The relationship between culture and city

This is the first article to elaborate on the relationship between culture and city under the proposition of "a culture shapes a city", which was published on the front page of Hezhou Daily on December 14, 2010

A culture shapes a city

-Hezhou builds a Hakka culture brand in depth

Editor's note: "Architecture is the appearance of a city", "culture is the heart of a city". An in-depth perspective on Hezhou's Hakka culture branding

Editor's note: "Architecture is the appearance of a city, culture is the heart of a city. For a long time, Hezhou's diligent efforts to build a Hakka cultural brand have integrated Hakka culture into the city's skin and bone marrow like spring breeze and rain, affecting the development and character of a city. With the proposition of "a culture shaping a city", which is the first of its kind and of "symbolic significance", this newspaper interprets and shows the profound influence of the Hakka culture on Hezhou from a strategic height, from a cultural point of view, and with the tone of prose.

Author: Zhai Wei, Liang Dazheng

The love between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is strong, and the Hakka family is close. As the curtain falls on the 2010 Hakka Friendship Meeting and the First Hakka Culture and Tourism Festival in Hezhou City (hereinafter referred to as the "One Meeting, One Festival"), Hezhou has once again completed a magnificent turnaround, and has written a colorful piece of Hakka culture and exchanges between Hezhou and Taiwan with the strong Hakka flavor of the event and the sparkling Taiwanese elements.

The success of "One Meeting, One Festival" is only a microcosm of Hezhou's efforts to build a Hakka cultural brand. In recent years, Hezhou has not only successfully created the city card of Hezhou and shaped the city character, but also made Hezhou a strategic pivot point for cross-strait exchanges by continuously creating Hakka cultural gems, organizing Hakka cultural festivals and carrying out cultural exchanges with Taiwan, thus nurturing a new round of great openness and great development.

A shining business card to the world

For a long time, Hezhou, which is located in the eastern part of Gui, has been flirted with as the "end of the province", and this "marginalized" "border city" has been "marginalized" in the world of economic globalization. In the globalization of the world economy and regional economic integration today, even though it has the "exclusive advantage" of being located in the "thoroughfare of three provinces" of Hunan, Guangdong and Gui, it has been lacking a business card that can be "shouted" to let the world know that Hezhou is the most famous city in China.

And look at Guangxi, Nanning because of the folk song festival and a hit, Qinbei defense because of the Gulf of Tonkin and the wind and water, Guigang Wuzhou because of the Xijiang River and the wind and clouds ...... our "neighbors" are because of playing a card, thus earning enough eyeballs, gather the The popularity, won the policy, gathered a kind of urban development of "potential", ushered in a spurt of great development.

Young Hezhou realized that visibility is productivity, we need to play a good card, to the world to hand out a shiny business card!

And looking at itself, what can represent itself and attract the world?

Hezhou is a city with a strong Hakka culture, with about 800,000 Hakka people in the city, accounting for about 40% of the city's population, and more than 60% of the city's people speak Hakka. As one of the most representative characteristic cultures here, Hezhou not only has colorful Hakka traditional folk culture, Hakka mountain songs and many Hakka cultural gems, but also has the best-preserved, largest and oldest Hakka house complex in South China and the only Hakka ecological museum in China.

"Playing a good Hakka card and a good Hakka chess game will play a four-two-pound role and make the development of Hezhou full of life!" The municipal government took stock of the situation and began the quest to create a Hakka culture.

So, in 2005, Hezhou city hosted the Asean (ASEAN) Hakka 6th Earnest Relatives Conference and Economic and Trade Fair. During the event, Hezhou picturesque landscape scenery, passionate Hakka songs and dances, rich and simple Hakka style, unique Hakka food, elegant and chic Hakka houses and the long history of Hakka from the 10 ASEAN countries and China (Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan), Japan and South Korea Hakka guests were y enthralled in the guests of the pleased to praise and word-of-mouth, for a time, Hezhou! The "Hakka" reputation has risen!

