Immerse yourself in the charm of various intangible cultural heritage items, such as rice cakes, pickles, rice wine, tea... and ride in Zhangyan Town in the suburbs of Shanghai
June 8 is Cultural and Natural Heritage Day 2024. Today, a series of intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and citizen participation activities titled "Enjoying the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Yuegu Town" opened in Zhangyan Town, Jinshan District, launching four major categories: exhibition display, route check-in, intangible cultural heritage market, and intangible cultural heritage experience. A series of activities allow citizens and tourists to immerse themselves in the charm of various intangible cultural heritage projects and further enhance their understanding and participation in the protection of intangible cultural heritage.
This year, Jinshan District will focus the cultural and natural heritage day on Zhangyan, which is striving to create an “architectural and readable town”. At the opening ceremony of the event, Jinshan District unveiled the Zhangyan "Building Readability" Alliance, released the 2024-2026 "Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Community" demonstration sites, announced the opening of the Deng Sanmu handwriting document exhibition, and officially launched the "Liuxi Yayun" ancient town cultural project Pulse-seeking journey.
In Zhangyan Park, citizens can attend the "Jinshan Youhuatou" intangible cultural heritage market, which offers Apo melon, Wenwantai pickles, rice cakes, rice wine, Hanfu experience, Song Dynasty tea ordering, sachet making, and various intangible cultural heritage products, There are wonderful folk delicacies and experiential activities.
Then go to the Baijiao Art Museum to watch the "Fragrance Blowing into the Clouds - Baijiao Calligraphy and Painting Appreciation and Tang Zhaoji's Orchid Essays Exhibition", and go to the Nanshe Memorial Hall to commemorate the 115th anniversary of the founding of Nanshe and Nanshe Research Experts in Shanghai and Suzhou. Exchange activities, appreciate the elegance of Liuxi while searching for traces in Liuxi.
When you go to Yalefang, you can watch an exhibition of Cai Huiying’s paper-cutting works, an intangible cultural heritage between architecture and paper, and see how the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage skillfully combine paper-cutting with Jinshan buildings and ancient bridges to realize the intangible cultural heritage version. "Architecture is readable". If interested, citizens can also participate in the paper-cutting experience on site.
In addition, people can also go to Chen's House to experience printmaking, go to Dajing Hall to experience pot throwing, go to Dayin Bookstore to experience plate buckle making, go to Baijiao Art Museum to experience orchid planting, and go to Zhangyan Park to experience Hanfu gardening, sachet making, Jinshan Peasant paintings, it is full of fun to experience the intangible cultural heritage in antique buildings.
During the event, people went to Wenyingfang Cultural and Creative Park to experience how to play waist drums, to Wenwantai Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall to experience how to make pickles, to He Coffee to participate in coffee tasting, and to participate in a "Pastoral Five" at the Rural Revitalization Exhibition Hall. The town is adjacent to the "Party Building Intangible Cultural Heritage to Help Rural Revitalization" - the 2024 Yangtze River Delta Creative Food Feast to see how intangible traditional food innovates in inheritance.
At the same time, various streets and towns in Jinshan District also carried out colorful "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day" activities. Among them, Zhujing Town has carried out lantern making, guqin, tea art, and Chinese herbal medicine hand-painting experience activities with the theme of "Elegance gathers and enriches thousands of homes". Fengjing Town holds intangible cultural heritage shadow puppet performances, and carries out Dragon Boat Festival mugwort flower baskets and health hammer handcrafting experience activities. Shanyang Town, with the theme of "Zong" Love, Dragon Boat Festival and "Fishing" You Meet - Dragon Boat Festival Fishing Village Experience, carries out activities such as boat model making, mugwort sachet making, and rice dumpling making experience.
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