This year’s Chongming Stove Flower Festival is particularly lively! This high school student has the credit behind it
On November 8, the 17th Chongming Zaohua Art Festival kicked off at the Zaohua Hall in Xianghua Town. Several Zaohua artists and intangible cultural heritage inheritors from various towns and villages across Chongming Island performed Zaohua creations on-site; the "Yunshang Cooking Competition" and "Xianghua Parent-child Tour Route" were released and other exciting activities, allowing the intangible cultural heritage and food culture to , farming culture, ecological culture organic integration...
Chongming Zaohua, also known as "Zaohua", is a folk art popular in Chongming and other areas. It has a history of more than 800 years. In 2007, it was selected into the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection lists in Shanghai. In recent years, in Xianghua Town, known as the "Hometown of Zaohua", the Chongming Zaohua Art Festival has been held every year to carry out long-term intangible cultural heritage inheritance and protection activities. The Zaohua Art Festival has won the influential brand of the Shanghai Citizen Culture Festival, and has formed a consensus that "appreciating the Zaohua, going to culture" has been formed both on and off the island.
△Xianghua Town insists on holding the Chongming Zaohua Art Festival every year.
But during the preparations for this year's Zaohua Art Festival, the Chongming District People's Suggestion Collection Office suddenly received a suggestion from a high school student in Shanghai. "Can we develop some Zao culture cultural and creative products so that the culture can be carried around and at your fingertips?" "It is recommended to incorporate Zao Hua culture into the school curriculum so that Zao Hua can be better inherited." High school students at Chuansha Middle School in Shanghai In Wang Yicheng’s eyes, “The influence of the Zaohua Art Festival can be even greater.”
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Suggestions from high school students brought new inspiration to the festival. After receiving the suggestions, the Chongming District Culture and Tourism Bureau and Xianghua Town immediately took action: how to enrich the content of the activities, how to innovate the Zaohua cultural and creative products, and how to expand the impact of Zaohua cultural promotion. A number of targeted measures were released.
At the opening ceremony on November 8, Zaohua artists and intangible cultural inheritors integrated Zaohua art into the construction of Chongming Ecological Island and other contents to create Zaohua creations. Students from Xianghua middle and primary schools also drew Chongming Stove Flowers under the leadership of their teachers. "The magpie announces the good news", "Danfeng rises to the sun", "Peony blossoms"... In the children's writings, Chongming Stove Peanut is clever and full of childlike innocence.
△Zohua artists and intangible cultural inheritors are creating Zaohua.
△Students from Xianghua middle and primary schools also drew Chongming Stove Flowers under the leadership of their teachers.
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On the other side, a stove cooking competition is making the stove culture "hot and prosperous". 10 people from B&B restaurants and cooking enthusiasts cooked and made delicacies based on the "fish" and "sheep" provided on site. It was full of attractions and the place was filled with steaming fireworks.
According to reports, in addition to the many activities at the opening ceremony, this Zaohua Art Festival will also carry out a series of activities such as "Photography of beautiful scenery", one-minute short video competition of Xianghua's "Micro Tour", and "Ode to Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting". The exhibition of poetry and calligraphy with the theme of "Zaohua", the island's intangible cultural heritage skills and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts exhibitions, etc. will continue to be popular until December.
At the same time, driven by Wang Yicheng’s suggestion, Zaohua’s cultural and creative product “Xiao Zao Xian” was also unveiled at the Zaohua Museum, making intangible cultural heritage visible, tangible and portable. In addition, arrangements have also been made to "bring Zaohua into the classroom": Xianghua Town has opened a Zao culture class with the school as the main site, and organized municipal intangible cultural inheritors to teach the Zaohua skills in schools, cultivating a group of young non-heritage students. Heirs of inheritance, let the intangible cultural heritage be passed down from generation to generation.
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