Yongzhou Jianghua: Build the Shenzhou Yaodu Panwang Festival into a national tourism and cultural festival brand

The opening ceremony of the 2021 Shenzhou Yaodu (Jianghua, China) Yao Panwang Festival.

Red Net Moment November 20 news (reporter Zhou Wenjun correspondent Huang Zhidong) On the morning of November 20, the opening ceremony of the 2021 Shenzhou Yaodu (China Jianghua) Yao Panwang Festival was held in Totem Garden Square.

The annual Panwang Festival of the Yao people is a grand festival for Yao compatriots to remember their ancestors, an important window for inheriting Yao etiquette, and a grand celebration to promote Yao culture. Jianghua is the county with the largest Yao population in the country, the only Yao Autonomous County in Hunan Province, the only ethnic minority autonomous county in Yongzhou City, an important transit station, base camp and birthplace in the history of the Yao people, with a long history and splendid culture, known as the "Yao Capital of Shenzhou".

In recent years, the Yongzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the Jianghua County Party Committee and County Government have always adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, regarded ethnic customs and ecological environment as the biggest advantage in promoting high-quality development, solidly promoted the in-depth integration of cultural and student tourism, actively held traditional festivals and celebrations with the promotion of Yao culture as the core, vigorously developed tourism based on ecological resources, polished the "Millennium Punch Card Place, Here is Xiaoxiang" cultural tourism business card, and effectively promoted the unity and progress of all nationalities. Jianghua takes the annual Yao Panwang Festival as the medium, inherits the ancient Yao customs, takes the return of the Panwang wish and the celebration program as the carrier, highlights the Yao cultural heritage, displays the highlights of culture and art, interprets folk customs, continuously excavates and promotes the Yao culture, enhances the influence of the county, invigorates the national spirit, promotes the construction of the "four centers" of Yao culture, builds the Shenzhou Yaodu Panwang Festival into a national tourism and cultural festival brand, and builds "strength Yaodu, quality Yaodu, green Yaodu, open Yaodu, and happy Yaodu" Make a new contribution.

This year's Panwang Festival will be held from November 19 to 21, including the opening ceremony of the Panwang Festival of the Yao Nationality and the Ancestral Ceremony of the Panwang Festival, the first traditional sports games for ethnic minorities in the county, the Taste of Jianghua YaoJia Food Festival, the Yao Panwang Festival Network Knowledge Prize Contest, the "Yao Township Development I Contribute to the Yao Capital" Suggestions and Suggestions, short video contests, mass literary and artistic performances and other six major activities.