The staff wore "dragon baby" costumes and interacted closely with visitors; Visitors raise the dragon dance stick above their heads to immerse themselves in traditional culture; The intangible cultural heritage inheritors perform with iron rods on their backs to show tourists the local Spring Festival folk ......On February 14th, the fifth day of the first lunar month, in the Jin Ancestral Hall, a thousand-year-old royal garden, was filled with a strong New Year's flavor.
During the Spring Festival holiday, in front of the Temple of Our Lady of the Jin Temple, the performance of the iron rod on the back of Xu Gou attracts tourists to watch. Photo by Deng Jiarui.
From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, the dragon dance is used to pray for a good harvest and peace and auspiciousness, which has become a custom in various parts of China. The reporter saw in front of the Three Holy Shrines of the Jin Ancestral Temple that a "dragon dance" duel between tourists was brilliantly staged.
Visitors immerse themselves in the dragon dance performance at the Jin Ancestral Hall. Photo by Gao Yuqing.
During the Spring Festival, tourists immerse themselves in the dragon dance performance at the Jin Ancestral Hall. Photo by Gao Yuqing.
Pan Yijun, a 12-year-old girl from Liaoning, participated with her parents and immersed herself in the charm of traditional culture. "This is my first time in Shanxi, the first time I come to the Jin Ancestral Hall, and the first time I experience the dragon dance. ”
Located in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, the Jin Ancestral Hall is the largest existing temple-style classical garden in China, with the longest cross-border era and the most complete preservation, with rich cultural relics. There are more than 100 buildings of various types in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, more than 100 sculptures since the Song and Yuan dynasties, and 29 ancient trees for thousands of years.
During the Spring Festival holiday, the Jinci Museum is full of tourists. The eight wood-carved dragon pillars in front of the temple of Our Lady attract tourists from all over the world to come here to "look for the dragon". Photo by Gao Yuqing.
In the year of the dragon in Jiachen, the eight wooden carved dragon pillars in front of the temple of Our Lady of the Jin Temple attract tourists from all over the world to come here to "find the dragon". Photo by Gao Yuqing.
In the year of the dragon in Jiachen, the eight wooden carved dragon pillars in front of the temple of Our Lady of the Jin Temple attract tourists from all over the world to come here to "find the dragon". It is understood that it was built in the Northern Song Dynasty and is the earliest existing wood carving dragon pillar in China. Each of the eight coiled dragons has its own name, the middle two are Ying dragons who spread their wings and want to fly, and the symmetrical ones on both sides are the dragon, the dragon and the dragon. After thousands of years of wind and rain, they are still intact, different shapes, lifelike, many tourists take pictures here.
During the Spring Festival, Jia Lei, a tourist from Tianjin, chose to take his family to Shanxi to play, and the Jin Temple was one of the stops on this trip. He found that the dedication hall, the temple of the Virgin Mary, and the water mirror platform of the Jin Ancestral Hall, the "dragon" element was everywhere. "These dragons are beautifully carved, and the buildings inside the shrine are all wooden structures, which retain their original appearance, which is breathtaking. ”
During the Spring Festival holiday, the Jinci Museum is full of tourists. Photo by Gao Yuqing.
During this year's Spring Festival, the Jinci Museum takes the "dragon" culture as the core, combined with local folk customs, and launches a series of online and offline cultural activities such as "Make a Dragon Lantern Qiang", "National Tide Dragon Hat DIY", "Chenlong Xianrui Exploring the Ancient Temple", "Dragon Yin in the Sky, Blessing Dragon Gaozhao", "Dragon Tour Four Seas Check-in" and other online and offline cultural activities, allowing the public to immerse themselves in the "New Year's flavor" of the Year of the Dragon.
There are many 'dragon' elements in the Jin Temple, and after tourists find five places, they can take a photo with them and ** circle of friends, and they can get a small gift. Yang Chengwen, deputy director of the public reception department of the Jinci Museum, introduced.
In addition to the "Dragon Hunting" check-in in the Year of the Dragon, the museum also holds intangible cultural heritage experiences such as paper-cutting and rubbing, as well as folk performances and other activities. In front of the water mirror platform of the Jin Ancestral Hall, the well-known Xu Gou back iron rod art performance attracts tourists to watch and take pictures. I saw an adult man erecting an iron rod behind his back, holding a six- or seven-year-old child, with the steps of the actor carrying the iron rod undulating, the child in costume on the iron rod waved his water sleeves with his hands in mid-air, changing his movements with the rhythm of gongs and drums.
In front of the water mirror platform of the Jin Ancestral Hall, the well-known Xu Gou back iron rod art performance attracts tourists to watch and take pictures. Photo by Gao Yuqing.
Zhou Hongliang, 48 years old, has been performing the iron rod of Xu Gou for more than 30 years and has performed all over the country many times. "Xugou back iron rod has a history of hundreds of years, Jin Temple is the first scenic spot in Taiyuan, during the Spring Festival we perform here four times a day, hoping to let more foreign tourists understand Xugou back iron rod, feel the charm of local folk culture. ”
Not only that, during this year's Spring Festival, the Jin Ancestral Hall Museum also took the wooden carving Panlong of the Temple of Our Lady as the prototype, and innovatively launched the "Jin Ancestral Hall Biye Dragon" emoji pack, which showed the various actions and emotions of the woodcarved Panlong through dynamic expression, so that people at home and abroad could understand the Jin Temple from multiple angles.
*: China News Network.