A 12-meter-long, 6-meter-high Luodian dragon boat recently "swam" into the atrium of Baoyang Baolong Square to welcome the upcoming Jiachen Year of the Dragon ...... with the citizens of BaoshanBaoshan Culture and Tourism Bureau's 2024 "Happy Tour in Shanghai for the New Year, Baoshan New Year Dragon Hunting" - Spring Festival traditional culture theme activities officially opened.
Walking into Baoyang Baolong Plaza, I saw that the originally empty atrium of the shopping mall was filled with a huge gorgeous dragon boat. The dragon boat is draped in brocade and flags, and the whole boat is in the shape of a lifelike golden dragon, and the height extends to the second floor of the mall. As a national intangible cultural heritage project originating in the Ming Dynasty and with a history of more than 400 years, the dragon boat also has the ancient building of the Ming Dynasty in Luodian Town, the "Arctic Pavilion" type building, and the stern of the ship has a pavilion, which gathers shipbuilding, architecture, carving, brocade, embroidery, flag making, lantern tieing, calligraphy and painting and other skills, and has a strong ornamental value.
Xiao Yang, who is about to be 24 years old, is about to usher in his natal dragon year, and when he heard that he could see the dragon boat up close, he brought his parents to "look for the traces of the dragon" early in the morning, and the family took a family photo in front of the dragon boat. Xiao Yang said: "Looking at the dragon boat in the Year of the Dragon and feeling the charm of Baoshan's intangible cultural heritage after a hundred years of prosperity and new colors is a beautiful implication for a native of Baoshan like me, and it is also a pride in my hometown culture." ”
Around the dragon boat, different forms of dragon-themed works made by Baoshan's intangible cultural heritage inheritors are also exhibited, including blow molded paper prints, lattice mortise and tenon joints, paper-cutting, dough sculptures and intangible cultural heritage products. The exhibition will run throughout the Spring Festival holiday and last until the end of February, in addition to the dragon boat "drive" into the shopping mall at the doorstep, around the theme of "Fun in Shanghai for the New Year, Baoshan New Year Dragon Hunting", Baoshan District Culture and Tourism Bureau will also carry out a variety of activities during the Spring Festival. The 2024 Luodian Warm Spring Lantern Festival will be held in Huashen Square, with all kinds of colorful lanterns hanging all over the streets and alleys of Luodian, and the lantern festival will be broadcast live on the "Baoshan Intangible Cultural Heritage" Douyin and Kuaishou ** at 6:30 p.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year on February 10. The art bookstore in the Wisdom Bay Park provides public welfare activities for intangible cultural heritage aesthetic education experience every day, allowing the public to cut, draw and embroider dragons with the inheritors. On the afternoon of the Lantern Festival, ten colorful and different New Year's auspicious dragons from the Yangtze River Delta will gather at Baoyang Baolong Square to carry out the Lantern Festival folk art performance in Baoshan District. There are more Spring Festival series activities in various towns and towns, so that citizens can also "look for the traces of the dragon" at their doorsteps, unlock the dragon totems hidden in all corners of Baoshan, and pray for good luck in the Year of the Dragon. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xuying).