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Hundreds of Foreign Press Covering Ten Languages Focus on Water Releasing Festival in Dujiangyan
Updated:2017.03.29

  “I haven’t been to Dujiangyan though, I saw it online where boasts ancient waterway projects and splendid landscapes. I’m eager to be there and have a look.” Recently Hirokagaya Inoue, a Japanese in Tokyo, caught a glimpse of the grand occasion of the Water Releasing Festival in Dujiangyan through the Japanese Channel of People.cn and has grown huge interest. He thinks the ceremony not only a vivid depiction of the great project but an embodiment of the excellent traditional cultures and the national wisdom and ideals, and an epitome of people’s rich life in west Sichuan from ancient times to the present. He is in the hope of visiting Dujiangyan with the company of friends.

  According to the official from the Tourism Administration of Qingcheng Mountain, Dujiang, in recent years, Qingcheng Mountain has been enjoying a steadily increasing number of foreign tourists, becoming an important tourism destination for global tourists. It is notable that the annual Water Releasing Festival held during Tomb-sweeping Day, as one of the first national intangible cultural heritages, has attracted tourist all over the world, due to its profound historical and cultural connotations and heart-shaking living theater. This year, the sponsor of the Water Releasing Festival ceremony has entrusted relevant parties, by taking full use of the international Internet platform, to translate the marvelous contents of the activity into ten foreign languages including English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and etc, and successively conduct promotions on hundreds of international medium in various countries and regions such as the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Portuguese, Japan, and South Korea.

  It is said that this year marks the 2,273rd anniversary since the construction of Dujiangyan Waterway Project. The sponsor has announced that the grand Water Releasing Ceremony will be held in the afternoon on April 2nd inside the scenic spot of Dujiangyan. The ceremony will, in the form of living theater with profound Taoism such as the law of letting nature take its course and the oneness between heaven and humans integrated, embody the waterway project delivering benefits for generations in the manner of art, presenting a beautiful picture depicting humans and nature in harmony.

  Noguchi Eiji, a 27-year-old Japanese in Tokyo, stated in an interview that, he saw the ancient waterway project and beautiful sceneries online, and he has been longing to visit Dujiangyan.

  A Russian in Mexico said that, he has heard of the Festival mainly through Li Bing and his son, the two great men contributing to the project benefiting the whole Chengdu Plain. It reflects the long historical course and folk arts of the agricultural culture in Chengdu Plain, and presents the merits of Chinese such as adoring the precedents and valuing morals and gratitude. He views the ceremony as a tourism program featuring ancient folk arts and local characteristics, which is of realistic importance on disseminating traditional cultures and worth common attention from the human community.

  It is known that the highlight of this year’s ceremony still lies in the water releasing by chopping off macha. Macha is a triangular prism formed by connecting tops of three sticks. It can be used for filling and constructing dams with steel sticks and fences to block the flowing water. After the host issue the order and touch off the firecrackers, the strong workers will strive to cut off the slope on macha, while people on the bank endeavor to pull the string until macha is disintegrated and fall down. The water then burst out. The young people run along the water and constantly throw stones to the front of it, which is called beating the water front. And other people rush to scoop the first flow of water in honor of the god, as a move to reduce disasters and pray for the peace.

  According to the sponsor, this year’s ceremony will welcome over 100 international tourist representatives from various countries and regions such as the United Stated, Britain, France, Japan, and Russia to embrace the majestic activity and, from their perspective, to share the activity to the overseas tourists.

 

 
 
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