Chinese New Year's Flavor** Search? There is no need to climb mountains and mountains, trek through mountains and rivers, there are beautiful villages in the suburbs of Shanghai. Today, the 2024 Yanjiawan Village kicked off in Zhaojia Village, Huacao Town, Minhang District.
Walking into Zhaojia Village, the two sides of the road are hung with Spring Festival couplets and red lanterns, on one side are buildings with white walls and black tiles, and on the other side are greenhouses for planting vegetables. Making dumplings, cutting window flowers, making sachets, kneading noodles, and integrating the Spring Festival fair, special performances, and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts in one of the village evenings allowed the villagers to regain their past memories, and also allowed friends from the nearby international community to experience the "Chinese New Year".
It is reported that the evening activities of Yanjiawan Village in Zhaojia Village, Huacao Town, Lianmin Village, Chuansha New Town, Pudong New Area, Jinglingqiao Village, Yexie Town, Songjiang District, and Huawang Community, Huating Town, Jiading District, have been jointly selected for the national "Four Seasons Village Evening" demonstration and participated in the live broadcast of the national public cultural cloud platform.
Connect you, me, and him.
As one of the grassroots activities of the "Our Chinese Dream" culture into 10,000 homes and the Shanghai Red Literary Light Cavalry New Year, this village evening took the lead in igniting the audience's enthusiasm with singing and dancing "Happy Chinese Year". The three chapters of "Joy", "Warmth" and "Happiness" unfold in turn, and the Allegro "Beautiful Rural Spring" depicts the fascinating pastoral scenery and the quiet and peaceful life of the modern countryside. Shanghai opera "Ludang Tinder" and opera rhyme "Changing Face" not only let old opera fans enjoy it, but also let children feel the charm of traditional opera.
The theme song "Open a Window for You", which was "out of the circle" because of the hit of the TV series "Flowers", also specially invited the original singer - Shanghai Opera performance artist Sun Xuchun today, and he made the audience feel back to that high-spirited era as soon as he raised his voice.
With the sonorous and powerful drum beat, a golden-red dragon jumped out from the side of the stage and "soared" on the stage. The dragon dancers and drummers on stage are all from the British International School in Shanghai and have a keen interest in Chinese culture. "A lot of movies about China have dragon and lion dances, and I think it's interesting that people dressed as dragons and lions dance to the beat of drums," James said. Some parents said: "When it comes to learning musical instruments, most people will aim at jazz drums or African drums, but in my opinion, Chinese drums are the most energetic." ”
Cut out the "Year of China".
Jubilation is not only on the stage, but the rich Spring Festival activities off the stage also make ** forget to return. Walking into the village, the aunts dressed in festive flower jackets greeted the guests with enthusiastic gongs and drums. At the scene, the main visual of "Happy New Year in Shanghai" presented by the Chinese intangible cultural heritage skill "paper-cutting" is particularly eye-catching, and the exquisite skills of skilled craftsmen create a vivid picture in front of them, making people unable to move.
Walking inside, the wall of Baifu is full of New Year wishes and blessings, on the side, calligraphers Tang Jun and Zhao Zhengyu are splashing ink, and the word "Fu" is joyfully taken home by the villagers. The "Intangible Cultural Heritage Display" area is a children's amusement park, with paper-cutting, sachets, dough kneaders, New Year's flowers, and set gourds, where they feel the joy of the coming New Year and feel the fun of the traditional Chinese New Year.
Featuring wontons, dumplings and steamed cakes in buckets, the "New Year's Food" zone is not only for villagers and tourists, but also for friends and neighbors from the nearby international community. A square table and four long benches are eaten by both the old grandmother of the village and the little foreign girl with yellow hair and blue eyes. In addition, people can also write Spring Festival couplets and play rubbing in the "New Year's Customs" and "Folk Games" areas, and 51 cultural tourism gift packages will be given away on the spot, so that participants can return with a full load and make the trip worthwhile.
Camping Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Zhaojia Village, Huacao Town, as the only demonstration site in Shanghai that has been selected as the national winter "Village Evening", has been held for the sixth time since Yanjiawan Village Evening. Zhu Feng, secretary of the general party branch of Zhaojia Village, took the stage as the host for the first time this year, and said: "This is the first time I have stood on the stage to help the village evening, and I am both nervous and excited. ”
In order to do a good job in the village evening, in the early stage of preparation, he and the staff of the village committee visited the villagers on the spot to investigate the programs that the people love to watch and want to watch. At the same time, we actively contacted the nearby international community and listened to the expectations of the community residents for the "Year of China". As a distinctive international community in Minhang, Huacao Town is home to a number of international schools and international medical institutions, and is home to about 9,600 expatriates. At the scene, the friends and neighbors of the international community who came to "visit the door" were also unsatisfied, and they all said: "The Chinese New Year is so interesting, and I will come next year." ”
This Yanjiawan Village evening, but also excavate the surrounding tourism resources, combined with the B&B "Small Courtyard Diary" in Zhaojia Village and the forest camp "Qianwanjiao" to launch cultural tourism supporting activities, citizens who have not had enough can also independently sign up to experience the 7 major activities of the camp, make an appointment for camping-style Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, experience Huacao characteristic homestay, and experience the fun of Minhang rural tour. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan).