Guess lantern riddles, appreciate folk customs, taste food, and make Lantern Festival ......On February 23rd, the Lantern Festival Happy Carnival in Sanxiang Town, Zhongshan City kicked off at Sanxiang Cultural Square, with lively cultural activities, wonderful intangible cultural heritage tours, cool magic performances and food joy markets, etc., accompanied by citizens to spend the Lantern Festival together.
In order to continue to inherit the local folk culture, help the high-quality development of the "Millions and Thousands Project", and let the general public and friends share the cultural achievements, the Chinese New Year atmosphere group - Zhongshan Drunken Dragon Dance and Sanxiang Lion Dance Team came to the scene to tour to show the intangible cultural heritage folk culture of Zhongshan and increase the local cultural identity of the public.
In addition, a series of cultural activities such as the quintessence of Sichuan opera changing faces, cool magic performances, and excellent bands singing in the whole process helped and took turns to fight, and the Lantern Festival was full of joyful atmosphere. As an important cultural custom of the Lantern Festival, the lantern riddle guessing activity is held at night when the lights are bright, and the lantern riddles cover many aspects such as culture, popular science, and ancient poetry. Citizens who came to participate in the event were in an endless stream, and they stopped to think about the riddles, and many citizens and friends who guessed the riddles happily put prizes such as consumption coupons or cups into their pockets, and learned about cultural knowledge in the process of guessing the riddles, and felt a strong festival atmosphere.
It is worth mentioning that in order to fully support the post-holiday employment and production of enterprises, promote the employment of workers, promote the implementation of "stable posts and warm enterprises", and help the economy to get off to a "good start", the Sanxiang Branch of the Zhongshan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has also moved the 2024 "Nanyue Spring Warmth" on-site job fair in Sanxiang Town to the Lantern Festival event site, which has brought great convenience to citizens who need to find jobs. The on-site job fair will be held from February 24th to 25th every night from 18:30 to 21:00, with the participation of nearly 60 well-known enterprises such as Mentholatum (China) Pharmaceutical, Guangdong Hesheng Industrial Aluminum Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Hot Spring Co., Ltd., etc., providing more than 2,000 high-quality jobs and building a "connecting bridge" for enterprise recruitment and mass employment.
At the same time, more than 100 local food exhibitors in Zhongshan are concentrated in the market to welcome guests, with a variety of delicacies, dried fruits, snacks and other categories, to meet the different taste buds of citizens and tourists. On the first day of the event, more than 1,000 people from Zhongshan and surrounding cities came to taste the "Sanxiang Cuisine". There are also excavators, goose sets, fantasy go-karts and other games and amusements, where adults and children can find the fun of the festival.
It is reported that the Lantern Festival Happy Carnival in Sanxiang Town will last for seven days from February 23rd to 29th, and different cultural activities will be staged every day to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses and promote the integrated development of culture, business and tourism in Sanxiang Town.
Sanxiang Township Lantern Festival Happy Carnival series of activities schedule.
1) Lantern Festival lantern riddle meeting.
February 23-25 19:30-21:00
2) Folk Culture Tour.
Misato Lion Dance Show (February 23, 19:30).
Drunken Dragon Dance Tour (February 24, 19:30).
3) Theatrical performances.
February 23-27, 18:30-21:30
Sichuan opera face changing, magic performances, band singing and other full assistance.
4) "Spring Warmth in Southern Guangdong" on-site job fair.
February 24-25 18:30-21:00
5) Food Joy Market.
February 23-29, 10:00-22:00
Text, photo丨Reporter Zhang Degang correspondent Yuan Wang.