This Saturday is the Lantern Festival, and it is also a small reunion after the Spring Festival. In the Chuanshuo Museum in Baizhang, the villagers of Xikou Village have been busy for many days in order to prepare for a different Lantern Festival. This year's Lantern Festival, in addition to the lively reunion, is also full of intangible cultural heritage.
Walking into the Chuanshuo Museum, there is a prosperous scene of celebrating the New Year, the villager Gao Liqun is busy working in front of a pile of bamboo shoots and silk cloth, and she has been doing tailoring work for more than 30 years. Aunt Gao revealed that making this bamboo shoot shell "C-shaped dragon" is still a meticulous job to test patience, every part needs to be cut, pasted, and colored.
This bamboo shoot shell "C-shaped dragon" is the same as the "cheering duck" that became popular during the Asian Games last year, continuing the creative practice of turning waste bamboo shoot shells into treasure. chose to use the "C-shaped dragon" to celebrate the Lantern Festival in the first year, and there is also the ingenuity of Zheng Fenfen to inherit and promote intangible cultural heritage in the Baizhang Shuttle Museum.
The simple and unique "C-shaped dragon" in front of you is inspired by the "Hongshan Culture" of the same period as the "Liangzhu Culture", and is also known as the "First Dragon in China". "I think that blessings in the Year of the Dragon can bring our intangible cultural heritage back to the countryside and make the countryside full of the flavor of childhood," said Zheng Fenfen, smiling and sharing her original intention for creating the "C-shaped dragon".
The reporter learned that after the production of these bamboo shoot shell "C-shaped dragons", they will be on the performance site of "Cirque du Soleil" on the day of the Lantern Festival, bringing an audio-visual feast combining modern trends and traditional intangible cultural heritage to the general public.