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Folk Culture in Gurao Town
The mass cultural activities in Gurao Town are active and large-scale. Especially on holidays, organize various cultural and sports activities to enliven people's cultural life. There is an amateur literary and artistic creation team in the town, which is active in literature, painting and calligraphy creation. It's called Little Red Flower at the foot of Xiaobei Mountain. Sometimes they hold large-scale literary evenings with relevant units, and sometimes the neighborhood committees hold exhibitions of paintings and calligraphy. 1995 During the Spring Festival, an exhibition of paintings and calligraphy collected by Zhang Yongli, Zhang Xiaobin and Zhang Yingping was held, among which the works were masterpieces of famous painters and painters in Ming and Qing Dynasties and contemporary times. 1May, 997, an exhibition of calligraphy and painting was held to commemorate the May 4th Movement and welcome the return of Hong Kong. A total of 68 old, middle-aged and young writers, 135 works participated in the exhibition. During the Spring Festival in 2004, an exhibition of photographs by Chen, He and Zhang Haipeng was held.

In order to promote the development of cultural undertakings, the town contacted Chaoyang Propaganda and Culture Department, organized some writers to interview relevant enterprises in the town, reported the development of township enterprises in depth, and made special reports in newspapers and periodicals to reflect the development of large and medium-sized enterprises since the reform and opening up.

In terms of literary and artistic creation, the essays and novels of amateur writers such as Lin Xiangxiong and Zhang Yiying have made their mark in Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and they are quite famous in Chaoyang literary world in eastern Guangdong. Lin Xiangxiong has published Soul of the Ancient City and Notes on Walking in Clouds and Waters. Zhang Yiying's creation is in the ascendant, and she has published a collection of essays, such as Not Only Memories, A Fork in Life, Yesterday's Story, etc. Among them, the essay "Father and Book" won the first prize of the Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres in the Literary and Art Newspaper and People's Daily, and also won the first prize of the amateur creation of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Chaoyang Cultural Bureau for many years. The cultural activities in Gurao Town can be actively carried out because it has a mass creative team. In the amateur calligraphy and painting exhibition, Zhang Yingping, Zhang Baosheng and Zhang Chuping from Shangbao, Huang Jianzhou, Zhang and Luo, and Zhang Yingshun and Zhang from Huaguang are all pioneers of Gu Rao's cultural work.

Gu Rao's folk cultural activities will continue to develop with the passage of time. Several villages (residences) in the township hold sacrificial activities every ten years. By commemorating the anti-Yuan activities of Wen Tianxiang and other subordinates in the Southern Song Dynasty, the masses are encouraged to carry forward national integrity, carry out activities to create two civilizations, and mobilize overseas Chinese at home and abroad to join in the construction of their hometown, singing and dancing. 1April 1998 and1February 1998, there were 12 units in five villages in the township, including 13 male and female English song teams, 15 Chaozhou flute and drum teams and 20 dance teams. At the same time, cultural groups from Shaanxi, Liaoning, Guangxi, Fujian and other places participated in tourism performances, which were very popular.

Gurao Town has a number of cultural activity positions such as library, cable TV station and cultural activity center for respecting the elderly. Cultural rooms are generally built in villages (residences), and mass cultural activities are very active. There are 20 song and dance teams in the town, among which Dongming Ying Ge's performance at' 97 Chaoyang Song and Dance Festival was well received. The Youth English Singing Team of Shangbao Second Village participated in the '99 Chaoyang Spring Festival Cultural Parade; Huaguang Youth English Song Team and Gong and Drum Team participated in Shantou 99 Spring Festival Cultural Parade; Xianbo Junior Flute Suite Music Team won the second place in Chaoyang First Flute Suite Music Competition; In 2003, organize teachers and students of the education system to participate in cultural performances celebrating the National Day in this district; In 2003-2004, China Chess Competition was held.

The "2008 Folk Culture Festival" in Gurao Town evolved from the development of Gurao's sacrificial society. It is said that the sacrificial society has a history of more than 600 years since the Ming Dynasty. It was originally to commemorate the soldiers who died in Wen Tianxiang and the Southern Song Dynasty.

There are many legends about Wen Tianxiang in Gurao Town, Chaoyang District. According to legend, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan soldiers invaded. Wen Tianxiang, the right prime minister, attempted to restore the country in Chaoyang, and was captured in Haifeng County during the battle. Commander-in-Chief Chen Yi colluded with the rebel Zhang Hongfan and fought a bloody battle with Song Jun at the foot of Xiaobei Mountain. Because of the disparity in strength between the two sides, most people in Song Jun died here.

Ming Taizu posthumously awarded the soldiers killed in the Anti-Yuan War at the end of the Song Dynasty as "marshals", and ordered villages adjacent to the Anti-Yuan War, such as Chiliao in Guishan (formerly known as Gu Rao), to regularly offer sacrifices to the soldiers killed in that year, and Gu Rao and other places began to offer sacrifices to the society. Folk repair the graves of soldiers killed in the late Song Dynasty, known as the "Tomb of Marshal Song", and all ethnic groups in each township pay homage by stages. According to the investigation, there are 9 Song tombs in Gurao and neighboring villages.