Zhangjiagou Village, Jinshan Town, held a grand fire show in the Year of the Dragon
a village that comes from the echoes of ancient times;
a village that shows folk culture everywhere;
A village that loves intangible cultural heritage to the bones;
A heart-warming and shocking village.
New Gangu News【Special Correspondent Li Chun】The dragon dance reports the dawn and welcomes the prosperous era, and the fire trees and silver flowers are new. In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2024, Zhangjiagou Village, Jinshan Town, Gangu County, held a grand Yangge Society Fire Show. The ancient Zhangjiagou shows a world of brilliant lights and a sea of intangible cultural heritage.
Zhangjiagou Village is located in the east of Jinshan Town, bordering Qianhu Township of Qin'an County, is a small mountain village with a thick rural culture, as early as the Qing Dynasty, the people here like folk culture, after generations of inheritance, has continued to the present. In order to support and encourage the prosperity and development of folk culture, Zhang Jianshun, a villager in the village and general manager of Gangu Kaida Road and Bridge Project, personally donated 150,000 yuan before the Spring Festival in 2024, and advocated young people who work outside and work to actively donate, some donated 1,000 yuan, some donated 500 yuan, 300 yuan, everyone donated more than 20,000 yuan, a total of more than 170,000 yuan, and purchased Taiping drums, majestic drums, sedan chairs, performance props, costumes and other items. Over the past 10 years, Zhang Jianshun has donated a total of 400,000 yuan, and he has used practical actions to sing a hymn to the times to support rural civilization and inherit intangible cultural heritage.
In 2024, the Yangge Society Fire Show in Zhangjiagou Village lasted more than 10 days, not only in the courtyards of several groups in the village, but also in the village and the cultural programs entered the village, bringing good fortune and peace. The performances include dragon and flower boat dance, lion, snare, waist drum, Taiping drum, majestic drum, stilt performance, as well as Tibetan dance, modern dance, fan dance and other dance performances, the program is wonderful, expressing the good wish of Zhangjiagou people to praise the peaceful and prosperous world and build a harmonious home.
Text: Li Chun, member of Gansu Photographers Association, honorary chairman of Gangu County Photographers Association, special correspondent of Gangu Rong ** Center.