Non heritage cultural and creative... Encountering a Chinese style market on the old street of Laizhou Bridge, shadow puppetry, Hanfu production | Old Street | Laizhou
The sound of the guqin is melodious, accompanied by a crescent moon and the shadow of the century old Fahua Pagoda. The intangible cultural heritage Anting medicinal patch sways in the evening breeze, with blue bricks and stones playing on the grid. Occasionally, women wearing Hanfu pass by, and the old street of Zhouqiao at night is picturesque and picturesque.
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July 23rd is the Great Heat. The night drove away some of the heat, and the Minqing Street in Jiading Zhouqiao Scenic Area began to bustle.
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The small stalls with rows of scales and decorations, traditional shadow puppetry, attract tourists to stop, and the traditional Chinese style and ancient charm of the Tanan Festival Summer Night Amusement Park is staged against the moat.
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One by one, simple and honest gourds transformed into exquisite and transparent gourd lanterns under the command of Luo Jun, making the children stare intently. Luo Jun transplanted bottle carving and seal carving techniques into gourd carving and gourd pyrography, forming the Shanghai style gourd art carving technique. This inheritor of intangible cultural heritage once went abroad to showcase the carving of intangible cultural heritage gourds, which amazed foreign friends.
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The flipping technique created by Liu Fengchen, the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage project flipping, allows the elderly to look nostalgic and the children to look fresh. In the era without mobile phones and computers, flipping flowers was a toy made by our ancestors when they were young. Flipping flowers is like Sun Wukong's seventy-two transformations. When flipping, there are not only "flowers within the flowers, hidden within the flowers", but also many "idiom stories". It is said that each "petal" of flipping flowers requires seventy-eight "special" rice paper to be manually "pasted", and there is still no modern machine that can produce it.
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Liu Fengchen has another unique skill - "Liu's Willow Weaving". I saw willow twigs bouncing back and forth in his hand, swiftly entwining and flipping left and right, like a knitted sweater. From simple daily necessities to personalized decorations with complex craftsmanship, they created a second life for the willow twigs.
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A burst of gongs and drums sounded, and the shadow puppetry by the ancient bridge began a new round of performance. Through the white screen, classic characters such as Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie in Journey to the West come to life under the flying hands of their masters.
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Handmade crafts, cultural and creative works, intangible cultural heritage, and alcoholic beverages are the rich elements of summer night park tours, allowing tourists to take what they need.
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Food stalls are always very popular, with spicy braised crayfish paired with fresh coconut green, perfectly blending Southeast Asian and Sichuan flavors here.
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Setting up camping tables and chairs, people rest by the river.
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The old street is filled with guitar singers playing and singing, and the night market adds a touch of tranquility to the Jiangnan water town.
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As a specific annual program, the Tanan Xiaoji Summer Night Amusement Fair has been upgraded to a comprehensive economy that integrates night entertainment, night tours, and night shopping by iterating and updating the market in Zhouqiao Old Street.
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In the future, Zhouqiao Old Street will continue to explore the sustainable development of night economy, continuously integrate and innovate, and drive the renewal of urban appearance and the improvement of urban quality.
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