Suizhou City
Suizhou, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, is located in the northern part of Hubei Province, known as the "Han-Xiang throat" and the "Pearl of North Hubei", with a geographic location ranging from 31°19′ to 32°26′ north latitude and 112°43′ to 113°46′ east longitude. The city has a population of 2,216,700 in 2018, with the jurisdiction of Guangshui City, Zengdu District and Suixian County. , Zengdu District and Suizhou County.
Suizhou is known as "the country of Handong", famous for "ancient, strange, beautiful and new", and is a national historical and cultural city. Known as the "Chubei sky first peak" of the Jingchu famous Dahong Mountain, beautiful scenery, landscape peculiar, is a national natural landscape protection zone. Tongbai Mountain, which straddles the two provinces of Hubei and Henan, has become the birthplace of Huaihe River, the boundary river between north and south of China.
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Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, June 9, 2018 (Reporter Yang Yijun, Wang Xian) The opening ceremony of the wuxu year of the World's Chinese Yandi Hometown Roots Seeking Festival and the visit to the Yandi Shennong Ceremony was held in Suizhou City, Hubei Province on the 9th. Overseas Chinese from more than 30 countries and regions, as well as representatives from all walks of life, nearly 10,000 people gathered in Lie Shan, *** congratulations on the birth of Yandi, remembering the achievements of the ancestor, *** Xiang rejuvenation of the great cause.
Hua Xia with the ancestor, the world **** Lie Shan. 9 is the lunar calendar April 26, according to legend, this day is the birth of Yandi. Yandi Shennong's and Huangdi Xuanyuan's by the global Chinese and known as the "civilization of the first ancestor".
The day of the opening ceremony and pay homage to Yandi Shennong ceremony on behalf of the Jingchu brilliant culture of the chimes music and dance in the opening. Subsequently, the enshrinement square, float square, VIP square along the plaza axis in order to enter. After the warm "Fu Li music and dance", the ceremony into the ancestor worship ceremony. In order to open the sacred door, lighting the sacred fire, offering flower baskets, offering incense, representatives of 56 nationalities read the "Ode to Yandi Wen". The ceremony ended with the song "Yandi's Great Song" and "China's New Era", and the hymns celebrating the spirit of Yandi echoed above the Lie Mountain.
Since 2009, the event has been successfully held for nine sessions, strengthening economic and cultural exchanges at home and abroad, and enhancing the centripetal force and cohesion of the Yan Huang children. The "Suizhou Shennong Ceremony" program has been selected as a national intangible cultural heritage.
According to reports, the theme of the current Festival of Roots for the "four seas as one family, **** round the Chinese dream" by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the Chinese Yanhuang Cultural Research Society, the Hubei Provincial People's Government jointly organized.
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