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September 23, Autumnal eba.
Chen, Yanling County, Luyuanpi, Yandi Mausoleum. The flag hunted, and the crowd stood solemnly. Ancient music is melodious and high incense is offered.
On September 23, the ceremony of "Sacrificing the Yan Emperor Mausoleum" in the Year of Xin Ugly, sponsored by the People's Government of Hunan Province, was solemnly held at the Yan Emperor Mausoleum in Yanling County.
Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and governor of the province, made the main offering and read the "Sacrifice of Yan Diwen".
In a solemn and solemn atmosphere, Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee and governor of Hunan Province, read the "Sacrifice of The Emperor of Yan" with a congratulatory reading: "Ancestor of the First Dynasty, Xun Mao Dezhang... Xinghui Hairun, Ze and Huxiang. The '13th Five-Year Plan' is full of people and materials, and the '14th Five-Year Plan' is full of sails..."
The tribute praised the great achievements and blessings of Emperor Yan, and also expressed the confidence and ambition of the sons and daughters of Huxiang to inherit the spirit of Emperor Yan, promote the strategy of "three highs and four new", and comprehensively open a new journey of socialist modernization.
High specifications, new developments, and heavy significance
The Yanling sacrifice is not only a major event in Hunan, but also a tradition since ancient times.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Yandi Tomb Festival officially held by the Hunan Provincial People's Government began in the 1990s. In October 1988, the main project of restoring the Yandi Mausoleum was completed, and the Yandi Mausoleum was officially opened to the public. On August 15, 1993, the Hunan Provincial People's Government held the first grand ceremony of the Yandi Tomb, with then Governor Chen Bangzhu and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Zhuang Yanlin as the chief priests. In the past 28 years, the Hunan Provincial People's Government has held 10 public sacrifices to the YanDi Mausoleum, and this public sacrifice is the 11th Yandi Tomb Sacrifice Ceremony from all walks of life in the province.
"Emperor Shennong, the Sect of Huaxia." The Yandi Shennong clan is the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation and the founder and founder of China's agricultural civilization.
This year's ceremony coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, which is not only the year of the intersection of the history of the "two hundred years", but also the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the year of the great test we are facing the severe situation of epidemic prevention and control.
Today also coincides with the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, and in the view of Zhu Jianjun, director of the China Yanhuang Culture Research Association, the ancestor worship ceremony was held at such a solemn and sacred historical node, calling on everyone to inherit and carry forward the spirit of the Yandi emperor of pioneering, innovating, enterprising, and dedicating, inheriting the past and opening up the future, which has important practical significance and far-reaching historical significance, and embodies the tradition of our Descendants of Yanhuang to pursue the distant future cautiously and remember the source.
The reporter also learned that this year's festival of Yan Diwen for the first time asked calligraphy masters to handwrite and carved a monument to commemorate it, which also reflects the heritage of traditional culture.
The nine drums, the nine rings of gold, and the ceremony of the prison express the highest respect of the sons and daughters of China for the ancestors of the Chinese nation.
Participating in this sacrifice, the reporter enjoyed a grand national cultural feast.
"The theme is clear and prominent, and the ceremony is standardized and solemn, which is the perfect combination of China's traditional etiquette system and the development concept of the new era." Zhu Jianjun said.
Ji Chengming, vice president of the Hunan Shennong Yandi Research Association and professor of Xiangtan University, felt the same way. Since 2011, Ji Chengming has mainly engaged in the study of Yandi culture, and he has participated in many large and small sacrifice activities. He noticed that all those who participated in the sacrifice today wore formal clothes, "all the participants wore formal clothes, which made the sacrifice activities more standardized and the sense of ceremony stronger." ”
Today, why should we sacrifice Emperor Yan?
Bloodline identity
A nation without roots is a nation that does not grow up.
"Only when the descendants of Yanhuang know where they came from can they understand where they are going." Descendants of Yan Huang, the word "Yan" here refers to the YanDi Shennong clan.
