On February 1, a traditional culture carnival was held in Shichahai Guangfu Temple, Xicheng District, Beijing, and the face-changing actors interacted with the audience. Photo by Beijing News reporter Xue Jun.
Yanjing is another small year.
Starting from February 2 (the 23rd day of the lunar month), Beijing's various Spring Festival garden activities will be officially launched, and the strong flavor of the New Year will gradually linger in Beijing. According to the Beijing News, 11 parks in the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Beihai and other cities and the Chinese Garden Museum will successively launch more than 80 activities in nine categories, including "New Year Flower Appreciation, Famous Garden Blessings, Literary and Art Performances, Cultural Exhibitions and New Year Welcomes, Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience, Dragon Year Tour, Red Memories, Enjoy Ice and Snow, and Lantern Festival", kicking off the Spring Festival garden tour.
Mr. Lao She said in his essay "The Spring Festival in Beijing": "The 23rd New Year is almost a 'dress rehearsal' for the New Year. "Judging from Beijing's Spring Festival schedule this year, the official Spring Festival began at the city-wide level from a young age, which is actually an echo of this tradition, which itself is also a cultural arrangement.
And the Chinese New Year in Beijing, culture is indeed one of the distinctive elements. In addition to the above-mentioned garden activities, Beijing will also fully restore the traditional temple fairs, and each district will also combine regional customs and characteristics to plan and carry out more than 3,000 cultural activities such as village evenings, dragon dances, cultural markets, folk culture festivals, cultural carnivals, etc., to provide citizens with a festival and cultural feast at their doorstep.
These activities all show that this year's Beijing Spring Festival cultural consumption market is rich in supply and distinctive characteristics, and the "cultural New Year's goods" are also dazzling and colorful. Beijing city not only has "fireworks", but also "cultural flavor", it is expected that this year's Spring Festival will not only be prosperous, colorful lanterns, but also poetry and rhyme, refreshing.
The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and Beijing is the cultural center of China, so Beijing also has a "natural mission" to carry forward the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival. Judging from the preparations for this year's Spring Festival, Beijing has obviously made great efforts, not only all kinds of traditional festivals are blooming everywhere, but also trying to create new cultural customs.
For example, Beijing will launch 2,000 commercial performances, and various cultural performances such as song and dance dramas, indoor ** meetings, quyuan miscellaneous altars, and talk shows will be staged; In addition to more than 20 popular museums, more than 90% of museums in Beijing no longer accept reservations; In addition, the four major bookstores of Xidan, Wangfujing, Zhongguancun and Asian Games Village and a number of physical bookstores will hold more than 200 special activities such as "Book Market" and "New Knowledge of Old Books", and some bookstores will be open 24 hours a day, so that the fragrance of books can infiltrate the capital.
I believe that these will enrich people's Spring Festival experience. At that time, watching performances, visiting book markets, and visiting museums will become a new choice for citizens for the New Year. The Spring Festival is not only a revisiting of tradition, but also an opportunity for people to broaden their horizons, improve their knowledge and enjoy their culture. Beijing's cultural and educational characteristics and the festive and lively Spring Festival are integrated and complement each other, which also enriches the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival.
In the context of today's cultural tourism boom, a series of "cultural New Year's goods" launched by Beijing also have special significance. In the context of the current major cities vying to create a city card, Beijing is also trying to polish its most distinctive cultural brand. It is believed that with these efforts, Beijing's cultural advantages can be fully demonstrated, and the dividends of cultural tourism can be seized in the following Spring Festival holiday, and it will also provide a touch of Beijing characteristics for the Spring Festival atmosphere that is about to envelop the whole country.
In fact, the Spring Festival is increasingly becoming a global festival and going to the world as a representative of Chinese culture. As the home of the Spring Festival, China should work hard to tap the cultural charm of the Spring Festival, so that the Spring Festival is not only a special day on the calendar, but also a cultural complex composed of a series of festival rituals, full of charm that makes people forget to return and enjoy endlessly.
From this point of view, people expect that Beijing's "cultural New Year's goods" can become richer and more prosperous, and also hope that more cities can combine their own characteristics and the Spring Festival to further highlight the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival, so that the Spring Festival will inherit the tradition, integrate into the contemporary and move towards the future with a more diverse, thick and elegant cultural form.
Edited by Xu Qiuying.
Proofread by Liu Yue.