(Fighting against New Crown Pneumonia) Songkran Festival in 2021: Xishuangbanna "cloud" has been on the Dehong suspension
China News Service, Kunming, March 22 (Miao Chao) In order to prevent and control the new crown pneumonia epidemic, on the 22nd, the Office of the Leading Group for the Songkran Festival in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province issued an announcement stating that this year's Xishuangbanna Water Festival will be organized online and will no longer be organized. Hold offline events.
Prior to this, the Dai Studies Association of Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province also issued an announcement stating that Dehong Prefecture will postpone organizing water-splashing festival celebrations this year.
Songkran Festival, also known as Songkran Festival, is an important traditional festival in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries.
Located in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan and Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in the southwestern border of China, the Water Splashing Festival is also the most solemn traditional festival of the local Dai people every year.
Before the outbreak of the epidemic, Xishuangbanna and Dehong prefectures held water fetching ceremonies and splashing carnival activities during the Water Splashing Festival every year. People of all ethnic groups and tourists splashed water at each other in the Splashing Square, sending each other good luck and blessings.
Last year, due to the severe epidemic situation, Xishuangbanna and Dehong prefectures all suspended their water-splashing festival celebrations that year.
This year, in order to continue to implement China's requirements for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, "foreign import and internal prevention", to avoid large-scale crowd gatherings and ensure that people of all ethnic groups enjoy a safe, orderly, happy and peaceful Water Festival.
Xishuangbanna Prefecture Water Splashing Festival Leading Group Office issued an announcement, deciding to organize the "2021 Cloud Over Water Splashing Festival" series of activities online, and offline activities such as rushing, splashing water, flying lanterns, and cultural performances will no longer be held.
Just three days ago (19th), Dehong Prefecture Daixue Society also issued an announcement: to postpone the organization of the 2021 Songkran celebration.
It is required that the non-governmental Dai society (Dai association) in the jurisdiction prohibits itself from organizing large-scale water-splashing festival celebrations during the epidemic prevention and control period, and resolutely prevents the occurrence of cluster epidemics.
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