Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival

2012 China - Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival of Folklore and Culture by the Ministry of Culture, the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, organized by the Department of Culture of Zhejiang Province, the *** Jiaxing Municipal Party Committee, Jiaxing Municipal People's Government.　　Jiaxing early in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period is the intersection of Wu and Yue two countries, so there is "Wu root Yue corner" of the name, the Dragon Boat Festival folklore has a long history. 2000 years ago in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, Wu and Yue frequent fighting, Wu Zixu Wu generals have been in the area of the military training, leaving behind a lot of beautiful and moving legends. An important part of the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiaxing is to commemorate Wu Zixu.

As Jiaxing is located in the water country, river and lake crisscrossing, Jiaxing people "boat instead of car", life "one day can not abolish the oars", which gives the boat manufacturing and dragon boat racing to create the conditions. Jiaxing countryside abounds in rice Ruo leaf, to wrap the rice dumplings food millet provides a convenient. These are the two main activities to ensure that the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiaxing around the fundamental reason for the enduring.

Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival has a deep background of "Wu-Yue culture", "rice culture" and "water country", highlighting the unique traditional culture of the Jiangnan water town. Through the organization of the festival makes the Wuyue culture background of Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival custom formation, change has been fully excavated and inheritance, Jiaxing has become the first national "Chinese Dragon Boat Festival culture research base", Zhejiang Province, the first "national traditional festival protection base".

Jiaxing is located in the northeastern part of Zhejiang Province, east of Shanghai, north of Suzhou, west of Hangzhou, south of Hangzhou Bay, with a land area of 3,915 square kilometers, the existing household population of 3.39 million.

The Majiabang culture, which was conceived here 7,000 years ago, is a representative of the early Neolithic culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Taihu Lake basin. In 231 AD, Jiaxing was founded as a city, and the city's muscle veins have remained basically unchanged for more than 1,700 years, and still preserves three major historical neighborhoods such as Yuehe, Lushihui, and Meiban Street, which exudes the unique flavor of the Jiangnan water town and embodies the gravity and history of the ancient water city.

Jiaxing is the birthplace of the Chinese ****产党. In July 1921, the first congress of the Chinese ****产党 was held in Shanghai, and was transferred to a cruise ship on the South Lake of Jiaxing due to the attack by the French Concession police, announcing the birth of the Chinese ****产党. The red boat on the South Lake witnessed this groundbreaking event. Jiaxing South Lake has always been a scenic spot, "a slight rain, light smoke filled lake, climbed the tower to look into the distance, pale and misty," the wonderful fun, highly respected by the literati. Song Dynasty Yang Wanli praised it "light smoke indifferent rain sparse, blue tiles and rafters light water corner"; Qing Dynasty Wu Weiye poem: "Willow leaves chaotically over a thousand feet of rain, peach blossom red with a stream of smoke", and the Qianlong Emperor is even more fascinated by it. He went to Jiangnan six times, eight times to visit, and wrote "try to see the shallow smoke party light swing, will teach not rain also confused" and other poems.

Jiaxing is rich in tourism resources, in recent years, the rapid development of tourism. In addition to South Lake, living a thousand years of ancient town Xitang, the last pillow water home - Wuzhen, retained a strong Jiangnan water town style. Pinghu Jiulongshan coastal tourism area, is a good place for people to relax. Haiyan North and South Lake, known as a piece of true landscape in Jiangnan. Haining Qianjiang River tide, more spectacular world without. Jiaxing also retains a large number of former residences of celebrities, late Qing dynasty scholar Shen Zengzhi, master of Chinese culture Wang Guowei, publishing giant Zhang Yuanji, literary giant Mao Dun, famous poet Xu Zhimo, artistic wizard Feng Zikai, sea painter Puhua, translation model Zhu Shenghao and patriotic democrat Shen Junru, the famous social activists Chu Fucheng, master of mathematics, such as Chen Shenshen, have left their footsteps growing up in their hometown.

Nowadays, Jiaxing is vigorously implementing the strategy of establishing a city of ecology and culture, building a large city of ecological culture in the south of the Yangtze River, and making every effort to create a modern network-type idyllic city.

