Anren Yaowang Festival is a folk activity handed down a long time ago to commemorate Yandi Shennong. After thousands of years of development, some branch festivals have formed in China. This year's Medicine King Festival launched the theme of promoting Shennong culture.
On the same day, Anren County held a ceremony to pay homage to Yan Di Shennong in Shennong Hall Square. The resplendent statue of Shennong in Yan Di shines in the sun, and people come to worship in an endless stream. Folk art groups from all over the country performed traditional programs such as dragon lanterns, drumming and boating, and even shadow play, which had not been seen for years, was put on the stage.
The sales of medicinal materials and agricultural and sideline products, the main products of the Spring Equinox Festival, are more popular, and drug dealers from all over the country have come to purchase precious Chinese herbal medicines. In the main streets of the county, some units and departments have set up service points such as scientific and technological consultation, law and family planning to solve problems for the masses and provide scientific and technological consultation and services. Farmers' friends carefully purchase farm tools and other means of production and living, prepare for spring ploughing production, and change a year's labor into a burning new yearning.
The opening ceremony of Anren Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival and the inauguration ceremony of Shennong Medicine King Hall were held grandly. Zheng Liu, former chairman of CPPCC, Liu Guangming, member of the Standing Committee of Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department of Municipal Party Committee, and Pan Biling, vice mayor attended the opening ceremony and cut the ribbon.
Anren Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival is a large-scale festival held by Anren County Party Committee and government to further inherit and explore the Millennium pesticide culture and accelerate Anren's social and economic development. At the opening ceremony, Liu Guangming hoped that Anren County would give full play to its distinctive advantages, write articles on the festival of drug kings, build the brand of drug kings, constantly speed up its development, enhance its development potential, and make Anren economy stronger and better.
After the opening ceremony, Anren County also held a series of activities such as the opening ceremony of Shitouba pharmaceutical market, the opening ceremony of Anren market and the signing ceremony of investment promotion projects.
Anren Branch, which started in the Song Dynasty, is a folk activity handed down to commemorate Emperor Yan Shennong, and it is a unique folk festival in China. Every year around the vernal equinox, people from all directions gather in Anren County to offer sacrifices to Emperor Yan and trade Chinese herbal medicines, grain seeds, farm tools, agricultural and sideline products, bamboo and wood utensils and other commodities. During the rush to the branch, the medicinal materials market was filled with nearly 1,000 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials collected from all over China and even Southeast Asian countries. In recent years, the local government has set up a stage with "branches" and sang opera in economy and trade, "prospering the Millennium drug market and attracting merchants from all over the world", which has made the traditional custom of driving branches glow with vitality.
Zhuang Nationality Festival-Medicine King Festival
On this day, Zhuang people in northern Guangxi went up the mountain to collect Chinese tallow, Tian Jihuang, cucurbit tea, Acer truncatum and other herbs to boil water and take a bath. I think this will make the skin smooth and free from scabies. On this day, the Zhuang people in Jingxi County opened a medicinal materials market, specializing in various medicinal materials, and the buyers were enthusiastic. It is said that this medicine has special effects. In addition, every household also wraps triangular zongzi, cooks vinegar in the house, burns grapefruit skin, and inserts wormwood at the door to ward off evil spirits and drive away the epidemic. Deng Dangxiong, secretary of the county party committee, stressed that all levels and departments should go all out, make careful preparations, and provide thoughtful services with a face-to-face attitude to ensure that the Spring Equinox Drug King Festival is distinctive and effective. At the same time, we should use festivals to sing brands, build industries, inspire people and promote development.
