China News Service, Beijing, February 4 (Reporter Ying Ni) On the evening of February 3, on the square in front of the Ruins of St. Paul's in Macao, the Macao Chinese Orchestra joined hands with Chinese and foreign artists to bring classic music such as "Spring Festival Overture", "Spring Dance" and "Macao Caprice", kicking off the "Happy New Year" in 2024. The astronauts stationed on the Chinese space station held the auspicious dragon of the "Happy New Year" and sent the New Year of the Dragon greeting ...... from the "Tiangong" to the audience and Chinese people around the world in a ** way
The scene of Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province is a lively scene of "bride returning to the door" folk customs, and firecrackers are made on the spot. Relying on the custom of carrying out the "Yueye" (that is, a village collective visiting another village) during the Dong New Year, the main venue of the National Spring Festival "Village Evening" of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China was held here, and more than 1,200 folk art groups from all over Guangxi participated in the exhibition. At the time of the small year in the south, the people were busy making rice cakes, making oil tea, and frying oil fruits, gathering in the wind and rain bridge, the drum tower, and the stage, performing self-written and self-directed literary and artistic programs, so that tourists from all over the world could immerse themselves in the local folk customs.
The ancient city is the richest and most distinctive area for the Spring Festival. Yulin in Shaanxi, Pingyao in Shanxi, Chaozhou in Guangdong, and Zhengding in Hebei have successively launched the local "Ancient City for the New Year" activities, and in the performances of intangible cultural heritage items such as folk songs in northern Shaanxi and Pingyao Shehuo, in the lanterns and dragon and lion dances, the people and tourists share the beauty of intangible cultural heritage and taste the flavor of intangible cultural heritage. According to incomplete statistics, during the Spring Festival this year, more than 10,000 intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and performances will be held in various places. Intangible cultural heritage performances are staged in turn.
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon of the Chinese, stepping on the pace of "small year", is getting closer and closer.
The north and south lanterns have their own characteristics. For the first time, the Forbidden City and the Summer Resort have joined forces to present a lantern exhibition for the Spring Festival, with exquisite lanterns such as longevity lanterns, flower basket lanterns, cloisonné enamel Taiping elephant lanterns, etc., which are exquisitely shaped and colorful, carrying beautiful meanings.
The national intangible cultural heritage Sichuan Zigong Lantern Festival brings together thousands of beautiful lantern groups, some tell Chinese historical stories, some express the folk customs of the Spring Festival, and some show the simple and lovely "** version" of the dinosaur image, so that tourists can praise again and again. Wang Chenyang, director of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, revealed that preliminary statistics show that more than 500 intangible cultural heritage inheritance practice activities will be carried out across the country.
Shanghai Yu Garden Lantern Festival goes out of the country. At the scene of the lantern festival in the Yu Garden in France, with 60 lantern groups and more than 2,000 lanterns from China blooming in an instant, the auspicious dragon and beast in the Chinese mythological classic "Classic of Mountains and Seas" instantly shined.
In addition to the traditional lantern viewing, watching the "village evening" online and holding the "village evening" offline has become one of the new folk customs in China. As a Spring Festival party written and directed by farmers, and self-performed and self-appreciated, "Village Evening" takes root in the countryside, carries the local sound, condenses the hometown, sings about the things around them, plays the people around them, and speaks from the heart. The "Village Evening" in various places takes the rural land as the stage, or shows local characteristics and folk customs, or vividly tells the story of a better life, or excavates characteristic good things and delicacies, speaks of nostalgia, sings nostalgia, and dances nostalgia.
On this all-encompassing stage, many folk stunts, folk activities and intangible cultural heritage items continue to be staged, whether it is Yulin's "Mao Hinge Daughter-in-law" paper-cutting competition, Chaozhou's gongfu tea art display, or Pingyao's social fire show, Zhengding's ancient city lantern festival, behind the steaming crowd is full of vitality.
The 2024 "Happy New Year" will also further radiate to the world. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 2024 "Happy New Year" event will hold nearly 500 exhibitions and performances in more than 100 countries and regions around the world, and hold "Global Lantern Lighting Activities" in nearly 20 countries. It is worth mentioning that the image of "Auspicious Dragon" launched this year is widely used in the "Happy New Year" brand activities, and for the first time, market-oriented development and operation have been carried out.
A few days ago, the "Happy New Year" also entered the Cuban International Jazz Festival for the first time. Pianist Oliva and his mother are both "dragons", and they said that it will be an unforgettable memory to be able to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Dragon with the Chinese people with their own creations. (ENDS).