Guimao (2023) Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held in Shaanxi Province

HUANGLING,China,April 7,2023 --On the morning of April 5,the 2023 Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Shaanxi Province. The mausoleum,located in Huangling County,Shaanxi Province,is thelocation of the tomb of Yellow Emperor,the common ancestor of the Chinese nation.

Guimao (2023) Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held in Shaanxi

At 9:50 am,the memorial ceremony officially started. All the attendees were standing solemnly for the drum beats and bell rings. The 34 drumbeats symbolized the common aspiration of the whole Chinese nation,as well as alloverseas Chinese to worship the ancestor of the Chinese nation. The 9 bellrings represented the highest etiquette of traditional rituals of the Chinesenation,expressing the infinite admiration and gratitude of sons and daughtersof the Chinese nation to their ancestor,the Yellow Emperor.

During the superb and elegant memorial music and dance performance,Xiao Jie,Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee,presentedthe flower basket to the statue of the Yellow Emperor. Zhao Yide,Secretary ofthe CPC Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Director of Shaanxi ProvincialPeople's Congress Standing Committee,presented the flower basket on behalf ofthe representatives of Shaanxi province. Zhao Gang,the governor of ShaanxiProvince,delivered the memorial address.

Upon the end of the memorial address,all the attendees made three deep bows tothe statue of the Yellow Emperor.

After the memorial music and dance performance,a 56-meter-long Chinese dragon hovered and leaped from the center of the altar,soaring to the sky. The dragontraveled through five thousand years of history,gazing at the ever-changingpresent and flying towards a bright and magnificent future.

As the Memorial Ceremony was completed,the attendees visited the Xuanyuan Halland the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor,they then planted the Qiaoshancypresses.

The memorial ceremony was jointly organized by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council,Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council,All-ChinaFederation of Returned Overseas Chinese and Shaanxi Provincial People'sGovernment.

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