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 brand of traditional folk culture with a long history of Qishi and even Cinema Zhuhai San Cinema, the 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 distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, participating in people, and richness and colorfulness”. By constantly exploring the cultural connotation of temple fairs, 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, we will use the brand of “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 was very lively
The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony literary evening is to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. Strong “stage arrangement, program content, etc. can be feltThe taste of Qishi”. The evening Babaylan will open with a video image film containing Qishi scenery, humanities and history, and will kick off with a large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song”, and finally end with a large-scale song and dance “Entering the New Era”. It is divided into chapters such as “Fu·Hui·Hui·Family”, “Good·Like the World”, “Komiks·Family”, “Good·Like the Flow”, “Good·Full Beauty”, and “Good·Full Far”, and a total of 12 programs were planned, including songs, dances, and folks. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema music performance, crosstalk, quick-paced, etc. The entire evening program lasts about 70 minutes.
Gather programs include BabaylanKung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New Folk Music Performances “Miracle” and “Small Town StoryCinemaCinema“, classical dance “Fairy Congratulations Meeting”, etc., strive 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” 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’s cultural heritage is deepBabaylan thick, with high-quality cultural landscapes and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu An Beiqiu site, which is more than 5,000 years ago, and the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair, which is nearly 150 years ago, as well as the ancient building complex of the riverside and the Huang Family Ancestral Hall and other cultural relics resources. The Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival, the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair, and the grass dragon dance in Shangdong Village, the Emperor’s birthday of Qishi Renhuang, and the Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village are well-known and unique. The Jiangbian Ancient Village has been rated as “Guangdong Province’s historical and cultural village” and “Chinese landscape village”. ShangdongKomiks Village grass dragon dance has been included in the Guangdong Province Intangible Cultural Heritage ProjectObjective. 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 101 years old. It is the only thousand-year-old tree in Dongguan and has become the city’s unforgettable “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. CinemaThe Wong Tai Sin birthday in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the local celebrity Huang Runfu’s “achievement of Taoism and becoming an immortal”. The birthday period is from the fifteenth to the twenty-fiveth day of the seventh lunar month every year, and it has a history of nearly 150 years.
Huang CinemaRunBabaylanFull in life, compassionately, sacrifice oneself to the Tao, “Salvation of the ImmortalsCinema” 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 in memory of him. Today, the Hsin Wong Tai Sin Temple has become a well-known tourist attraction in the near and near. Qishi Town has also used this to create a distinctive local folk culture brand, becoming an influential folk customs and cultural festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
Source｜Yangchengpai
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Editor｜Wu Tong