"Finally ushered in the opening of the flower market! This year's Tianhe Spring Festival Flower Market is very lively, and it feels more and more spectacular year by year, and the tall flower market archway is particularly impressive. On February 4th, Ms. He, a citizen, went out with her family and came to Tianhe Sports Center early to visit the flower street to welcome the New Year.
At 8:30 a.m. on February 4, Tianhe Sports Center officially opened to welcome citizens. This year's flower market has been comprehensively upgraded and innovated in terms of design, scale, time and service, presenting a new look to the citizens and tourists.
The theme of the 2024 Tianhe Sports Center Flower Market is "Flowers and Tianhe New Year's Flavor 'Dragon'". The opening hours are from 8:30 a.m. on February 4, 2024 to 2:00 a.m. on February 10, 2024, for a period of 6 days, with a total of 404 stalls, including 362 stalls for flowers, potted flowers, New Year's goods, handicrafts, peach blossom goldfish, etc., 28 stalls for public welfare, and 14 stalls for the theme flower exhibition area.
Inherit the culture of Guangzhou flower market and integrate the style and effect of the Tianhe era
This year's flower market has more stalls and events than last year, and although it is raining, it is very pleasant to visit the flower market. Mr. Zhu, a citizen, made a special trip from Panyu to Tianhe Flower Market, "The exhibition of rare plants in the South China National Botanical Garden is eye-catching, it is said to be the first appearance in the Guangzhou Flower Market, which is very novel, allowing us to see plants that we can't usually see in the city." ”
Yang Sihua, deputy director of the Tianhe District Flower Market Headquarters Office and deputy director of the Tianhe District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, introduced that the Tianhe Sports Center Flower Market takes flowers as the theme, poems with spring, and puts the finishing touches on natural elements, cultural symbols, and modern technology.
On both sides of the entrance of the flower market, the three-dimensional flower beds decorated with peony lanterns, flaming red lanterns, lucky koi and other elements echo each other with the archway, forming the trend of "fish leaping over the dragon gate", symbolizing the new year's flowers blooming and wealthy, and wishes come true.
The archway is controlled by photoelectric simulation, just like a bright pearl of changing colors on the new central axis, echoing with CITIC Tower and Canton Tower, presenting the realm of "Double Dragon Playing with Pearls". The archway is low in the south and high in the north like a sundial, and the CITIC Building is towering in the middle like a sundial needle, which is combined with the air to form a sundial of the times, expressing the meaning of "harmony and perfection".
Nearly 60,000 flowers in the south square of Tianhe Sports Center and hundreds of flower stalls on the celestial ring road present more than 50,000 square meters of spring flowers, offering an all-weather and multi-faceted immersive sensory feast for the public and tourists.
The colorful flower landscape decorated with a wide variety of seasonal flowers and shrubs such as peach blossoms, orchids, camellias, moon seasons, and oranges sets off the 15 kinds of rare plants exhibited in the South China National Botanical Garden.
The traditional flower market on Huanchang Road is set up in double rings, integrating dragon cultural elements, "the dragon kings of the four seas sit in the town, and the dragon gives birth to nine sons to navigate", and the citizens and tourists "Xinghua Street" are like entering the mysterious "time and space array", dialogue time and space, and integrate the ancient and modern; It is also like being in a precision "compass", pointing to the future, and giving birth to flowers all the way.
At night, the dynamic colorful lanterns and luminous bionic bee butterflies dotted among the thousands of flowers in the south square are soothing and lifelike; The light and shadow effects of flowers, insects and birds projected by the projection lamp on the pedestrian passage are colorful and colorful; On both sides of the square, there are countless "fiery red lanterns hanging high" in the green forest, and the lanterns are colorful, and the fire trees are silver.
A bird's-eye view of the flower market, the entrance passage "2024 Spring Festival Blessing" is eye-catching, and the three giant kapok flowers are particularly conspicuous, which is the most straightforward expression of "Guangzhou New Year, Flower City to see flowers".
6 performances for the benefit of the people will be held for 6 consecutive days, showcasing Cantonese opera, English singing and dancing and other folk culture
Dragon and lion performances, children's street dance, children's Cantonese opera ......At half past three o'clock in the afternoon of February 4th, in the guzheng ensemble and dragon and lion dance, the performance of "Dragon Soaring Four Seas - The First Opening Ceremony" kicked off the series of activities of the intangible cultural heritage carnival of Tianhe Spring Festival Flower City.
