Why do young people go to temples for festivals? The Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Festival allows traditional culture to be felt, played, and appreciated activities | Poetry Festival | Culture
As the saying goes in ancient poetry, "Who was born during the Dragon Boat Festival? It is rumored throughout history that Qu Yuan.". The Dragon Boat Festival has a deep connection with the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. The ancients often recited poems during the festival, expressing their beautiful wishes and patriotism. This year's Dragon Boat Festival, the first Juegun Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Festival was held at the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai. The theme of the festival was "Clear and harmonious times, Ode to the Dragon Boat Festival", integrating poetry creation and learning with traditional cultural experience appreciation. The festival attracted many young people to participate.
On the day of the Poetry Festival, the Jade Buddha Temple transformed into an immersive traditional cultural experience park in modern cities, attracting a plethora of visitors and creating a lively atmosphere. Many Hanfu enthusiasts come specially dressed in ancient costumes, taking photos and enjoying the garden for summer. For a time, the traditional costumes of various periods gathered together, and together with the cornice arch of wooden architecture painted a beautiful landscape.
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The Poetry Concert is the opening highlight of the Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Festival. Poetry enthusiasts and performance groups from all districts of the city step on stage one by one, dressed in traditional costumes, reciting famous poems such as "The Book of Songs - Deer Song", "Nine Songs - Cloud King", "Going to Wine", and "Pipa Tour" with classical rhythms, classical dances, and ethnic instruments such as guzheng and yuqin.
As the concert progressed, the poetry market on the square also gradually entered a beautiful scene. The poetry arena was the first to attract the attention of tourists, with hundreds of poetry question and answer questions displayed in front of them. Participants showcased their accumulation of poetry, constantly challenging advanced problems, and winning waves of applause. The Couplet Hall is hosted by experts from the Municipal Couplet Association, who evaluate whether the couplets produced by participants are correct, and conduct on-site teaching, answering questions and difficulties.
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Calligraphy is an important component of traditional culture, and poetry is even more beloved by writers. Several calligraphers and skilled monks from the Jade Buddha Temple inscribed fans on site for tourists. Tourists lined up in front of stalls with poetry in their pens, some even ordering takeout to deliver fans. The calligrapher was infected by the atmosphere on site, took turns to take action, and delivered thousands of works. Even more tourists are full of interest, writing and painting fan faces themselves, hanging at a high place for display.
Long queues form in the front row of traditional cultural experience areas, and under the guidance of professionals, citizens and tourists learn to make colorful longevity bracelets and Dragon Boat Festival Five Blessings sachets; Experience woodblock printing and personally print a poem for yourself; Or, in addition to appreciating and learning tea art, taste a cup of new tea to experience and participate in traditional festivals. Hu Zhongxing, a professor at Fudan University and president of Shanghai Juequn Poetry Society, gave a special lecture on "Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival" to analyze the literary and artistic charm of Qu Yuan's poetry, elucidate the cultural significance of the Dragon Boat Festival, and push the poetry festival to its climax for the audience.
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Previously, as a warm-up activity for the poetry festival, Shanghai Juequn Poetry Society and Poetry Wo'ai Network jointly held the "Dragon Boat Festival Online Draft Activity". In just two weeks, nearly a thousand rhythmic poetry works were collected, and after anonymous expert review, they were compiled into "Three Hundred Poems of Guimao Dragon Boat Festival". On the eve of June 1st, Juequn Poetry Society, in collaboration with Shanghai Juequn Cultural and Educational Foundation, organized poetry themed ward activities at Shanghai Children's Hospital and Xinhua Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, leading children to recite ancient poetry and get closer to traditional culture. Hu Zhongxing said that the Dragon Boat Festival embodies people's patriotism and the beautiful desire to cure diseases. Poetry is an important carrier for Chinese people to express emotions and infiltrate cultural identity. The Dragon Boat Festival transforms cultural heritage and imagery into a form that the public enjoys, hoping to allow citizens and tourists to see, work, and think, and experience the infinite charm of traditional culture through play and experience.