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in addition to their commemorative significance, the Dragon Boat Festival has always been a popular carnival festival, vying, dragon boat races, there are a variety of colorful folk activities. Because the Dragon Boat Festival has become a statutory holiday, the Dragon Boat Festival also allow people to have more understanding of traditional folk, dumplings and eat up, in front of wormwood is also linked up. If you think only this were not enough, then out of the house, to a Dragon Boat Festival Folk tour, experience the local customs of different styles, from feelings of traditional charm.

[Hubei Zigui: dragon-boat race ceremony for Qu Yuan ]

Zigui is Qu Yuan's hometown, Zigui people Qu Yuan's nostalgia is even worse, than mark the rest of the way, the most important folk that the dragon boat race, do poetry, ceremony for Qu Yuan's three events. Zigui dragon boat racing, in addition to the spectacular scenes of intense competition, the special is the races even before Jiang Yu held Evocation, different colors of the boat were put up 'soul come back," the Evocation banner, led by White Dragon Boat in the river in amble around, then back to the valley sounded soul-stirring" Evocation song."

ceremony for Qu Yuan's activities from the Northern and Southern Dynasties spread so far, the first Dragon Boat Festival, which Qu Yuan Jiang martyrdom blog it days, or Qu Yuan Qu Yuan Temple in the Temple before the Tuo River side, with pines and cypresses, leaves tied into a large altar, the steamed whole pig, all the sheep, fruit snacks and dumplings offered in tablets before Qu Yuan, a huge pull on the hanging scroll Seal" Qu Yuan (Sanlv) Soul come back to the doctor," the official deacon to recite the oration extolling the virtues of Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan children recite their works in unison," Orange Song" , people Koushou incense, pray for good weather year, harvest.

other highlights

Zigui Muyu Island Harbour is only 1 km away from the Three Gorges Dam, enjoy the scenery and watch the dragon boat race is a good place. In addition, the original unique Jiuwanxi scenery, rich cultural Bachu, said Qu Yuan in his early years in this open forum to give lectures, orchid cultivation of the plant. In Zigui, Qu Yuan Memorial Hall can not go, which is located east Zigui. Museum houses Qu Yuan stone, bronze, orange and Beilang Chung Ting, Qu Yuan, the first stone of this deposit in China Qu Yuan, a stone.

Zigui majestic Three Gorges Dam is the largest cultural landscape, here is the only land in the Yangtze River Three Gorges Three Gorges channel concept. After the Three Gorges Project started to store water," Gaoxiapinghu" first appeared in Zigui, and Xiling Gorge within Zigui Hong River, the Yangtze River and other tributaries of Zhuanghe child there were many islands, peninsula and bay, as the development of new tourism resources, art of war sword Gap, beef horse pulmonary Gap, Gap Kongling, concentrated essence of the Three Gorges. Four river eco-tourism area known as the" natural oxygen bar" karst peculiar shape, canyon streams, waterfalls, Bitan clouds, three hanging drop of water falls over 389 m, and 300 kinds of varieties of bamboo forest.

Tips:

transport: take the high-speed rail to Wuhan from Wuhan to Zigui City of entire highway, from Yichang City Zigui arrived less than an hour. A land tour Xiling Gorge tourist car.

Food: Zigui known as the" Chinese Orange township" , orange quality, unique flavor, large fruit with a nuclear-free, thin, bright color, Roucui juicy, sweet-scented sweet quality.