China News Service, Changsha, September 26 (Tan Fang) During this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, a series of themed activities “Star City Timing and Intangible Cultural Heritage - Our Festival·Mid-Autumn Festival” were held at the Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum. Gentle operas, elegant folk music, and lively markets come together, allowing citizens and tourists to immersively encounter the beauty of intangible cultural heritage, and in the poetic atmosphere of fireworks, celebrate the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival with long meaning.
Sugar painting. Photo provided by the organizer
The event was filled with elegant music and the atmosphere was warm. Cao Rulong, a representative inheritor of national-level Hunan opera, took the stage to perform the ancient poem "Shui Tiao Song Tou" of Hunan opera music. His mellow and steady singing voice was melodious and melodious, deeply blending the poetry of the Mid-Autumn moonlight with the context of Hunan opera. His every move showed the quintessence of China, allowing the audience to intuitively feel the unique charm of Hunan opera art.
At the same time, the interpreters of the Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Center recited local classic nursery rhymes with gentle words and full of warmth; the bamboo flute, erhu, pipa, sheng and other traditional musical instruments were performed in turn. The melodious national style and folk music lingered in the courtyard, adding full of poetry and warmth to the autumn Mid-Autumn Festival in Star City.
Traditional musical instrument performance. Photo provided by the organizer
"I used to feel that traditional opera was far away from daily life. Only after listening to it on the spot can I truly feel the elegant charm of Hunan opera. Watching operas and learning poetry is the most authentic appearance of traditional festivals." Ms. Liu, a citizen who participated in the event with her children, said with emotion that the immersive intangible cultural heritage experience made traditional festival culture perceptible, visible and touchable.
Outside the venue, the "Moon Full Intangible Cultural Heritage·Tiangong Kaiwu" Moonlight Intangible Cultural Heritage Market opened in full swing, with fireworks and a sense of literature and art complementing each other. Special intangible cultural heritage techniques such as sugar painting, filigree glaze, Weishan traditional incense making, and handmade crochet were all on display, and local intangible cultural heritage mooncake brands made a stunning debut. An interactive session on Mid-Autumn poetry is set up on site. Citizens and tourists actively recite Mid-Autumn poetry through the ages. By participating in the activity, you can receive unique intangible cultural and creative gifts such as palm leaf bookmarks. The night tour intangible cultural heritage experience that is launched simultaneously uses light and shadow to empower traditional culture, allowing the public to explore the wisdom of traditional creation in the night light and unlock a unique Mid-Autumn Festival elegance.
The teaching center on the second floor of the museum has a strong experiential atmosphere, and the hand-crafted teaching experience of Hunan embroidery and filigree glaze is carried out in an orderly manner. Representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage gave on-site hands-on teaching, guiding citizens and tourists to make exclusive Mid-Autumn Festival handkerchiefs such as jade rabbit handkerchiefs and glaze pendants. Everyone calmly experienced traditional craftsmanship, felt the warmth of intangible cultural heritage in the slow time of stitch by stitch, carving by carving, immersed in traditional folk customs, and spent the elegant and healing Mid-Autumn Festival.
Intangible cultural heritage handiwork. Photo provided by the organizer
It is understood that during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, intangible cultural heritage activities across Changsha are staged in turn and are constantly exciting. From the 25th to the 27th, the Changsha Drama Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Center held two special performances of Hunan Opera every day. Professional actors on-site popularized the development history of Hunan Opera, traditional percussion and opera music theory, and performed classic Changsha shadow puppet shows simultaneously at night. Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum Zhuangyuan Po Haiyan Branch also continues to launch special activities such as shadow puppet performances and Chinese tea art classes.
This Mid-Autumn Festival intangible cultural heritage series of activities covers multiple scenes in venues, business districts, communities, campuses, and temple fairs. Folk music performances, Changsha Tanci, shadow puppet shows, Hunan opera performances, intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, theme markets, and other diverse business formats are launched in turn. The event combines the poetry of the Mid-Autumn Moonlight, the cultural context of thousands of years of craftsmanship, and the warmth of family reunion, allowing traditional festivals to return to their cultural authenticity, and allowing Hunan’s intangible cultural heritage to glow with new vitality amidst the fireworks of the new era. (over)
