QinTong boat festival is famous all over the world. April 6, 2024 Taizhou Jiangyan QinTong boat festival grandly opened in Lake Qin National Wetland Park. More than five hundred boats of all kinds and tens of thousands of boat players chopping waves in the river, interpreting a time-honored folklore scroll. The scene also held "Jiangsu Province, the Wisdom of Tourism Scenic Spots" "Jiangsu Province, the Integration of Sports and Tourism Development Demonstration Base" award ceremony.
Taizhou municipal party committee deputy secretary, mayor Wan Wenhua announced: Qintong Boat Festival began.
Jiangyan is born with water, prosperous by water, and beautiful for water, where emerged Huang Longshi, Gao Ershi, Mei Lanfang and other celebrities, won more than ten nation-level honored titles, the water village always tell the poetic and romantic of the southern part of China.
In Jiangyan, you can enjoy the flowers and wine in the spring, go on a night tour to taste the food in the summer, eat crabs at wetland in the autumn, enjoy hot springs and taste the soup buns in the winter; early in the morning promenade in the waterfront and explore the ancient city of the Western Zhou Dynasty, midday walks in the cultural neighborhoods, strolling in the afternoon in the millennium old town, and open a Qionghu excursion at night; immersed in the Qionghu Bay to experience the four characteristics of the "fishing, kiln burning, farming, reading poetry," to enjoy the small town of the "the slow life, the earthly happiness" of the leisure.
Jiangyan district party secretary, the district people's Congress Standing Committee Director Sun Liangliang said in his speech, in the new journey, we need to have a "step in unison to move forward, do practical things to compete for the first" enthusiasm, adhere to the industry as the first, the city as the basis for the people's livelihood, in-depth implementation of the industrial zone, tourism, education, "three major strategies", and dedicated to creating a desirable "famous recreation city, vitality Jiangyan". Sincerely hope that you can stay in Jiangyan to start a business, put the focus of investment in Jiangyan, be the "best partner" in the development of Jiangyan, and continue to write more "spring stories" with us.
The opening ceremony performance used stage performances and watercraft performances and other sequential presentation of the way, fully highlighting the beauty of the natural ecology of the water town, the beauty of the humanities, the beauty of the tourist landscape, and the beauty of the boat folklore.
The first appearance is a beautiful Gong boat. This year, Jiangyan District again carefully create 8 themed Gong boat, their decorative modeling is different, meticulous workmanship, fully demonstrated Jiangyan economic construction, social development, cultural tourism, ecological civilization, and other all-round new style, to show the spirit of the Chinese nation totem "dragon" culture through the nationalization, art, image of the rich modeling.
Behind the Gong Boat is the Dragon Boat Square, symbolizing good wind, rain, and good harvests. These vivid dragon boats are lined up in a row, forming a long dragon belt that soars above Qinhu Lake.
The speeding boat ignited the passion of the whole audience. From Jiangyan and Baoying, Gaoyou, Xinghua, Hailing and other neighboring counties and municipalities of the six speed boat, as if the dragon straight forward, they strive forward with the sound of the heroines' drums! 35 speed boats from Jiangyan towns and streets tightly followed, in the exciting sound of gongs, the crew shouted together, everyone made the full strength. With Qinhu four IP images of deer, Xi'er, tea aunt, locust tree uncle’s voice and performance, more than 400 boats broke the waves, the athletes' bravery highlights the spirit of the water town people "step forward, do practical things to fight for the first" on meeting boat.
80 boat fleet composed of women sailing head-on. Boats spread on the lake, showing the water village women’s resounding of "women do not lose to men" and the soft of "Qinhu is my dresser". All performances in the fleet after passing the observation platform, are free on the lake rowing, Gong boat are colorful, Haozi boats’ oars are like forests, Huazi boats are as light as swallow ...... songs floated on the water, Qin Lake has become an ocean of joy.
Young athletes are a major attraction this year, they make the ancient Qintong boat meeting revitalization. National intangible cultural heritage Qintong boat has a long history, dating back to more than 800 years ago in the Southern Song Dynasty, known as the "folk culture of the view, the water town style of the Expo". This year, Jiangyan District lists Qintong Lake Competition as one of the boat series of activities, the event encourages the participation of social personnel under 50 years of age, attracted a large number of young people to enroll, the organizing committee ultimately selected an average age of 35 years of age of nearly 3,000 contestants, the formation of more than 80 teams, for a period of three months of training in swimming skills, strength, balance and water testing.
Chen Xin, a master of Beijing Normal University, is from Shuangxing Village, Qintong Town, Jiangyan District. In the non-stop swaying of the boat, Chen Xin stood steadily on the boat, she held about 4 meters of spar, and the other 23 athletes hand with the efforts. On March 4, she studied under a master, and soon mastered the skills, back home she also insisted on practicing arm strength, repeated practice against the teaching video, and constantly improve. This month's hard work allowed her to complete the metamorphosis from spectator to athlete, but also made her dream become a reality. "In the past few years, I've watched athletes in my hometown's boat meeting who are from my grandfather's and grandmother's generation, and I was worried that it would be difficult to pass on the boat meeting." Chen Xin said, this year's boat activities attracted young people from all walks of life, "full participation in sports" not only let Qintong boat meeting intangible cultural heritage to live again, but also can be passed on after generations. "This is my windfall, adding a new content of my thesis 'protection and inheritance'."
Wonderful and happy will never end. This year's series of activities are more prominent and open, inviting neighboring counties and cities boater to participate, boat meeting radiation and influence continues to expand; focus more on heritage innovation, young people become sailors, and boat meeting culture and spirit invigorate a new luster; and pay more attention to prominent features of the universal sharing, while also launching series of activities covering the whole year, the young and the old. In addition to the opening ceremony of the boat meeting, Qinhu competition, Jiangyan District will also hold rural ecotourism season, Medicine Buddha cultural season, the tenth World Women's Group Team Championship, Qinhu Fishing Classic, 2024 Taizhou Triathlon Asia Cup, Qinhu Dragon Boat Invitational, the water carnival, Qinhu Bay Wetland Music Festival, 2024 Qinhu Wetland Half Marathon, 2024 Qinhu Gourmet Season, and 19 other Series of activities, continues until October.