The 15th event of the "Village Night" series in Paitan Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City went to Zhangdongkeng Village.
The 15th show of the "Village Night" series in Paitan Town enters the opening scene of the Pixiu Dance in Zhangdongkeng Village.
During the Laba Festival before the arrival of the Year of the Dragon, as night fell on January 18, the 15th show of the series of "Village Nights" in Paitan Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou entered Zhangdongkeng Village, and a red cultural tourism "drama" was staged in the old revolutionary area. . The Pixiu team and village sages of Zhangdongkeng Village started the dance with a lively performance. Among the gong and drum masters of the Pixiu team was Qiu Qiu, a veteran of the Jiangbei detachment of the Guangdong People's Liberation Army and the former director of the Standing Committee of the Zengcheng People's Congress. Subsequently, exciting programs such as hard qigong, Hakka folk songs, and creative dances were performed in turn. At the "Village Night" in Zhangdongkeng Village, the "One Porridge, One Fun" public welfare activity was also launched. Using porridge as a matchmaker, a spiritual bridge was built to communicate with the elderly and children in the countryside. Small projects gathered the hearts of the people.
Paitan Town has widely promoted the "One Porridge, One Fun" public welfare activity.
At the "Village Evening" in Zhangdongkeng Village, fish lanterns with local characteristics are displayed.
As early as 2013, Xiao Gang, one of the top ten good people in Guangdong, initiated an activity of cooking filial porridge for the elderly every Sunday at the Xiaoxin Hall in Gaopu Village, and it continues to this day. Several young volunteers in Zhangdongkeng Village organized the first "One Porridge, One Fun" activity in June 2022 and formed a system. In order to lead the whole society to form a good trend of advocating virtue and doing good, Paitan Town has widely promoted the "One Porridge, One Fun" public welfare activity, and charity donation channels have been set up in 38 villages in the town.
Paitan's "Village Evening" program that day included the dance "One Porridge and One Music" presented by teachers and students of the village kindergarten. The Hakka folk song "Happy to See Zhangdongkeng Today" uses seven words in popular and lively Hakka dialect to let people feel the rapid changes and development of Zhangdongkeng Village. Dongkeng Village is a professional lychee village. The Gui-flavored lychees here are Guangdong provincial-level "one village, one product" and are widely sought after. Zhangdongkeng Village also took the lead in "testing the waters" on "art + countryside". In June 2023, it successfully held the first Lychee Cultural Festival and the International Art Village Project Signing Ceremony, creating a collection of artistic creation, exchange exhibitions, writing collections, nature education, An international art village integrating health, leisure and outdoor hiking.
At night in the village, the village girl danced a fitness square dance.
The villagers enjoyed their "village evening" with enthusiasm.
Children from Qijing Primary School in Zhangdongkeng Village performed the dance "Fish Lantern" adapted from the district-level intangible cultural heritage dance lantern; students from Guangzhou City Vocational College performed the song and dance "Love Each Other"; the local band-Lizhi He brought red rock, and the final climax of the party was "My Hometown Paitan" performed live by the Li Zhi He Band. Amidst the singing and brilliant fireworks, the audience was still full of expectations. That night, in addition to the villagers of Zhangdong Village, there were also representatives from all walks of life from the city and district watching the party. Representatives of writers and scholars from the Guangdong Prose Poetry Society and the Guangdong Modern Writers Research Association also observed and investigated the "Village Night" in Zhangdong Village.
Hakka folk song "I like to see today's Zhangdong Pit".
Watch the crowds at the village party.
It is reported that Paitan Town, Zengcheng District, will be launched in mid-August 2023 in order to promote the implementation of the high-quality development project of hundreds of counties, thousands of towns and thousands of villages in Guangdong Province, actively explore the development path of cultural industries empowering rural revitalization, and promote the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism. The "Village Evening" series of cultural activities has quickly "out of the circle". Since the event was held, it has received more than 150 million online and offline views, bringing in 2 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 80%. Paitan Town was named a National Rural Governance Demonstration Town in 2023, and Jiupi Village in Paitan Town was named a Beautiful Leisure Village in China in 2023. Paitan's "Village Evening" turns "sending culture to the countryside" into "educating culture in the countryside", using culture as the fulcrum to leverage the "big lever" of rural revitalization, and using "small activities" to activate the "big value" of the countryside, becoming a grassroots implementation The vivid practice of “Hundreds and Thousands of Projects”.
In order to run the "Village Evening" well, Paitan Town formulated the "Overall Plan for the Cultural Activities of Paitan Town "I Want to Go to the Village Evening"" and organized town cadres and other representatives to go to Guizhou, Zhejiang and other places to learn about "Village Super" and "Village Evening" ba" "Cultural Tourism +" experience and practice. 38 villages (communities) have closely focused on the overall plan of the "Village Gala" activities and formulated special work plans according to local conditions, striving to create village evenings in every village, each with its own highlights.
Interactive session at Paitan Village Evening.
The famous internet celebrity "Brother Xiao Yu" from Zhangdongkeng Village also appeared in the village evening and made a charity donation.
In order to successfully host the Spring Festival Gala, Paitan Town has continuously strengthened its volunteer service force and expanded its volunteer service team. A total of 2,400 volunteers, including villagers, returnees, school teachers, students and even tourists, have been mobilized to participate in all aspects of the "Village Gala". The government sets up the stage and the masses sing. Paitan "Village Evening" insists on taking villagers as the protagonists of the activities, giving full play to the initiative spirit of the masses, and using farmers as the main body of expression. The "Village Gala" grand stage has openly accepted applications from various performing arts talents in society.
Many of the programs of Paitan's "Village Evening" are written, directed and performed by the villagers. They organize village rules and regulations, good folk customs and other contents into songs and sketches, which are rich in local characteristics and good life atmosphere, and are widely welcomed. For example, the teacher of Paitan No. 2 Middle School organized a band to play and sing "I am a Hakka", the villagers of Mishi Village square dance performance "On the Field of Hope", the Hakka sketch "Take Care of It", and the Hakka folk song "Xikan" dedicated to Zhangdongkeng Village. Today's Zhangdong Village" and so on. As for the unique performances of the inheritors of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Wu Pixiu, town and village cadres composed the "Village Evening" theme song "My Township Paitan", the anti-drug theme song "Light of Life", Beiying Village "Drunken Beauty Beiying", Gao Tan Village's "Welcome to Gaotan", Hakka folk song stage drama "Jiasongling Village is a Good Place", etc., carry the villagers' beautiful vision of their hometown, enhance the villagers' collective memory, and realize the educational function of the "village evening" and cultural values.
Today, Paitan’s “Village Evening” series of cultural activities has become a “traffic portal” for the integration of local agriculture, culture and tourism. The "Village Evening" activities deeply explore the cultural resources, characteristic agricultural products, and highlight industries of each village, and promote the development of local industries, especially cultural tourism, wherever they go. "Village Evening" has not only become a testimony of Paitan people's pursuit of a better life, but has also become an important label for Paitan to build an eco-tourism town with Lingnan characteristics. (Text/Weitang Photo/Paitan Village Evening)
