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, the 2018 “Beautiful Qishi and Good Dealing the World” Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair in Qishi Town grandly opened at the town’s cultural center. The temple Babaylan will last until September 4, and 13 special folk culture activities will be held during this period. As a traditional folk cultural brand with a long history of Qishi and even the Pearl River Delta, the Yellow Fairy 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 cultural innovation and creativity of the whole people, and integrates projects that the masses like, so that the general public can participate in and appreciate the temple fair, and promotes the development of Komiks to promote the development of Cinema, and allows the general public to share the fruits of cultural development and construction. At the same time, we will use the brand “Wang Tai SinKomiks 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,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 opened with a video image of Qishi’s scenery, humanities and history. Komiks 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 “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, dance, folk music performance, crosstalk, and quick-pitched performances. The entire evening party program lasts about Babaylan70Komiks minutes.
The evening party programs include Kung Fu CinemaShuixiu “Chasing”, New Folk Music Performances “Miracle” and “Small Town Story”, Babaylan‘s classical dance “Fairy Congratulations”, etc., striving to present the audience with a beautiful and gorgeous audio-visual feast. At the same time, the Babaylan 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, Qishi Guo 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 a high-quality cultural landscape and cultural heritage. It mainly includes: the Wanfu Temple Beiqiu site that is more than 5,000 years ago, the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair that 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 Cinema Stone Emperor’s Birth, and the Kongming Lanterns in Humei Village are well-known and unique. Ancient riversideThe village was rated as a “famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province” and “Chinese landscape villageKomiks“. 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 thousand-year-old autumn maple tree in Qishi Town is 101 years old. It is the only thousand-year-old ancient tree in Dongguan and has become the city’s unforgettable “old tree king”.
The origin and development of the Huang Tai Sin Temple Fair of Qishi
The Huang Tai Sin Temple Ancient Temple is located in the northwest of Qishi Town, close to Jinjiaozhiling 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 Xian Weng Temple. KomiksThe Wong Tai Sin birthday 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. 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 was highly respected by the villagers. Later, people donated money to build a temple to commemorate him. Today, the BabaylanShi 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.
Source|Yangcheng School
Picture|Tang Bo
Editor|Wu Tong