[Local Hot Spot] The 25Th Hanshan Silkworm Flower Festival Was Held In Nanxun, Huzhou

On April 2, the launching ceremony of the series of activities of "Seeing Beautiful China in Huzhou, Huzhou in Folk Custom" and the 25th Hanshan Silkworm Flower Festival was held in Shanlian Town, Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, attracting tens of thousands of sericulture farmers and tourists from the surrounding areas to take an outing to "roll silkworm flowers".

Shanlian Town is the birthplace of Chinese lake brush culture and silkworm culture, known as the "City of Lake Brush and the Holy Land of Silkworm Flowers", and has two national intangible cultural heritages of "lake brush making skills" and "Hanshan rolling silkworm flowers". Silkworm culture has a long history, and its traditional sericulture skills are listed in the provincial intangible cultural heritage list. During the Tomb Sweeping Festival every year, sericulture farmers go to Hanshan in Shanlian Town to pray for blessings, forming a unique folk activity of "Hanshan rolling silkworm flowers". As early as 1998, it was recognized as a national key festival activity, and can be called the largest silkworm god festival in China.

This Hanshan Silkworm Blossom Festival consists of six chapters: "keeping watch on the tradition, going to an appointment to pray for blessings, performing aesthetics, tasting food, music carnival, and enjoying art together". 20 sub activities will be carried out successively, including offering sacrifices to silkworm gods and worshipping silkworm mothers, praying for cultural and creative exhibitions, and the Grand Canal "Banbian Mountain" Music Festival. Nowadays, the traditional folk customs of "offering sacrifices to silkworm gods" and "rolling silkworm flowers" are not just a feast for silkworm farmers. This traditional folk custom activity is constantly inheriting and developing through innovation, becoming a comprehensive festival integrating culture, tourism and commerce, and a "golden card" of Huzhou folk custom activities and cultural tourism.

Shao Gendi, 68 years old, is an old silkworm farmer. On the day of the event, he also took his family to Hanshan to "roll silkworm flowers". She told the reporter that since the "Hanshan Silkworm Flower Festival", tourists from other places have come in droves. "This is our traditional culture. The more people come, the more we can carry it forward."

Traditional folk custom is an important carrier for inheriting local history and culture. In recent years, Huzhou has actively explored the cultural connotation behind traditional folk customs to promote the integration and development of cultural tourism. At present, there are 74 folk festivals in Huzhou.

At the opening ceremony of the silkworm flower festival, the launching ceremony of the series of activities of "Seeing Beautiful China in Huzhou, Huzhou in Folk Customs" was also held. Later, Huzhou will rely on the cultural brand of "Huzhou in Folk Custom" to promote the integration of various folk activities, give play to the vitality and traction of Huzhou's characteristic folk customs, light up the excellent culture of Huzhou, and closely combine culture, agriculture, tourism, sports and other industries to encourage and support entrepreneurship and innovation of the whole people, and transform the popularity of folk culture into promoting industrial development Efforts to increase farmers' income.

The relevant person in charge of the Publicity Department of Huzhou Municipal Party Committee said that the "Huzhou in Folk Custom" cultural brand adheres to the general brand of the city of "seeing beautiful China in Huzhou", which aims to inherit the glorious traditional culture of the Chinese nation, inherit the unique experience and wisdom of people's production and life, deeply dig and attach great importance to the excellent traditional culture of Huzhou, and at the same time adhere to the modern aesthetic perspective, taste Starting from functions, enrich cultural connotation, advocate new trends of the times, improve communication methods, and maximize the vitality of folk culture development.

Centering on the series of activities of "Seeing Beautiful China in Huzhou, Huzhou in Folk Customs", Nanxun District will fully release its resource endowment and stimulate the vitality of folk customs. According to the relevant person in charge of Nanxun District, the district has two world-class cultural heritages, the Grand Canal and the Sangji Fish Pond. It is also the main birthplace of silk culture, sericulture culture, lake brush culture and fishing culture, with a strong historical and cultural accumulation. In accordance with the idea of "one town, one boutique" and "one season, one feature", more than one folk culture festival will be held every month from March this year to comprehensively launch the featured brand of Nanxun folk culture activities, stimulate the new life of traditional folk culture, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent folk culture activities.

(Source: China News Network)