On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, gongs and drums were noisy at the entrance of Mutouwo Village, Lianzhuang Town, Ninghe District, Tianjin, and adults and children gathered together to greet each other.
The gongs and drums are all from our village, and this is not an official performance, it is a 'reception'. Wang Yuhao, a professional manager of Mutouwo Village, told reporters that the so-called "reception" means that the locals prepare tea and sugar, beat gongs and drums, and welcome the arrival of the performance team, reflecting hospitality.
In the morning, the village invited a team of stilts to perform. This is one of the series of activities of the New Year's Festival in Mutouwo Village. From February 9th to February 14th, the New Year's Festival activities are divided into four sections: "New Year's Eve Welcome", "Welcoming the God of Wealth, New Year's Greetings", "Traditional Culture Experience" and "Welcoming the New Year's Cultural Temple Fair".
The first, second, and third cuts ......Yes, that's it, you see, the pattern comes out. While the villagers were waiting for the stilt team to arrive, in the village committee across the door, Wang Jinhuan, the intangible inheritor of paper-cutting skills, was taking a group of children to cut double happiness characters and Chinese knots. "These two patterns are relatively simple, mainly through such activities to arouse children's interest in paper-cutting, so that more children can understand traditional culture. Wang Jinhuan said.
It's coming, it's coming. There was a shout outside the door, and the children ran out of the door with their paper-cut works. More than 10 stilt performers began to perform with gongs and drums, and villagers raised their mobile phones to take pictures.
The original intention of our New Year's festival is to let everyone experience the feeling of spending the New Year in the village in the past, such as stilts, lion dance, Yangge and other performances, which used to be used in the village for the New Year. Wang Yuhao said that through interactive experience, it will inject cultural connotation into rural tourism and attract more tourists to Mutouwo Village. (Tianjin ** reporter Geng Kun).