" Guan Gong’s footprint in seven provinces " was on the way
World Guangong Culture news: Recently, the visiting team of " Guan Gong’s footprint in seven provinces " was making visit in the passing way of Guan Gong’s fear-inspiring places.
The visiting team has more than 20 members including Guan Gong cultural scholars, Guan’s descendant representatives, writers and journalists, etc., from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, they will follow the historical activities footprint of Duke Guan which related to " Romance of the Three Kingdoms• Guan Yu " from September 7th to 23rd.
Opening ceremony
The visiting team arrived in Tushan Town, Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province
The first day of departure, the visiting team held a ceremony in Sanyi temple of Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, after they went to the south all the way, firstly, passed through Pingyuan County of Shandong Province and visited the first office holding place of the Guan Gong; then revisited “ Appointment in Tutunyue “ in Pizhou of Jiangsu Province; and arrived in Xuchang of Henan Province to review Guan Yu’s former site of "Hard work, assuming command and resigned from Cao"; then arrived in Xiangyang and Fancheng of Hubei Province to visit the historic site of Jingxiang and flooded seven army site in northern expedition; then went to Yiyang of Hunan Province for textual criticism of the land of " start a solo run "; then they arrived Dangyang of Hubei Province to visit “the mausoleum of Duke Guan "; visited the first burial place of Guan Gong—Guanlin in Luoyang of Henan Province and participated a series of activities of local Guanlin International pilgrimage ceremony; Finally, they arrived the home town of Guan Gong in Jiezhou of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. This activity lasted for more than half a month and crossed Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi and other provinces and cities, the whole journey was over 5000 km.
According to the introduction of Hu Xiaowei, director of Guan Gong culture professional committee of China Folk Artists Association, the aim of the activity was "protecting the cultural relics, developing tourism and applying two world heritages". The visiting team will inspect the protection condition of cultural relics of Guan Gong and memorial buildings throughout the journey, plan and develop related historical tourism and religion tourism, in order to prepare preliminary research for the material and non-material cultural heritage of the world.
Here, World Guan Gong Culture Promotion Association and World Guan Gong culture wished the visiting team go smoothly all the way and return with fruitful achievements!