During the Spring Festival, a New Year's guide from Wanpingji City slowly unfolded, walking into the 384-year-old Wanping City neighborhood full of lanterns, and drinking a cup of mellow coffee at the People's Cafe; Then climb the Wanping City Tower, watch the Lugou Bridge, Wanping City panorama, and write the New Year's wish on the prayer card; Then go to the Lugou Bridge History Museum on the side of the Lugou Bridge to feel the heavy historical ......In this way, a Fengtai city walk was opened.
I am an old resident of Wanping City, I didn't expect our house to become a new Internet celebrity check-in place in Beijing this year, and the old city has been renewed! Aunt Zou, who lives in Wanping, Fengtai, took her little granddaughter to take pictures at the door of the very familiar house, "There are lively dragon and lion dance performances, there are food and dinner gatherings that gather Chinese and Western characteristics, and you can drink coffee and visit museums when you go out of the house, this experience is so novel!" ”
The reporter followed the crowd to climb the Wanping West City Tower, which is also specially opened for the 2024 Spring Festival Wanping New Year Carnival, from 10 o'clock to 18 o'clock from the first day to the eighth day of the new year, the public can search for "Wanping City" through the Tongcheng applet to make an appointment to go to the city to pray for blessings. Standing in Wanping City Tower, looking west, it is the Lugou Bridge of more than 800 years; To the east, it is the only intact Ming Dynasty two-door acropolis in North China, and the streets and alleys are lined up one after another, and this moment seems to overlap time and space. Many old residents of Wanping have come to make an appointment to climb the building, "I grew up in Wanping City as a child, and every inch of land here has been walked, but I have never been on Wanping City Tower, this time it is a blessing and a dream come true." Grandpa Zhang, a 79-year-old resident, and his wife helped each other to climb the tower, and jointly hung a prayer card with "peace and happiness" written on the tower.
Walking in the streets of the city, you can see tourists everywhere holding Qicheng documents looking for stamps, this Qicheng documents are specially designed for the Wanping Spring Festival Carnival, in the city's intangible cultural heritage experience hall, Hanfu dressing place, Lugou Xiaoyue theme post office, Wanping Theater, East and West Gate Service Center and other places can get an exclusive stamp and exquisite gifts or discounts. With this "customs clearance document", you can play ** at 13 stamp points in the city, making the tour of the ancient city more ceremonial.
Li Guirong, who specially came from Mentougou to Wanping to go to Jiachen New Year's appointment, told reporters: "The temple fair I am most looking forward to during the Spring Festival this year is Wanpingji City, the idea of Qicheng Wen Mu is too good, while visiting and stamping, just like breaking through the game world, the sense of participation is very strong, and it is full of a sense of accomplishment after collecting all the stamps!" ”
The three special activities of the Zodiac Culture Exhibition of the Year of the Dragon, such as Climbing to the Top and Praying for Blessings, Qicheng Documents, and Jiachen Year of the Dragon Zodiac Culture Exhibition, will lead the Wanping New Year Carnival, and a number of traditional and modern activities such as intangible cultural heritage experience, naturalist cultural creativity, fashion and trendy toys, and gluttonous food will also jointly create a New Year event full of youth and vitality. Yang Rui, chairman of Fengtai Cultural Tourism Group, said.
As the highlight of this carnival, the Dragon Walks the World - Jiachen Year of the Dragon Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition includes hundreds of images of auspicious dragon-themed cultural relics and artworks collected by more than 60 cultural and museum institutions across the country, which also attracts many tourists to visit. The exhibition is divided into five chapters: "Prologue: The Origin and Flow of Zodiac Culture", "The Origins and Outs: The Birth and Evolution of the Dragon Image", "Dragons in the Four Seas: Dragons in History and Culture", "Dragons in Folk Culture", and "Epilogue: Dancing with Dragons and Returning to the Dinosaur World", which interpret the profound heritage of dragon culture in traditional Chinese culture in multiple dimensions, and vividly show the extensive influence of the dragon as a Chinese totem in the long history of 8,000 years.
Today's exhibition is very meaningful, I saw the dragon in the mural, the dragon on the porcelain, the dragon in the embroidery paper-cut, ......We are descendants of the dragon, and the image of the dragon can be seen everywhere, and it has permeated every aspect of our culture and customs, and I will write these into my homework and go back to share it with my classmates. Yu Yanxi from Dongluoyuan Primary School told reporters.
It is worth mentioning that in the future, Wanping City will be built into a small museum city that integrates into the daily life of residents. "The good life of the inhabitants is the foundation and background of the city of museums. Yang Rui introduced that at present, there are five demonstration sites in Wanping City that have completed protective repairs, namely people's cafes, characteristic cultural and creative stores, national traditional Chinese medicine culture museums, intangible cultural heritage experience space, and Gongjiying public exhibition space.
During the Spring Festival Carnival, the National Museum of China, the Great Wall Museum and many other museums moved their cultural and creative products into Wanping City. In the future, the 'Wanping Museum City' will introduce various types of exhibitions and art gatherings from all over the country and even the world, and will also continue to produce derivative cultural and creative products, striving to make Wanping not only remain in the mobile phones and cameras of domestic and foreign tourists, but also become a rich and vivid 'Wanping memory' and even a business card of Beijing. ”
* Fengtai Times.
Reporter Lin Yao Yuan Zifeng.