10 In mid-October, the provincial party committee and the provincial government gave instructions to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to hold the Roots-Seeking Festival for the Hometown of Yan Di, a world Chinese, from May 6 to June 6, 2002. According to the explanation, Yan Di Shennong is the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, and Suizhou, Hubei Province is the birthplace of Yan Di Shennong. April 26th of the lunar calendar is the birthday anniversary of Emperor Shennong of Yan Di, and a large number of overseas Chinese came to Suizhou to seek roots and worship their ancestors. Root-seeking Festival has become a traditional cultural festival with government-led and social participation. 20 1 1 in June, "Yan Di Shennong Festival" was approved as a large-scale folk custom by the State Council and included in the national intangible cultural heritage list. The Root-seeking Festival for the Hometown of Emperor Yan, a Chinese in the world, held for three consecutive years, has further enhanced the sense of national identity and belonging of "China with the same roots and world cooperation" on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and has produced great repercussions among Chinese and overseas Chinese all over the world. The Roots-Seeking Festival for the Hometown of Chinese in Yan Di has become an important brand of public welfare cultural festivals and an important platform for exchanges and interactions between compatriots on both sides of the strait and overseas Chinese around the world.
It is reported that the Root-seeking Festival mainly includes the opening ceremony, the ceremony of paying homage to Emperor Yan Shennong in the Year of Renchen, the forum of famous cultural experts of Emperor Yan Shennong, the "Shennong Cup" world calligraphy competition to praise Emperor Yan, the economic and trade tourism fair, the Yan Di Shennong cultural temple fair, and the "Shirun Suizhou" poetry recitation. The celebration activities will adhere to the purpose of "high level, small scale and great influence". The preparatory Committee for the city root-seeking festival has been concentrated.
Chen Chuangen, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, reported the preparatory work at the preparatory meeting. Various preparatory activities have begun to take shape, the plan of ancestor worship ceremony has been basically finalized, the invited stars have been initially determined, and related activities have started. We are communicating with CCTV to strive for CCTV live broadcast. Chen Chuangen demanded that the invitation of important guests should be launched quickly, the news propaganda before, during and after the event should be well organized, the countdown of local media should be started quickly, the media in the whole province should start a 30-day countdown, a press conference should be held in due course, and each working group should be responsible for the division of labor and vigorously promote sub-activities. It is necessary to strengthen work coordination, and the main leaders will personally go into battle and refine the work plan.
In addition, the star lineup of the 20 12 root-seeking festival is also unprecedented. The opening ceremony and ancestor worship ceremony of "Rooting Festival in the Hometown of Yan Di, a world Chinese in the Year of Renchen" will be co-chaired by Chen Duo, a famous senior program host of CCTV, and Xu Gehui, a beautiful hostess of Hong Kong Phoenix TV. Mao Amin and Sun Nan will sing their ancestors on the same stage.
The ceremony was presided over by Chen Jianbin, a famous actor who played many roles as emperors. Mao Amin will sing "Looking at the Present" and Sun Nan will come to Suizhou for the second time to sing "The Bells of Prosperity". The opening ceremony and ancestor worship ceremony will be broadcast live simultaneously by Phoenix TV, TVBS TV, Hubei TV and Suizhou TV.
On May 16, representatives of college students from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait lit the sacred flame collected from all over the country. On that day, the Root-seeking Festival of Yan Di's Hometown was held in Suizhou City, Hubei Province with the theme of "Long Teng Sheng Shi Blessing China". More than10,000 China people from all over the world gathered in Lieshan to pay tribute to the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Emperor Shennong of Yan Di, and pray for the prosperity of China.