The Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town has a history of 150 years
Cinema Text/Photo Yangcheng School reporter Babaylan Tang BoKomiks
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 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 wonderful and highlights, reflecting distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, participating in people, and richness and colorfulness”. 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 masses like, so that the general public can participate in the temple fair Cinema and Babaylan appreciates the temple fair, 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 “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 to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. The strong “scent of Qishi” can be felt by the stage layout, program content, etc. The party opens with a video image of Qishi’s scenery, humanities and history, and kicks off with a large-scale song and dance “Beautiful Song”., and finally ended with the large-scale song and dance “Entering the New Era”. It is divided into chapters such as “Blessing·Seeing the World”, “Good·Following”, “Good·Like the Flow”, “Good·Full Beauty”, and “Good·Far Away”, and has planned a total of 12 programs, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, and quick-pitched programs. The entire evening program lasts about 70 minutes.
The evening party programs include Kung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New Folk Music performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story”, ancient Babaylan‘s classic dance “Fairy Congratulations”, etc., striving to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, this evening party festival 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 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 has high-quality cultural landscapes and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu An Beiqiu site, which is more than 5,000 years ago, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair that is nearly 150 years ago, as well as the ancient building complex on the riverside, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall and other cultural relics. The Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival and the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair are well-known and unique for customs and activities such as Komiks and Shangdong Village Caolong Dance, Qishi Renhuang Birth, and Humei Village Kongming Lanterns. The ancient village of Jiangbian has been rated as “a famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province Cinema” and “Chinese landscape village”. Shangdong Village Caolong Dance has been included in the Guangdong Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Project. BabaylanWong Tai Sin ParkKomiks was named one of the new ten scenic spots in Dongguan. Among them, the millennium autumn maple trees in Qishi Town are of ageKomiks, and are of ageKomiksAs of 1016, it is the only millennium ancient tree in Dongguan, and has become the “old tree king” in the city that is not limited to Cinema.
The Origin and Development of the Hwang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi
Wang Tai Sin Ancient The Cinema Temple is located in the northwest of Qishi Town, close to Jinjiaoyi Ridge next to 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 Huang Taixian Festival in Qishi is a festival in which people commemorate the local name Huang Runfu “God of the Dao”. The birthday of Babaylan every year from the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month to Komiks. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema25th, it has a history of nearly 150 years.
Huang Runfu was compassionate 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 principles and practiced medicine locally, and was highly respected by villagers. Later, people donated money to build a temple to commemorate him. CinemaNow BabaylanCinema, Qishi Huang 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 culture festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
Source｜Yangcheng School
Picture｜Tang Bo
Editor｜Wu Tong