In the past few days, the place with the most New Year's flavor in Shanghai is Shanghai World. "Big World, New Year-A 'Year of Déjà vu'" Huangpu District's 2024 Chinese New Year Customs Exhibition and Experience Activity was held in the atrium on the first floor of the Great World. Today, "Big World, Chinese New Year" ushered in the second live broadcast, inviting the audience to find spring "play" fun online and offline.
Alley games are now active again. "Jumping tendons, building houses, pulling bells, top nucleus, pumping tops, rolling circles, playing marbles, scraping **, and knots, these "nine sons" folk games that were all the rage in Shanghai alleys in the past can now be experienced in Shanghai World.
The Jiuzi Movement has witnessed the changes of Shanghai Lane Tang and Shikumen culture, and has become an exploration and practice of the integration and development of sports and culture, and was selected as a Chinese sports culture project in 2022. It not only retains the traditional folk games, but also combines the characteristics of modern sports, so that citizens of different levels and ages can participate in it, carry forward the tradition and lead the fashion in the new era, and stimulate the enthusiasm of the masses to participate in national fitness.
The Jiuzi game, which has a role in promoting cultural inheritance, not only makes the old Shanghainese, the new Shanghainese and even foreign friends linger, trying to get back the "feeling of childhood", but also allows the majority of Jiuzi lovers to feel the unique charm of Shanghai's folk culture, creating a happy and warm New Year atmosphere for all ages.
In the early Chinese New Year, every household will make and post beautiful New Year's pictures. In the folk, the New Year's picture is a symbol of the year, and if you don't stick the New Year's picture, it is not considered the New Year. With so much demand for New Year paintings, it was difficult to draw them one by one, so the clever Chinese combined the great invention of printing to create woodblock New Year paintings. In the Great World, citizens can experience woodblock New Year paintings and pray for the New Year.
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is approaching, come to the world to experience the traditional Chinese New Year flavor and regain your childhood memories.
Author: Editor: Zhou Chen Responsible Editor: Zhu Yue.
*: Shanghai Huangpu.