On the morning of April 4, 2012 Dujiangyan Qingming water Festival opening ceremony was held in the World Heritage Site Dujiangyan . The current " Dujiangyan the Qingming water festival , jointly organized by the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association, the Chengdu Municipal Government, China's Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, the Ministry of Culture, Heritage Secretary, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Province Tourism Bureau. The festival theme is: "the Guyan Spring, moist Tianfu, including envoys from 33 countries and his wife also attended the opening ceremony.
Turn on the water ceremony
" Dujiangyan the Qingming water festival "in the tradition of folk customs of a thousand years. During the Tomb Sweeping Festival to celebrate the Dujiangyan water conservancy annual repairs completed and into the spring production busy season, but also to commemorate Li Bing, civil society is to be held in a grand turn on the water ceremony, including the official worship and mass worship. The water festival has become a western Sichuan people in the most solemn holiday, the annual generations, the grand is better than the Chinese New Year . In 2006, the folk approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
It is reported that Dujiangyan the Qingming water festival this year, lasted from April 2 to May 12, will be carried out during the first Flower Festival, Tomb Sweeping water festival opening ceremony, folk cultural activities, the Qingming commerce, investment promotion, Huimin activities, 2012 the envoys search most worthy recommended by the Embassy to the international world humanities Water wonders - China Dujiangyan , a series of theme activities. Dujiangyan the Qingming water during the festival this year , is expected to be domestic and foreign tourists and 700 million people, tourism revenue reached more than 390 million.
