On September 11th, the 10th “Shaoxing Master Telling Stories” and Xu Wenchang’s Story Lecture Competition, organized by Shaoxing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and co-organized by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of all district, county (city), was held in Shaoxing Intangible Cultural Heritage Center. Ge Jianmin, deputy director of Shaoxing Cultural And Tourism Bureau, Sun Xiaodong, director of Shaoxing Intangible Cultural Heritage Department, Xu Jinhui, director of Shaoxing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Tang Mingtai, deputy director of Shaoxing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and other leaders attended the event. Liu Jianyang, the representative inheritor of Shaoju national intangible Cultural Heritage, presided over the event.
“Shaoxing master storytelling” is Shaoxing culture tourism bureau for many years to build brand activities, in 2021 coincides with xu wei (word long) the 500th anniversary of the birth, in order to further expand the “xu story” the influence of the country’s heritage project, strengthen the protection of Shaoxing folk oral literature heritage, the competition topic scope limit for xu story. The judges of the competition are Wu Chuanlai, representative inheritor of National Intangible Cultural Heritage, Hu Zhaohai, representative inheritor of Shaoxing Lotus Flower National Intangible Cultural Heritage, Wu Shuangtao and Xu Hong, experts of intangible cultural heritage, and Xu Xiahong, reporter of Shaoxing Daily.
At the opening ceremony, “the more story —— Shaoxing folk story inheritance propagation group” establishment ceremony was held, the first members assembled the 26 within the city folk literature intangible project representative inheritance, teaching inheritance base teachers, quyi lovers and media people related industry talent, aims to promote the protection of folk literature class heritage project, grass-roots level speak good Shaoxing story. Mr.Wu Chuanlai presented the new book “Shaoxing Famous Stories —— Xu Wenchang and Ivy Bookstore” to all the contestants.
Dressed in a long shirt, holding a folding fan, a real Shaoxing dialect… 31 big and small contestants told the stories and legends about Shaoxing master Xu Wenchang, such as the “all come”, “Xu Wenchang debt”, “mountain Yin,” do not collect “. The fascinating plot and the wonderful narration of the contestants fully show the image of Xu Wenchang’s witty humor, humorous, and good, highlighting the literary, historical and humanistic value of Xu Wenchang’s story as a national heritage project.
The competition is divided into adult group and children’s group, with 5 first prizes, 9 second prizes and 17 third prizes. Yuecheng District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Keqiao District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Shangyu District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Zhuji City Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Shengzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and Xinchang County Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center won the organization award.
At the same time, the competition also organized and planned “—— commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Xu Wei’s story graphic exhibition”, in order to create the atmosphere of Xu Wenchang’s story theme activities, and better display and spread excellent intangible cultural heritage.
The “Shaoxing Master Storytelling” brand activity has been held for ten years. Ten years, to the front, GeJianMin in his speech, pointed out that Shaoxing will take this activity as an opportunity to borrow “the more story —— Shaoxing folk story transmission”, encourage more folk story lovers to participate in preach activities, cultivate good inheritance of folk oral literature environment, explore the folk literature class intangible project spread better way, carry forward the national spirit, make contributions to create a new era of cultural highland.