Accompanied by leaders of counties such as Tan Xiaohua, Fan and others, Deng Dangxiong and his party visited the Shitouba Chinese herbal medicine trading market, the exhibition hall of 2007 North-South Elite Clothing Commodities Fair on County Bayi Road, the folk art exhibition hall on County Qiyi East Road, the venue of Anren Market Brand Clothing Expo, Qiyi Traffic Square, a venue for flower drum opera and song and dance performances, a river lantern in the upper reaches of the new bridge, a ploughing ceremony in the south bank of the new bridge, and a sacrificial ceremony in Shennong. I would like to express my condolences to the staff at all levels and units for their hard work in the preparatory work. After listening to the report on the preparatory work of the relevant units, Deng Dangxiong fully affirmed that the preparatory work of the county's comprehensive management, public security and traffic security, liaison and reception are being carried out in an orderly manner.
Deng Dangxiong pointed out that holding the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival should generally reflect passion, peace, enthusiasm, safety and celebration; This year, it is an innovation and an attempt to hold festivals in the form of government guidance, market supervision, social services and economic adjustment. All levels and departments should ensure that leaders are in place, responsibilities are clear, cooperation is close, and arrangements are thorough, and go all out to do all the preparations for the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival. It is necessary to highlight the theme, do a good job of connecting the activity schedule with various activities, and be busy and orderly; With a high sense of responsibility and timeliness, we should refine the division of labor, grasp the facts on time item by item, and do all the preparatory work well. Preparations for various activities should be comprehensive, disciplined and closely integrated. Don't ignore every detail, make sure it's foolproof. All departments at all levels should keep a clear head, earnestly strengthen organization and coordination, pay close attention to the implementation of work, make overall arrangements for all work, enhance the overall awareness, and ensure the correct promotion of work and festivals.
Deng Dangxiong emphasized that doing a good job in the security of the art festival is the key to ensure a complete success. It is necessary to firmly establish the concept of safety and ensure that festivals are held in an orderly manner. During the festival, according to the requirements of the overall implementation plan, every activity and every specific link should be carefully considered and arranged, and coordination among groups should be strengthened to ensure interlocking, orderly and nervous, so as to leave a good impression on the guests and friends attending the Spring Equinox Medicine King Festival. Anren County is located in the southeast of Hunan Province and the north of Chenzhou. Songgande County was established in the third year. The scenery here is beautiful, and eight scenic spots, such as "Yufeng Qin Yun, Fenggang Zi Qi, Xiongxia Xia Hong and Moon Night", are picturesque, unique and fascinating.
As a traditional festival, "Medicine King Festival" has been popular in Anren for a long time, and its "origin" is a farmer's festival. In the traditional vernal equinox season, the trade of Chinese herbal medicines is the most popular. Farmers buy medicines to drive away cold and diseases and keep fit in preparation for spring ploughing. Local farmers are used to using pig's trotters, black beans, etc. 10 Chinese herbal medicines such as bone-increasing wind, bone-seeking wind, moon wind vine, keel tendon, etc. to make dark thick soup, which can not only dispel cold and disease, but also strengthen the body and bones.
Nowadays, every year during the Spring Equinox Medicine King's Day, merchants from all directions gather in Anren with unprecedented pomp, becoming a grand event for trading Chinese herbal medicines, exchanging famous doctors and exhibiting agricultural and sideline products. More than 700 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines from more than 20 provinces in China were exhibited here, with a transaction volume of over 1000 tons and a transaction volume of tens of millions of yuan, making it the drug capital of South China with "An Guo in the north and An Ren in the south". Anren grows 40,000 mu of Chinese herbal medicines, which is an important production base of Chinese herbal medicines in China.
Anren Shennong culture has a long history. According to legend, Emperor Yan Shennong went to Anren to taste a hundred herbs and cure all diseases. "Jiulong Temple picks tea, has a picnic and teaches people to smell the lawn." Later, in memory of nine immortals, such as Shennong, he built a temple to "choose a society day to worship God to pray for the valley", and worshippers came in an endless stream. After that, he traded herbs and farm tools, especially traditional Chinese herbal medicines. It has been said that "medicine does not reach an ren, and medicine does not reach an ren."