Jingzhou ancient city: A grand pilgrimage ceremony was held to celebrate the “union of Guan Gong’s head with his body”
News from World Guangong Culture Website: According to the China News Service, Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, Ta Kung Pao and dozens of media reports at home and abroad: a grand pilgrimage ceremony was held to celebrate the “union of Guan Gong’s head with his body” in Jingzhou Park of Hubei on September 27.
Luoyang Guanlin that buried Guan Gong’s head and Dangyang Guanlin that buried Guan Gong’s body present Guan Gong icon to Guan Sheng palace in Jingzhou that morning. Ashes from the two sides of the strait was brought into the incense burner of Guan Sheng palace by the representatives of two-strait, a moment witnessed by the presidents from 28 Guan Yu temples in Taiwan and hundreds of guests from the United States, Malaysia, Mozambique, Swaziland and more than 10 provinces of Chinese Mainland.
Reporters saw that the all audience there stood up when Guo Tingcai, president of Henan Luoyang culture investment company, Zhou Haitao, division chief of Luo Yang Guanlin, and Liu Jiubin, director of Dangyang Guanlin, Hubei are escorting Guan Yu into the palace with drums and music playing.
Person in charge of Guanlin in Luoyang, Henan and Guanlin in Dangyang, Hubei escort Guan Yu icon into the temple(photographed by Zhu Zhengming)
Guan Yu icon was unveiled by guests at home and abroad(photographed by Zhou Tian’en)
Girl from Jinzhou playing chimes was praised at the pilgrimage ceremony(photographed by Zhu Zhengming)
China-Taiwan promotion association worship Guan Gong(photographed by Zhu Zhengming)
Photographing of guest at home and abroad at the Guan Sheng palace(photographed by anonymity)
Bright fireworks was filled in the sky over Guan Shen to signal the ending of the performance of Liu Bei zhaoqin (photographed by Zhu Zhengming)
Chen Zhansong, president of China Guan Yu promotion association in Taiwan, Chen Kehua, representative of the New York Guan Yu temple, Wen Huiling, president of Dan Bei Guan Yu temple in Malaysia and other guests were invited to the rostrum to witness this holy moment of the unity of Guan Gong’s head with his body.
After this, the host invited Zhu Zhengming, Cui Yujing and Liao Dehong, the representatives of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism respectively across the two-strait to put the ashes across the strait into the big incense burner of Guan Sheng Palace in Jingzhou.
What has been regarded for millennium is “Guan’s body is separated with his head”. Guan Gong culture scholar Zhu Zhengming said that the spirit of Guan Gong is the spiritual wealth and cultural roots of Chinese nation passed from generation to generation and tied by blood. Unit Guan Gong’s body with head is aimed at continuing and inheriting this spirit and roots and condenses the national spirit.