Reporter Qin Xueli Correspondent: Gao Tingting, Yang Qian, Hu Bin.
The gongs and drums are noisy and the sky is full of praise, and the Lantern Festival is full of laughter and laughter. At 9 a.m. on February 24 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), the large-scale folk performance of the Lantern Festival in Fushan District - "Yangge Entering the City" was staged on the county street, and the scene was crowded and lively.
The "Yangge into the city" folk performance to "the east of the county street - county street - commercial street - city street" as the route, U-shaped tour, a total of more than 2,000 grassroots literary and artistic backbones and folk artists to participate, from the district 8 towns and streets more than 40 performance teams took turns to appear, the festive and lively performance attracted nearly 10,000 citizens to watch and enjoy, take a group photo and check in.
Just after 9 o'clock, accompanied by the cheerful and festive drum beat, the majestic gong and drum team from Qingyang Street took the lead on the stage, the team members wore festive performance costumes, wore colorful headdresses, held drumsticks, and danced while knocking, and the sonorous drums showed the charm of traditional folk culture to the fullest. Beautifully decorated floats slowly drove by, and a series of traditional folk programs such as Yangge, dragon and lion dance, ugly woman making Lantern Festival, stepping on stilts, fan dance, and Xiaguan Pavilion were staged in turn.
The sound of drums shook the sky, the ugly woman with heavy makeup, the swaying dry boat, the cute big-headed doll... The wonderful programs rich in local characteristics and popular ones added to the festive atmosphere and made the citizens applaud one after another. "Every year, I look forward to our district's Yangge entering the city, this year's Yangge feels particularly lively, especially the big Yangge and the pavilion performance, which is very exciting, and I hope to hold more similar folk performances in the future, so that children can feel the traditional folk customs and strong New Year's flavor." Wang Yaobo, who was born and raised in Fushan, gave a thumbs up and praised Yangge's performance in the city.
It is understood that in the performance team, with a history of more than 200 years, the intangible cultural heritage of Yantai City under the official pavilion performance "re-out of the rivers and lakes", the two groups of pavilions are composed of 18 people, 16 people carry away, 2 children on the pavilion, everyone works together to interpret the folklore story, releasing the charming charm of the pavilion culture. The ethnic minority team also made its debut in this exhibition, which was particularly eye-catching, expressing the deep feelings of the Chinese nation as a family and working together to build the Chinese dream. In addition, folk performances such as Fukuyama thunder drums and stilt walking, which have a history of more than 280 years, are also on display.
Since its inception in 2002, the folk performance of "Yangge Entering the City" in Fushan has been held for 19 sessions, and has become a brand cultural activity loved by the people of Fushan and even the whole city. "Every time Yangge enters the city to perform, we have to make full preparations half a year in advance, from program selection to appearance and performance, and make comprehensive considerations, the purpose is to let the public feel the charm of traditional culture up close, and protect and inherit the local traditional folk customs of Fushan. According to the staff of the Propaganda Department of the Fushan District Party Committee, this year's Yangge into the city is one of the series of activities of the 2024 Spring Festival Shandong Rural Cultural Tourism Festival.
In recent years, Fushan District has continued to increase its efforts to benefit the people through culture, consolidated and expanded the coverage of cultural achievements, and carefully organized and planned large-scale local characteristic activities such as the "Passion Square" literary and artistic performance, the Riverside ** Festival, the Big Cherry Festival, and the Square Dance Competition, and extensively organized and carried out "cultural feasts" for the masses such as "sending calligraphy to the countryside", "intangible cultural heritage into ten thousand homes", "opera into the community, and the people enjoying the opera", enriching and enlivening the spiritual and cultural life of the people in the whole district, and helping rural revitalization. Promoting the high-quality development of Fushan has added new cultural momentum.