Central China's Yichang City holds the Qu Yuan's hometown Dragon Boat Culture Festival
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YICHANG, China, June 6, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
"Qu Yuan belongs not only to Yichang City, but also the world and all mankind,"
Wang Li, vice governor of central China's Hubei Province and top official of
Yichang City, said emotionally as he addressed the opening ceremony of the 2022
Qu Yuan's Hometown Dragon Boat Culture Festival held on June 2 in Yichang.
Yichang is the hometown of Qu Yuan, a well-known poet and a minister of the
State of Chu during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), whose death was
closely related with the origin of China's Dragon Boat Festival, a day
traditionally marked with dragon boat races and eating Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped
dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves.
After the opening ceremony, a grand original performance named "China in the
songs of Chu Kingdom" was staged. Fifteen programs in various forms, including
song and dance, drum performance, acrobatics and rap, presented a cultural
audio-visual feast to audiences at home and abroad, according to the Publicity
Department of Yichang Municipality.
On June 3, a total of 16 teams with over 400 participants from Hubei, Hunan,
Jiangxi, Guangdong and other provincial regions competed in a dragon boat race
in Yichang's Zigui County with the backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam to
celebrate the traditional Chinese festival.
Yichang's Dragon Boat Culture Festival activities seek to present the city's
rich cultural deposits related with Qu Yuan. In addition to the opening
ceremony, a dragon boat race, an investment match-making meeting, folk
performances and other activities, the first Qu Yuan culture research
international forum, the annual meeting of the Chinese Association of Qu Yuan,
a global collection of works on Qu Yuan from young writers and other activities
were also held.
As a national Dragon Boat Festival event, the Qu Yuan's hometown Dragon Boat
Culture Festival has been held six times, with an average of 150,000 visits
each year. In 2009, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, with Qu Yuan's hometown
Dragon Boat Culture Festival as its main content, was inscribed on the UNESCO
Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Therefore,
Dragon Boat Festival has become a thousand-year-old cultural event and a
cultural symbol with global influence in Qu Yuan's hometown of Yichang.
Source: Publicity Department of Yichang Municipality
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