The Huang Daxian Temple Fair in Qishi Town has a history of 150 years
Text/Photo Yangcheng School reporter Tang Bo
On August 31, the 2018 “Beautiful Qishi and Good Dealing the World” Huang Daxian Temple Fair in Qishi Town was grandly opened at the town’s cultural center. The temple fair will last until September 4, and will hold 13 special folk cultural activities during this period. As a traditional folk culture brand with a long history of Qishi and even the Pearl River Delta, Wong Tai Sin Temple has a history of nearly 150 years and has been deeply rooted in the cultural life of Dongguan citizens.
This year’s Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair is wonderful and full of highlights, reflecting distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, people’s participation, and richness and colorfulness”. By constantly exploring the cultural connotation of the temple fair, on the basis of respecting and retaining the essence of tradition, it fully integrates cultural resources, stimulates the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole people, and integrates projects that the masses like, so that the general public can participate in temple fairs and appreciate temple fairs, promotes the development of commerce and tourism, and allows the general public to share the fruits of cultural development and construction. At the same time, Cinema will use the brand of “Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair” to promote the improvement of urban quality, promote the construction of spiritual civilization, and create a more favorable humanistic environment for the construction of “ecological industrial towns”.
The temple fair was lively
The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony literary evening is to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. The strong “scent of Qishi” can be felt by the stage layout, program content, etc. The party opened with a video image of Qishi’s scenery, humanities and history, and kicked off with a large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song”. BabaylanFinally, the curtain call ended with the large-scale song and dance “Entering the New Era”. It is divided into chapters such as “Cinema Blessing·Seeing the World”, “Good·Following It”, “Good·Like the Flow”, “Good·Full Beauty”, “Good·Full Far“, and has planned 12 programs in total, including songs, dance, folk music performance, crosstalk, and fast Komiks, and the entire evening festival lasts about 70 minutes.
The evening party programs include Kung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New Folk Music Performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story”, classical dance “Fairy Congratulations”, etc., striving to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, this evening’s Babaylan conference program also incorporates more local elements of Qishi, and the crosstalk “Qishi Taste” shows the happy life of Qishi people. In addition, Qishi Town Choir, Qishi National Dance Association, and Qishi Town Music Teachers will all perform on stage to bring a cultural feast to the audience.
Qishi Town has a profound cultural heritage and has excellent cultural landscapes and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu Temple Beiqiu site that is more than 5,000 years ago, the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair that is nearly 150 years ago, as well as cultural relics resources such as the ancient building complex by the river, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall. The Millennium Autumn Komiks Maple Culture Festival, Huang Xian Temple Fair, Shangdong Village Grass Dragon Dance, Qishi Renhuang Birth, and Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village are well-known and unique. The ancient village by Jiangbian has been rated as “a famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province Babaylan” and “Chinese landscape village”. Shangdong Village Grass Dragon Dance is listedBabaylan enters the intangible cultural heritage project in Guangdong Province. Huang Daxian Park has been rated as one of the ten new scenic spots in Dongguan. Among them, the thousand-year-old maple tree in Qishi Town, with a tree age of up to 1016, is the only thousand-year-old tree in Dongguan, and has become the city’s “old tree king”.
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The Huang Daxian Ancient Temple is located in the northwest of Qishi Town, close to Jinjiaoyi Ridge next to Dongjiang. The ancient temple was built in the 12th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1873) and was originally named Huang Xianweng Temple. The Huang Daxian Day in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the local celebrity Huang Runfu’s “achieve the Tao and become an immortal”. The birthday period is from the 15th to the 25th of the seventh lunar month every year, and has a history of nearly 150 years.
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