Ma Yong is known as "the hometown of Chinese Quyi". There are 18 Quyi centers in the town, which regularly hold square cultural activities, and successfully hold activities such as disaster relief and resumption of production, live broadcast of cultural highlands, and the first cultural and art festival, which has created a good new starting point for building a culturally strong town.

"Hometown of Quyi"

Since ancient times, Mayong people have a special liking for Cantonese opera. People not only like listening, but also like playing and singing. Mayong Cantonese Opera has a strong atmosphere, which is mainly influenced by its natural environment. Living in an ancient and quaint water town, it is difficult to connect land transportation when going out to see the water and board the ship. People mainly cultivate in paddy fields and arrange their work and rest with the ebb and flow of the tide. Whenever there is slack season and high tide, villagers like to gather in groups under the shade of trees or in pavilions and ancestral temples to chat, tell stories and play the piano. There are more and more talented folk art lovers. After their rise, they sent people to the provincial capital to buy some musical instruments and costumes out of their own pockets or raise funds, and gradually formed private organizations that entertain themselves. After that, some went out to learn from teachers, and some asked teachers to teach basic skills, which made the Quyi team in each village grow rapidly, and the artistic level gradually improved, making one party unique. 65438-0999 Ma Yong was awarded the first batch of "Hometown of Chinese Quyi" by experts from China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, China Quyi Artists Association and Guangdong Quyi Artists Association, and received a plaque from Gao Zhanxiang, Vice Minister of Culture, at Guangzhou Southern Theatre. In the water curtain by the river, the sound of Hu in the moonlight in the rubber forest came from time to time, melodious and beautiful. Occasionally, another melody of "Returning to the North Lake" swings out of the pavilion ancestral hall, with a mournful voice and a cantonese rhyme of three days. ...

Season piaoxiang

Chen Canyun, a well-known writer in our province, was entrusted by the provincial party committee to reflect her life in the rural areas of Dongguan from 1958 to 1960, and served as the deputy secretary of the county party committee. During his tenure, he stayed in Dabu Village, Mayong, a water town in Dongguan, and served as deputy secretary of Mayong Party Committee. He bases himself on the countryside, goes deep into life and understands people's feelings. Under the background of China's socialist revolution and socialist construction, the Party led the broad masses of peasants to take the road of collective agricultural cooperation and common prosperity as the theme, and created the novel Four Seasons with strong local customs and unique characteristics of water towns, which truly described the face of the new socialist countryside under the leadership of the Party at that time and enthusiastically eulogized the new life of peasants. The Scented Four Seasons was written in 196 1, 1, published in Guangzhou Huacheng Publishing House on March 3 1, 1962. 1963 in the second half of the year, Chen

Canyun held reader forums in Beijing and Dongguan respectively. On this basis, she adapted the novel into a film literary script "Homesickness". 1965 In the second half of the year, the film Homesickness was filmed in Mayong, Tai Po and nearby villages, and the location shooting was completed at the end of the year. The novel "Scent in Four Seasons" is deeply engraved in the hearts of league members and is welcomed by cadres and the masses.

Dragon Boat Racing

Dragon boat was originally a long boat built in memory of Qu Yuan. Later, it was modified and decorated as a respected boat and a water sport. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, people had converted the long boat into an 8.5-foot-long "big dragon". Whenever the festival comes, the dragon boats in the surrounding villages are ringing with gongs and drums, gathering on the river. After some courtesy, they beat gongs and drums hand in hand, which is indeed a large-scale sports activity that all the people in the water town like, and then form a "dragon boat scenery" on different dates. The dragon boat scenes still preserved in Mayong include Mayong scene (May 16), Zhang Peng scene (May 9) and Ouyong scene (May 18). After the reform and opening up, the economy of our town has developed rapidly, and mass dragon boat races have flourished. New dragon boats have been installed in towns and villages, and a new upsurge of dragon boat racing has emerged. So far, seven "Enterprise Cup" dragon boat races have been held.

lion dance

Lion dance has been popular in our town for a long time. People like to dance lions in every Spring Festival, festive days and various large-scale activities to show good luck. Especially at the beginning of the Spring Festival (the first day, the second day and the third day), a wealthy family will invite a group of people into the house to pray for peace at home and prosperity. Performing lion dance, led by Big Head Buddha, started rhythmic high-side gongs and drums, and the host family lit happy cannons to welcome them, and hung green flowers as a reward for lion awakening. This activity has spread to this day and is very popular among the masses. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a "Intimate Hall" lion dance class in our town, which was located in the ancestral hall of the eight rivers in Masi Village and was taught by Professor Xiao Ji, a famous martial arts teacher who came back from Guangzhou. At the same time, Yuan Bingjun, who was active in the lion altar in Mayong, held lion dance classes for famous teachers in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, which won the attention of famous teachers. On the original basis in our town, the lion teams organized by villages include Masi, Xinji, Tai Po, Zhou Nan and Huayang, which inherit and carry forward the traditional lion dance culture. Every year on holidays and big days, every village can send lions to perform, and the audience is like a tide, and people are crowded and very happy.