Colorful “village evening” with folk performances from all over the region to welcome the New Year
On February 6, a large lawn in Hongqi Lake Community, Qiaoli Township, Mashan County, Nanning City was bustling with activity. The branches were covered with festive red lanterns, and the bustling crowd was busy with a large stage as the center. Some were setting up the venue, some were preparing stalls, and some were rehearsing programs for the “Community Village” to be held the next day. “Late'” preparations. Amidst the continuous rumbling sound of Mashan Huigu, the joyful New Year flavor rushes towards our faces.
The theme of this 2024 Hongqi Lake Community “Village Gala” is “Spring Arrives in Hongqi Lake·Happiness Loulangluo”, which is full of rich national cultural customs. Huang Hong, chief director of the “Village Gala”, said that the entire cultural event was combined with the traditional folk custom of the Zhuang people’s “Duoguo” feast to create a joyful and festive New Year’s song fair. From welcoming ceremonies such as welcoming tea, blessing wine, filling skewers with meat, and bamboo pole dancing, to the Zhuang drums, Mashan ancient Zhuang boxing, Mashan folk songs, and modern songs and dances all rehearsed independently by the villagers on the stage, they concentratedly demonstrated the ” The Guangxi folk customs from “Subject One” to “Subject Three” are “a very down-to-earth ‘village show'”.
Villager Lu Xiangling, who was rehearsing the program at the scene, told reporters that everyone was very enthusiastic about participating in the “Village Gala”. “I have two programs, one is to sing folk songs, and the other is to dance ‘Subject Three’ to participate in the ‘Village Gala'” It enriches the cultural life of the Spring Festival and promotes the unity of the villagers. Everyone is very happy!”
On the eve of the Spring Festival, “village evenings” bloomed all over the region, and they continued to stand out. The “cultural fusion” of tradition and modernity, folk customs and locality showed the unique rural Spring Festival folk customs. On February 1, a “village evening” rich in Yao cultural characteristics was staged in Dishui Village, Changdong Township, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County; on the same day, Xinjian Village, Pohong Town, Tianyang District, Baise City held a “Song of the Earth” to welcome the New Year and celebrate the harvest. “Village Gala” with the theme of “Harvest Harvest Year”; on February 3, the main venue event of the 2024 National Spring Festival “Village Gala” and “Spring Comes to Ten Thousand Households” mass culture was held at the Bazhai Scenic Area in Chengyang, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County… The “Village Evening” brings together the “fireworks” of the rural New Year and presents a colorful Spring Festival cultural “Hundred Family Banquet” to the masses. It not only enriches the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers but also leverages folk culture as the fulcrum. Cultural tourism resources enhance the appeal of local cultural tourism.
(Reporter Sun Pengyuan, Correspondent Zhang Youyu and Ren Hongwei)