China News Service, Beijing, August 15th (Reporter Ying Ni) The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Great Wall Cultural Festival "Double Olympic City, Great Wall Covenant" will kick off on the evening of August 20 in Gubei Water Town, Miyun, Beijing.

The cultural festival revolves around "the beauty of the Great Wall", "the charm of the Great Wall", "the journey of the Great Wall" and "the soul of the Great Wall".

  The opening ceremony will be based on the display of the cultural connotation of the Great Wall, highlight the development achievements of the protection and utilization of the Great Wall's historical and cultural heritage, and promote the Great Wall Cultural Festival to become a vivid practice that the public can feel, know and participate in. The three chapters of "Agreement" and "Green Mountains and Clear Waters", introduced the achievements of Beijing's promotion of the protection of the Great Wall, released the main line of the "Gyeonggi Great Wall" National Scenic Route, and held the gifting ceremony and commendation of Li Keran's painting "Simatai from afar". The most beautiful cultural relic guardian in Beijing in 2022.

At the same time, a fragment of the classic stage art work "Only Blue and Green" by China Oriental Performing Arts Group will also be performed at the opening ceremony, using art to tell the story of China - the Great Wall is only green.

  According to reports, during the Beijing Great Wall Cultural Festival, Miyun District will carry out a series of activities with distinctive features and high public participation around the theme of the cultural festival, which are beautiful, fun, delicious and colorful, showing the oriental aesthetic charm of the Great Wall and contemporary hotspots. trend of thought.

Including "Beautiful Beijing · Charming Great Wall" Beijing Great Wall International Photography Week, 100 selected excellent photographs of the Great Wall will be exhibited at the opening ceremony of Gubei Water Town; Flower Festival tour, Qianqiu Gubeikou scene performance, reading Gubeikou cultural exhibition and tasting Gubeikou ancient style market, etc. A total of 12 teams, including flags, flags, bows and lion dances, will tour at the Flower Fair, a cultural and creative market, a snack market and a large-scale agricultural product fair. Scenes.

  The Great Wall of Beijing is not only a reflection of the value of the peak period in the history of the Great Wall of China, but also an outstanding representative of the world's cultural heritage and the essence of the Great Wall.

The Miyun section of the Great Wall in Beijing has a total length of 182.97 kilometers. Among them, the Simatai Great Wall was praised by the Great Wall expert Luo Zhewen as "the longest of the Great Walls of China" and "the most unmissable scenery in the world".

  In recent years, the construction of the Great Wall Cultural Belt and the Great Wall National Cultural Park has achieved fruitful results, forming a new pattern of Beijing Great Wall protection with "heritage protection as the core, Great Wall Cultural Belt protection and development as the theme, and Great Wall National Cultural Park construction as the focus".

The Beijing Great Wall Cultural Festival continuously explores the cultural value, landscape value and spiritual connotation of the Great Wall, making it a beautiful business card for promoting national spirit, inheriting Chinese civilization, promoting Chinese image and demonstrating cultural confidence in the new era.

  It is reported that the 2022 Beijing Great Wall Cultural Festival of "Double Olympic City, Great Wall Covenant" is hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and undertaken by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and the Beijing Miyun District Committee and District Government.

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