On the banks of Nanhu Lake, Yuanshan Cultural Center complements the ecological beauty, improving the taste of the city and enriching the cultural life of citizens. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Zhangzhou's cultural undertakings have always adhered to the polic

On the banks of Nanhu Lake, Yuanshan Cultural Center complements the ecological beauty, improving the taste of the city and enriching the cultural life of citizens. Photo by our reporter You Feiyuan

The 40 years of reform and opening up have been 40 years of vigorous development of Chinese culture and 40 years of continuous growth of China's cultural industry. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Zhangzhou cultural undertakings have always adhered to the policy of serving the people, serving socialism and "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend". With the main line of laying a solid foundation, establishing an image and seeking development, we have clearly grasped the main context of Zhangzhou's cultural construction and Taking prosperity and development as the center, we proactively serve the economic and social development of Zhangzhou. The 40 years of cultural changes have their own unique development trajectory and distinctive historical stories, marking the timeline with thought-provoking marks.

Culture benefits the people and enriches the spiritual needs of the masses

When the first ray of sunshine in the morning wakes up Jiulong River Bank Xiangcheng Ancient city, at the north entrance of the ancient city of Zhangzhou, beside the south gate of Zhongshan Park , there are bursts of sound. To the cheerful sound of big drums and parasols, dancers dressed in yellow brocade clothes waved their umbrellas in rhythm with the rhythm, expressing their pursuit of a better life...

Virtue nourishes people's hearts and cultivates the world. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Zhangzhou’s cultural services to benefit the people have continued to deepen, the construction of cultural facilities has continued to advance, and cultural activities have been carried out in a variety of ways. Nowadays, when you travel through the streets and alleys, you can see various cultural and entertainment activities everywhere - in communities, squares, and parks, some men, women and children of all ages are doing fitness runs, some doing Tai Chi, and some doing square dancing; in theaters and cinemas Here, various cultural feasts take turns to present an audio-visual feast to the citizens; in libraries, museums, and art galleries, various calligraphy and painting exhibitions, photo exhibitions, cultural relics exhibitions, and publication achievement exhibitions are frequently held, which is a feast for the eyes; large-scale concerts , literary evenings, and drama performances are brilliant and wonderful; children's dance competitions, instrumental music competitions, and various activities such as music festivals, cultural tourism festivals, and community culture and arts festivals are diverse and emerge in endlessly.

In recent years, the city has regularly held special New Year dance performances, choral concerts and other cultural activities with the theme of "Reporting to the People", carried out "local opera into campus" charity performances, "sending warmth and love" to communities, military camps and other cultural activities Performance activities enrich the people's spiritual and cultural life, cultivate people's sentiments, enrich people's spiritual food, and establish a good image of Zhangzhou's cultural prosperity, economic development, and social progress.

According to statistics, Zhangzhou currently has 12 cultural centers (art halls), 11 museums (memorial halls), 11 libraries, 122 township comprehensive cultural stations, and 1,650 village cultural rooms. It has now reached every village and every village. , full coverage of farmhouse bookstores. This year, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government included the grassroots comprehensive cultural service center construction project as one of the "2018 Practical Projects for the People" and the "2018 'Three Grasps, Three Comparisons, and Ten Competitions' Projects", and plans to build 460 grassroots towns (sub-districts) ) and village (community) comprehensive cultural service centers. It is expected that within four years the city will achieve full coverage of the construction of comprehensive cultural service centers in towns (streets) and villages (communities).

Artistic innovation focuses on strengthening the production of high-quality products

In 2014, Xiang opera "Baby Care" won the "Five One Project Award" for the spiritual civilization construction of the Central Propaganda Department, filling the gap in Zhangzhou opera awards; in 2017, it was once again included in the National Art Awards Fund communication and promotion funding project; in 2018, the national tour kicked off. "Baby Baby Care" was born and raised in Zhangzhou. It has been polished and refined, and is famous throughout the country. This is just a microcosm of Zhangzhou's continuous promotion of characteristic cultural brand building.

Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Zhangzhou's stage art works have been created with rich content and diverse themes, and the quality and artistic level of the repertoire have been greatly improved. In order to showcase the city's cultural and artistic achievements from all aspects, angles and levels, our city has organized three Baihua Literary Awards in recent years. Each year, nearly 200 literary and artistic works win awards at the provincial level or above. Among them, the documentary "Green Youth" won the top ten documentary awards of the International Film Selection Festival, four programs of the Zhangzhou Puppet Theater won the Best Program Award of the First International Puppet Art Festival, and more than 20 works won the Fujian Provincial Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Award in the past two prize.In addition, our city has also launched a number of masterpieces such as the Xiang opera and reportage "Gu Wenchang", the book "Zhangtai Traditional Festival", the Xiang opera "Jianshi Ji", etc. Among them, the modern Xiang opera "Gu Wenchang" participated in the "Jinjing" "2018 New Year Opera Gala" was selected as the 2018 national stage art key creation repertoire and the key support repertoire for high-quality creation. By organizing and participating in various activities,

inspires greater creative enthusiasm among literary and artistic workers, promotes the city's literary and artistic creations to a new level, and gradually becomes a new business card for Zhangzhou's foreign cultural exchanges.

In order to encourage creation, the city regularly organizes various literary and artistic activities to stimulate the enthusiasm of many artists to participate and mobilize the creative passion of the majority of artists. In the past two years, our city has hosted hundreds of modern and contemporary calligraphy and painting exhibitions. Among them are the 4th National Young and Middle-aged Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Works Exhibition, the National Chinese Painting Famous Works Invitational Exhibition, "Cultural Zhangzhou·Moxiang Zhao'an" Chinese Painting Works Exhibition and other national events; there is also the "Rescue Project of Famous Fujian Calligraphy and Painting Masters" ——Exhibitions and seminars of calligraphy and painting works by Huang Daozhou, Shen Yaochu, and Shen Xichun; as well as "Flower Zhangzhou·Moxiang Ancient City-National Calligraphy Famous Works Exhibition", "The Return of the Ant King" Contemporary Art Exhibition, New Era and New Youth National 1970s Large-scale thematic calligraphy and painting exhibitions such as the Exhibition of Works by Representative Calligraphers, the Province’s First Youth Calligraphy Exhibition, the “One Belt and One Road” Human Civilization Lu Yushun Works Exhibition, and Zhuang Yucong’s Freehand Expression National Tour Exhibition (Zhangzhou Report Exhibition) have taken place at home and abroad. Widespread impact.

Focus on inheritance and sing the thousand-year Zhangfu culture

Step lightly on the stone road of the ancient city, with red bricks, arcades and swallow-tail ridges, as far as the eye can see, it is leisurely and quiet. Ancient architectural elements such as rouge bricks, bamboo pennies, and round ridges dot the traditional courtyards. The Jialan Temple, Fanzi Tower, and the old church record the cultural and historical imprint of the ancient city. As night falls, the goose-yellow lights embellish the tranquility here. The antique bricks and tiles contain the warmth of time, calm and warm.

Since 2014, in accordance with the mechanism of "government-led, municipal-level, urban-urban linkage, and social participation", we have continuously increased development and construction efforts. While restoring the ancient city buildings, we have paid more attention to the restoration of the ancient city culture and abandoned the "demolition of the old and construction of new ones". "The old city reconstruction model gradually promotes the dynamic protection project of Zhangzhou ancient city "repairing the old as before", and the new look of Zhangzhou ancient city is slowly presented to the citizens.

According to statistics, as of 2017, the city has a total of 4,731 cultural relics and 306 Taiwan-related cultural relics, both ranking among the top in the province. Among them, there are 1 world cultural heritage site, 23 sites and 34 sites that are national key cultural protection units, 115 sites at the provincial level, and more than 800 sites at the city and county level. Two heritage sites, including Hua'an Dongxi Kiln and Pinghe Nansheng Kiln, were included in the Maritime Silk Road World Heritage List. There are 13 state-owned museums and memorial halls in the city, with 29,845 state-owned cultural relics in collections, including 90 national first-class cultural relics, 313 second-class cultural relics, and 4,226 third-class cultural relics. In 2017, our city organized the application for the ninth batch of cultural protection units in Fujian Province, and 35 of them were selected.

