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 “Beautiful Qishi Good DeedsCinemaThe 2018 Enterprise BabaylanShi Town Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair 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 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 distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, participating in people, and rich and colorful Babaylan“. 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, and inspires the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole people, and integrates projects that the masses like, so that the city can be href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema people participate in temple fairs and appreciate temple fairs, promote the development of commerce and tourism, and allow the general public to 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 was very lively
The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony literary evening is the highlight of BabaylanQishi local characteristics. Stage layout and program content can be felt by the strong “Qishi flavor”. The party opened with a video imaging film containing Qishi’s scenery, humanities and history, and 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 “Blessing·Seeing the World”, “Good·Following it”, “Good·Future·Following it”, and “Good·Following itKomiks“, “Good·Fine Beauty”, “Good·Far Far”, etc., and planned 12 programs, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, and quick-talking. Komiks The entire evening program lasted about 70 minutes.
The evening program includes Kung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New Minmus performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story”, classical dance “Fairy Congratulations” and so on, striving to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, this evening program also incorporated more Qishi local Yuan. Komiks, the crosstalk “Qishi Taste” shows the happy life of the people of Qishi. 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 has a profound cultural heritage and high-quality cultural scenery. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiksview and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu Temple Hill ruins more than 5,000 years ago, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair that dates by 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 Maple Culture Festival and the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair. and customs and activities such as Shangdong Village, Babaylan, Qishi Renhuang Dancing, and Humei Village’s Kongming Lantern Collection are far and wide and unique. The ancient village of Jiangbian has been rated as “Guangdong Province’s 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 1016 years old and is the only thousand-year-old ancient tree in Dongguan, becoming 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. The birthday of Huang Taixian in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the “achievement of Taoism and immortality” of local celebrity Huang Runfu. The birthday period is from the fifteenth to the twenty-fiveth day of the seventh lunar month every year. It has a history of nearly 150 years.
Huang RunCinema 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. For example, Komiks Today, the Hsiung 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 an influential folk customs and cultural festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
Source｜Yangcheng School
Picture｜Tang Bo
Editor｜Wu Tong