The World Expo Garden Is Gradually Entering The "Dragon Boat Festival Time" -- Watching The Dragon Boat Festival Folk Performances&Nbsp; Taste Special Flavor Dumplings

Walk around the Expo Park, watch the Dragon Boat Festival folk performances, taste special dumplings, and seal the Dragon Boat Festival... With the approaching of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Expo Park is gradually entering the "Dragon Boat Festival time".

"Chinese traditional culture has been under the wind and rain for five thousand years; how many customs have been passed on to future generations and praised the Great China through the ages; Macao's grand events in the early summer, racing against the clock to listen to the waves; dragon boats competing to celebrate Duanyang, the competition has become international; there are many kinds of dumplings with fragrance, and each flavor is not bad..." At 3:30 p.m. on June 11, on the stage of the city square in the urban best practice area of Shanghai World Expo Garden, A crisp female voice allegro came out.

A closer look shows that it was the "Jade Rabbit Welcoming the Dragon Boat Festival" cultural performance hosted by the Macao Pavilion, and hundreds of audiences were mesmerized: only to hear the folk band play the happy music of "Golden Snake Dance", which made people excited and excited; Suddenly, a group of young women, dressed in red coats and beating waist drums, rushed out; In the sound of drumbeats, four men in "Drunken Dragon" coats, holding the dragon head in one hand and the wine jar in the other, seemed to be faltering, but in fact, the chassis was stable; When the curtain call General's Order sounded, it was already a jubilation of dragons and lions leaping and fans flying.

With such a performance team of about 100 people, all of them are amateurs. "We came here to perform because of our enthusiasm for Chinese culture." Du Cunzhong, the conductor of the folk orchestra and the president of the Changhong concert in Macao, told reporters that the orchestra had been preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival performance for nearly a month, and that the joint training was carried out at least twice a week in everyone's spare time. In Macao, there are always dragon boat races and rice dumplings in the afternoon, and of course, there are also various folk cultural performances.

The wonderful Dragon Boat Festival folk performances are both enjoyable and imperceptible cultural influences for tourists, especially for small audiences. A father and daughter beside the reporter, the father kept giving his six-year-old daughter a "popular musical instrument lesson": "This slender is Hu Qin"; "The round one is a lute"; "What's banging is banging"... When the music rings, my father becomes a "announcer" again: "This is the Order of Victory"; "Now it is BuBuGao"; "Guangdong music" Dragon Race "... The little girl was fascinated.

"Singaporean Niang provokes Zong, come and taste it!" The snack booth outside the Singapore Pavilion of the Expo is hung with such a sign. At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th, when the reporter came here, there was no Zongzi in sight of the signboard, and the Niang provoked Zongzi had already been snapped up. "Niangrae" is a unique culture in Southeast Asia. It is a fusion of Chinese culture and Malay culture. Its "Niangrae cuisine" has always been famous.

Chen Weimin, executive chef of the Singapore Pavilion, told reporters that from the 11th to the 16th, the Singapore Pavilion will launch Niangrao Zong every day, but the number is only 100 every day. The essence of Niangrae Zong is first the stuffing. The unique spice of Shicheng, "coriander powder", is mixed with soy sauce to carefully marinate the best lean meat. It is mixed with sweet and refreshing winter melon strips, and wrapped with white and crystal glutinous rice. It is fresh but not greasy, salty and sweet; The second is Zongye. Zongzi is wrapped in Banlan leaves, a specialty of Southeast Asia, and its unique fragrance is straight into glutinous rice.

The reporter visited several Chinese provincial, district and municipal pavilions. Hunan, where Qu Yuan invested in the river, is an important place of origin of the Dragon Boat Festival culture. Hunan Museum said that the Dragon Boat Festival will combine the "Yueyang Day" with the "Dragon Boat Festival". It is possible to teach visitors to make dumplings or give them as gifts on the spot. Jia Xuefeng, the curator of Shanxi Pavilion, said in an interview that the venue is currently considering preparations for the Dragon Boat Festival, when some elements of the Dragon Boat Festival will be added to the pavilion or some interaction with tourists will be held.

According to the practice that there will be corresponding seals on every festival, visitors who enter the park on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival can also get the service of "Dragon Boat Festival Seal". The flagship store of Expo licensed commodities in Pudong area revealed that it will launch the Dragon Boat Festival seal after the "Mother's Day seal" and "Father's Day seal". The China Railway Museum in Puxi District also plans to launch the "Dragon Boat Festival Seal".

In the Expo Park, the reporter met Li Yue, a 23-year-old Chinese Canadian. She told reporters that when she was young, she went abroad with her parents to settle down. It was the first time for her to return home to visit her relatives in ten years. She bought a 7-day ticket to "play" in the Expo. "From childhood to adulthood, my mother made dumplings for me every Dragon Boat Festival." Li Yue said, "This time, we can not only see the Expo, but also eat dumplings, watch dragon boat races, and have a lively Dragon Boat Festival!"