The wind spreads the flower letter, and the mountains and rivers have spring. On February 24th, the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first lunar month, the gongs and drums of the Zhongmu County People's Cultural Square were noisy, the dragon leaped and the lion danced, and the crowd was jubilant.
At the scene, the characteristic folk art teams and intangible cultural heritage inheritance projects from the county carried out wonderful competitions and exhibitions in sub-regions, expressing the joy of the people of Zhongmu to celebrate the Lantern Festival, showing the vigorous vitality of Zhongmu cultural undertakings, full of vitality and steaming atmosphere of the times, and interpreting the unremitting pursuit of a better life by the people of the county!
Characteristic folk performances are in full bloom, and literary and artistic competitions are showcasing.
22 traditional folk art teams, such as pan drums, waist drums, dragon dances, lion dances, Yangge teams, dry boats, double meteors, and sedan chairs, participated in the folk art competition, and nearly 1,000 actors were full of energy and high spirits, and appeared in turn. The audience cheered for the participating teams, and for a while, the sound of gongs and drums shook the sky, and the dragon flew to welcome the spring.
After intense competition, the Guandu Town Pangu Team won the first prize, the Wanhong Road Regional Development Center Dr. Zhu Village Pangu Team, the Qingnian Road Street Xiaosunzhuang Xiangyang Huapan Drum Team won the second prize, the Wantan Town Yanggang Village Weifeng Pangu Team and other 4 teams won the third prize, and the Hansi Town Dahong Village Pangu Team and other two teams won the Excellence Award; In the category of traditional folk arts, the Qingnian Road Street Luyun Community Wind Charm Art Troupe won the first prize, the Dameng Street Damiao Li Dragon Dance Lion Dance Team, the Qingnian Road Street Dongguan Dream Team won the second prize, the Dongfeng Road Street Red Star Art Troupe and other 4 teams won the third prize, and the Dongfeng Road Street Double Meteor Art Troupe and other 6 teams won the Excellence Award.
The integration of intangible cultural heritage and innovation is full of dazzling displays.
In the performance, traditional culture and characteristic folk customs blended with each other, and the audience felt a strong "New Year's flavor" in applause and cheers. In the Da Lu Erhong Boxing and Maozhuang Luohan Boxing performances, the elderly and children took turns to perform, showing their housekeeping skills. In the free clinic area, Ya Li Zhenggu and Zhang's **disease** provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage inheritors provided free clinics, massages, and plasters to the masses. The booths in the static display area and the on-site experience area are extremely popular, with clay sculptures, paper-cutting, black pottery, brand paintings, straw weaving, etc., which are eye-opening and dizzying.
In addition, sugar paintings, woodblock New Year paintings, spiced rabbit meat production skills, Fuxing Zhai bucket chicken production skills, melon bean paste production skills, traditional pastry making skills, traditional honey processing and production skills, Xingyou five-spice beef production skills, and Yuwu sauce production skills experience area is crowded, and the masses are tasting food, experiencing skills, enjoying food, and immersing themselves in the unique charm of traditional festivals.
The Golden Dragon Tour celebrates the reunion, and the lantern riddles are full of surprises.
The red lanterns and riddles present a strong festive atmosphere. "Guess the lantern riddle" integrates the unique fun and cultural attributes of the Lantern Festival, the riddles are wide and diverse, the content is novel, and it integrates knowledge and entertainment, covering traditional anagrams, riddles, children's riddles, etc., suitable for all ages. Guessing lantern riddles also prepared exquisite gifts, added a "blind box riddle" link, attracted tens of thousands of people to participate in it, everyone carefully read the riddle, or stop to meditate, or together, or rush to answer the riddle, experience the fun of Chinese word games.
It is understood that in order to meet the new expectations of the people for a better life and improve the quality of the cultural life of the masses, this year's Lantern Festival, in addition to the folk art competition and intangible cultural heritage display and performance, the towns (streets, centers) in Zhongmu also carry out a variety of Lantern Festival entertainment and art performances. The Lantern Festival cultural feast full of New Year's flavor has delivered more than 100 cultural performances to the people's doorsteps.
The dragon and lion dance are in the spring breeze, and the majestic gongs and drums celebrate the prosperous era.
The rich and colorful Lantern Festival cultural activities show the cultural self-confidence and unity and forge ahead of the Zhongmu people, and show the spirit of the people of Zhongmu bravely standing at the head of the tide and striving to be the first to shine with the enthusiasm of the party with cultural cohesion and concentricity, and the masses share the new achievements of cultural development and spend a happy, peaceful, civilized and healthy festival together.
Zhongmu County will take the opportunity of creating a demonstration zone for the integrated development of the national cultural industry and tourism industry to promote the growth of the "City of Fantasy" urban IP into an internationally renowned cultural and tourism brand, drive the development of the county to take off again with Zhongmu New Area, and take the construction of Zhongmu New Area as a major opportunity to deeply integrate into the Zhengkai Urbanization and Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area, and contribute a strong spiritual and cultural force to accelerate the modernization of the core growth pole of Zhengkai Urbanization. (Li Yajuan, Wang Weixian, Wentu).