The Huang Daxian 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 at Doing the World” Huang Daxian 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, 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 exciting KomiksCinema, with continuous highlights, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of “inheriting traditions, people’s participation, and richness”. By constantly exploring the cultural connotation of the temple fair, on the basis of respecting and retaining the essence of tradition, fully integrating cultural resources, inspiring the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity of the whole people, integrating projects that the masses like, and allowing the broader The big citizens of Babaylan participated in the temple meeting, appreciate the temple fair, promote the development of commerce and tourism, and let the general public 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 this time, the opening of CinemaThe highlight of the curtain ceremony 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, and 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 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 ShuishuiBabaylan‘s “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 program also incorporates a lot of local elements of Qishi from Komiks, and the crosstalk “The Taste of Qishi” shows the happy life of the Qishi people. In addition, the music teachers of Qishi Town Hall will perform on stage to bring a cultural feast to the audience.
KomiksQishi Town has a profound cultural heritage and 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, which is nearly 150 years ago, as well as the ancient building complex by the river, the Huang Family Ancestral Hall and other cultural relics resources. 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 “Babaylan Guangdong Province’s historical and cultural village” and “Chinese landscape village”. Shangdong VillageKomiksCrassic Dragon Dance has been included in the intangible cultural heritage project of Guangdong Province. Huang Daxian Park has been rated as one of the new ten 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 “old tree king” in the city.
The origin and development of the Huang Da Sin Temple Fair in Qishi
The Huang Da Sin Temple is located in the north of the west of Qishi Town, close to the Dongjiang River. On the Jinjiaoyi Ridge beside Komiks, the ancient temple was built in the 12th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1873) and was originally named Huang Xianweng Temple. The birthday of Qishi’s BabaylanWang Tai Sin is a festival for people to commemorate the local celebrity Huang Runfu’s “achievement of Taoism and becoming an immortal”. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan is from the fifteenth to the twenty-fiveth day of the seventh lunar month every year, and has a history of nearly 150 years.
Huang Runfu is compassionate and sacrifices his life to the Tao. “Ascending to immortality” is just a legend. Although he makes a living by farming, he is also familiar with medical principles, performs good deeds and practices in the local area, and is well received by the local village. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan people respected it. Later, people donated money to build a temple to commemorate him. Today, the Qishi Huang Daxian Temple has become a well-known tourist attraction. Qishi Town has also used it to create a distinctive local folk culture brand and become 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