On the third day of the second month of the lunar calendar, is Anren County's annual Medicine King Festival, the streets and alleys of a sea of people, merchants gathered. The number of merchants and the active trading is the most for the previous Medicine King Festival.
Anren Medicine King Festival, early in order to commemorate the Yan Emperor Shennong and passed down the folk event, after thousands of years to form a Chinese have to catch up with the sub-community festivals, this year's Medicine King Festival launched the theme of promoting the culture of Shennong.
The day, Anren County in the Shennong Hall Square held a worship ancestor Yandi Shennong's and plowing ceremony, brilliant statue of Yandi Shennong's in the sunshine glittering, come to worship people in an endless stream of people from all parts of the folk art groups perform a dance dragon lanterns, playing the drums, rowing the dry boat and other traditional programs, and even the shadow puppets that have not been seen for many years has been moved to the stage.
Sales of medicinal herbs and agricultural by-products, the main products of the Spring Equinox Festival, are even hotter, with drug dealers from all over China coming to purchase valuable Chinese herbal medicines. In the county's main streets, some units and departments set up scientific and technological advice, legal, birth control and other services for the general public to solve problems, provide scientific and technological advice and services. Farmers and friends are carefully buy farming tools and other means of production and life, for the spring plowing production preparation, the year's labor, replaced by a hot new yearning.
Anren Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival opening ceremony as well as the completion of the Shennong Medicine King Hall ceremony was held. Liu Zheng, former chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Liu Guangming, standing committee member of the municipal party committee and minister of the municipal party committee's propaganda department, and Pan Biling, vice mayor of the city, attended the opening and cut the ribbon.
Anren Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival is a large-scale festival organized by the Anren County Party Committee and the county government in order to further inherit and explore the culture of pesticides passed down for thousands of years, and to speed up the social and economic development of Anren. Liu Guangming at the opening ceremony, I hope that Anren County to further give full play to the advantages of the characteristics of the festival to live the article of the King of Medicine, to create a brand of the King of Medicine, and constantly accelerate the pace of development, enhance the development of the strength of the economy to live, do strong Anren.
After the opening ceremony, Anren County also held a series of activities such as the opening ceremony of the Stone Dam Drug Market, the opening ceremony of the Anren Big Market, and the signing ceremony of investment projects.
Anren catch the branch, began in the Song Dynasty, is in honor of Yandi Shennong and passed down the folk event, is the country's unique folk festival. Every year around the vernal equinox, people from all directions gather in Anren County to worship Emperor Yan Di and trade in Chinese herbs, cereal seeds, agricultural tools, agricultural by-products, bamboo and wood utensils, and other commodities. During the period of catching the branch, the herbal market is full of herbs collected from all over China and even Southeast Asian countries, involving several encyclopedias and nearly 1,000 kinds of Chinese herbs. In recent years, the local government to "sub-society" stage, economic and trade opera, "the rise of a thousand years of medicine market, recruiting the world merchants," so that the traditional custom of catching the sub-society revitalized.
Strong festival - Medicine King Festival activities
Strong people around the northern part of Gui this day to go up to the mountains to pick back Sapium sebiferum, Tianji Huang, gourd tea, Yuanbao grass, and other herbs boiled in water to take a bath. It is thought that this will make the skin clean and free from scabies. Jingxi County, the Zhuang in this day to open the medicine market, specializing in selling a variety of herbs, buyers enthusiastically. Legend has it that the medicine of this day has special effects. In addition, each family also wrapped triangular rice dumplings, boiling vinegar liquid in the house, burning pomelo skin, in the door plug wormwood, in order to drive away the evil and expel the epidemic. County Party Secretary Deng Dangxiong in looking at the equinox medicine king festival preparations emphasized that all departments at all levels to the posture of the war, invigorate the spirit, go all out, careful preparation, considerate service, the successful completion of the preparatory work to ensure that the equinox medicine king festival to do out of the characteristics of the effectiveness of; at the same time, we should take advantage of the festival to sing the brand, to build the industry, the joy of the people, and to promote the development of the festival.
Deng Dangxiong and his entourage in Zhou Ping, Tan Xiaohua, Huang Qing, Fan Xinguo and other county leaders, accompanied by, has inspected the stone dam herbal medicine market, the county city of eight all the way to the 2007 North and South Elite Clothing Commodities Large-scale Expo Pavilion, the county city of the seven east of the Folk Customs and Art Pavilion, the brand of the Anren market clothing exposition field, flower-drum drama and singing and dancing performances at the seven traffic plaza, the river lamps of the new bridge upstream, open the river lamps, the new bridge, the new bridge, the new bridge, the new bridge, the river lanterns, the river lamps. The preparations for the various venues of the festival such as the upper reaches of Xinqiao Bridge where the river lanterns are placed, the south bank of Xinqiao Bridge where the plowing ceremony is held, and Shennong Hall where the rituals are held. The staff at all levels and units in the preparatory work of hard work to express condolences, after listening to the relevant units of the preparatory work report, Deng Dangxiong on the county comprehensive governance and reorganization, security and transportation security, liaison and reception of the preparatory work is being carried out in an orderly manner to give a fully affirmed.
Deng Dangxiong pointed out that the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival should be held in general to reflect the passion, calm, warm, safe and festive; this year, the government to take the guidance of the market supervision, social services and economic regulation means to organize the festival, is an innovation and attempt, the departments at all levels to do the leadership in place, the responsibility of a clear, close cooperation, well organized, and go all out to make the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival of the preparations for the fine! Do a good job. To highlight the theme, to improve the schedule of activities and the convergence of activities, to be busy but not chaotic, organized; to a high degree of responsibility, the concept of timeliness, the refinement of the division of labor, one by one, on time to grasp and grasp the preparatory work. The preparatory work for the various activities, to have a holistic, to talk about the rules and regulations, so that the combination of compact, interlocking. Can not ignore every detail, to ensure that nothing is wrong. Departments at all levels to keep a clear head, effectively strengthen the organization and coordination, pay close attention to the implementation of the work, to integrate all the work, enhance the sense of the big picture, to do the work, the festival will not miss, both promote.
Deng Dangxiong emphasized that doing a good job of the festival's safety and security work is the key to ensure complete success. To firmly establish the concept of security, to ensure that the festival will be carried out in an orderly manner. During the festival, in accordance with the requirements of the overall implementation of the program, thoughtful and meticulous thinking and arrangement of each activity, each specific link, to strengthen the coordination between the group and the group, to ensure interlocking, orderly, tense and orderly, to participate in the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival guests and friends left a good impression. Anren County is located in the southeastern part of Hunan Province, the northern part of Chenzhou region, the county was set up in the third year of Song Qiande. The scenery here is beautiful, "Jade Peak piano, Fenggang purple, Xiongxia red, moon pool night" and other eight scenic picturesque, distinctive, fascinating.
The "Medicine King Festival" as a traditional festival has been passed down in Anren for a long time, and its "origin" is the farmers' festival. The traditional spring equinox to the most prevalent herbal medicine trade, farmers "Medicine King Festival" to buy medicine to get rid of cold and disease, for the spring plowing to strengthen the body. Local farmers used to increase the bone wind, so bone wind, moon wind vine, dragon bones, such as more than 10 kinds of Chinese herbs and pig's feet, black beans boiled into a black black soup, drink not only to get rid of cold and disease, but also to strengthen the body and bones.
Today, every year during the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival, eight merchants gathered in Anren, unprecedented, become a Chinese herbal medicine trade, famous doctors exchange, agricultural and local specialties exhibition and sale of the event. More than 20 provinces in China, more than 700 kinds of Chinese herbs in the exhibition and sale here, the transaction volume of more than a thousand tons, the turnover amounted to tens of millions of dollars, become "north of Anguo, south of Anren" of the South China medicine capital. Anren planted 40,000 acres of Chinese herbal medicine, is an important production base of Chinese herbal medicine.
Anren has a long history of Shennong culture. Legend has it that Emperor Shennong's to Anren territory to taste the herbs, cure all diseases, "picking tea Jiulongan, cooking incense hall, teaching people incense lawn", later generations to commemorate the Shennong's and other nine Immortals, built temples "choose the day of the community to pray for the Valley of the gods," the pilgrimage to the people in an endless stream of people to trade in herbal medicines, Agricultural tools, etc., especially in the traditional trade in Chinese herbs is prevalent, and there is a legend that "medicine not to Anren not Qi, medicine not to Anren not spiritual, Langzhong not to Anren not famous".