"It's always been a love day. During the Spring Festival, the reporters of the Xicheng District Rong ** Center went deep into the production and life of the masses, wrote the changes and personal feelings of the grassroots people in Xicheng's happy work and life, and captured people's reunion, blessings and expectations with the flavor of the New Year, vividly presenting the happy scene of the Happy and Peaceful New Year.
There is a kind of reunion called "going home for the New Year", the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, to say the New Year's flavor in Xicheng, in addition to the lighting arrangement of the streets and alleys, there are also quite distinctive people's Spring Festival Gala, lion dance, cultural and creative products and other diverse choices.
The stars are shining brightly" The people's own Spring Festival Gala.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the 2024 Xicheng District "People's Spring Festival Gala" and the 3rd Xicheng District Cultural Center General Branch "Welcome the New Year" report performance jointly created by the Xicheng District Cultural Center and the cultural branches of each street under its jurisdiction were broadcast on Beijing Digital Culture Center, Xicheng Cultural Cloud, Xicheng District Cultural Center *** Cultural Tourism Xicheng Douyin.
The whole party revolves around the "New Year's flavor" culture and the "folk customs" of Xicheng, and is a "people" Spring Festival cultural experience and display activity integrating ornamentation, experience and immersion. The program covers opera, sketches, waist drums, dances, choruses, scene performances, instrumental ensembles, etc., and the actors on stage and the audience are mostly from ordinary residents at the grassroots level.
The People's Spring Festival Gala "is the people's own Spring Festival Gala, this report performance is strongly supported by the Xicheng District Culture and Tourism Bureau, hosted by the Xicheng District Cultural Center, and planned and coordinated by the Xicheng District Cultural Center General Branch Work Department, "The Xicheng District Cultural Center will organize colorful cultural activities that the masses like to see, guide the construction of the mass amateur literary and artistic team, counsel and train the backbone of the masses in literature and art, and guide the masses in literary and artistic creation as the focus of work", Zheng Xin, director of the Xicheng District Cultural Center, said: "In the past year, We continue to collect the works taken by each branch library during the usual training, some of these works are taken in the rehearsal hall, and some are in the parks and classical buildings in the jurisdiction of each branch library, although the venues are different, but they can show the lively atmosphere and joy of the people of Xicheng happily welcoming the arrival of 2024 in the context of the new era. ”
"Dragon and Lion Leap" intangible cultural heritage folk customs celebrate the New Year.
The two ends of the white paper workshop are warped, and the lion carries the drum and the lotus flower falls", knock knock, knock knock ......During the Spring Festival, the lion dance can be called the "atmosphere group" contestants. In Beihai Park, the "New Year Lion Dance" activity from the first to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year is particularly eye-catching, highlighting the strong flavor of the New Year and spreading intangible cultural heritage to tourists.
There are lion dances in China, such as the Northern Lion Dance and the Southern Lion Dance, which are different in the shape of the lions in the north and south, and the dance methods are also different. In Beihai Park, a masterpiece that embodies the culmination of garden culture and art in the past dynasties, the outstanding representative of the "Northern Lion" and the national intangible cultural heritage of the White Paper Fang Taishi Team came here early.
The multi-point "searching" lion dance in the square inside the South Gate, Fangshan Square, and Xianfu Temple also added interest and interactivity to this lion dance. Ms. Chen, a member of the audience, said: "It is not easy to preserve traditional culture, and I am very happy to see such a wonderful lion dance performance during the Spring Festival, which praises the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage and the 'ingenuity' of the inheritors." ”
Exploring the Spring Garden" Qile "Longlong" meets the blessed year.
Walking in Taoranting Park, whether it is the carefully arranged red lanterns, Chinese knots, blessing characters, or colorful windmills, the strong New Year's flavor is blowing in the face.
During the Spring Festival, the Tao Garden store next to the east wharf of Taoranting Park has a new festival series of 6 categories of more than 50 kinds of goods, set up a "Dragon" year theme window set, specially opened up a check-in photo area for tourists, and there are "rumbling" IP products, "Snow Mountain" refrigerator magnets, lantern blessing characters, pendant ornaments and other characteristic cultural and creative products and flowers for sale, many cultural and creative designs are also specially integrated into people's childhood memories, which is dizzying and intimate.
Mr. Wang, a citizen who came to play, was taking his granddaughter to choose his favorite products, he said: "The children had a lot of fun, and they also saw the beautiful scenery, as well as the characteristic cultural and creative products, and there was no shortage of food shops around, which was really the right place." ”
Text: Shi Huanfeng.
*: Wang Ziyong District Cultural Center, Beihai Park, Taoranting Park.