Hezhou ushered in the opening of Hezhou to take advantage of the situation, and then organized a series of cultural activities to build Hakka, the "Hakka" this business card brighter and brighter! ASEAN Hakka Beauty Contest and Global "Hakka Girl" Image Envoy Contest, the silhouette of Hezhou "Hakka Girl" walking under the spotlight symbolizes Hezhou Hakka's step towards the world. The footsteps of ......

With the various cultural activities in the form of continuous innovation, connotation and enrichment, upgrade, expanding the impact of the Hakka culture has been silently infiltrated and influence the city, so that Hezhou has become a veritable "Hakka City!

With the Hakka culture, Hezhou has become a real "Hakka city".

At the same time, Hezhou to create Hakka cultural excellence has been frequently reported: Hakka mountain opera "selling peaches" won the national "Group Star Award" gold medal; Hakka folk dance "Hezhou Drum God" won the Fifth Folk Art Festival Gold Medal; "board shoes to snatch the bride" won a special award, and in the CCTV "" Variety Show "" in the city. Variety Show"; the local original Hakka song "Moonlight" was adopted as the theme song of Hong Kong TV drama "Wine is Mellow in the Hometown", which was widely circulated in Hakka areas all over the world, and has become a masterpiece for Hakka people to express their homesickness. ...... Hezhou is going to the world because of Hakka culture; Hakka culture is being promoted because of Hezhou.

In the face of the Hakka culture, the Hakka culture is being promoted to the world.

Faced with a pool of activated spring water, Hezhou municipal government realized that the Hakka card not only played the right, but also to play more wonderful! 2007, Hezhou again held a Hakka cultural event - GuiTai Hakka Association, and for the first time put forward the construction of the "GuiTai Hakka Cultural Tourism Experimental Zone" strategic concept. In 2007, Hezhou again organized the Hakka cultural event - Guitai Hakka Friendship Meeting, and for the first time put forward the construction of "Guitai Hakka Cultural Tourism Experimental Zone" strategic concept.

After several years of efforts, this spring, the regional government approved the establishment of Gui Taiwan (Hezhou) Hakka Cultural Tourism Cooperation Demonstration Zone, and in the "Demonstration Zone Development Plan" will be the function of the demonstration zone is positioned as the first choice for Hakka cultural exchanges and cooperation between Gui and Taiwan, Guangxi's pioneering area of innovation and development of culture and tourism, Gui and Taiwan economic and trade cooperation in the expansion of the development of space in the preferred areas, the important regional tourism distribution centers.

"Hakka culture, has become a veritable shining 'business card' for Hezhou to implement the 'going out' strategy." Peng Xiaochun, secretary of the municipal party committee, said.

Some experts believe that "Guangxi has positioned Hezhou as the Guitai (Hezhou) Hakka Culture and Tourism Cooperation Demonstration Zone, looking at the brand of Hakka culture, which is a marriage between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in terms of culture and kinship."

In the just-concluded "One Meeting, One Festival", Li Daqiu, vice chairman of the CPPCC, and Peng Xiaochun, secretary of the municipal party committee, unveiled a plaque for the management committee of the Hakka Culture and Tourism Cooperation Demonstration Zone in Gui-taiwan (Hezhou), and projects such as the Hakka-style town at Gubashan, which is subordinate to the Demonstration Zone, were launched, marking the entry into the substantial stage of the construction of the Demonstration Zone.

In just a few years, Hezhou, because of the Hakka culture and among the development strategy of Guangxi!

A strategic pivot point to promote exchanges between Guangxi and Taiwan

Looking around the world, the great development of any region is to find its own position in the world's development trend, so as to follow the trend and sail away.

Hezhou people, who have realized "going out" because of the Hakka culture, should examine their own positioning at a higher level, so as to promote their own development in the service of the overall situation.

Under the guidance of General Secretary Hu Jintao's sixteen-word policy of "building mutual trust, setting aside disputes, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and *** creating a win-win situation," economic, trade, and cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Straits have become more frequent in recent years, and compatriots across the Taiwan Straits have been drawing closer and closer to each other. And time and again in the exchange with Taiwan compatriots in the Hakka, Hezhou is a deep feeling of the Taiwan compatriots in the blood is thicker than water affection. The municipal government has been inspired by the unique Hakka culture of Hezhou to promote exchanges and cooperation between Gui and Taiwan!

