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Reporter Geng Xue.
This spring's 'village evening' we plan to perform the Peking Opera "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", and today we will take advantage of the good weather to practice together. On February 27, Huang Jing, a villager from Jibaoyu Village, Yanya Town, Yiyuan County, happily sang with her friends in her yard.
Nowadays, in various villages in Yiyuan, "village evening" has become a source of happiness for people's happy life. They wrote, directed, and acted by themselves, from the elderly to the naïve children, and the whole village was mobilized to enjoy the fun brought by the cultural life of "Village Evening", which has become a cultural code for rural revitalization here.
In recent years, Yiyuan County has vigorously implemented the strategy of "culturally strong county", with the goal of enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the masses and building a livable, workable and beautiful village, and carried out in-depth activities of "Village Evening" in four seasons, highlighting the deep integration with local culture, rural tourism and other elements, and effectively building the "Village Evening" into a carrier that reflects the new style of farmers' spirit and the new atmosphere of rural revitalization, and effectively stimulates the cultural vitality of rural revitalization in the new era.
Highlight demonstration and leadership, and create a new model for cultural revitalization. Rural revitalization, culture first. The "Village Evening" in Yiyuan County is not only a theatrical performance, but also a large festival written and directed by the villagers and a new carrier for rural revitalization. In recent years, under the active guidance of departments at all levels, the participation of social forces, and the spontaneous organization of the peasant masses, combined with the characteristics of different seasons, the county has created a spring "village evening" represented by Longziyu Village, a summer "village evening" represented by Yangsanyu Village, an autumn "village evening" represented by Jibaoyu Village, and a winter "village evening" model village represented by Houjiaguanzhuang Village. In July 2023, the 11th Shandong Fuyang Cultural Festival and the National Summer "Village Evening" Demonstration and Performance were held in Yangsanyu Village, and a hot summer "Village Evening" Gala was staged.
Innovate the form of carriers and enrich the new connotation of people's lives. Daqian culture, connotation wins. The "Village Evening" in Yiyuan County is not only a theatrical performance, but also a "caravan" for culture to go to the countryside. While carefully arranging theatrical performances, Yiyuan County fully integrates local traditional cultural elements, relies on the "Village Evening" platform to carry out a variety of activities such as calligraphy and painting creation, intangible cultural heritage display, and live broadcast with goods, and builds a variety of models such as "Village Evening + Intangible Cultural Heritage Folk Customs", "Village Evening + Rural Tourism" and "Village Evening + Civilization Cultivation" to promote the growth of rural cultural subjects. Since the beginning of this year, Yiyuan County has successively held a series of 22 themed activities such as "I spent the New Year in Yiyuan" and "Good Time in the Village", attracting more than 200,000 tourists and greatly enriching the cultural experience of tourists. Among them, the "Zi" demonstration and display activities held in Houjiaguanzhuang Village, Nanma Street, were lively and joyful in the village evening, with on-site flower and dumpling food exhibitions, Yangge gong and drum performances, Shandong handmade displays, and lantern production.
Strengthen the cultivation guarantee and inject new vitality into rural culture. Culture is like water, moisturizing things silently. The "Village Evening" in Yiyuan County is not only a theatrical performance, but also a vivid practice of changing "sending culture" to "culture". In recent years, with the goal of continuously improving the satisfaction of the people's cultural life, Yiyuan County has continuously improved the grassroots public cultural facilities, strengthened the team of local cultural talents, and cast a strong foundation for the development of the "Village Evening" brand. It has successively built, renovated and expanded more than 400 village (community) comprehensive cultural service centers, built more than 620 village (community) cultural squares, built more than 150 village theaters, and improved supporting facilities such as audio and musical instruments, providing a solid platform for the holding of "village evening" activities. The "Villagers as the Protagonists, Literature and Art Vitality" Rural Internet Celebrity Contest was held, and more than 100 amateur literary and artistic team competitions, square dance competitions, training and counseling were carried out to encourage villagers to write and direct themselves, perform and appreciate themselves, and "gather", "educate" and "use" local cultural talents.
The holding of the "Village Evening" activity in Yiyuan County has played a positive role in inheriting culture, promoting virtues, and cultivating rural customs. The county adheres to the principle of spontaneous voluntariness, respects the initiative of farmers, stimulates the enthusiasm of farmers for creation and performance, lets the people be the protagonists, lets the masses go on the stage, and holds "village evening" activities on a regular basis, so as to convey the new style of civilization, promote morality and promote the revitalization of rural culture in the spring breeze and drizzle, moisturizing things silently and imperceptibly.