For Ningbo, Zhejiang province, the old New Year is always inseparable from a noisy drama.
This year, the City God Temple in the Spring Festival drama, wonderful, a series of folk activities will bring you back to the old foundation of the Spring Festival time.
“Come to pick up the blessing, the god of wealth will arrive, the god of wealth will arrive…” On the fifth day of the first lunar month, commonly known as “breaking the five”, the immersive sitcom “The God of Wealth Arrives”, a cultural activity of the Spring Festival series of “One Temple Blesses One City”, opened for the first time in the Chenghuang Temple of Ningbo.
The passionate performances of professional actors from Ningbo Municipal Theatre Troupe attract citizens and tourists to gather and watch. The immersive interactive performance allows the audience and actors to have a “zero distance contact”, and the scene is lively and extraordinary.
The immersive sitcom “The God of Wealth Arrives” takes Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth in the Chenghuang Temple of Ningbo, as the story prototype. It is the urban memory condensed from folk legends and myths with Ningbo characteristics. At the event, there was laughter and applause, and the “God of Wealth” held gold ingots and distributed red envelopes, bringing good luck to the new year.
Ms. Wang, a mother born in the 1980s, took her child to watch a performance early in the morning. “The activity is very meaningful. We not only took our children to learn about Chinese traditional culture and Spring Festival folk customs, but also received a red envelope from the ‘God of Wealth’. This Spring Festival Chenghuang Temple is unique and more festive! I hope that the new year will bring great wealth and happiness to everyone.”
“One temple blesses one city, and one city accompanies one temple”. The Chenghuang Temple tells the story of ancient Ningbo between the blue brick and red walls, experiences the unique flavor of Yongcheng, and encounters oriental romance. During the Spring Festival, Chenghuang Temple in Ningbo built a limited version of large-scale cultural and creative IP image device for the Year of the Rabbit with the IP image of God of Wealth and Rabbit Siming as the main design line, and continued to launch a cultural and creative gift box with the theme of “The former rabbit is like a piece of brocade”. The contents of the gift box contain the feelings of “protecting the city and protecting the people” in the Chenghuang Temple and the good expectations and watch for the Year of Guimao Rabbit.
The performance of this situational drama is fully supported by the Ningbo County Temple Cultural Development Foundation and Ningbo Haishu State owned Capital Investment and Operation Group Co., Ltd. The audience will participate for free, allowing everyone to rediscover the old atmosphere and search for urban memories. (Wang Wei, Zhang Haohua, Tang Jiahui, Wu Yan’er)
Editor in charge: Luo Siyu