As the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in China, the "Yandi Tomb Festival" was awarded the world's top ten most influential pro-cultural events. The "Yandi Tomb Festival" has developed steadily, the procedures have become increasingly standardized, and the basic pattern of government sacrifices and ordinary folk sacrifices during the Qingming Festival has been formed, and every governor of the Hunan Provincial People's Government must also sacrifice once. According to the statistics of relevant departments, since the beginning of this century, there have been more than 5,000 large-scale sacrifice activities, attracting tens of millions of Chinese to participate.
Through the remembrance and remembrance in front of the Yandi Mausoleum again and again, national communication and aggregation have also been realized again and again.
The sons and daughters of China distributed all over the world have found their own cultural roots and blood and kinship in front of the common ancestral mausoleum, and in the historical process of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, they will surely form a huge national cohesion.
Cultural heritage
In the long-term process of sacrifice, in addition to blood identification, it also reflects people's cultural roots and cultural identity.
Culture is the blood of the nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Without the prosperity of culture, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." ”
Ji Chengming believes that after thousands of years of Yandi sacrifice, after a long period of evolution, Yandi Tomb Festival has become a unique cultural phenomenon, "born in Si, grown up in Si." We grew up under the nourishment of national culture. ”
Through the innovation of ceremonies and contents, the theme of the Yandi Tomb Festival is not limited to individual beliefs and ideals, but also conveys to the world the identity of all Chinese people for Chinese culture.
Activate the economy
The Yandi sacrifice activities led to the rapid development of the local economy.
Since the pre-Qin Dynasty, china's folk have had the custom of sacrificing Emperor Yan, and successive governments have also had the tradition of sacrificing Emperor Yan. According to the data, before the 1970s, tourism has not yet developed, and there are few tourists in scenic spots such as Yandi Mausoleum, Yandi Temple, and Yandi Hometown, and the economic benefits are very small. After the 1980s, the tourism industry developed rapidly, and the Yandi Mausoleum, Yandi Temple, and Yandi Hometown were restored and expanded, becoming scenic spots, with more and more tourists and very obvious economic benefits.
In Ji Chengming's view, sacrifice activities are the best advertisements, especially government sacrifice activities. Local governments often hold large-scale sacrifice activities in these scenic spots, which play a great role in publicizing and promoting these scenic spots, attracting thousands of tourists to come to seek ancestral roots and sightseeing, not only to obtain a large amount of ticket revenue, but also many other related income; It not only solves the employment problem of many people, but also drives the development of many industries; It can also provide good opportunities for economic and trade negotiations and investment promotion, and become an important engine for driving local economic development.
Yandi Mausoleum.
This can be seen from the relationship between the YandiLing Scenic Area and the local economic construction.
For a long time, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the Hunan Provincial Government have attached great importance to the planning and construction of the Yandi Mausoleum. The provincial government has presided over the renovation project of the mausoleum area three times, and has issued important documents such as the "Overall Construction Plan of the YandiLing Scenic Area", the "Control Plan of the Yandiling Scenic Area", and the "Overall Planning Results of the Yandiling National Scenic Area (2016-2030)". The Hunan Yandi Tomb Foundation, chaired by provincial leaders, organizes the protection and development of projects such as the Yandi Tomb Public Festival, St. Delin, Fulin, and Shennongyuan according to these plans.
In 2020, yanling county's GDP reached 8.85 billion yuan, 1304 times that of the beginning of the founding of New China, 212 times of the beginning of reform and opening up, and twice that of 2012. Yandi Mausoleum was successfully created as the only national 5A-level tourist attraction in Zhuzhou City, Yanling County was awarded "the most beautiful eco-tourism demonstration county in China" and "Hunan Province Global Tourism Demonstration Zone", and the quality and growth efficiency of county tourism economic growth ranked among the top ten in the province.
The Light of the Yan Emperor, Ze and Hu Xiang.
Sheng Shi thinks of the source and is committed to being strong.
Today, we are in the Yandi Mausoleum, dialogue with historical civilization, and absorb the spiritual strength of Yandi culture;
In the future, we must transform the spirit of Yandi into a driving force for development, hold high the torch of Yandi culture, and promote the high-quality development of Hunan!