Hong Kong Festival, the future trajectory is not clear

One day a month during the Lunar New Year, more than 300 villagers wore yellow red pants and white towels hung around their neck to start the year's celebration of Yom Kippur in Sham Tseng Tsuen, a well-established village where Chaozhou people in Hong Kong were the main gathering place. In the morning, chanting by the Master, built 醮 quiet, Shi Yi Festival food. Village elders and well-known folks in the area, Christine parents world as Christine ceremony, from Lion Dance, Chaozhou Grand Theater, pray for peace. Evening and next day, Chaozhou traditional folk puppet show staged, but also invited around the six hundred elderly people to gather together to share dish dinner.

Lunar New Year in July fifteen orchid festival, commonly known as "Ghost Festival." In Hong Kong, this festival brought by the Chaoshan people has a history of more than 100 years and has gradually become a grand event in Hong Kong.

Every year into the lunar calendar in July, the streets of Hong Kong began to put incense burners on the streets of sacrificial offerings; in the gods drama and chanting sound, Hong Kong nearly 18 districts in nearly 100 locations were erected two-story bamboo Plaque, plaque on both sides of the peacock with the Dragon Cloud, the book "Yu Lan wins" red extravagant.

In June 2011, "Bon Gala" was included in the third batch of state-level intangible cultural heritage lists. In the following month, Tsang Tak-shing, then the director of the Home Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong, gave a speech entitled "Bonjour is more than an influx of people" The publication of the blog refers to the celebration of Hong Kong's festival as a folkloric event with local characteristics in Hong Kong. It can not only taste the Chinese cultural tradition but also trace the history of emigrants from Taiwan-based immigrants in order to find out the trajectory of Hong Kong's development.

However, the direction of this hundred-year track is not clear in the future.

"We are now very worried about the successor's problems." Yao Zhiming, chairman of Hongcun Chaofiao Neighborhood Fighting Gala, told China News Service reporter.

The 65-year-old Yao Zhiming took over the Deep Yuran victory three years ago. Every year he goes to the Chaozhou General Association and meets with the elders in preparation for the Yu-Lan festival. He always sighs of "no succession" and " Young, "said Yao Zhiming." This is a very big crisis, and it can affect the complete succession of the Chaoshan culture. "

In addition to the lack of intentional training, objective changes in modern society have also affected the preservation of traditional culture.

"First of all, the traditional 'Burning Street Clothing' (burned paper offerings on the roadside) is now being complained of undermining the environment; the best of the three-day Bonjour is the all-day event of the second day, but now it's 11 to 11 Point will be 'shut up' or complain too noisy. 'And with the construction of the city, many of the Comedies to Taiwan to take to the building, the public involved in the inconvenience, and gradually less dealings. "The more demolition of the old area more afraid of the traces of Chaoshan culture also a little bit erased ... ..."

The pressure of modern people running around in life, "which 40-year-old people have the energy for folk tradition?

Yao Zhiming where the deep well village, there is a small open space can be built Shenzong, the village folk tradition, Yao Zhiming that the inheritance of cultural advantages. "I insisted that we should start training successors earlier, so that when we have strength, we can help them to go on without losing sight of culture."

Yao Siming said that in order to maintain this tradition, "we should pull young people out of the room so that they can participate more and make more contacts. Even raising flags and gongs every year makes them realize that apart from playing games and traveling, Have heavier responsibilities. "