In addition, Zhangzhou currently has 135 items included in the list of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at or above the municipal level, and 5 batches of 180 representative inheritors of "intangible cultural heritage" projects at the municipal level. Construction of an intangible cultural heritage street in the ancient city of Zhangzhou, the Municipal Library’s “Zhangzhou Traditional Recording Arts Thematic Hall”, the Zhangpu Paper-cutting Exhibition Hall and other 43 intangible cultural heritage exhibition and transmission places. Babao Printing Clay Factory, Pien Tze Huang Company, etc. have set up their own intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls. .

To measure the historical value of a city, in addition to immovable historical relics, the greater connotation may be reflected in the inheritance of traditional culture.

Brand Building Expanding Foreign Cultural Exchanges

Zhangzhou actively leverages its geographical advantages and builds a platform to help improve the quality and efficiency of the cultural industry. The form and content of external exchanges have been continuously expanded and deepened, a number of cultural and creative projects have been promoted at home and abroad, and non-governmental organizations have been vigorously promoted to establish cultural and creative product exchange and display platforms overseas. In April this year, the "Zhangzhou Cultural and Creative Kinmen Station" was officially opened in Kinmen. The first batch of Zhangzhou traditional cultural products such as Xu Zhuchu's puppet carvings and Zhangzhou Babao ink clay were exhibited and sold; in August this year, the "Kinmen Cultural and Creative Zhangzhou Station" Landing in the ancient city of Zhangzhou, the first batch of Kinmen specialty products on display include Kinmen pottery, wind lion ornaments and other Kinmen products.Zhangzhou and Kinmen have set up cultural and creative stations in each other, which is the first new model of cooperation and exchange between Zhangzhou and Taiwan's cultural industry.

In recent years, cultural exchanges between Zhangzhou and Taiwan have continued to expand, and there have been frequent interactions between the literary and artistic circles of the two places. Taking advantage of traditional festivals and unique folk festivals in Zhangzhou and Taiwan, we have continuously held events such as the Cross-Strait Kaizhang Shengwang Cultural Festival, Guandi Cultural Festival, Dongjin-Pengzhou Forum and other activities; among them, the Kaizhang Shengwang Cultural Festival and Guanzhou Shengwang Cultural Festival The Imperial Culture Festival has been listed as a key national exchange project with Taiwan by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. It organizes cross-strait Gezi Opera Art Festival, Puppet Art Festival, Lantern Riddle Art Festival, Lin Yutang International Academic Symposium and other activities, and organizes daffodil carving skills, Xiang opera, paper-cutting, martial arts and other groups to tour the island. In 2017, the Zhangzhou "intangible cultural heritage" cultural exchange group went to Taiwan to carry out exchange activities to further deepen the cultural and blood ties between the two sides. In August 2018, the "Fujian Cultural Treasure Island Tour - Fujian and Taiwan Intangible Cultural Heritage Exchange Event" was held. From Caotun Town, Nantou to Xichuan, Daqing, and Laixingli Activity Centers in Taichung, artists and intangible cultural heritage inheritors displayed their skills. Presenting wonderful performances to Taiwan compatriots. By using culture to promote exchanges, communication, and cooperation, we will greatly promote cross-Strait folk cultural exchanges.

In addition, the Zhangzhou cultural exchanges in southern Fujian, focusing on folk arts such as Xiang Opera (Gezai Opera), Jinge, Puppet Show, Nanyin, Chao Opera, paper-cutting and other foreign arts, have spread to more than 20 countries in four continents: Asia, Europe, the United States and Australia. countries and regions.

40 years have passed with the flick of a finger, and 40 years of cultural development have occurred. Nowadays, cultural builders are standing on a new starting line. In accordance with the development requirements of the Zhangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, they strive to serve social and economic construction, promote the development and prosperity of cultural undertakings in Zhangzhou City with solid work, and contribute to the construction of a "Fumei New Zhangzhou" strength.

⊙Our reporter Li Run