CHENGDU, China, April 6, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- The Dujiangyan Water Release Festival kicks off on April 5 in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to commemorate the founders of the Irrigation System from Dujiangyan
A grand ceremony was held for the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, at the Qingming Festival, held on April 5 this year, to commemorate its founders. .
More than 1,000 guests from all over the world attended the event, dressed in traditional hanfu. Among them are the ambassadors of Ecuador, Thailand and Malta, the minister of the Ethiopian Embassy in China, as well as more than 30 consuls general and consular officers from 17 countries such as Poland, Chile and Spain.
The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, built on the upper reaches of the Minjiang River 2,279 years ago by Sichuan Governor Li Bing and his son, is still in use. It has prevented the Chengdu Plain from floods and droughts since its completion
Since ancient times, workers have used rafts to block the course of the Minjiang River every winter to maintain the river beds and reinforce the levees during the dry season. In the spring, they uprooted the rafts to release water to irrigate farmland on the plain.
It gradually became a tradition to hold a ceremony to release water for the irrigation system at the Qingming Festival, which marks the beginning of a busy spring plowing season. This tradition has now become a great event: the Dujiangyan Water Release Festival.
The Dujiangyan Water Release Festival is one of the most solemn and grandiose folk cultural activities in western Sichuan and was listed in the first group of National Intangible Heritages. The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, along with the nearby Qingcheng Mountain, was listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.
Grzegorz Piotr Morawski, Consul General of Poland in Chengdu, who participated in the festival for the first time, explained that it was very impressive. He admires the Chinese people for their heritage of history and culture, as the ceremony dates back a thousand years and is still performed today.
The irrigation system irrigates 755,000 hectares of farmland in 40 counties within the western Sichuan Plain, meeting the water needs of tens of millions of people for living, production, and ecological and environmental protection.
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