On June 1, the first county (city, district) activity of the Chinese Jiaxing Dragon Boat Folk Culture Festival was held in Tongxiang. Next, the activities of each county (city, district) of the Dragon Boat Folk Culture Festival will be presented successively. Among them, Jiashan will hold an exhibition of the folk songs of the Yangtze River Delta and invite teams from Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui to participate; The Zhejiang-Shanghai Folk Custom Joint Exhibition, held in Pinghu Zhongdai Baimayan Park and Xindai Nansong Folk Street, will focus on the display of the Dragon Boat Festival folk custom boutique projects in Zhejiang and Shanghai… It will realize the first linkage with the cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, and become a highlight of this year’s folk festival.
“Wu Gen Yue Jiao” and “Wu Tou Chuwei” are the common summary of many cities in the Yangtze River Delta on their own cultural and historical positioning. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui have been geographically adjacent since ancient times, close to each other in terms of humanities and folk customs. The Yangtze River Delta region has a rich tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival folk culture. Over the years, various regions in the Yangtze River Delta have made their own exploration in the inheritance and promotion of the Dragon Boat Festival folk culture. The Dragon Boat Festival folk activities with different regional characteristics, such as the Yu Garden Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghai, the Dragon Boat Race in Jinji Lake in Suzhou, Jiangsu, and the Nuo Opera in Huizhou during the Dragon Boat Festival in Mount Huangshan, Anhui, have shown the trend of “letting a hundred flowers bloom”.
Jiaxing Dragon Boat Folk Culture Festival focuses on the cultural charm and strong Dragon Boat customs of Jiaxing, which is “resplendent humanity and unparalleled style”. Through years of building, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a special and beautiful cultural symbol and city card of Jiaxing. This time, the Dragon Boat Festival folk culture activity was jointly held with the cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, which not only enriched the content of the activity, but also displayed the brand of “Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival” on the larger stage of the Yangtze River Delta, and displayed the image of Jiaxing city.
As the first research base of the Dragon Boat Festival culture in China, Jiaxing introduced some urban cultural projects in the Yangtze River Delta in this year’s Dragon Boat Festival folk cultural activities, which is to let the brand of “Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival” exert its influence at a higher level and make continuous contributions to the prosperity and development of regional traditional cultural festivals. It can be said that such a Dragon Boat Festival folk feast, which has realized the linkage with the cities in the Yangtze River Delta, has led the Dragon Boat Festival folk cultural activities in the Yangtze River Delta from “beauty of each” to “beauty and harmony”.
Dragon boat racing, making sachets, eating “five yellow”, wrapping Zongzi… These Dragon Boat Festival customs are indistinguishable in the Yangtze River Delta. At the same time, the folk culture of the Dragon Boat Festival in various regions also has its own characteristics. Communicating with each other in the form of “cultural affinity” not only provides opportunities for all regions to learn from each other, but also allows cities in the Yangtze River Delta to explore more “common topics” and close the “psychological distance”. The more we talk about common topics, the closer we get to common goals. A “cross-border” linkage in the field of folk culture can effectively enhance the sense of identity among cities in the Yangtze River Delta, and thus condense stronger centripetal force for regional coordinated development.
The Yangtze River Delta is not only one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation ability in China, but also one of the regions with the most profound cultural heritage in China. As the “leading force” to promote the higher-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, the linkage of folk cultural activities is not only the general trend of the national strategy, but also the unique path to realize the coordinated development of the region in the Yangtze River Delta. Only with one heart and one mind can we discuss Hongmo and seek common development. With the regional linkage of folk cultural activities, the fertile soil of cultural communication will be planted, and the cultural identity of the Yangtze River Delta will be constructed. The flower of regional integration and development of the Yangtze River Delta will be in full bloom.