The Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town has a history of 150 years
TextKomiks/Photo Yangcheng School JournalBabaylan Tang Bo
On August 31, the “BeautifulKomiksQishi Town Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town was grandly opened at the town’s cultural center. The temple fair will last until September 4, during which Babaylan will hold 13 special folk cultural activities. As a traditional folk brand with a long history of Qishi and even the Pearl River Delta, 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 wonderful and highlights, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of “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, inspires the vitality of the nation’s cultural innovation and creation, and integrates into the popular news of the people. The projects that Komiks are welcome to allow citizens to participate in temple fairs and appreciate temple fairs, promote the development of commerce and tourism, and allow citizens to share the achievements of cultural development and construction. At the same time, we will use the brand of “Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair” to promote the improvement of urban quality, promote the construction of the spiritual culture of Cinema, and create a more favorable humanistic environment for the construction of “ecological industrial towns”.
The temple fair is now lively at Cinema. The organizer introduced that the highlight of this opening ceremony literary evening party is the highlight of the local characteristics of Komiks showing Qishi. Stage layout, program content, etc. The strong “Qishi flavor” can be felt. The party opened with a video imaging film containing Qishi scenery, humanities and history, 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 “Fu·Zeshi”, “GoodKomiks·Follow it”, “Good·Liu”Cinema“Cinema“Cinema“Cinema“Cinema“Cinema” href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksGood·Fine Beauty” and “Good·Far Far” are planned in total, including songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, quick-pitched, etc. The entire evening program lasts about 70 minutes.
Gathering programs include Kung Fu Shui Sleeve “Chasing”, New Minmus Performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story”, classical dance “Fairy Congratulations Meeting”, etc., striving 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 and Qishi GuoBabaylanBall Dance Association and Qishi Town Music Teachers will perform on stage to bring the audience a cultural feast.
Qishi Town has a profound cultural heritage and high-quality cultural landscapes and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu Temple Hill ruins that are more than 5,000 years ago, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair that is nearly 150 years ago, as well as cultural relics resources such as the ancient building complex by the riverside, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall. The Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival and the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair are CinEma and customs and activities such as Shangdong Village Grass Dragon Dance, Qishi Renhuang Birth, and Humei Village Kongming Lanterns are well-known and unique. The ancient village of Jiangbian has been rated as “Komiks, a famous historical and cultural village” and “Chinese landscape village” in Guangdong Province. 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 millennium autumn maple tree in Qishi Town is 1016 years old and is the only millennium 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 Daxian Weng 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 is from July 15th to 25th, and has a history of nearly 150 years.
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 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. Today, the Hsin Shrine Wong 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.
BabaylanSource｜Yangchengpai
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Editor｜Wu Tong