2012 China Sericulture Silk Weaving Folk Culture Forum

June 28-29, 2012 China Sericulture Silk Weaving Folk Culture Forum was held in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, from the country's 58 experts and scholars and guests attended the forum. Chai Yongqiang, vice mayor of Jiaxing Municipal People's Government, Tao Yuebiao, deputy inspector of the Department of Culture of Zhejiang Province, Liu Kaili, honorary president of the Chinese Folklore Society and deputy director of the Expert Committee for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China, and Li Xiaosong, deputy director of the Office of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. The forum was organized by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of China, the Department of Culture of Zhejiang Province and the People's Government of Jiaxing Municipality, and undertaken by the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, and Television Press and Publication of Jiaxing Municipality, and co-organized by the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, and Television Press and Publication of Hangzhou and the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, and Television Press and Publication of Huzhou.

The forum*** received 63 papers. Forum, the delegates focused on the "Chinese sericulture silk weaving skills and its folk culture" theme, to explore the Chinese sericulture silk weaving folk culture connotation of the historical changes and contemporary direction, to explore its scientific protection concepts, methods and practices, the topic involves Chinese sericulture silk weaving skills and folk culture protection and inheritance of the regional characteristics of the comparison of regional protection, interactive linkage mechanism, cultural space composition. The topics cover a wide range of research fields, including comparison of regional characteristics, regional protection, interactive linkage mechanism, cultural space composition, protection strategy, inheritance mode, cultural ecological protection, productive protection, digital protection, folk belief in silkworm gods, traditional dyeing techniques, as well as the protection of sericulture culture and the construction of a modern new countryside, etc. This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the research and inheritance practice of China's sericulture silk weaving techniques and sericulture culture. Chen Qinjian, vice president of China Folklore Society and professor of East China Normal University, summarized the conference. During the forum, the delegates visited the calligraphy and painting exhibition of "Drawing Mulberry and Flax with Wine", and paid field visits to Jiaxing Silk Museum, Yunlong Silkworm Culture Park in Zhouwangmiao Town of Haining, and Silkworm Culture Museum in Chauquan Town of Tongxiang. The forum is "China's sericulture silk weaving techniques" selected as representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, the Ministry of Culture held the first sericulture silk weaving folk culture high-end academic forum.

In September 2009, the Chinese silk weaving technique was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This heritage includes the production techniques of mulberry planting, sericulture, reeling, dyeing and weaving, the ingenious tools and looms used in the process, and the colorful silk products such as damask, sarongs and brocades, as well as the related folklore activities derived from this process. This traditional production craftsmanship and folklore is still preserved in the Taihu Lake basin in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu, as well as in Chengdu, Sichuan, and is an integral part of China's cultural heritage." ("China sericulture silk weaving techniques" declaration)

Jiaxing City has been known as "the hometown of silkworms, silk of the House" reputation, sericulture and silk weaving culture has a history of more than 4700 years, sericulture production, cocoon processing, silk trade leads the country, It is famous all over the world. As an important protection and inheritance area of "Chinese silk weaving techniques", Jiaxing City, Jiaxing City, issued "Jiaxing City, silk weaving culture and ecological zone protection planning (2010-2015)" and other policies and measures, named Haining City, Tongxiang City, and Xiuzhou District for the first batch of silk weaving culture and ecological zones. Has invested in the construction of Jiaxing Silk Museum, Tongxiang Chauquan Silkworm Culture Museum, Haining Yunlong Silkworm Culture Park and other sericulture and silk weaving and sericulture cultural exhibition venues. 2011 December, Haining City, China and the China Silk Museum to cooperate in the construction of "China's sericulture and silk weaving cultural heritage eco-park," the project was held a signing ceremony. The total planning area of the ecological park is about 30 square kilometers, of which the first construction of the core area of about 3000 acres of Nine Mulberry Park. After the completion of the ecological park, will become the first large-scale sericulture ecological park, not only can comprehensively protect, research, inheritance of China's sericulture and silk weaving cultural heritage, but also will lead to the development of the surrounding sericulture, is conducive to maintaining and improving the development of China's cocoon and silk industry environment. At the same time, Jiaxing City has hosted the Hangzhou-Jiaxing Lake sericulture silk weaving folk culture seminars, double temple islet water sericulture flowers will be, Yunlong sericulture cultural tourism festival and a series of protection and inheritance and academic seminars, in order to take practical action to actively promote the intangible cultural heritage of mankind on behalf of the "Chinese sericulture silk weaving skills" protection and inheritance.