The Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town has a history of 150 years
Text/Picture Komiks Yangcheng School reporter Tang Bo
On August 31, the “CinemaBeautiful Qishi and Good Dealing the World” 2018 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 will hold 13 special folk cultural activities during this period. As a traditional folk culture brand with a long history of Qishi and even the Pearl River Delta, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair 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 richness and colorfulness”. By continuously exploring the cultural connotation of the temple fair, Babaylan, on the basis of respecting and retaining the essence of tradition, it fully integrates cultural resources, inspires 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 fair and enjoy 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. Cinema Stage layout, program content, etc. can feel the strong “Qishi”The party opened with a video containing the scenery, humanities and history of Qishi. It kicked off with the large-scale song and dance “Babaylan Beautiful Song”, and finally 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·From the Flow”, “Good·Full Beauty”, and “Good·From the Far”, and planned a total of 12 programs, including songs href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan songs, dances, folk music performances, crosstalk, quick-pitched, etc. The entire evening program lasts about 70 minutes.
Gathering programs include Kung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New Folk Music Performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story Cinema“, classical dance “Fairy Congratulations”, etc., striving to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. Babaylan At the same time, this evening program also incorporates more local elements of Qishi, and is similar to href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>CinemaSound “Qishi Taste” shows the happy life of the people of Qishi. KomiksIn 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 landscape and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfuan Beiqiu site, which has been more than 5,000 years ago, and is nearly 150 years ago. The Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair in Babaylan, 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 Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair, and the customs and activities such as the grass dragon dance in Shangdong, the birth of the Qishi Renhuang, and the release of the Kongming Lantern in Humei Village are well-known and unique. The Ancient Riverside Village is rated as a “famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province” and “China Landscape Village”. The grass dragon dance in Shangdong Village is 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 Taishen Temple Fair of Qishi
The Huang Taishen 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 (18Komiks 73), and was originally named Huang Xianweng TempleCinema. The birthday of Huang Babaylan of Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the “achievement of Taoism and becoming an immortal”. 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. Cinema
Huang Runfu is kind and sacrificing himself 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 in memory of him. Today, the Kishi 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, and Babaylan has become an influential folk customs and cultural festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
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Editor｜Wu Tong