The Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town has a history of 150 years
Text/Photo Yangcheng School reporter Tang Bo
On August 31, Komiks“Beautiful Qishi, Good Dealing the World”2Cinema 018 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 15 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 things, with continuous highlights, reflecting distinctive features such as “inheriting traditions, participating in people, and richness and colorfulness”. By constantly exploring the cultural connotation of temple fairs, 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 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 favorable humanistic environment for the construction of the “Ecological Industrial City”.
The temple fair was very lively
The organizer introduced that the highlight of this Komiks‘s opening ceremony was to highlight the local characteristics of Qishi. The strong “Qishi flavor” can be felt by the stage layout, program content, etc.. The party opened with a video imaging film containing Qishi’s scenery, humanities and history. It kicked off with the 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 “Fu·Hua·Hua·Good·Follow”, “Good·Like the flow”, “Good·Enjoy the beauty”, “CinemaGood·Home·So far”, and has planned 12 programs in total, including songs, CinemaDance, folk music performance, crosstalk, quick-pitched, etc. The entire evening party program lasts about 70 minutes.
The evening party programs include Kung Fu Shuixiu “Chasing”, New Folk Music Performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story”, classical dance “Fairy Congratulations”, etc., striving to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, this evening also incorporates more local elements of Qishi. The crosstalk “Qishi Taste” exhibits the happy life of the people of Qishi. In addition, Qishi Town Choir, Qishi National 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, with high-quality cultural landscapes and Babaylan cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wong Fu An Beiqiu site, which is more than 5,000 years ago, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair, which is nearly 150 years ago, as well as cultural relics resources such as the ancient building complex by the river, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall. The Millennium Autumn Maple Culture Festival, the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair, the Grass Dragon Dance in Shangdong Village, the Birth of the Emperor of Qishi, and the Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village are well-known and unique. The ancient village by Jiangbian has been rated as a “famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province” and “Chinese landscape village”. Shangdong Village Grass Dragon Dance is listed in the GuangzhouBabaylanEast Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Project. Huang Daxian Park has been rated as one of the ten new 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, and has become the city’s undisputed “old tree king”.
The Origin and Development of the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi
The Huang Tai Sin Temple is located in the northwest of Qishi Town, close to Jinjiaoyi Ridge 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 Huang Tai Sin Festival in Qishi is a festival for people to commemorate the local celebrity Huang Runfu’s “achieve the Tao and become an immortal”. The birthday period is from the 15th to the 25th of the seventh lunar month every year, and 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 familiar with medical principles and practiced medicine in the local area. Komiks is respected by villagers. Later, people donated money to build a temple to commemorate him. Today, the Kishi Wong Tai Sin Temple has become a famous tourist attraction. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan uses this to create a distinctive local folk culture brand and become an influential folk customs and culture festival in Dongguan and even the Pearl River Delta region.
Source｜Yangcheng School
Picture｜Tang Bo
Editor｜Wu Tong