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Folk art performances held in Beijing's community to welcome Spring Festival

STORY: Folk art performances held in Beijing's community to welcome Spring Festival SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 1, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of folk art performances 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LUO ZIJIE, Local resident 3. various of folk art performances STORYLINE: A temple fair was held in Beijing's Dongcheng District to celebrate the Chinese Xiaonian festival, also known as the Little New Year or the Kitchen God Day, on Thursday. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LUO ZIJIE, Local resident "I saw lion dances, Huaban (a folk art form) performances, and Pingju opera performances. I feel that this event is full of traditional atmospheres. Wish everyone a happy Spring Festival!" This year's Xiaonian falls on Feb. 2. The festival is considered to be the prologue of the Spring Festival starting from which people begin to prepare for the Lunar New Year. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing. (XHTV)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customers shop at a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customers visit a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customers shop at a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An artist demonstrates embroidery skills at a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gu Xiaoguang (1st R), an intangible cultural heritage inheritor of the making skills of chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, makes the cakes at a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customers shop at a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customers visit a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customers walk out of a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-HEBEI-TANGSHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL-INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-FAIR (CN)

(230113) -- TANGSHAN, Jan. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Pingju opera enthusiast performs at a Spring Festival fair in Fengrun District of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 12, 2023. A Spring Festival fair themed on intangible cultural heritage was held in Fengrun District of Tangshan, selling chess-shaped sesame seed cakes, sesame seed candies and other traditional foods. Intangible cultural heritages including Pingju Opera, paper cutting, and calabash pyrography were also presented at the fair. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHINA ART FESTIVAL-OPENING CEREMONY (CN)

(220902) -- BEIJING, Sept. 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Artists perform a Pingju Opera during the opening ceremony of the 13th China Art Festival held at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)