In fact, the exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, in Hezhou is by no means overnight. The Hakka people in the world have the same root and origin, and Taiwanese Hakka businessmen can easily find language and cultural identity in Hezhou. In the early days of Hezhou's development, many Taiwanese entrepreneurs came to invest in Hezhou, injecting vitality into the state, and Hezhou's "Taiwan Commercial and Residential City", "Taiwan Street" and many other buildings with a strong Taiwanese flavor are living witnesses.

In order to further deepen exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan, in July this year, Hezhou Hakka culture, tourism and economic and trade delegation led by Peng Xiaochun, secretary of Hezhou Municipal Party Committee, along with the autonomous regional party secretary Guo Shengkun, led by the Guangxi economic, trade and cultural delegation to visit the island of Taiwan.

Hezhou delegation just "on stage", on the first "sound" to win. At the opening ceremony of the 2010 Taiwan-Guizhou Economic, Trade and Cultural Cooperation Forum held in Taiwan's Yuanshan Hotel, Hezhou Hakka singers won the applause of the participants with their distinctive local characteristics and original Hakka songs and wonderful performances!

The next trip was even better. Hezhou delegation from Taipei, footprints throughout Taichung and Tainan, in Hsinchu County, and the county tree Qilin orchestra performed on the same stage for an hour and a half of wonderful programs, attracting more than 1,300 local Hakka townspeople, Hezhou City, brought Hakka programs in the local Hakka cultural whirlwind; Peng Xiaochun, Secretary of the county with Hsinchu County Mayor Qiu Jingchun playing table tennis and the same book "Cross-Strait family" photo. The feelings of this trip to Taiwan, said: "feel Hezhou delegation this trip is very special, the theme is clear, focused on the two key points of cultural tourism and economic and trade cooperation, the Hakka culture this card to play out of this world!"

And this "one meeting, one festival", also continued this wonderful: Taiwan's participation in the number of more than 300 people, the most in history! In the opening ceremony, guests from Taiwan on behalf of the Chinese Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung presented a number of Hakka culture and cross-strait affinity of the personal inscriptions to Hezhou, and Hezhou also presented to Taiwan's friends of Hezhou unearthed artifacts of the Warring States unicorn Zun and Yao embroidery; in the "Hakka style? Cross-Strait Love" concert, the hosts from Hezhou and Taiwan hosted in Hakka language, singers and artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait sang and performed, *** with the dedication of a Hakka cultural and artistic feast; in the Hakka Culture and Tourism Development Forum of GuiTaiwan, scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait expressed their views, suggestions and *** talk about the "Hakka cultural heritage, development and future"; in China's first Hakka cultural and tourism development forum, scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait expressed their views and suggestions *** talk about "Hakka culture, development and future "; in China's first high-definition digital Hakka music movie "Moonlight" opening ceremony, interpretation of the emotional journey of two generations across the Taiwan Strait, the movie "Moonlight" officially opened ...... rich and varied cultural activities, witnessed the efforts of Hezhou to build a platform for exchanges between Guiandai, greatly boosted the city of Hezhou! "essence", "gas" and "spirit".

The excitement is not limited to the cultural field, in this "a meeting a festival" investment project signing ceremony, signed a total of 35 projects, total investment of 3.92 billion yuan! The project involves urban infrastructure construction, industrial park construction, forestry and mineral processing, food processing, trade and tourism, eco-agriculture and other fields, effectively promoting the full range of cooperation between Guiandai **** win.

Wang Fuqing, vice president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, said, "The series of exchange activities carried out by the Hezhou delegation led by Secretary Peng Xiaochun in Taiwan this year has become a new highlight of the exchanges between Gui and Taiwan. And the long-standing Hakka people in Taiwan and Hezhou have been searching for their ancestors and visiting each other, interacting culturally, and carrying out all kinds of exchanges frequently, becoming a strategic pivot to promote the exchanges between Gui and Taiwan by means of exchanging and passing on the Hakka culture."

