**: Xinhua Daily Telegraph, February 15
Author: Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Chen Kaixing, Ye Qian, Wu Tao, Ding Le.
The sublimation of soil and flame has achieved a thousand years of splendid culture, innovation and living inheritance, and shaped an endless civilization.
The land of Lingnan inherits the cultural context and leads the trend. Historical monuments that have been dormant for thousands of years are full of vitality.
The south wind is scented, such as its benevolence. In the kiln fire that has not been extinguished for thousands of years, it is the long-standing Lingnan culture and Chinese culture.
In the sound of gongs and drums in the lion dance performance to celebrate the Spring Festival, visitors from all over the world poured into the cultural attraction "Southern Pottery Capital" - Shiwan Ancient Town, Foshan, Guangdong, and the ancient town that inherited the thousand-year-old ceramic culture was "noisy", "fired" and "lived".
On February 14th, the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln Scenic Area was full of tourists. Photo by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Ding Le.
The cultural town is full of customers.
**At the symposium on cultural inheritance and development, the general secretary emphasized that Chinese culture has a long history and Chinese civilization is broad and profound. Only by having a comprehensive understanding of the history of Chinese civilization can we more effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, more effectively promote the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Knowing where he came from, Fang Ming went.
In the pottery art center of the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln Scenic Area, laughter and laughter come and go, adults and children are happy, and they experience the magical combination of mud and fire.
I have relatives who have come here since the birth of their children to make footprints, and they make a homemade ceramic every year, which feels very meaningful, and I specially brought my children to experience it this time. Ms. Wang Wei from Guangzhou said.
With the thousand-year-old traditional pottery culture as the soul, we will promote the combination of historical culture and cultural tourism consumption, and focus on immersive experience. Zhang Min, the operation manager of Nanfeng Ancient Kiln Scenic Area, said that the number of tourists during the Spring Festival has increased significantly compared with last year, and the second day of the Lunar New Year has entered the peak period, with an average of tens of thousands of tourists per day in the past three days, a year-on-year increase of two or three times.
On February 14th, visitors experience pottery making at the Pottery Art Center. Photo by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Ding Le.
The Nanfeng ancient kiln built in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty was built by the Huo family of Shanxi Province who migrated south and settled in Shiwan. For more than 500 years, Nanfeng ancient kilns have been continuously produced and kiln fires are endless, and it is the oldest wood-fired dragon kiln in the world that has been continuously used so far, which has been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records and included in the third batch of national industrial heritage lists.
The kiln is built according to the town of Shiwan Ancient Town, with a total length of 344 meters, inner length 3087 meters, meandering down from the mountain, the eaves of the tile are secondary, the shape is like a swimming dragon, so it is called "dragon kiln". Because the place where the kiln burns firewood is very similar to the stove for cooking at home, it is also called "stove" by the local residents, and the stove of this dragon kiln is facing the south, and the cool breeze is blowing every summer, so it is also called "south wind stove".
Ceramics are an important carrier of exchanges between ancient China and Western civilizations, and a distinctive label left by the magnificent and splendid Chinese civilization in world history. Nanfeng ancient kiln is also known as ceramic living fossil.
Liu Wen, a citizen of Guiyang who takes her family to a "cultural ancient land" for travel during the Spring Festival every year, came to the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln Scenic Area this year, she said: "This is a festival trip, a reunion trip, a cultural trip, and a heritage trip." ”
The thousand-year-old kiln fire is even more prosperous today.
This Spring Festival, Shiwan Ancient Town seems to be more prosperous than the kiln fire that has not been extinguished for more than 500 years in Nanfeng Ancient Kiln.
Located in the ancient town scenic area, the Taoyili firewood burning studio is crowded, and the dragon element ceramic products created by the manager Zeng Yingda have attracted a large number of tourists.
Tourists and sales have increased by two or three times compared to usual, and the evening hours have been extended by three or four hours, and there are too many orders. Zeng Yingda said, "There are many masters here who are good at making Shiwan dolls, on this basis, our young generation innovates and inherits, develops more application scenarios, combines more trendy elements, and makes ceramic culture popular with more young people." ”
Walking in Shiwan Ancient Town, the scattered caves of the Tao Cultural Scenic Area burn a prosperous fire to convey the flavor of the New Year; The Shiwan doll intangible cultural heritage products on Doll Street are dazzling; The double skin milk and jade ice roasted coffee in the specialty restaurants soothe the taste buds; The intangible cultural heritage fish lantern show in the city that never sleeps in the south wind has a rich ......This cultural pedestrian street, which has been transformed from ancient stoves and old factories, is both quaint and trendy, both traditional and modern.
The general secretary pointed out at the urbanization work conference that it is necessary to integrate modern elements, protect and carry forward the traditional excellent culture, and continue the historical context of the city.
