China News Service, Beijing, October 17th (Reporter Du Yan) The autumn morning light, blue sky and white clouds.

Located in the Beijing section of the Grand Canal in Tongzhou District, Beijing, the level is like a mirror, birds are leisurely, surrounded by greenery and skyscrapers.

On a boat on the river, more than 30 journalists from Chinese and foreign media set out to experience the new vitality, new style and new charm of the ancient canal that has been flowing for thousands of years.

  On October 17, the 2021 "China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" "Millennium Canal Journey" and "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" Chinese and foreign media collection activities were launched in the Beijing section of the Grand Canal.

The folk orchestra is playing in a painted boat walking on the canal.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

  Boarding this two-story painting boat, what you see is the encounter between the "Temple of Heaven" and the "West Lake".

Just as we are thinking about how this Grand Canal connects Beijing and Hangzhou at the north and south ends, and builds a bridge of cultural communication, folk songs with bright and melodious tones and lively rhythms come into our ears.

  This is the band playing a folk song full of characteristics of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, "Uprooting Lu Chaihua", "Taihu Beauty", "Embroidering Purse"... in the beautiful melody, the reporters enjoy the beautiful scenery of the canal.

Dubai China-Arab Satellite TV reporter Iman (right) "asked for advice" on how to play the song "Eternal Swan".

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

  Suddenly, the joyful sound of pipa refreshes the heart, making people feel like they are in the scene of busy water transport in the scene of "the scull of Yangbo is more than the fish of Dongming; the gliding of the wind is multiplied by the bamboo shoots of Nanshan".

  When I think of the three-stringed performance of the perfect fusion of folk music and jazz, looking at the people on the shore or taking a leisurely walk, running and punching, or "checking in" and taking pictures with a smile, I don’t realize that people will look forward to "falling clouds and lonely birds flying together in the beauty of the morning light." , The beautiful scenery of autumn and water.

  The canal soup has a long history.

Appreciating the landscape of symbiosis of water and city, harmonious human and water, listening to the north-south melody with both ancient and fashionable charm, Dubai China-Arab Satellite TV reporter Iman "asked" the band members how to play the song "Eternal Sing" on the spot.

  Huafang traveled all the way from the second pier of the Canal Olympic Sports Park to the Liuyin Plaza Pier, which seemed to have spanned a long time for a thousand years.

The folk orchestra is playing in a painted boat walking on the canal.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

  The reporter learned that in order to protect, inherit, and make good use of the historical and cultural value of the Grand Canal, the Beijing Municipal People’s Government Information Office, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government Information Office, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government, China News Service, and the World Canal Historical and Cultural City Cooperation Organization have been innovatively established. The "Five-Party Cooperation Mechanism" has successfully hosted two "China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue", aiming to give play to the demonstration and leading role of Beijing and Hangzhou in the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, and promote multi-site, multi-point and multi-party Joint action to participate in the protection and inheritance of the Grand Canal, highlight the achievements of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, and enhance the international influence of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt in China.

  According to Xu Hejian, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and director of the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, Beijing and Hangzhou have joined forces to protect the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, playing a demonstrative, leading and radiating role in the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, forming openness and innovation. The characteristics of sex, internationality, mass, demonstrative and dissemination have become a classic for Beijing-Hangzhou to tell the story of the canal and an important window for spreading the Chinese Grand Canal culture to the world.

The folk orchestra played on the banks of the canal.

The picture shows people punching in the "Happiness Photo Gallery" one after another.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

  This year is the third session of the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue".

The Millennium Canal Culture Exhibition, hundreds of canal-themed works, intangible cultural rituals such as "Burning Lamp Buddha Stupa", and the first large-scale Peking Opera symphony tune "The Grand Canal of Beijing" focusing on the Beijing section of China's Grand Canal will be unveiled.

Poets and artists from Beijing and Hangzhou will also carry out cultural exchanges.

  Modern high-rise buildings are reflected on the wide river surface, and the high-speed railway runs on the canal bridge, and a beautiful picture of the blending of ancient and modern, and the harmony of water and sky slowly unfolds.

  The Chinese and foreign media gathering activities invited more than 30 national, Beijing, Zhejiang and foreign media gathering groups to visit Tongzhou in Beijing, Zaozhuang in Shandong, Yangzhou in Jiangsu, Hangzhou in Zhejiang and other cities along the Grand Canal via high-speed rail and canal. Use integrated media communication channels such as text, pictures, live broadcasts, and short videos to tell the world the story of China, show the new look of the ancient canal in the new era, and contribute wisdom to world civilization exchanges and mutual learning.

  The flowing Grand Canal will witness Beijing-Hangzhou music and singing in the new era, and sing the mighty historical songs of the Chinese nation.

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