After more than 50 years of socialist construction, the ancient city of Handan has undergone earth-shaking changes, especially since the reform and opening up, a large number of urban infrastructure projects have been completed one after another, the city's functions have been further improved, its taste has been continuously improved, and its carrying capacity and radiation capacity have been further expanded. Today, walking on the streets of Handan or looking up from afar, rows of tall buildings, wide and straight roads, beautiful and elegant green environment, bustling city street scenes and comfortable and convenient residential quarters are full of vitality everywhere. Handan is like a dazzling pearl, embedded in the south of Hebei.
Rich historical and cultural heritage has left valuable spiritual wealth for the people of Handan.
Handan has a long history and left a rich cultural heritage, mainly including the ancient Zhao culture represented by Zhao Wangcheng and Congtai, the culture represented by "Cao Wei Santai" and the north-south Tang Dynasty, and the important representative of the early Neolithic culture-magnetic mountain culture Site. Handan is also the hometown of famous idioms in China, with many historical allusions. The revolutionary war years also made great contributions, and now there are revolutionary historical sites such as the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Martyrs Cemetery and the Eighth Route Army 129 Division Command.
Handan is developing vigorously and making progress. I love you Handan.
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Dragon and lion dance lantern
Folklore, Folklore and Lantern Festival Love
"Firewood honeysuckle, star bridge iron lock open. The lamp tree shines a thousand times, and the bright moon comes. " The most intense activity after the Spring Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. In addition to burning lanterns and watching lanterns eat Yuanxiao, people will also stage a lot of plays to celebrate reunion, which is very rare for the same customs in the north and the south. As folklorists say, the Lantern Festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is the carnival of the Chinese nation.
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In recent days, congtai district, Hanshan District, Fuxing District, Wu 'an, Fengfeng, Matou Industrial City and other places have held folk flower exhibitions, which have brought many surprises to people. It's the same dragon and lion dance, always colorful. Vulgarity is elegance, and elegance is vulgarity. Love moves with the scene, and beauty comes from the heart. Once a year, I never get tired of watching it, because I watch the scenes, play the skills and do the fun. Listen, the earth-shattering lion roar is making generate feel happy. Look, the soaring dragon is the rising hope of Ran Ran.
In Yin Da Bao Village, Handan County, there is an ancient artistic miracle: rubbing cloth. It is an exquisite and colorful antique theater based on the wooden skeleton of the stage and twisted with various colors of cloth, which has high artistic appreciation value. From the ridge, tile fishing, cornices and animals to columns, square beams, screens, bows and plaques, they are all made of cloth. Or feathers, flowers, figures and patterns are vivid everywhere, confusing the fake with the real.
The prototype of this craft is the funeral shed of a famous family in southern Hebei, but the difference is that it is mainly made of white cloth. Generally, there are large silver halls, such as the main filial piety shed, the left and right accompanying shed, the archway and the gatehouse, which are wrapped and bound with white cloth. Applying this technique to stage decoration is a pioneering work of folk artists in Baocun history. According to the old artist Chen, this craft has been in his village for many years, but it is impossible to verify when and who it started. According to the oral tradition of the old artists, it may have happened at the same time as the folk flower show in the bushes, that is, during the period of Ming Taizu. He recalled that he 18 years old (1993- 1993) took part in the study of this craft. 1998, under the guidance of an old artist, I personally turned it into a colorful stage and mastered the basic technology. With the gradual death of the old artist, he became the chief commander of this craft. By 1952, his hand had been twisted four times, and his technique was becoming more and more mature.
Twenty-eight years later, in April of 1980, this craft was restored in this village on a larger scale and the design was updated. In addition to "Two Dragons Playing with Beads", "White Crane Offering Birthday" and "Feng Dan Facing the Sun", there is a plaque hanging on the front. When you look at this plaque from the left, right and front, you can see three completely different patterns, one is a dragon, the other is a tiger and the other is an entertainment pavilion. On the top of the eaves terrace, a group of "Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon" figures were twisted with cloth, including the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Tang Priest, Friar Sand and Bai, which were life-sized, lifelike and lifelike.
The whole stage is10m high,13m wide and10m deep, with various shapes such as cornices, flowing water, temple ridges and screens. Every corner is skillfully twisted with colorful cloth, making it a colorful cloth-twisted palace. In recent years, most of the colorful cloth rubbing tables in this village are held at the temple fair on the eighth day of the second lunar month, which attracts many tourists from Handan and surrounding counties and cities every year. Only 1980 is the estimated number of people in a day, that is, as many as 30 thousand.