A city with heritage must not only have unique scenery, but also have the continuity of cultural context.
In Shiwan Ancient Town, there are not only national key cultural relics protection units such as Nanfeng Ancient Kiln and Gaozao, which are known as ceramic living fossils, but also municipal cultural relics protection units such as Linjia Hall and Gaomiao Hall.
Yan Bing, secretary of the Chancheng District Party Committee, said that the Nanfeng ancient kiln not only focused on maintaining the ancient elements of the ancient kiln, but also renovated some ancient houses to build Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum, Rao Baolian Paper-cutting Exhibition Hall, Nanfeng Tang Art Museum, Ancient Kiln Image Exhibition Hall, B&B, Cafe and other cultural venues and leisure places.
Walk through the ancient alleys of flowers, listen to the gurgling water, and come to a "cultured" cross-border tea shop. Tourists drink coffee with a "salary cup" in their hands, eat cakes with "wealth plates", and some rub New Year's pictures with their own hands.
On February 14, visitors admire ceramics in the pottery room. Photo by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Ding Le.
We are committed to cross-border integration, from decoration to products, integrating tea, ceramics, New Year paintings, and paper-cutting, and also cooperate with more than 30 craftsmen to exhibit and sell cultural and creative products on wooden frames, so that tourists can have a better experience of traditional Lingnan culture. Chen Jinchang, the person in charge of kaacaat coffee tea, said.
The historical atmosphere of the ancient town allows every guest to have a memory of the Spring Festival full of cultural flavor, and every tourist who has not changed has become a new carrier of the thousand-year-old Lingnan culture.
We strive to make the ancient kiln workshop, ancient stove banyan style and modern homestay and coffee organically combined, so that traditional culture and modern leisure complement each other, and realize the living inheritance of history and culture. Yan Bing said.
The ancient style is alive.
A city is a carrier of national culture and emotional memory, and history and culture are the key to the charm of a city. **The general secretary pointed out the direction for the city's historical and cultural inheritance.
By actively exploring the activation and utilization of cultural heritage resources, Nanfeng Ancient Kiln has vigorously developed the integration of culture and tourism, attracting a large number of cultural craftsmen, intangible cultural heritage inheritors, and original craftsmen to gather, and nearly 1,000 enterprises and nearly 500 brands have settled in.
Located in Lingnan Tiandi, Chancheng District, Foshan, the original site is the Donghuali area of the Ancestral Temple, which has a history of more than 900 years, and is also the historical and cultural district with the most dense cultural relics and historic sites in Foshan, the largest scale and the most complete preservation of traditional features. Through the "repair of the old as the old, the coexistence of the old and the new", the commercial development and historical buildings complement each other in terms of appearance and cultural connotation. In 2023, the passenger flow of Lingnan Tiandi will reach 32 million.
We hold a series of activities for the Lingnan New Year, and the Guzhen Lantern Festival has attracted a large number of tourists to enjoy the lanterns and experience the taste of the New Year in Foshan since the lighting of the Lingnan Tiandi. Chen Chun, general manager of Lingnan Tiandi, said that from the first to the third day of the new year, this year's passenger flow increased by more than 26 year-on-year, of which the single-day passenger flow on the first day of the new year exceeded 300,000 person-times, catering and cultural consumption continued to flourish, and it is expected that the passenger flow sales in the business district will continue to grow in the next few days.
Guided by the construction of the Lingnan Guangfu Cultural Center, Chancheng will create a Lingnan impression hall, a cultural and creative leading place, a global tourism destination, a public cultural demonstration site, and a new highland for cultural exchanges, and dig deep into the "rich mine" of Lingnan Guangfu culture such as Cantonese opera, ceramics, kung fu, dragon and lion, paper-cutting, and champions, and open up a new path for high-quality cultural development.
The person in charge of the Foshan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism said that Foshan has more than 200 intangible cultural heritage, through the organic combination of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival and the local traditional culture, fashion elements and local stories, the fishing and farming Yueyun Cultural Tourism Park, Nanhai Film and Television City and other scenic spots have ushered in a large number of tourists.
During this year's Spring Festival, whether it is the south-style ancient kiln in the Pearl River Delta or the ancient city of Chaozhou in eastern Guangdong, it shows a strong new fashion of gathering people with literature and inheriting literature with people, and also shows the inexhaustible power of living inheritance between ancient customs.
On February 14, tourists experienced "adding firewood" and "raising salary" in the Nanfeng ancient kiln "Dragon Kiln". Photo by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Ding Le.
On February 14, early in the morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, in front of the Nanfeng ancient stove "Dragon Kiln" in Shiwan Ancient Town, there was a long queue of people waiting for "adding firewood" and "raising salary". In every firewood, there is the power of culture to ignite, and the people's love and hope for a better life are poured into it.