[Explanation] On June 11, the opening ceremony of Quyuan’s Hometown Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival Festival in Quyuan’s Hometown of 2021 were held in Zigui County, Hubei Province. Representatives of guests from both sides of the strait, Qu’s descendants and local people gathered in Quyuan Temple Square to cherish the memory of "Chinese Poems" "Ancestor" Qu Yuan.

  [Explanation] At 8:18 in the morning, the Dragon Boat Festival in Qu Yuan’s hometown kicked off. Under the guidance of the chief priest, the guests, Taiwan compatriots working and living in Yichang, as well as experts, scholars, artists, merchants and Zigui advanced typical representatives Come to the stage to offer bluegrass, Zigui Qu's descendants come to the stage to throw petals.

After the service, Wang Yongping, vice chairman of the Hubei Federation of Literary and Art Circles, read the "Original Song of Qu" respectfully, and the audience stood up and bowed.

  [Explanation] Zigui County is the hometown of Qu Yuan and a typical area for the inheritance of the Dragon Boat Festival culture.

For thousands of years, local customs of worshipping Quyuan, such as poems, dragon boat races, making rice dumplings, and hanging calamus, have been passed down to this day.

In 2009, the Dragon Boat Festival custom in Qu Yuan’s hometown was included in the "List of Representative Works of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO.

"Qu Yuan's Hometown Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Festival" is the only national Dragon Boat Festival cultural festival.

  [Concurrent] Liu Junyi, Zigui People

  This kind of cultural inheritance, one is to strengthen a sense of national identity, and the other is to (make us) more closely connected.

Although it is like Zigui in a place very far away from Taiwan, but we all pay homage to the same sage at the same time, and then promote the same spirit, I think it is a feeling of the same origin.

  [Explanation] Affected by the epidemic this year, descendants and believers of the Qu family in Changhua, Taiwan were unable to attend the Dragon Boat Festival.

At the event site that day, the Changhua Dragon Boat Festival custom video was shown on the big screen. The Changhua people remembered Qu Yuan through the video and wished Zigui compatriots "Dragon Boat Festival, a good family, looking forward to an early meeting."

  [Explanation] Qu Jiaming, the 69th-generation grandson of Qu Yuan and the party branch secretary of Wangusi Village, Guizhou Township, Zigui County, said that he was very moved after watching the video. He said that for many years, representatives of Qu’s descendants in Changhua have organized a group to "go home" every Dragon Boat Festival. To worship the ancestors, that is the day of family reunion.

Wangusi Village is "the first village of the Qu family in China". There are more than 1,300 descendants of the Qu family in the village.

  [Concurrent] Qu Jiaming, Party Branch Secretary of Wangusi Village, Guizhou Town, Zigui County, Hubei Province

  I watched the video just now and I was very excited. I look forward to meeting with Qu's clan relatives in Taiwan as soon as possible. I am also on behalf of Zigui Qu's clan relatives. I wish Taiwan's (Qu clan) a good Dragon Boat Festival and hope that we will soon be together. Get together.

  [Explanation] Lin Zhengren, chairman of the Yichang Taiwanese Business Association, is from Yilan, Taiwan. He has worked in Yichang for ten years. He said that Qu Yuan’s national righteousness and noble integrity have always inspired the Chinese people, and the inheritance of Qu Yuan’s spirit has been deeply imprinted in the memories of the people on both sides of the strait. in.

It is hoped that the epidemic will end as soon as possible, and cross-strait exchanges and interactions will continue to deepen.

  [Concurrent] Lin Zhengren, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Yichang Taiwanese Business Association, Hubei Province

  There are many similarities between Yilan County and Yichang City. They are all green mountains and green waters, so (I live) very, very accustomed.

Cross-strait exchanges have not been (very much) due to the epidemic situation recently. We can only use video (communication). We look forward to the end of the epidemic as soon as possible. Cross-strait exchanges (increased), next year’s Dragon Boat Festival (comrades on both sides of the strait) will be spent here together. Dragon Boat Festival.

  [Explanation] The theme of this year’s Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Festival is "Dragon Boat Festival Salute to the Prosperous World and Hua Zhang". During the period, there will also be a "Hundred Years Salute" Jingchu Red Literary Light Cavalry Old District Tour (Zigui) cultural performances, Chinese Dragon Boat Festival·Food Culture Tourism Festival, Tianwen A series of online and offline activities such as the "No. 1" Mars Exploration Aerospace Science Exhibition, 2021 "Yijing Jingen" Urban Group Dragon Boat Invitational and Qu Yuan’s Hometown Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Festival Staff Dragon Boat Race.

  Reporter Dong Xiaobin Guo Xiaoying Zheng Ziyan reports from Zigui, Hubei

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]