On the morning of February 24, the opening performance of the 2024 Guangfu Temple Fair and the folk culture parade were grandly held, with wonderful programs such as the Five Sheep Fairy Dance, Frangipani Beauty, and Zhaoqing Fengkai Five Horse City Tour taking turns on stage, and singers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao sang the voice of Guangfu. Twelve parade teams brought special displays such as the majestic style of Nanyue, the brilliance of intangible cultural heritage, the golden armor of chivalry, and the wedding customs of Cantonese, conveying a strong flavor of Cantonese New Year. This year's Guangfu Temple Fair will focus on the descendants of the dragon and the concentricity of the Bay Area, jointly enhance the customs and culture of Guangfu, and create a "12-year flavor of Guangfu", so that all citizens and friends can feel the charm of Cantonese culture, experience the happiness and beauty of life, and jointly inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The opening exhibition shows the new style of ancient rhyme, and singers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao sing the descendants of the dragon
The opening performance kicked off in the Cantonese rhyme of "Cantonese Rhyme and Elegance, Five Sheep Fairy Dance", five sheep valley, extracted in Chuting, because of the beautiful legend of five sheep, our ancient city has the name of "Sheep City" and "Sui City". Five Immortals and Hanfu volunteers walked into the audience with ears of rice and gave them to everyone with ears of rice representing auspiciousness and good luck, bringing New Year blessings. The dance "Flower Frangipani" shows the elegance, nobility, goodwill and flexibility of the "Frangipani Beauty". Two thousand years ago, frangipani crossed the ocean and landed in Guangzhou, Qu Dajun's "Guangdong Xinyu" said that "the flower market, in Guangzhou Qimen, sold frangipani, no other flowers". The martial arts performance "Chinese Youth" of the children of Jianjian Liuma Road Primary School is like flowing clouds and water, showing the high-spirited and progressive spirit of Yuexiu teenagers. "Strange flowers are splendid for half a day, the clouds in the sky reflect red", the bright kapok shows the prosperity and vitality of Guangzhou City, carrying the nostalgia and dreams of Cantonese people, and the "Kapok Ballad" sung by Huang Zhiyi, a person in Guangdong, tells the beautiful story of Guangzhou. The provincial intangible cultural heritage representative project "Five Horses Tour" from Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City was specially invited to show the ancient Lingnan characteristic folk dance. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are close to each other in terms of geography and culture, and singers Li Bai, Zhao Juncheng and Huang Weilian sang "Descendants of the Dragon" together, and the majestic singing conveyed the national pride and pride of the Chinese people.
The folk parade is spectacular, and Beijing Road is transformed into a large exhibition hall of folk culture.
After the opening ceremony, the Guangfu Temple Fair Folk Parade was grandly opened on Beijing Road, and the thousand-year-old ancient road folk parade strung together the six "millennia" of Guangzhou's traditional central axis. A total of 12 parade teams of more than 300 people, the team stretched from the middle of Beijing Road to the copper kettle drip to the West Lake Road, the momentum is huge, lively and extraordinary.
The intangible cultural heritage tide market food award, delicious, fun, shopping and easy to earn.
During the temple fair, three intangible cultural heritage areas were set up in Zhongyou Square, intangible cultural heritage block and Beijing Road, and tide market activities were held in the form of "intangible cultural heritage market + Chaolong check-in + intangible cultural heritage performance", inviting intangible cultural heritage items and inheritors such as Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine, traditional food (Cantonese cuisine), and traditional skills to display intangible cultural heritage and cultural and creative exhibitions, so as to rejuvenate traditional arts.
The food area has set up a food booth in the food flower street on Huifu East Road, based on the taste of Cantonese and showing the fireworks of Yuexiu. From 15:00 to 22:00 on February 24 and from 10:00 to 22:00 every day from February 25 to March 3, the market will be open from more than 20 food brands and more than 100 exhibitors to participate in the exhibition. The introduction of oyster delicacies from Zhanjiang's "Millions of Projects" industrial base, the construction achievements, cultural display and special food experience of Maoming Gaoliang Cuisine, a Cantonese cuisine master project in Guangdong Province, will bring famous snacks and food brands from Hakka, Chaoshan and all over the country that are loved by citizens and tourists.
It is worth mentioning that in order to echo the theme of the temple fair in the Year of the Dragon, the organizer specially invited a dragon boat from Siyou Village the day before the opening to flash from the Pearl River on Beijing Road. This is an international 22-man standard dragon with a length of 184 meters and weighs 305 kg. "In the past, Guangzhou people looked at the dragon boat, mainly to see the dragon boat scene on the right side of the temple, because the right side of the temple is the closest to Guangzhou, the south of the village is the front Tan, the tide until the south of the village, the dragon boat is very imposing. According to the board of directors of the Siyou Associated Press, "Siyou Village has dragon boat activities every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, rowing dragon boats first to take advantage of the scene, taking advantage of the scenery to visit the old watch village, every year after rowing the dragon boat, each village will also organize to eat dragon boat meals, talk about nostalgia." Dragon boat sports are the main water sports in the Lingnan area, and it is reported that Siyou Village Dragon Boat is preparing for the Guangzhou International Dragon Boat Invitational Race and will represent Yuexiu District. The dragon boat of Siyou Village flashed on Beijing Road, showing not only the dragon boat, but also the spirit of hard work and the nostalgia carried by traditional culture.
The 2024 Guangfu Temple Fair will be grandly opened on February 24 (Lantern Festival), as the finale of the "Taste of Guangfu, Happy Year" Cantonese cultural series activities, the Guangfu Temple Fair inherits the cultural context of Lingnan Guangfu, highlights the thousand-year-old city of Yuexiu, integrates elements of culture, tourism, sports, commerce and trade, and food, continues to polish Yuexiu's business card of "the source of Cantonese culture and the core of the thousand-year-old commercial capital", builds a "small scene" of humanistic and economic integration and symbiosis, and creates a "big exhibition hall" of Cantonese culture.