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 at Doing 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 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 Yellow Fairy Temple Fair is full of wonderful and highlights. Babaylan is embodied in distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, people’s participation, and richness”. 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 vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole people, and integrates projects that the people 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 convenient humanistic environment for the construction of the “Eco-Cinema Town”.
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. The stage layout, program content, etc. can feel the strong “Qishi flavorCinema>”. The party opened with a video imaging film containing the scenery, humanities and history of Qishi. It kicked off with the large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song”. Komiks. Finally, it 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·Full Be Beautiful”, “Good·Full Be Good”, “Good·Full Be Good·Far Far”, and a total of 12 programs were planned, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, and quick-pitched. The entire party program lasted about 70 minutes.
Gay party program includes meritBabaylanThe Husband’s “Chasing”, the New Folk Music Performances “Miracle” “Cinema Small Town Story”, the classical dance “Fairy Congratulations Meeting”, etc., strive to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, the program of this evening also incorporates more local elements of Qishi, and the crosstalk “Qishi Taste” shows the happy life of Qishi people. In addition, Komiks, href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>BabaylanQishi 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 landscapes and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Won Fu An Beiqiu site, which is more than 5,000 years ago, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair, which is nearly 150 years ago, and href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksThe ancient building complex on the riverside, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall and other cultural relics resources. The Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival, the Huang Daxian Temple Fair, and the Caolong Dance of Shangdong Village, the Emperor’s Birth of Qishi, and the customs activities such as the release of Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village. The Ancient Village in Jiangbian was rated as a “famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province” and “Chinese landscape village”. The Caolong Dance of Shangdong Village was 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, with a tree age of up to 1016, 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. The birthday of Wong Tai Sin in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the local celebrity Huang Runfu’s “achieve enlightenment and become an immortal”. The birthday of Babaylan is from the 15th to the 20th day of the seventh lunar month every year, and has a history of nearly 150 years. Komiks
Huang Runfu was compassionate in his life and sacrificed his life 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 good deeds and medicine in the local area, and was highly respected by the villagers. Later, people donated money to build a temple to commemorate him. Today, the Chishu 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 culture festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
Source｜YangchengpaiBabaylan
Picture｜Tang Bo
Editor｜Wu Tong