2nd Beijing•Shunyi Zhang Town Kitchen God Cultural Festival to kick off

2nd Beijing•Shunyi Zhang Town Kitchen God Cultural Festival to kick off

The 2nd Beijing•Shunyi Zhang Town Kitchen God Cultural Festival will be held at Lianhuashan (Lotus Mountain) Ski Resort at Zhang Town in northeast Beijing’s Shunyi District from Feb. 8 to 11, 2018 to celebrate the coming Spring Festival. A series of activities of traditional Chinese culture will be held during the Kitchen God Cultural Festival to show local folk culture in Shunyi District.

The traditional Spring Festival starts from offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God. It’s said that the Kitchen God was born at Zhang Town, so this folktale was inscribed to the Beijing Intangible Cultural Heritage Folktale List in 2007.

In the report at the 19th CPC National Congress,the importance of traditional Chinese culture is mentioned for several times. “Our country will thrive only if our culture thrives, and our nation will be strong only if our culture is strong. Without full confidence in our culture, without rich and prosperous culture, the Chinese nation will not be able to rejuvenate itself.”We need to learn from traditional Chinese culture which was born of the Chinese civilization and nurtured over more than 5,000 years so as to develop a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.

The Beijing•Shunyi Zhang Town Kitchen God Cultural Festival not only spreads the Kitchen God culture but also inherits traditional Chinese folk culture. During the festival, traditional Kitchen God Worshipping Ceremony will be performed as a stage drama to let more people know Chinese people’s expectation of harmonious and happy life in traditional Chinese culture.

Several activities, including performances of intangible cultural heritages, traditional flower fair, lion dance and dragon dance, will be held during the festival. People can also eat many local traditional delicacies.

As the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, the Lianhuashan (Lotus Mountain) Ski Resort at Zhang Town is more popular with citizens. During the festival, people can enjoy skiing performances as well as experience skiing.

[ Editor: Zhang Zhou ]
 

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