialties will all appear, and tourists can also feel Henan's unique food culture while tasting the food.
There are a wide variety of stalls at the temple fair, and there are more than 100 food stalls alone. Xu Yue, the chief director of the Elephant Temple Fair, said, "It brings together the special food of 18 cities such as Luoyang, Kaifeng, Nanyang and Shangqiu, and tourists can eat all over Henan on one island." ”
Highlights: Intangible cultural heritage feast, acrobatic lion dance, Henan celebrity NPCs live interaction
In terms of intangible cultural heritage, the temple fair has set up a special intangible cultural heritage exhibition area, and invited a number of intangible cultural heritage inheritors to demonstrate their skills on the spot. These traditional crafts, such as sugar painting, paper-cutting, clay figurines, etc., will be known and appreciated by more people through the platform of the temple fair.
Acrobatics and lion dance performances are a major attraction of the temple fair. At the construction site, the reporter noticed that the workers were building the acrobatic performance area in a tense and orderly manner. Towering swings, swings and other equipment are ready for the acrobats.
We are from Puyang, Henan, the hometown of acrobatics, after more than 10 days of preparation and construction, the performance venue is basically completed, from the first day to the eighth day of the new year, 5 rounds of wonderful performances every day, and the parents and villagers of Henan celebrate the New Year together. Yang Sheng, head of the Puyang Feiteng Circus, told reporters.
In addition, traditional performances such as the back pavilion and the iron flower will also appear at the temple fair. Beige is an ancient form of folk performance, in which the actors are dressed in gorgeous costumes and carry exquisite props on their backs, showing exquisite skills and rich cultural connotations. The iron flower is a unique folk skill, which produces brilliant sparks through high-temperature smelting molten iron, symbolizing auspiciousness and happiness.
In order to allow tourists to have a deeper understanding of Henan culture, the temple fair also deliberately set up NPC characters. Here, tourists can have close contact with Henan celebrities such as Du Fu, Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying, Zhang Zhongjing, Yue Fei, etc., immerse themselves in Henan culture and feel the charm of the Central Plains.
In short, in order to let the tourists eat well, have a good time, and have a good New Year, the tourists' hometowns have been moved over. Xu Yue, the chief director of the Elephant Temple Fair, said.
During the visit, the reporter was deeply attracted by the strong festival atmosphere and unique cultural charm. Every corner is full of joy and festivity, which makes people feel the strong flavor of the New Year.
It is understood that the elephant temple fair was hosted by Henan TV Elephant News, and received strong support from Zhengzhou City and relevant departments. The organizers of the elephant temple fair said that they hope that through this temple fair, tourists can feel the unique charm and profound heritage of Henan culture, and understand the history and tradition of the Central Plains.
Appreciating folk customs, celebrating the lively New Year, looking for the taste of the New Year, looking for New Year's fun, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhengzhou Beilonghu Financial Island, and the Elephant Temple Fair are waiting for you.
*: Elephant News).