Activity periods: Each year the Ching Ming Festival (2009 to 2009-04-04 to 2009-04-11)
Scope of activities: Dujiangyan scenic spot
Activities feature: vaudeville, antique offerings, visit the temple.
Activities Description: Each year the Spring Festival, Dujiangyan City, has come from the year 978 began the annual Qingming Festival Drainage major tourism events to commemorate the construction of Dujiangyan Irrigation Project mobilize the benefit the Chengdu Plain of Bing son. In ancient times, every winter, people will use the temporary cofferdam was constructed Recent cha, so the Minjiang water or into the Neijiang, or into the river outside, and then scouring the riverbed repair, strengthening river banks, this is the age of repair. To the Tomb Sweeping Festival, both held a grand ceremony for another warm, worship Li Bing and his son, pray for good harvest, peace and prosperity, and then remove Recent raft, rolling straight into the Neijiang Minjiang water, irrigation, thousands of miles wide and wild the Chengdu Plain.
Details: Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province recently launched the "antique ritual sacrifice Drainage - Drainage Festival" special tourism projects, from early April to May 7, day 11 and 15, the Dujiangyan scenic spot will be held in "antique ritual ceremony Drainage "Tourists can visit the site, close viewing, filming the festival, but also personally involved in," Weir workers "to the implementation of cutting Recent raft, bamboo and other ancient skills compilation activities, personal feelings Guyan mighty torrent of water, the passion.
Dujiangyan is the world's oldest extant, the only non-diversion dam is characterized by ancient water conservancy engineering. BC 256, Shujun Li Bing order to keep long-term stability of the Minjiang the water nourishes the Chengdu Plain, the coastal people to lead the construction of Dujiangyan, to the Chengdu Plain, "from the people of flood and drought, I do not know hunger", known to history as "Tianfu." Drainage Qingming Festival is a world cultural heritage site in Dujiangyan Water Conservancy folk custom in Dujiangyan City. Every year since 24 solar terms of the Ching Ming day to celebrate the completion of repair-year-old Dujiangyan Irrigation Project and to enter the busy season for spring plowing, but also to commemorate Li Bing, civil grand celebration to be held - Drainage Section, including official and mass ritual sacrifice and so on. Drainage Festival is the grandest festival in Western people, the annual, from generation to generation, the grand You Shengchun section.
Drainage during the ceremony, the Mang Mang trumpeters sounded magnificent number, I am similar sound guy jump in the number Recent cha dance, wearing a mask of the strong man shook Nuo ritual to exorcise surface wind chimes dance jump, demonstrates the ancient Shu civilization, rich, mysterious, simple ... ...
In the "highest good is like" the sound of the song number, the deacon officers and slowly step on the two accompanying officials had St. station. Han Golden Age of worship Figure 1 shows in front of: the highest party officials had worn the sky, Phi beautiful gown, side of Hong circling pray, bow down river god, heaven and earth, and then at the giant tripod incense among the people expressed favorable weather, peace and prosperity of the prayer.
The two accompanying officials had launched the Silk, the deacon read the official funeral oration: "Li Gong spiritual history of the river more, cross Tianfu the vast, mighty torrent in the river, sparkling in the world ... ..." At the same time, a white horse from far away Department Embankment along the river come runnin, once the knight armed with prayer flag shouting "rescue yo" went straight to the altar, the prayer flag to the chief mourner officer. "Hack Recent Cha - Drainage -" As the deacon officers gave the orders, I am similar to weir several workers caught wearing a jump on "Recent Cha", waved ax, cut off, "Recent cha" node of the bamboo bar set cable, shore dozen workers took Weir tied the other end, "Recent Cha" on the big rope, weir, "Recent Cha" fall down, revealing a gap of a sudden, torrential Minjiang water emission from the breach, to Western Sichuan Plain Pentium away.
It is reported that the Dujiangyan water distribution ceremony lasted two thousand years, has been included in China's non-material cultural heritage. Drainage Festival held in China, Dujiangyan is not only mining, sorting, inherit and carry forward the important role of water culture, but also to promote and enhance the cultural quality of Dujiangyan tourism, promote local economic development is important.
Dujiangyan Discharge section of this important tourism events, the long-standing culture of Dujiangyan water runs through to Dujiangyan and the natural landscape, cultural landscape and folk customs as the bright spot, by the unique local flavor and local cultural expressions, with good visual effects and great sensationalism full display to visitors the ancient Dujiangyan Water mysterious culture of ancient Shu culture, creating a grand, warm, happy and auspicious festive atmosphere to achieve the traditional cultural heritage, promote and extend.
