Chapter 190 It’s time to take Lina home

“I thought we could make a booklet and distribute it to guests at the wedding, which would not only introduce our love story, but also share with everyone the essence of the lunar calendar and how we incorporated Eastern and Western cultural elements into our wedding.”

Lina suggested, a creative twinkle in her eyes.

“This is a wonderful idea! In this way, our wedding is not only a personal celebration, but also an opportunity for cultural exchange, allowing the beauty of love and culture to be passed on to every participant.”

Yang Xuan nodded in approval.

There is still one day left before the launch of Chang’e 6, and they have almost finished their island tour.

So, the remaining day is just right for me to study and design the booklet that Lina mentioned.

This special booklet not only contains a brief introduction to the origin of the lunar calendar and the meaning of the solar terms, but also a short story about how they chose the wedding date based on the lunar calendar, as well as details of the various intangible cultural heritage that will be displayed at the wedding.

For example, the traditional acrobatics of the Rabbit Country, as an ancient performing art, are world-famous for their exquisite skills, thrilling movements and rich expressiveness.

They can invite a group of highly skilled acrobats to the wedding, who will present a series of performances that combine strength and beauty, including traditional pedaling skills and judo, as well as modern and innovative acrobatic performances, allowing guests to feel the charm of Rabbit Country acrobatics while exclaiming in amazement.

Another example is puppet show, which is one of the folk drama forms with a long history in the Rabbit Country. It interprets stories through the manipulation of puppets, which is lively and full of childlike fun.

At the wedding, a small puppet theater was set up to perform excerpts from the classic play “The Butterfly Lovers”, telling this poignant and moving love story in the form of puppets, allowing guests to appreciate the delicacy and affection of traditional art while feeling it.

Peking Opera, as a national quintessence, integrates various performing arts such as singing, reciting, acting and fighting. Its facial makeup, costumes and movements are full of profound cultural significance.

At the wedding, a Peking Opera excerpt was carefully arranged, and a classic clip from “The Drunken Concubine” was selected. It not only demonstrated the magnificence and elegance of Peking Opera, but also symbolized the unwavering feelings between Yang Xuan and Lina through the concubine’s persistence in love.

In addition, there are iron flower making, Tang people, ceramic making, embroidery, brocade, carving, forging, Kunqu opera, Sichuan opera face changing, guqin art, Mongolian long-tune folk songs, Miao reed pipe music, Tibetan Guozhuang dance, Zhuang bronze drum dance, paper cutting, calligraphy art, Huizhou three carvings, dragon and lion dances, and Chinese style musical instrument performances.

Even traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and Chinese medicine preparation techniques can be demonstrated.

Anyway, he is not short of money now.

Why not make this wedding even more memorable?

Anyway, there is only one important moment in life when you walk into the marriage hall hand in hand with the one you love. Making it lively and grand is not only a celebration of the love between myself and Lina, but also a way to express gratitude to both families and relatives and friends.

Therefore, he decided to add more meaningful and creative elements to the original plan.

However, to do this, he would need to hire a professional team to design and connect all the links.

This way there will be no problems and the desired effect can be achieved.

This team must not only be familiar with the performance processes of various intangible cultural heritage items, but also be good at combining traditional culture with Ming Dynasty aesthetics to ensure that every link displays traditional charm while retaining a sense of Ming Dynasty system.

In order to ensure the smoothness and safety of the event, the team also paid special attention to the connection and guidance of each link, set up a clear timetable and roadmap, and arranged professional tour guides and volunteers to ensure that every guest can smoothly shuttle between different cultural experiences, so as not to miss any wonderful moments and fully immerse themselves in this cultural feast.

The more he thought about it, the more ideas he had. Even Yang Xuan’s brain capacity was not enough to remember so much, so he could only write down all these ideas.

The biggest difficulty in the whole thing is to ensure the integrity of the Ming-style wedding while integrating it with modern traditional intangible cultural heritage.

We must find that balance that preserves the ancient elegance while retaining the modern vitality.

He decided to start with the overall layout and planned the wedding venue with the theme of “Reappearance of the Ming Palace”, using traditional architectural elements such as brackets, flying eaves, and vermilion pillars, combined with exquisite Ming Dynasty furniture, to create a strong Ming Dynasty court atmosphere.

At the same time, the team is required to set up small “time and space nodes” in each intangible cultural heritage display area to connect the ancient and modern times.

For example, in the “Chinese Musical Instruments Performance” area, the cross-border collaboration between traditional guqin and modern electronic music showcases the dialogue between ancient and modern music;

In the “Ceramic Making” experience area, not only the traditional blue and white porcelain craftsmanship is displayed, but there is also a modern pottery DIY area, which encourages guests to use their creativity and experience the transformation process from clay to porcelain.

In order to make the wedding process orderly and smooth, he tinkered with it for an entire afternoon and finally produced a detailed draft of the implementation manual.

The time, location, required personnel and materials for each link are listed in detail to ensure that each performance and experience activity is seamlessly connected.

In addition, he even thought of designing an exclusive APP, where guests can scan QR codes to obtain information such as the wedding process, intangible cultural heritage introduction, map navigation, etc.

Anyway, it is not expensive to make an APP now. A few tens of thousands of dollars can achieve what he wants and enhance the guests’ participation experience.

Especially for guests coming from abroad, having such an APP to explain the wedding can help them to have a deeper understanding and appreciate this wedding full of cultural heritage.

The APP not only contains a detailed schedule of the wedding, but also has a special “Cultural Encyclopedia” section, which provides a graphic and text introduction to each intangible cultural heritage item, and even adds a voice guide function, so that foreign friends can hear pure Chinese pronunciation and better experience the charm of Eastern culture.

Taking interactivity into consideration, Yang Xuan thinks that adding interactive game sessions to the APP, such as “Finding Hidden Intangible Cultural Heritage Treasures” – guests can unlock corresponding achievement medals by completing specific tasks or finding designated intangible cultural heritage display points, and have the opportunity to receive specially customized souvenirs, which will undoubtedly greatly increase the fun and sense of participation in the wedding.

This APP not only needs to incorporate classical aesthetic elements in its design, but also ensure the stability and compatibility of the system so that users of both iOS and Android systems can operate smoothly.

In short, there are many things.

Some things may need to be prepared now.

Especially for those particularly popular intangible cultural heritage performances, you may need to make reservations in advance.

But before that, they need to determine a date, the exact time of the wedding. Only in this way can the subsequent matters proceed steadily.

To confirm the time, you have to meet your parents first, or at least let them know about it.

“Looks like it’s time to take Lina home!”

Since the journey has been interrupted, let’s make the interruption last a little longer.

(End of this chapter)