Tianhe Spring Festival Flower Market will present 6 wonderful performances for 6 consecutive days, such as "Dragon and Lion", "Dragon and Lion Tongwu", "Dragon Gathering Children's Heart", "Dragon Skills Blooming", "Dragon Dance and Song" and "Dragon Tour Prosperous", showing dragon and lion, Cantonese opera, acrobatics, martial arts, Chaoyang English songs, Cantonese songs, Guangdong ** and other folk culture.
At the same time, citizens and tourists can enjoy intangible cultural heritage items such as Cantonese embroidery and lion dancing at close range at the intangible cultural heritage stalls, make Cantonese embroidery sachets, olive carvings and Cantonese Year of the Dragon bookmarks, experience a series of interactive activities such as Cantonese embroidery costumes and the distribution of small gifts by the "God of Wealth". The flower market will also invite citizens and tourists to learn to dance Chaoyang Ying song and dance, "subject three" Internet celebrity dance.
More than 200 intangible cultural heritage performances, garden parties and other activities were held in various streets, new public cultural spaces, parks and other sectors, allowing citizens to feel the charm of traditional culture in a joyful atmosphere.
"Private customization" of phalaenopsis orchids promotes the "beautiful economy" of flowers, rich farmers with flowers
In the South Gate Square of Tianhe Sports Center, phalaenopsis stalls are quite popular among the public. Tianhe District Supply and Marketing Cooperatives have created 14 flower stalls with a height of 5 meters and a length of nearly 50 meters, which are arranged in the South Gate Square of the Sports Center, and 16 public welfare assistance stalls distributed throughout the flower market form a supply and marketing market, integrating the New Year flavor and love of Guangzhou people into the Tianhe Flower Market, allowing more citizens and tourists to join in consumption assistance and help rural revitalization.
Zhong Weifeng, director of the Council of Tianhe District Supply and Marketing Association, introduced that Longyan City, like Guangzhou, has a profound cultural heritage and is a famous historical and cultural city integrating red culture, ecological environment, and leisure and tourism. In 2017, Longyan Yongding District became a well-known Phalaenopsis fresh-cut flower base in China and the largest Phalaenopsis production base in Fujian Province, realizing the beautiful butterfly change of the ecological environment.
Phalaenopsis is named because the flower resembles a butterfly, has the reputation of "the queen of orchids", and has won the favor of Guangzhou citizens, which combines the dyeing technology to produce spray-painted color phalaenopsis, dyed phalaenopsis fresh-cut flowers, with white phalaenopsis as the background color, can spray paint colorful phalaenopsis, to achieve "private customization" for consumers, the flowering period is about 40 days, very competitive in the market.
In February 2023, according to the "Twinning Cooperation Plan between Guangzhou City and Longyan City and County", Tianhe District and Yongding District signed the "Framework Agreement on Counterpart Cooperation between Tianhe District of Guangzhou City and Yongding District of Longyan City" to carry out comprehensive docking cooperation. Tianhe District Supply and Marketing Cooperatives actively carry out first-class cooperation with Longyan City, district and county-level supply and marketing cooperatives, and work together to create a model of counterpart cooperation in the new era of "old area + Bay Area".
In 2023, the Phalaenopsis Industrial Park in Yongding District will be included in the Guangzhou-Longyan counterpart cooperation project, and Suilong and Suilong will jointly hold the 3rd Yongding Phalaenopsis Cultural Tourism Festival. On the occasion of the arrival of the Spring Festival, the Tianhe District Supply and Marketing Cooperative also brought Yongding butterflies to the traditional Spring Festival Flower Market in Tianhe District, so that Yongding Phalaenopsis blooms beautifully in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area market, and let its "happiness come" implication fly into thousands of households, creating a strong festive atmosphere with flowers as a gift, and promoting the "beautiful economy" of Suilong and Suilong to prosper with flowers and enrich farmers with flowers.
Text Guangzhou** New Flower City Reporter: Chen Junsheng.
Picture Guangzhou** New Flower City Reporter: Mo Weinong.