China Youth Daily Client News (Liang Zhi, China Youth Daily, China Youth Network Reporter Lin Jie) The romantic and extreme iron flower, the amazing fish lantern parade, the social fire Yangge and the dance of the long dragon ......These annual awards allow people to experience the charm of traditional rural art of "thrilling, dangerous, strange, unique and beautiful" anytime and anywhere.
During this year's Spring Festival, a series of cultural and tourism activities with the theme of "Beautiful Rural Happy Year" were launched in Chengdu Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park. According to the Ruifeng cultural and creative planning and design team, they hope to "regain the taste of the New Year" and create three core scenes of "New Year's Feast, Long Street Banquet", "New Year's Customs, Garden Party" and "New Year's Street, Retro New Year's Market", so that citizens and tourists can experience the New Year's flavor.
Dancing the dragon. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
The "Long Street Banquet" prepared Xinjin special delicacies such as Anxi fish head hot pot and farmhouse folk nine-bucket bowls, and there were traditional intangible cultural heritage performances such as lion dance, Mingtang seating, Sichuan opera performances and bonpot village dances, as well as activities such as "full of blessings" interaction**, interactive games and New Year's greetings with cute babies. At the same time, special scenes such as a family photo area and a huge couplet check-in area were also set up at the scene, so that citizens could feel the traditional rural reunion atmosphere of Xinjin.
Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park has a strong New Year's flavor. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park, as the modern agronomic branch venue of the 2024 Chengdu World Horticultural Expo, planned and designed the "Agronomic Theme Lantern Festival" by the Ruifeng cultural team, with the Spring Festival, Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park, Xinjin characteristic culture and the 2024 Chengdu World Horticultural Expo as creative elements, and designed 7 groups of lanterns with beautiful and peaceful meanings, such as "Congratulations on the New Year", "Harvest of Grains", "Guessing Lantern Riddles", "Flowers Cluster", "Four Seasons of the Agricultural Expo" and "Swimming Fish Like a Dream", combining traditional folk customs with innovative trends to create a visual, interactive and interactive An interesting traditional folk culture event.
The scene of the long street banquet. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
In the G2 Hall of Tianfu Agricultural Expo Island, the organizers have created a restoration of the style of the first 10th century supply and marketing cooperatives Agricultural Expo supply and marketing street, all kinds of New Year's goods are dazzling, there are all kinds of agricultural Expo good things, New Year's gift boxes, "dragon" elements around cultural creativity, New Year's food and other goods, as well as a set of Fu Do, balloons, juju, play four corners and kick shuttlecock and many other childhood games for citizens to experience, awaken the childhood memories of citizens and tourists.
Fish lantern cruise. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
As a "rural art space", Tianfu Agricultural Expo Park, located in Xinjin District, Chengdu, has always been a popular place for tourists to check in for cultural tourism. The organizers revealed that as one of the birthplaces of ancient Shu civilization, they let more people understand the history, culture, customs and characteristics of Xinjin through rural festivals combined with elements of the Year of the Dragon.
*: China Youth Daily client.