China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network Reporter Shen Jiequn) On January 29, the 2024 "Canran Cultural Temple Fair" of Canran Book House of Zhonghua Book Company officially opened. The temple fair integrates books, cultural creativity, intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, old Beijing cultural lectures, traditional culture exhibitions, tea drinks and play.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 "Canran Cultural Temple Fair". Photo courtesy of the organizer.
At the opening ceremony of the "Canran Cultural Temple Fair", Zheng Chen, a Renyi foley artist, gave a cultural lecture on "Old Beijing Shouting in the New Year's Festival", the editor of Zhonghua Book Company wrote the Spring Festival couplets of Fu characters for everyone, and the intangible cultural heritage inheritor "Face Man Peng" showed folk crafts and face people.
In his speech at the opening ceremony, the leader of Chung Hwa Book Company said: "The 'Canran Cultural Temple Fair' can be said to be the smallest temple fair in Beijing, and we have made use of such a small space of six feet square in front of the Canran Book House to create a small and refined temple fair, just like the Canran Book House, which is not large in area, but it is attentive everywhere;Secondly, it is the earliest temple fair in Beijing, because Canran Book House is located in Wangfujing, the core area of Beijing, and we hope to practice the concept of 'cultural Dongcheng, Chongwen striving for the first' through this activity, and take the lead in creating an auspicious and festive atmosphere in Wangfujing areaIn the end, we strive to make it the most cultural temple fair. ”
Cui Daiyuan, a cultural scholar and writer, believes that the temple will have "three most": "the smallest - the space is small and the area is not large", "the longest - it lasts until the end of the seventh day of the new year" and "the most cultural".
The opening ceremony of the 2024 "Canran Cultural Temple Fair". Photo courtesy of the organizer.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 "Canran Cultural Temple Fair". Photo courtesy of the organizer.
The "Canran Cultural Temple Fair" will be held from January 29th to February 16th (except February 9th to 12th). The temple fair includes three parts: "exhibition", "lecture" and "interaction", as well as stamp collection, punch-in, gifts, and lantern riddle guessing.
The temple fair will set up five major exhibitions, namely "Zhonghua Book Company: Chinese Views" and "Year of the Dragon Limited: Twenty-four History of the Great Red Robe Tea Ceremony" cultural and creative exhibition; "China in the Seal, Jiachen Cold and Spring Suit" immersive experience exhibition; fireworks porcelain new intangible cultural heritage hand-painted porcelain exhibition; "Tea in the Book" Tea Culture and Tea Book Fair.
In order to increase everyone's sense of playing experience, interactive links were added to the exhibition area. In the "Chinese View of Things" cultural and creative exhibition, you can write down the places you want to travel on Su Dongpo's suitcase, and set a small goal for the New Year to "go if you want". A "tea smeller" was placed on the booth of the "Year of the Dragon Limited - Twenty-four History of the Great Red Robe Tea Ceremony", and tea lovers could watch the shape of the tea and taste the fragrance of the tea.
*: China Youth Daily client.