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 13 special folk cultural activities will be held during this period. As a traditional folk culture brand of Qishi Cinema and even the Pearl River Delta have a long history of traditional folk culture, 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 wonderful and highlights, reflecting distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, participating in the people, and rich and colorful”. 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 the temple fairs and appreciate the temple fairs, promotes the development of commerce and tourism, and allows the general public to share cultural development and build a result. 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”.
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The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony literary evening is to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. Stage layout, program content, etc. are all Cinema can feel the strong “Qishi flavor”. The party opens with a video imaging film containing Qishi scenery, humanities and history, and kicks off with a large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song”, and finally ends with a large-scale song and dance “Entering the New Era”. It is divided into chapters such as “Fu·Hua·Good·Follow”, “Good·Full Beauty”, and “Good·Full Far”, and 12 programs are planned, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, and quick-pitched. The entire evening program lasts about 70 minutes.
Gathering programs include Kung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New folk music performances “Miracle”, “Small Town Story”, and Classical Babaylan dances “Fairy Congratulations” and other things, and Cinema strives to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, the program also incorporates more local elements of Qishi, and Komiks‘s crosstalk “Qishi Taste” shows the happiness of Qishi people. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanFull Life. In addition, Qishi Town Choir, Qishi National Dance Association, and Qishi Town Music Teachers will perform on stage to bring a cultural feast to the audience.
Qishi Town has a profound cultural heritage and high-quality cultural landscape and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the ruins of WanfuKomiks‘s Beiqiu site, which has more than 5,000 years ago, the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair, which has 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 Tai Sin Temple Fair, and the grass dragon dance in Shangdong Village, the Emperor’s birthday of Qishi, and the Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village. The Ancient Village of JiangbianKomiks has been rated as “Guangdong Province’s historical and cultural village” and “Chinese Scenic Scenic Village”. Shangdong Village Grass Dragon Dance has been included in the Guangdong Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Project. Huang Daxian Park has been rated as one of the new ten 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.Become the “old tree king” in the city.
QiShiCinemaThe origin and development of the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair
The Huang Tai Sin Temple 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). It was originally named Huang Xian Weng Temple. The birthday of Huang Taixian in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the “achievement of Taoism and becoming an immortal” by the local celebrity Huang Runfu. The birthday period 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 Runfu is compassionate in his lifeKomiks, and sacrifices his body to the Tao. “Ascending to immortality” is just a legend. Although he made a living by farming, he was also well versed in medical theory and practiced medicine locally. He was highly respected by the villagers. Later, people donated money to build a temple in memory of him. Today, the Hsin Shrine Wong Tai Sin Temple has become a well-known tourist attraction. BabaylanQishi Town has also used this to create a distinctive local folk culture brand, becoming an influential folk culture festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
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Editor｜Wu Tong