The Huang Tai Sin 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 Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town was grandly opened at the town’s cultural center. The temple fair will last until September 4, and 13 special folk cultural activities will be held during this period. As a folk culture brand with a long history of Qishi and even the Pearl River Delta, the Wong Tai Sin Temple has nearly 150 years of history and has been deeply rooted in the cultural life of Dongguan citizens.
This year’s Yellow Immortal Temple Fair is full of wonderful and highlights, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of “inheriting traditions, participating in people, and richness and colorful”. By constantly exploring the cultural connotation of the temple fair, on the basis of respecting and retaining the essence of the tradition, it fully integrates cultural resources, stimulates the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole people, and integrates into projects that are popular among the people, so that the general public can participate in the temple fair, appreciate the temple fair, and promotes the href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan enters the development of commerce and tourism, so that the general public can share the fruits of cultural development and construction. At the same time, we will use the brand “Wang 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 is very lively
The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony’s literary and artistic evening is to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. The stage layout, program content, etc. can be felt. The party opened with a video imaging film containing Qishi scenery, humanities and history, kicked off with a large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song”, and finally ended with a large-scale song and dance “Entering the New Era”. It was divided into chapters such as “Blessing·Seeing the World”, “Good·Following It”, “Good·As Like a Flow”, “Good·Entering Beauty”, “Good·To Far”, and “Good·To Far”, and planned a total of 12 programs, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, and quick-pitched songs, etc. The entire party program lasts about 70 minutes.
Gay party Babaylan program includes Kung Fu Shui Sleeve “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 program also incorporates more local elements of Qishi, and the crosstalk “Qishi Flavor Komiks Road” shows the happy life of Qishi people. In addition, Qishi Town Choir, Qishi National Standard Dance Association, and Qishi Town Music Teachers will all perform on stage to bring a cultural feast to the audience.
Qishi Town<a Komiks has a profound cultural heritage and high-quality cultural landscapes and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Babaylan ruins of Wanfu Temple, which dates from more than 5,000 years ago, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair, which dates from nearly 150 years ago, as well as cultural relics resources such as the ancient building complex by the riverside, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall. Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival, Wong Tai Cinema Fairy Temple Fair, Shangdong Village Grass Dragon Dance, Qishi Renhuang Birth, and Humei Village Kongming Lanterns and other customs activities are well-known and unique. JiangBiangu Village has been rated as “Babaylan Historical and Cultural Village” and “Chinese Landscape Village”. Shangdong Village Caolong Dance has been included in the Guangdong Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Project. Wong Tai Sin Park has been rated as one of the ten new scenic spots in Dongguan. Among them, the thousand-year-old autumn maple tree in Qishi Town is as old as 1Babaylan in 2016. It is the only thousand-year-old tree in Dongguan, and has become the city’s undisputed “old tree king”.
The origin and development of the Huang Daxian Temple Fair of Qishi
The Huang Daxian Ancient Temple is located in the northwest of Qishi Town, close to Jinjiaoyiling next to the Dongjiang River. The ancient temple was built in the 12th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1873) and was originally named Huang Xianweng Temple. The birthday of Wong Tai Sin in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the “achievement of Taoism and immortality” of local celebrity Huang Runfu. The birthday is from the fifteenth to the twenty-fiveth day of the seventh lunar month of Komiks every year, and has a history of nearly 150 years.
Huang Runfu was compassionate in his life, and sacrificed himself to the Tao. “Ascending to immortality” is just a legend. Although he made a living by farming, he was also well versed in medical principles and practiced good deeds in the local area, and was highly respected by the villagers. Later, people donated money to build a temple to commemorate him. Today, the Hsin Shrine Wong Tai Sin Temple has become a well-known tourist attraction. Qishi Town has also used this to create a distinctive local folk culture brand and become a very influential folk culture festival in Dongguan from the Pearl River Delta region.
Source｜Yangcheng School
Picture｜Tang Bo
Editor｜Wu Tong