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How Hong Kong is Promoting Chinese Culture: Success Stories and Future Plans (Guan Canghai)

February 25, 2024 15:41 Source: People’s Daily

Give full play to unique advantages to promote Chinese culture (Guan Canghai)

The Opera House of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts was packed with seats. On the stage, Shenzhen’s original dance drama “Wing Chun” was captivating; the dance poetry drama “Only Green – Dance Painting “Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”” debuted in Hong Kong and was sold out. Tickets for the performance were sold out early Exhausted… In recent times, theatrical performances that promote Chinese culture have frequently “out of the circle” and set off a craze in Hong Kong, demonstrating the unique charm of China’s excellent traditional culture.

The country’s “14th Five-Year Plan” clearly states that Hong Kong will be supported in developing a Chinese and foreign cultural and artistic exchange center. The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region proposed in the 2023 Policy Address that Hong Kong will establish an “Office for the Promotion of Chinese Culture” to plan and organize activities to promote Chinese culture and history; it will also launch a “Key Performing Arts Project Plan” to fund the cultivation of representative large-scale key performances Long-term performances of artistic creation projects. Investing in new resources, launching new measures, and strengthening cultural exchanges and cooperation with the mainland will not only help explore Hong Kong’s own cultural characteristics and promote the development of Hong Kong culture and art, but also help promote the inheritance and promotion of Chinese culture in Hong Kong.

Chinese culture has always been the “root” and “soul” of Hong Kong, and is the deepest spiritual heritage of Hong Kong. In the past year, the special exhibition “Gazing at Sanxingdui – New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan” at the Hong Kong Palace Museum has attracted many Hong Kong citizens to explore the ancient Shu civilization, to the “Tan Dun WE-Music Festival” that combines Yunnan minority culture, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and other elements After being put on the Hong Kong stage, and then many outstanding mainland literary and artistic plays set off a drama viewing craze in Hong Kong… China’s excellent traditional culture is warmly welcomed in Hong Kong. In the wonderful exhibitions and performances, Hong Kong citizens have a deeper understanding that “Chinese culture has a long history and Chinese civilization is extensive and profound”, and their sense of national identity and belonging has been continuously enhanced.

Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the world’s largest cultural projects. With its profound foundation in the cultural and arts industry, it uses literature and art as a bridge to “connect hearts” with the world; the Hong Kong Palace Museum has innovative and uniquely Hong Kong-style strategies The exhibition method has become a “new landmark” for carrying forward China’s excellent traditional culture and promoting exchanges and dialogue between Chinese and foreign civilizations; the mainland and Hong Kong cooperate in performances, joint activities and joint creations, and more and more outstanding literary and artistic works use Hong Kong as a window to go to the world… Hong Kong The coexistence of multiple cultures, the gathering of international talents, and the extensive external contacts are important links for cultural exchanges between China and the West. Stimulate cultural vitality and enhance cultural charm, give full play to the characteristics of Hong Kong as an international city, and give full play to Hong Kong’s special role in promoting cultural exchanges between the East and the West, mutual learning between civilizations, and people-to-people bonds, which will help us use Hong Kong’s international platform to tell the world Good Chinese story.

The Pearl of the Orient is brilliant. This year, Hong Kong will host the first Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo and the “Chinese Culture Festival”, and will also serve as the host city for the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival” for the first time, bringing together the power of cities in the Greater Bay Area to create an artistic brand of Chinese culture. In the new era and new journey, by seizing the historical opportunities brought by the country’s development, Hong Kong’s cultural undertakings will surely create a broader space for development and make greater contributions to building a culturally powerful country. (People’s Daily Sun Tianlin)

2024-02-25 07:41:11
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