The 30th Hundred Flowers Festival in Jinzhou District (Jinpu New District) was brilliantly staged.
Morning News (Peninsula Morning News, 39 Degrees ** Reporter Xiao Yunyun) On the morning of February 24, the 30th Hundred Flowers Festival in Jinzhou District (Jinpu New District) with the theme of "Longteng Jinpu Lantern Festival" was staged. This year's Hundred Flowers Festival will set up two main venues, Jinzhou Railway Station Square and Development Zone Cultural Square, as well as multiple sub-venues of each street's self-selected cultural square, with the trend of "a hundred flowers blooming", to send a rich folk culture feast to the people of the whole district.
The dragon dance performance attracted the public to stop and watch.
At the scene, the cheerful gongs and drums played the melody of spring, and the bright red silk danced with a festive atmosphere, and the "Golden Drum Beating New Era" performed by Guangzhong Street, Xingshu Street, Shihe Street, Qidingshan Street, Desheng Street, and Huajia Street kicked off the event. The content of the performance is rich and colorful, and the forms are diverse, including single drumming, Yangge dance, flower basket dance, butterfly dance, dry boat dance, whip stick dance, lion dance, dragon dance, traditional martial arts and acrobatics, etc., and presented 7 wonderful performances for the audience, such as "The Dragon under the Great Black Mountain", "Hundred Flowers Welcome Spring and Spring Full Garden", "Prosperous New Year", etc., showing the style and culture of Jinpu people. After the performance, with "Dancing on a New Journey" as the end, a parade was carried out along Stalin Road to the west gate of Xiangying Park.
At the main venue of the Development Zone, the 30th Hundred Flowers Festival of Jinzhou District (Jinpu New District) and the 7th New Year Yangge Festival of Maqiaozi Street kicked off in "Dragon Teng Shengshi Inspires Taiping". Folk performances, garden activities and immersive performances, characteristic Yangge and folk costume parades have appeared successively, and the main and auxiliary stages of the Cultural Square of the Development Zone echo each other. 33 communities from Maqiaozi Street set up 22 booths, and the staff dressed in festive costumes to display folk culture. More than 1,100 performers gave more than two hours of wonderful performances, attracting many audiences to participate**.
Yangge performance: Lushun's fourteen Yangge teams showed their "housekeeping skills".
Morning News (Peninsula Morning News, 39 Degrees ** Chief Reporter Zhang Ximing) On February 24, the 2024 "New Year Carnival" hosted by Lushun Taiyanggou Cultural Industry Park and undertaken by Lushun Cultural Tourism Group kicked off with a grand Lantern Festival Yangge performance, presenting a rich spiritual and cultural feast for the people and tourists.
Yangge team members waved colorful fans to interact with the audience.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, following the 16 big drums and drums that resounded in the sky, the Chinese dragon performance took the lead in opening, and 350 members of 14 community Yangge teams, including the Longteng Square Dance Yangge Team of Haixia Community, Lushunkou District, the Love Yangge Team of Friendship Community, and the Zhenfeng Yangge Team of Heshun Community, wore gorgeous and festive Yangge clothes, wore safflower headdresses, tied ribbons around their waists, waved colorful fans and colored silks, changed their beautiful dance postures, and showed their "housekeeping skills". The Yangge team members dressed in various shapes picked flower baskets, drove donkeys, and ran dry boats, and interacted closely with the audience along the street, showing the cheerfulness and enthusiasm of the Northeast Yangge to the fullest. Many citizens and tourists braved the cold to cheer for the wonderful performance of the Yangge team members, and took out their mobile phones to record the beautiful moments of the Year of the Dragon, share them with relatives and friends, and feel the strong New Year's flavor of the Taiyanggou Historical and Cultural District.
As an art form with strong regional customs, Northeast Yangge shows the most brilliant charm and the most heroic feelings of the children of Northeast China.
The two-hour Yangge performance interpreted the unique charm and cultural value of Yangge, allowing citizens and tourists to understand and experience folk culture at close range, fully demonstrating the profound traditional cultural heritage and positive and high-spirited spirit of the people of Lushunkou District, becoming a beautiful scenery in the Sun Ditch in the New Year, and injecting new vitality into the development of Lushun cultural tourism.
Ms. Wang, a tourist from the south, came to the event early, she said: "The first time I watched the Yangge performance in the north, I brought the unique New Year's flavor of the northeast land, which was so festive and joyful, and it was worth the trip." ”
In order to ensure the safe and smooth progress of the Yangge performance, the police brigades of the Lushun Public Security Bureau made every effort to ensure that the volunteer service team of the Lushun Red Cross Society assisted in maintaining order, which was well received by the general public and tourists.
Nearly 5,000 readers gathered at the Dalian Library to celebrate the festival.
Morning News (Jin Qian, Peninsula Morning News, 39 Degrees ** Chief Reporter Huang Fengtong) On February 23, the finals of the 17th "Academy Cup" Book Spring Competition in Dalian City and the 3rd Lantern Festival Cultural Temple Fair of Dalian Library were successfully held, and nearly 5,000 readers gathered in the library to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
The young contestants concentrate on writing calligraphy works.
This year's Spring Book Contest was co-sponsored by Dalian Library and Dalian Calligraphers Association, and more than 700 entries were received in the preliminary round, and the expert jury conducted a strict, fair and impartial review of the works, and selected 65 young contestants to be shortlisted for the finals, and 5 young contestants from Russia, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom participated in the finals. At the finals, the young contestants dressed in traditional Chinese costumes, sat on the ground, and wrote attentively, and the calligraphy works with the word "spring" were completed.
The Lantern Festival Cultural Temple Fair, which was held at the same time as the Spring Book Competition, took "New Year's Painting" as the theme and "auspicious dragon" as the main line, and 12 activities such as guessing lantern riddles, making palace lanterns, painting New Year's pictures, and papermaking demonstrations were climaxed and wonderful.
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