On February 24th, at the tour site of the Bazhou Shengfang Flower Festival, the actors of the gong and drum team were performing. Photo by Hebei ** correspondent Liu Chengcheng.
The middle flag, stilts, trolleys, martial arts, and the south ** will ......On February 24th, during the Chinese New Year's Festival, in Shengfang Ancient Town, Bazhou, the annual flower festival tour was noisy and lively.
At the scene, all kinds of unique skills were unveiled, which made people dizzy. Here, more than 10 meters high and dozens of pounds of middle flags flew up and down on the hands, shoulders, and foreheads of the inheritors of the middle flags in the north of Jianguo Street, attracting bursts of applause from the audience; Over there, the program of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage South ** Association is loud and ancient.
Shengfang Flower Society began in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 400 years, and there was a saying of "Seventy-two Daohui" when it flourished. Cai Li, the person in charge of the Shengfang Township Art Association, introduced that there are now 47 Shengfang own flower clubs, of which 31 are national, provincial, municipal, county-level and other intangible cultural heritage projects, including stilts, martial arts, dragon lanterns, sheng wind music, Yangge and other art forms.
This year's Shengfang Flower Festival will start on the 11th day of the first lunar month and reach a climax on the 15th day of the first lunar month. "This year, a total of 70 flowers will be performed, including 45 local flowers and 25 flowers from Beijing, Tianjin and Shengfang, which is the largest in recent years. Cai Li said.
"Knock knock" ......The stilt team of the Xiaohexi synonymous stilt elders came over. The actors wore oil paint on their faces and dressed in various colors, some dressed as scholars and ladies, and some dressed as samurai and fishermen. They flickered to the beat of the drums, causing the audience to be nervous and laugh at times.
On both sides of the street, stalls such as traditional handmade lanterns, calligraphy and paintings, cultural toys and antiques, and special snacks are next to each other, and men, women and children are happy to stroll.
Jia Hui, a tourist from Beijing, was full of praise for the flower festival tour, "Not only is it delicious and fun, but also listening to local friends, the flower festival here is also a unique blessing ceremony, which is very worth seeing." ”
The flower festival tour is prosperous every year, and the flower festival is inherited every year. In order to bring forth the new, Shengfang Town has innovated ideas in the protection of folk culture, vigorously publicized and promoted various intangible cultural heritages, and created a living inheritance space for folk culture, forming folk customs and cultural tourism brands such as Shengfang Lantern Festival, Flower Festival, Dragon Boat Race, etc., and was selected as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art" named by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2021-2023, becoming one of the most popular tourist destinations in Beijing and Tianjin.
Each of our Shengfang people adheres to the love of the traditional flower party, which is also the password of the inheritance of Shengfang folk culture. Wang Yuxian, deputy director of the Bazhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, said that from the 11th to the 15th of the first month, the Shengfanghua Festival is expected to attract more than 100,000 local people and foreign tourists. Hebei ** reporter Liu Ying correspondent Yang Cui).
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