Dangyang, Hubei: Holding the pilgrim ceremony and creating tourist brand
www.guangong.hk comprehensive news: On September 27, Dangyang of Hubei 2013 Global Chinese Worshiping Guan Gong Ceremony was held grandly in Dangyang Guanling Culture Square. Near 2000 people including the scholars of Guan Gong culture, representatives of the Guan Gong Temple, and the descendants of the Guan family as well as the local people attended the activity.
guests at home and abroad entered the meeting place
guests at home and abroad entered the meeting place
the scene of the worshiping ceremony
Dangyang Municipal Party Committee Secretary, Zheng Tinggui awarded the silk banner with the words “Beautifying Guanling” to Cui Yujing, the chairman of Shenyang Deyuan Group.
On the opening ceremony, Zhu Zhengming, the chairman of United Front Work Department Overseas Center of Hubei Provincial Committee, delivered an ebullient speech. He listed the representative personages who contributed to the Chinese Guan Gong culture and told people his feelings of traveling around the world to search for the Guan Gong culture. At last, he said: After almost traveling around the whole world, I deeply realize that Guan Di has already been the moral idol of Chinese nation and Guan Di culture has already been the spiritual bond of the Chinese people at home and abroad!
The president of the Taiwan Chinese Taoism Guan Di Culture Preaching Association, Chen Zhansong said:“Guan Gong culture is the essence of Chinese culture as well as the common belief of the global Chinese. I wish Taiwan and motherland could inherit the Guan Gong culture together and create an ideal world of respecting and caring for each other.”
Tibet Everest Guan Gong Temple visiting group worshiped the Guan Gong
The head of Guan Gong Network, Guan Zhijie(in the middle) was photographing at the scene with others.
Everest Guan Gong Temple visiting group at Guanling
the scene of the Guan Gong Culture Seminar
In the late afternoon, Hu Xiaowei, Zhu Zhengming, Chen Fengyi, Guan Zhijie and other over 30 specialists, scholars and representatives of Guan Gong Temple provided advises to the project of building the cultural tourist city named “World Guan Gong”. The project was invested 5 billion RMB by the Hubei Sheng Pengda Investment Group. It was a comprehensively developing project on culture and tourism. It would build a place covered 1659 acres where people could visit Guan Gong, take relaxing holidays, have business meetings, take happy adventures and experience the Chu-Han customs. According to the reports that once built, it would be the biggest area for visiting Guan Gong and experiencing the Guan Gong culture.(photography/Zhu Zhengming)