Kaifeng City, the purpose and content of the "Great Song New Year Cultural Festival"

Purpose: In order to further promote the excellent traditional culture, active tourism life of the masses during the Spring Festival, for Chinese and foreign tourists to dedicate more characteristic Song culture folklore viewing, experience, participate in activities.

Content: 2011 Kaifeng City, "Song Year Cultural Tourism Festival" mainly includes three major themes.

One is the 12th Han Yuan Spring Festival Temple Fair in Kaifeng. Time is: February 3 to February 18, the location is: China Han Yuan, Banzai Mountain tour area. Han Yuan Spring Festival Temple Fair since 2000, the scale of the annual expansion, activities continue to enrich, more prominent features, has become the Central Plains region's largest and most influential folk temple fair. This year's Han Yuan Spring Festival Temple Fair, to show the traditional year of Song dynasty culture and folklore as the theme, the scale is grand, diverse forms, a strong flavor of the year. Temple activities by the traditional ancestral ceremonies, New Year's blessing ceremony, Song New Year's experience, traditional drama, live martial arts theater performance, Song wine culture exhibition, calligraphy, painting, printing and engraving exhibitions, folk crafts exhibitions, sculpture exhibitions, food and snacks exhibition of 10 series of activities. Divided into Han Yuan and Banzai Mountain two venues, in more than thirty performance points at the same time, performances, show programs up to hundreds of items. Such as: elegant Song lyrics recitation; visitors interactive Spring Festival couplets riddle tournament; lively Horse Street storytelling, folk "playing spring bull", "fighting abduction" competition; thrilling folk stunts, stunts, martial arts performances; Kaifeng pan drums, lion dances, dry boat show, etc., a collection of the essence of the traditional culture and folklore of the Song capital. It is a collection of the essence of traditional culture and folklore of Songdu. This year's Han Yuan Temple Fair program form also has innovation and breakthrough. Such as the use of the vast lake, especially set up a water stage, regular performances "wave bridge flyer", "water flying lion" and other thrilling and difficult programs, refreshing. Banzai Mountain tour area carefully arranged "Water Margin" live drama "Cross Slope", "Wu Sung drunkenly beat Jiang Men Shen", "Wild Boar Forest"; martial arts drama "learning from masters", comedy "heroes to save the beauty of the people", etc., the performance of the delicate and emotional, with a strong ornamental, participatory and entertaining. In addition, Han Yuan Temple Fair also invited more than 50 domestic and foreign folk culture performance groups. Such as: Brazil's samba, South America's circle dance, Tanzania's African folk dance; Sanjin's flower drums, stilts in the Northeast, the two; Pingxiang, Jiangxi Nuo (nuo) theater, Luoyang monkey show, etc., are rich in extra-territorial characteristics.

The second is the 11th Qingming River Garden Folk Culture Festival. The time is: February 3 to February 22nd. The location is: Qingming Shangheyuan. Activities include: Song culture and folklore series of drama performances and parade, folk handicrafts souvenirs exhibition, folk lantern exhibition, Lantern Festival fireworks, gourmet food exhibition of five series of activities, all kinds of special programs nearly a hundred. In addition to the daily fixed performances of qigong fire, acrobatic stunts, the king of the son-in-law, Liangshan hijacking prison wagon, women's polo, Song Cannon Battle and other programs, but also added a dragon dance, dry boat, jumping sedan chair, elbow, donkey and other new New Year's Eve programs, and every day will be in the park to organize a collection of various kinds of characteristics of the program parade. Before the 15th day of the first month, the whole park will be covered with palace lanterns and string lights, and at 20:00 on the evening of February 17th (the 15th day of the first month), a large-scale Lantern Festival fireworks display will be held, which will culminate the activities of the Folklore and Culture Festival.

Third is the seventh Longting Spring Festival large-scale art lanterns. Time: 1 31st to February 20th. Location: Longting Park. Longting lanterns will be a collection of ancient and modern lantern art essence and modern sound, light, electricity technology combined with large-scale art lantern display activities, held once a year in winter and spring. This year's Lantern Festival is grand in scale, unique in shape and exquisite in craftsmanship. In a total area of 83 hectares of Longting scenic area, covered with large-scale lanterns more than 50 groups, palace lanterns, thousands of colored lanterns. Among them, more than a hundred meters of light tunnel brilliant as clouds, such as a dream, all kinds of modeling lights to the Dragon Pavilion Hall, Pan Yang two lakes, the Royal Road exhibition area, decorated with brilliant, colorful, creating a strong New Year's Eve, Lantern, festive and lively holiday atmosphere. In addition to the light show at twilight, Longting Scenic Spot also specializes in anti-seasonal chrysanthemums in winter and spring, and more than 1,000 pots of chrysanthemum boutique flowers will be displayed, enabling the majority of visitors to witness the fragrance of Bianliang chrysanthemums in winter and spring. In addition, the garden also regularly performs programs with the characteristics of Song Dynasty palace culture. For example, "Nine Emperors Welcoming Guests", "Release of Military Power by Cups of Wine", "Spring Tour of Yang Bajie", "Li Shishi Persuading the Emperor", "The Emperor's Daughter Doesn't Worry", and "the emperor's daughter does not worry about marriage" and so on, so that the majority of tourists can feel the colorful culture of the Song Dynasty.

Kaifeng "Song Dynasty Cultural Tourism Festival", in addition to the above three major theme activities, in the Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifeng Mansion, Tianbo Yangfu and other tourist attractions, will also be held in a variety of forms of annual cultural activities. City, county and district folk culture groups, will also be in the Spring Festival show folk entertainment, square theater, song and dance and other local characteristics of the program.