A kind of city character is quietly formed

Hezhou people, who stride towards the world, have found that consciously cultivating a cultural brand is intrinsically related to the development of a city. The song "Moonlight" not only spreads the popularity and reputation of Hezhou, but also awakens the city's own hidden impulses and aspirations, giving the Hakka culture a new connotation of the times, and then turning it into a powerful self-sublimation of passion and motivation, so that it is open to cooperation and openness to all rivers, striding forward.

Once upon a time, no "high" (highway), no "iron" (railroad) was the biggest embarrassment for Hezhou, the "thoroughfare of three provinces".

In the "one will be a festival", Taipei City, vice president of the Hakka Chongzheng Chen Yongqi told reporters about such a thing: in 1987, he had been to Guilin, but because of the closed traffic, fame is too small, he did not know that only two hundred miles away from the Hezhou landscape is so beautiful, but also live so many Hakka villagers! The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers," he said.

In order to change this embarrassment, in 2005, a aim to realize the Hezhou traffic pattern across the development of the "transportation facilities construction battle" in Hezhou started. 5 years later, when the closed "end of the province" a through the "high" to "high" to "high" to "high". "High" up to "iron", the city's one-hour traffic circle and into the Beibu Gulf three-hour economic circle, the Pearl River Delta two-hour economic circle of the big traffic pattern is coming out. Even Chen Yongqi can not help but sigh: "Now through the high-speed and railroad, much more convenient!"

With the change of the big pattern of transportation, Hezhou also has a different temperament and style: China Resources Power, Yurun Group, Snow Brewery, a well-known enterprises competing in the station; Huguang market, railway station, passenger transportation center, a distribution center traffic; Huihao Commercial and Residential City, Taiwan Street, Shanghai Street, a new building rising; Lingfeng Mountain, artificial lakes, both sides of the river, a place of triumph! Light up the city ...... At the second nine plenary session of the municipal party committee held in August this year, Hezhou even positioned itself as "Guangxi's new industrial city, the regional transportation hub of Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan, the famous eco-tourism city in South China, and the national demonstration area of the recycling economy industry."

All these are telling people that Hezhou is showing her progress, vitality and vigor to the world with an open attitude, and people really feel Hezhou's transformation pace from "City Girl, Rural Dressing" to "Gui Dong New City, Meteorology". The new city of Gui Dong is a new city with a lot of weather," he said.

"Citizens are the real subject, core and soul of a city, the real bearer and inheritor of a city's character. Every Hakka event is organized to let the simple Hezhou people undergo the experience of emancipating their minds, transforming their concepts, and also enriching and innovating the Hakka culture over and over again, thus accomplishing the cloudy and watery broad-mindedness of the Haina River, and the tolerance of the Haina River." Hezhou City Mayor Bai Xi said so.

The Hakka hut is a characteristic building that embodies the spirit of "unity" and "solidarity" of the Hakka people, but as long as you come to the Hakka hut in Hezhou, you will surely find that not only is the door open and welcome to you, but also the simple Hakka master will be enthusiastic to do for you! The simple Hakka hosts will warmly be your "tour guide" as "chef", introduce you to the history, customs and people of the house, and let you taste all the Hakka flavors such as tofu stuffing. Tourists from all over the world have unconsciously integrated into the enclosure.

Hezhou is also known as a museum of "dialects and dialects". In this city with Hakka people as the main ethnic group, there are 21 ethnic groups living in Hezhou, such as Han, Yao, Zhuang, Miao, Hui, etc., and Hakka language is also popular, there are Mandarin, Guiliu, Cantonese, etc., and at the same time, there are dozens of dialects such as JiuDu, Yao, Zhuang, TuBai, MaTai, Daning and other dialects and dialects of the folk. Generally, Hezhou people can master 3 or 4 languages at the same time, besides speaking Hakka. As long as outsiders ask for directions in any of these languages, the locals will be able to give you a satisfactory answer.

At the scene of every large-scale Hakka cultural event, there is an active group of enthusiastic and busy volunteers. With Mandarin and Hakka "bilingual" ability, although they are very hard, but always spirited, enthusiastic, because we have a sacred sense of mission in mind, hope that through one event after another, to be the spread of Hakka culture and friendship, the embodiment of the spirit of the city and the image of Hezhou demonstrators.