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 the 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 full of exciting and highlights, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of “Komiks inheriting tradition, public participation, and richness”. By constantly exploring the cultural connotation of the temple fair, we respect the spirit of tradition and retain the spirit of tradition in Cinema. On the basis of Babaylan, fully integrate cultural resources, stimulate the vitality of innovation and creativity of the whole people, integrate projects that the masses like, allow the general public to participate in temple fairs and appreciate temple fairs, and promote the development of commerce and tourism in Komiks, so that the general public can share the achievements of cultural development and construction. At the same time, we will use the brand “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 is lively
The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony literary evening party is to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. The stage layout and program content can all feel the strong “Qishi flavor”. The evening party is opened with a video image containing Qishi scenery, humanities, and Babaylan history. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks kicked off with the large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song” and finally ended with the large-scale song and dance “Entering the New Era”. It was divided into chapters such as “Blessing·Seeing the World”, “Good·Following It”, “Good·Like the Flow”, “Good·Full Beauty”, and “Good·Full Good·Far Far”, and 12 programs were planned, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, and quick-paced. The entire BabaylanTaiwan evening program lasted about 70 minutes.
The evening program included Kung Fu Shui Sleeve “BabaylanChasing”, 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 Taste” exhibition CinemaCinemaCinema href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanThe happy life of the 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 heritageBabaylan, with high-quality cultural landscapes and cultureKomiks‘s heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu An Beiqiu site, which is more than 5,000 years ago, the Huang Daxian Temple Fair, which is nearly 150 years ago, as well as cultural relics resources such as the ancient building complex on the riverside, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall. The Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival, the Huang Daxian Temple Fair, and the customs and activities such as the Caolong Dance of Shangdong Village, the Emperor’s Birth of Qishi, and the Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village are well-known and unique. The Ancient Riverside Village is rated as a “famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province” and “Chinese landscape village”. The Caolong Dance of Shangdong Village is included in the intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Province BabaylanProduct Project. BabaylanWong Tai Sin Park was rated as one of the new ten scenic spots in Dongguan. Among them, the thousand-year-old autumn maple tree in Qishi Town is 1016 years old and is the only thousand-year-old ancient tree in Dongguan, becoming the city’s unforgettable “old tree king”.
The origin of the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Cinema
The Huang Tai Sin Temple Ancient Temple is located in the northwest of Qishi Komiks Town, close to Jinjiaoyi Ridge next to the Dongjiang River. The ancient temple was built in Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks 12th year (1873), it was originally named Huangxian Weng Temple. The birthday of Wong Tai Sin in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the “realization of enlightenment and immortality” of local celebrity Huang Runfu. The birthday is from the fifteenth to the twenty-fiveth day of the seventh lunar month every year, and has a history of nearly 150 years.
Huang RunKomiks has a compassionate life and sacrifices oneself 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, becoming a folk customs and cultural festival that has a strong influence in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
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Picture｜Tang Bo
Editor｜Wu Tong