Fuyong Street held the 31st Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival, sounding the gongs and drums of the New Year's struggle.
The drums are inspiring, and the lion dance is exciting.
On February 24th, the Chinese New Year's Day, the 2024 National Dragon and Lion Festival (Shenzhen Fuyong Branch) and the 31st Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival of Fuyong Street were grandly held in Wanfu Square. The Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival will come as scheduled, which not only draws a successful end to the happy New Year, but also sounds the sound of gongs and drums for a new journey of struggle, and gathers the joint force of all walks of life to "create a new Fuyong".
Watching the dragon and lion dance is the "reserved program" of Fuyong people for the New Year
The Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, which is an agreement for Fuyong Street to celebrate the New Year happily with the general public. On February 24, the 31st Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival invited Fuyong Lion Dance Troupe, Huaide Lion Dance Martial Arts Troupe, Phoenix Martial Arts Association, Baishixia Lion Dance Troupe, Peace Dragon Dance Team, Qiaotou Lion Dance Troupe, Tangwei Martial Arts Hall, Binhai Primary School (Group) Xia Shiwei Primary School Youth League to participate, 8 dragon and lion teams took turns to perform 13 programs such as the Southern Lion Pile Lion Optional Routine, Self-selected Dragon Dance, Unicorn Dance, and Lion Dancing Youth. Whether it is the flat dragon and lion routine or the lion on the pile, the thrilling and agile martial arts movements of the dragon and lion team all amaze the audience and cheer constantly.
The old man has seen the lion dance in the community on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and he will come to the square early this morning to see the Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Club. On the morning of the same day, Pan Jiugen, a 91-year-old man from the Huaide community, and his 87-year-old wife, Pan Qinxiao, came to Wanfu Plaza early under the escort of the nanny, and found a suitable location to watch the dragon and lion performance under the guidance of the staff. Aunt Qiu, the nanny, told reporters that the old man has watched the lion dance since he was a child, and he has watched it for nearly a hundred years, and he has to watch the lion dance performance every year to count it as the New Year. On the square, there are many enthusiastic audiences like the old man of the Pan family, and the dragon and lion dance in Wanfu Square during the Lantern Festival has become a "reserved program" for Fuyong residents to celebrate the New Year.
The reporter learned that the custom of Fuyong folk lion dance has a long history, and the masses have a deep foundation, which can be traced back to the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty at the earliest, and after the inheritance and development of five generations of lion dance artists, it has gradually formed the local lion dance characteristics that are also different from the southern school and the Guangzhou-Foshan area. Fuyong people celebrate festivals or meet festive events, dragon and lion dances are indispensable links.
Carry forward the lion dance culture and vigorously cultivate "lion dance youth".
Fuyong is the "hometown of lion dancing" in Guangdong Province, and Fuyong lion dancing is included in the list of intangible cultural heritage protection of Guangdong Province, and is one of the three cultural business cards of Fuyong Street at home and abroad.
In 1962, the Fuyong Lion Dance Troupe, which was formed by a number of lion dance teams in Fuyong area, was officially established, and so far, the custom of Fuyong lion dance has gradually expanded from the spontaneous behavior of the people to the extensive participation and support of all walks of life. Fuyong Street insists on holding the Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival every year, so that the traditional folk custom of dragon and lion dance continues to be grounded and spread more widely, and this year is the 31st session.
From August 4 to 6 last year, at the invitation of the "Summer of the City" festival in Madrid and the Chinese Cultural Center in Madrid, the Fuyong Huaide Lion Dance Troupe also made a wonderful appearance on the streets of Madrid, the capital of Spain, bringing a wonderful high-stakes lion dance performance to the local people.
In order to inherit and promote traditional culture and folk customs, and constantly polish the cultural business card of "Fuyong Lion Dance", in 2023, Fuyong Street will innovatively carry out a series of activities to bring intangible cultural heritage culture into the campus, send intangible cultural heritage such as Fuyong Lion Dance into the classroom, teach young students to learn lion dance, and spread Fuyong Lion Dance culture on campus, so that Fuyong Lion Dance culture has been creatively transformed and innovatively developed.
On Wanfu Square, the juvenile lion dance troupe from Xia Shiwei Primary School wore "customized version" lion dance costumes and props, and the performance program "Lion Dancing Youth" was sonorous and powerful, winning loud applause from the audience. The members of this "Lion Dancing Youth" team are steady and steady, and the lion head dances vigorously, as if they have become a new generation of lion dancers.
Gather the joint force of "rebuilding a new Fuyong".
On the square, the noisy sound of gongs and drums guided the lion to roll and dance, stepping on every high pile, presenting a wonderful and exciting lion dance performance for the audience; Under the stage, the war drum of high-quality development has also sounded, urging every participant to follow the drum, step on the node, gather and forge ahead, and build a new Fuyong.
Since the first working day of the new year, the Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference and the Shenzhen and Bao'an District High-quality Development Work Promotion Conferences have been held one after another, and a good working atmosphere has been formed in the whole province. Located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the center of the Pearl River ** Inner Bay, Fuyong Street quickly entered the state, vigorously "Forge Ahead Fuyong" spirit, and worked at full speed: unveiled the only street-level "enterprise service home" in the district that integrates enterprise services and product display; Issued and implemented the "Fuyong Street "333" Enterprise Package Service Work Plan" to play a "combination punch" to stabilize business and attract investment; Zhang Honghua, president of the District Charity Association, was invited to give a special lecture to inspire the enthusiasm of struggle with the power of example.
The Lantern Festival Dragon and Lion Festival is another new drumbeat. At present, the streets of Fuyong up and down to seize time, seize the opportunity, do practical things in a strong atmosphere, all levels and departments are in a moment can not wait, a moment can not hesitate, a moment can not slack off the mental state of rapid work, cohesion to promote "recreate a new Fuyong".