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Xinhua Silk Road: Central China’s Yichang holds 2024 Qu Yuan’s hometown Dragon Boat Culture Festival

Jun 12, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #2024 Qu Yuan's hometown Dragon Boat Culture Festival, #BEIJING, #Central China's Yichang holds 2024, #The 2024 Qu Yuan's hometown Dragon Boat Culture Festival, #Xinhua Silk Road, #Yichang

BEIJING, June 12, 2024 — The 2024 Qu Yuan’s hometown Dragon Boat Culture Festival kicked off on June 7 in Zigui County of Yichang City in central China’s Hubei Province.

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At the opening ceremony of the event, the sacrificial ceremony in ancient time was for the first time demonstrated in the form of art. A grand original performance named “China in the Songs of Chu” was staged, depicting the scenarios in the songs with local scenery and virtual reality technology.

This edition’s cultural festival features three major events, including the opening ceremony, a CCTV special program and the second Dragon Boat Festival cultural month. The city also held a series of activities during the traditional festival, such as a dragon boat race, folk performances and a China-chic fair, to boost the atmosphere of the festival among local people.

Yichang is the hometown of Qu Yuan, a great Chinese patriotic poet, who was also a minister of the State of Chu during the Warring States Period (475 B.C.-221 B.C.). The Dragon Boat Festival is originated to commemorate Qu Yuan on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the Chinese calendar.

In 2009, the custom of “Qu Yuan’s hometown Dragon Boat Festival“, as a part of China’s Dragon Boat Festival, was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

In recent years, Yichang has engaged in the promotion of Qu Yuan culture by building a Qu Yuan cultural park, producing Qu Yuan-themed play and launching the compilation of the complete works of the Songs of Chu, making Qu Yuan culture an important window and a distinctive symbol to show the profound cultural heritage of the city.

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Xinhua Silk Road: E. China’s Rongcheng starts new round of south-north abalone cooperative breeding

Jun 12, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #BEIJING, #China's Rongcheng starts, #China's Shandong Province, #Fishermen in Rongcheng, #Rongcheng, #South-north abalone cooperative breeding, #Xinhua Silk Road

BEIJING, June 12, 2024 — Fishermen in Rongcheng, east China’s Shandong Province have started a new round of abalone breeding in alliance with their partners in southeast China’s Fujian Province to improve the survival rate of abalones, consolidating the south-north abalone cooperative breeding model.

Abalones have very strict requirements on their growing environment, especially the water temperature. The south-north cooperative abalone farming model between Rongcheng and Fujian abalone farmers has lasted for 20 years. The model has been proven as an effective way to meet such requirements and improve the survival rate of abalones.

Specifically, in April and May every year, at the turn of spring and summer, as the sea temperature in the southern China gradually rises, fishermen in Fujian move the abalone fries to the sea area of Rongcheng to escape the heat. And starting from November, when late autumn comes, they return the abalones back to Fujian to enjoy warm winter. It is learned that since mid-April this year, more than 100 million abalones have been shipped to Rongcheng City.

Under the arrangement, abalones are no longer affected by the harsh winter in the north and the scorching heat in the south, and has achieved year-round growth. Besides, the abalone maturity period has been shortened from 18 months to 12 months, and the survival rate of abalones has also increased to more than 90 percent.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Dragon boat race presents Chinese-style “Fast and Furious” in eastern China metropolis

Jun 7, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #20th Shanghai Suzhou Creek Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament, #BEIJING, #China metropolis, #Dragon boat race, #Fast and Furious, #Suzhou Creek, #Xinhua Silk Road

BEIJING, June 7, 2024 — When 36 Chinese and overseas teams gathered on Suzhou Creek during June 1-2, their passion and speedy rowing in a local dragon boat tournament presented a Chinese-style “Fast and Furious” to the excited spectators.

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Ahead of the pending Dragon Boat Festival on June 10, the 20th Shanghai Suzhou Creek Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament was held on the waters of Suzhou Creek, the mother river of Shanghai, in the eastern China metropolis’ Putuo District.

Drawing 700-plus participants from home and abroad, this year’s tournament is more influential than the past as high-level teams from countries such as Russia and France all took part in the event.

Among them, Russian dragon boat team Vladivostok Tiger, a traditionally competitive team, won the champion in its first attendance of the tournament.

Kiselev, a member of the Russian team, said that at the first sight of the Suzhou Creek, he and his fellows were deeply fascinated by its picturesque surroundings and after the event, they planned to take a tour to enjoy the beautiful scenery in Shanghai.

After 20 years, the Suzhou Creek dragon boat invitational tournament has become a remarkable and renowned event to showcase how Putuo District of Shanghai crafted its world-class waterfront and demonstration area.