The 2023 Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Shaanxi Province on April 5.

The mausoleum, situated in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, is the location of the tomb of Yellow Emperor, the common ancestor of the Chinese nation.

According to a statement, the ceremony was jointly organised by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government.

As the ceremony officially started, attendees were standing solemnly for the drumbeats and bell rings, in which the 34 drumbeats symbolised the common aspiration of the whole Chinese nation, as well as all overseas Chinese to worship the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

Meanwhile, the nine bell rings represented the highest etiquette of traditional rituals of the Chinese nation, expressing the infinite admiration and gratitude of sons and daughters of the Chinese nation to their ancestor, the Yellow Emperor.

During the superb and elegant memorial music and dance performance, Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, Xiao Jie, presented the flower basket to the statue of the Yellow Emperor.

At the same time, the governor of Shaanxi Province, Zhao Gang delivered the memorial address. The attendees made three deep bows to the statue of the Yellow Emperor upon the end of the memorial address.

After the memorial music and dance performance, a 56-metre-long Chinese dragon hovered and leaped from the centre of the altar, soaring to the sky, travelling through five thousand years of history, gazing at the ever-changing present and flying towards a bright and magnificent future.

Following the completion of the Memorial Ceremony, the attendees visited the Xuanyuan Hall and the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, before planting the Qiaoshan cypress.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency