Dujiangyan Water Release Ceremony fun

Dujiangyan Water Release Ceremony may not be local people simply do not know this activity, but I would like to say that this activity is really worth to go to watch, this post will tell you whether it is good to play here.

Dujiangyan Water Release Ceremony fun

Dujiangyan Water Release Ceremony is the biggest harvest and surprise of this trip. I only saw the advertisement of the tourist bus station by chance, and remembered that I didn't go to Dujiangyan last time because of the earthquake, so I went there with curiosity, not knowing anything about the "water release".

Dujiangyan is located in the west of the Chengdu Plain, Minjiang River, two hours drive from Chengdu. In 256 B.C., Li Bing, a governor of Shu County in Qin during the Warring States period, led a group of people to build a water conservancy project that made the Chengdu Plain a "land of heaven" with thousands of miles of fertile land. Dujiangyan has flourished for more than 2,000 years, and still plays a significant role today. It is a miracle in the history of Chinese water conservancy, and a bright pearl in the world's water conservancy culture.

People often say, "ask the Qingcheng Mountain, worship water Dujiangyan", passing through this place people have to come to pay tribute to a thousand years of water conservancy project, feel the water god's grace. And I was lucky enough to pick the best day.

The water release ceremony is ancient. Once upon a time, every winter dry season, people will be at the head of the canal with the "headboard cut-off method" built into a temporary cofferdam, maintenance of the inner river, blocking the water into the outer river; maintenance of the outer river, blocking the water into the inner river. To be the next year, Qingming Festival, and to hold a ceremony to remove the headboard, release water into the irrigation canal. This ceremony is called "open water", which marks the official start of spring plowing.

In 978 AD, the Northern Song government officially set the day of the Qingming Festival as the "Water Release Festival", from this grand ceremony continued for more than two thousand years. Although it was interrupted after the liberation due to the Dujiangyan reconstruction, but in recent years for the restoration of traditional culture, the ancient water ceremony was revived again and upgraded to the "Water Release Ceremony", which is held in Dujiangyan scenic area before and after the Ching Ming Festival for three days every year.

The live performance of the Water Release Ceremony has a large number of people and a great momentum. The show centers around "water" and tells the story of the relationship between water and people's livelihoods over the past 2,000 years on the Chengdu Plain, which was born and prospered by water.

At the beginning of the show, several fairies slowly descended from a mountain peak, a white silk falling behind them, symbolizing the descent of holy water to earth.

However, the god of water brings not only fertile fields, but also relentless natural disasters. As the river raged and the people were in dire straits, the emperor led the civil and military officials to pray to the heavens, where they carried cattle, sheep and livestock and danced in honor of the god, praying for good winds and good rains.

The sky does not bless people, people will win the sky. Humans finally used their own clever wisdom to subdue the water god, a party of God weir descended on the Minjiang River, since then the storm calmed down, all things in harmony **** life.

Young boys and girls, lotus play; shepherd boy playing the flute, the old man fishing; women on the shore of the happy coats. Taoist priests arrived quietly in a flat boat, playing Tai Chi among the green hills and blue water. Even the naive panda is attracted by the mountain bamboo, in this party of the spirit of the treasure settled home.

The performance reached a climax, there is really a living water from the top of the mountain down, it seems like a white lightning, injected into the rivers, streams, lakes, flowing into the heart of everyone. The whole place was boiling! The spring water steamed and misted, filling the whole land with life, and people sang and danced and rejoiced, thanking heaven, earth, and their ancestors.

I've seen a lot of glimpses of song and dance performances on my travels, and I've never been so moved. Perhaps it was the fact that I was next to a 2,000-year-old weir, or that I had witnessed the wealth, prosperity and tranquility of the Chengdu Plain, that made this gratitude not a performance, but a real evidence of what was happening.

Today, with the decline of agricultural civilization, this ritual of respecting the sky and thanking the earth itself has become a valuable cultural heritage, along with the ancient weir.

Toward the end of the performance, two elderly people on the stage expressed their gratitude to the Minjiang River with deep emotion. At their initiative, the entire audience stood up and bowed three times y in the direction of the Minjiang River to remember its kindness. The theater of several thousand people fell silent, people put down their cell phones, cameras, no more whispers, just bowed their heads and bent their backs in silence, just as the ancients did thousands of years ago, in awe of all things in the heavens and earth, and grateful for the blessings of their ancestors, keeping their roots in mind. That moment of emotion is still unforgettable to me.

Qingcheng is secluded, the ancient weir is continuous; nourish all things, the source of Tianfu. A song Dujiangyan, singing drunk two thousand years.