Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province will hold the 7th Yuhang Art Festival in April. The art festival, held every four years, is the highest standard and most widely participated cultural event held in Yuhang District. At that time, various cultural and artistic works such as photography, art, songs and sports dance will be presented continuously.
Liangzhu, Canal, Jingshan, Tiaoxi, Song Yun… From ancient times to the present, the word “culture” has always been running through the historical context of Yuhang. In recent years, high-quality works depicting the cultural symbols of Yuhang have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and the ancient culture has shown new vitality.
Enrich cultural deposits and activate literary creativity
The mysterious Liangzhu culture in ancient times, the canal culture with a long history, and the emerging innovation and entrepreneurship culture are sufficient to reflect the richness and diversity of Yuhang culture. The rich cultural deposits nourish more and more excellent literary and artistic works.
In recent years, Yuhang has deeply explored cultural resources, organized writers and artists to go to Liangzhu to collect folk customs, and writers, artists and poets gathered in Liangzhu to talk about the beauty of history, literature and painting in Liangzhu.
Yuhang culture presents a new atmosphere of growing prosperity. In 2021, 17 literary and artistic masterpieces in Yuhang District won national and provincial support. Six film and television works premiered on CCTV, provincial satellite TV and cinemas won 62 awards at or above the provincial level. A large number of literary and artistic masterpieces such as Shi Xingeng, the TV drama The Great Wave Washes the Sand, and the movie The Willow Waves Smell the Warbler have emerged; The “Shanhua Prize” of Chinese folk literature and art and the National Art Biennale were settled in Yuhang for the first time, and will appear in the seventh Yuhang Art Festival.
This year, the “Asian Games” has become one of the hottest words in Yuhang culture. The original program of Yuhang District, “The Lion Warrior Youth”, takes intangible cultural heritage as the carrier, shows boxing and knife flowers on the stage, and welcomes the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games with the momentum of “tiger power”.
Create a “15 minute cultural life circle”
In Yuhang, every weekend night comes, the cultural auditorium and the old street become lively, and folk art and other programs are staged in turn. This is a cultural night market of “Meeting Weekend”, which has been established for more than 20 years. It is a popular cultural activity for people in Yuhang.
In addition, Yuhang District has actively created a reading atmosphere for the whole people. Yuhang District Library has achieved “one click borrowing”. Residents can click online borrowing at home, and good books can get home. At the same time, Yuhang also strives to build a public reading space for “reading after reading”, a “Hangzhou study” and a 24-hour self-help library in Yuhang District, so that the fragrance of books can spread throughout the city.
Today, residents of Yuhang can also enjoy a comfortable cultural life in the community. At present, Yuhang District is taking the creation of a pilot area for the modernization of public cultural services in Zhejiang Province as a starting point to accelerate the construction of public cultural facilities, enrich the supply of public cultural services, cultivate public cultural and artistic talents, create a “15 minute cultural life circle” integrating urban and rural areas, and actively promote the high-quality development of public cultural services.
In the future, Yuhang will strengthen its cultural confidence, further build a cultural highland of common prosperity, build a strong cultural area, and take enriching the spiritual life of the masses and enhancing the sense of gain as the core goal of cultural work.
Source: Publicity Department of Yuhang District Committee of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee