Inheritance of fishing culture: Shipu Community Education College inherits fish lantern making non-heritage culture

Recently, Shipu Community Education College heritage fish lamp production of non-heritage culture, explore new modes of community education, successfully declared the fish lamp production of competent studio.

At present, our school community education for the elderly, community characteristics of education, community education into rural cultural hall activities are in full swing, in order to highlight the regional characteristics of community education, the need to explore the regional characteristics of culture.

Cultivate fish lamps and fish molds production masters, inheritance of fishing culture, through the subject of research and curriculum construction, for the elderly University fish lamp production class to prepare teaching materials and provide practical training base, while for all types of community education and primary and secondary school-based teaching to provide native materials.

Through the creation of Bao Jiqin fish lamp fish mold studio, actively integrated with the local community education penetration, led to the vigorous development of community education. We opened a senior university fish lamp production class to inherit the traditional craft of fish lamp fish mold, to meet a part of the elderly production of fish lamp, the complex of the grandchildren; the creation of the fish lamp dance club, to carry out the fish lamp fish mold as a carrier of the fishery culture performances and exhibitions; we launched a series of fishery culture connotation of cultural programs, into the village cultural hall performances ...... All this vividly demonstrates the fishing culture characteristics of our school community education.

The fishing culture connotation of community education has been y penetrated and widely spread with the carrier of fish lamps and fish models. After nearly a year of exploration and practice, the fish lantern fish mold is not just a craft production, but a kind of cultural dissemination with its carrier, spread to the neighborhood, enterprise village, penetrate into all aspects of community education. Markets have fish lamp fish mold works show, festivals have fishing culture song and dance performances, neighborhoods have volunteers door-to-door publicity services, rural cultural halls is an important stage for cultural and sports performances of fishing culture. Our school also set up a fish lantern dance club (school **** body), in the Lantern Festival, March 3, the opening of the fishing festival, lifelong learning activities week and other major cultural activities to perform. Workshop works also participate in the city and county exhibition activities at all levels, the elderly university fish lamp class students also many times into the community under the rural areas to carry out the fish lamp fish mold as the carrier of the fishing culture performance activities. In this way, our school community education fishing culture flavor is constantly floating out, unlike before, stay in the abstract vague concept.

Elderly Mr. Bao Jiqin is a Ningbo non-heritage project fish lamp production inheritor, enjoying the title of Xiangshan County Outstanding Folk Literary Talent and Zhejiang Province Outstanding Folk Literary Talent. Mr. Bao inherited and carried forward the local fish lamp fish mold production of traditional crafts and innovation, the production of fish lamp fish mold lifelike, charm, known as the "God fish". Its simulation of fish mold craft works for three consecutive years won the Ningbo City Arts and Crafts Excellence Exhibition Silver Award, Lantern Lantern works "Monkey King" won the Second Folk Lantern Competition in Zhejiang Province Bronze Award. The road is crowded with people, traffic, families hang up a variety of various types of fish lamps, the street locals also hand-held in the street for a ride.

The fish lanterns of Shipu, as one of the components of the traditional Lantern Festival, are rich in cultural heritage. Local fishermen pray for good weather conditions, peace of mind and a good harvest for the local fishing industry. Whenever there is an important folklore event, fishermen will hang different yellow fish lanterns, crab lanterns and so on in front of their houses, and sometimes dance the fish lantern dance to celebrate the event.

Zhejiang Xiangshan people "Lantern over fourteen but not fifteen" origin. In the Ming Jiajing years, once the Qi family army in the Shipu, Nantian area garrison, encountered the Japanese attack, it was too late to prepare food, they will be a variety of vegetables, meat, beans cut into rice size, plus potato flour made of "paste", both as a meal and as a dish to eat, the generals ate after a great victory. And that day happens to be the fourteenth day of the first month, and later, families will eat "paste grain soup" on the fourteenth day of the first month, to show the memory of Qi Jiguang's resistance to the Japanese, and has been inherited to this day, has become a folk custom of the year seasonal festivals and the "Shipu fourteen night" has been selected as a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage protection list.

3 Xiangshan County is a national marine fishing culture ecological reserve, and Shipu Town is the core area of this reserve. Shipu is also the first batch of non-heritage cultural heritage protection zone in Ningbo, Xiangshan County 176 non-heritage projects at all levels, Shipu accounted for one-third. (Reporter: Hong Bin Shipu reported)