On December 28, the "8th Beijing Characteristics Week and the 2018 Temple of Earth Cultural Temple Fair·Kaohsiung Tour" officially kicked off. The reporter saw at the Banana Pier restaurant in Kaohsiung City that the entire square was decorated with auspicious and festive red booths to give a strong New Year flavor. The traditional cultural performances of old Beijing, the display of intangible cultural heritage inheritors' craftsmanship, and the Beijing-style snacks of Ditan Temple Fair attracted many citizens and tourists to stop and experience it. The charm of Chinese traditional culture bloomed with the splendor of the times!
The reporter deeply felt at the event site The organizer has carefully designed the event content, and the entire venue is divided into five major sections: "Ditan Cultural Temple Fair Snack Street", "Intangible Heritage and Folk Craft Exhibition", "Cultural Performance", "Interactive Teaching of Craft Production" and "Charming Dongcheng Photo Exhibition" , more than 40 projects that are quite representative of traditional culture are brilliant, and every stall is crowded and lively.
The intangible cultural heritage exhibition area has carefully arranged more than 20 intangible cultural heritage, folk customs and Chinese time-honored projects including enamel, palm painting, Beijing embroidery , and Wu Yutai. In front of the enamel booth, the beautiful cloisonné enamel and painted enamel made the audience express their admiration for ancient traditional crafts. In front of Wu Yutai's booth, tea masters brewed cups of fragrant tea elegantly and skillfully. The aroma of tea was overflowing, and citizens sat around to taste it and praised it endlessly.
For this performance, the organizer also carefully prepared a cultural feast to entertain the citizens of Kaohsiung. During the event, traditional cultural performances such as Peking Opera, magic, acrobatics, Beijing Hu, cross talk, Beijing Yun Dagu, etc. will be performed twice a day, each performance lasting 60 minutes. At the scene, a young lady said that she liked Peking opera and cross talk folk art programs very much. She was very happy to experience the unique Beijing culture so close to home.
The traditional snack street of the Ditan Temple Fair has also been moved to Kaohsiung in its original style this time, all in one place Shaomai, Gongdelin's steamed buns, Tianxingju's fried liver, Jinfang snacks's More than a dozen kinds of traditional snacks such as Aiwowo are the most flavorful gadgets for the New Year. Although it is not the twelfth lunar month of winter, the crowded snack street really has the atmosphere of crowding around and having fun at the Temple of Earth Temple Fair during the Chinese New Year!
Interactive teaching on craft production and the charming Dongcheng photo exhibition also attracted a large number of citizens to stop and watch. Many craft masters and inheritors of intangible cultural heritage carefully produced handicrafts such as paper-cutting, -faced , knitting, calligraphy, dragon and phoenix calligraphy and painting, hairy monkeys, and silk flowers on site. In front of a booth with the fragrance of paper ink, Professor Liao Yiming, dean of the Kaohsiung University School of Law, exchanged insights into calligraphy with teacher Chen Guohua , a master of calligraphy. When they met and talked about speculation, the two smiled knowingly and gave each other calligraphy treasures. Dean Liao wrote "State-owned Minghua" as a gift, and Teacher Chen returned the gift with the word "love".
In front of the booth of Longfeng calligraphy and painting, an octogenarian old man told reporters: "I am from Beijing and came to Taiwan in 1937. I heard that Kaohsiung was going to hold the Temple of Earth Temple Fair two days ago, so I took a four-hour bus trip to see it. I am very happy today to see the temple fair I visited when I was a child. "
The booth of Peng Xiaoping, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage Noodles, was surrounded by children and parents. The children jumped and cheered when they saw him making vivid little figures. A little boy got the colorful noodle and jumped up happily: "This is my New Year's gift!" There were also citizens holding silk flowers and paper-cuts with the word "Fu" in front of the charming Dongcheng picture display board, together with the majestic Forbidden City and the solemn Take a group photo of the Temple of Heaven and the exquisite small courtyard.
"The 8th Beijing Characteristics Week and the 2018 Temple of Earth Cultural Temple Fair·Kaohsiung Tour" is hosted by Beijing Oriental Cinda Asset Management Corporation and organized by Beijing Oriental Miaohui International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. and the China Cross-Strait Enterprise Exchange Association. This temple fair will last until January 1, 2019.
