2020 Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival Folk Culture Festival Time, Location and Activities Guide

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday is coming soon. Are you ready to have fun? Why not come to Suzhou! A grand folk culture festival is held here. These activities are very lively. Everyone You can feel the festive atmosphere when traveling here, so what activities are there? Let’s take a look! The event time and location

It will be held on June 25 (the fifth day of May) in Gusu District, Suzhou Held in Panmen Scenic Area, around the theme of "Wu Di Dragon Boat Festival Traveling to the South of the Yangtze River", this year's event is based on the combination of mass festival cultural activities, traditional Dragon Boat Festival customs and canal culture, with "online" and "offline" interaction Advance and further promote the integration of traditional cultural genes and contemporary fashion elements. Event Introduction

This event is hosted by the Suzhou National Historical and Cultural City Reserve Management Committee and hosted by Canglang Street, Gusu District. In order to support the "8:30 Suzhou" night economy, this year's Dragon Boat Festival folk cultural activities will focus on creating new highlights in hard-core Suzhou, mainly divided into four categories: Dragon Boat Festival folk cultural exchanges, Yunyou Panmen, Yunyou Susu, Yunyou Sihai and Yunyou Tianxia. There are three main sections including "offline + online" activities and "Suzhou 8:30, midnight tour lights up Panmen".

In this year’s Dragon Boat Festival event, the organizers will invite famous painters, calligraphers, and seal carvers from Suzhou to paint on-site at the Panmen Three Scenes, produce paintings with the theme of "Canglang Boat Race", and give them to friends on-site. The cities of Venice and Singapore used the spirit of the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race to gather joint efforts to fight the epidemic. At the same time, the organizer will invite Italian and Singaporean entrepreneurs in Suzhou and representatives from all walks of life to experience the Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival cultural customs and promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and foreign countries.

Sacrifice Activities

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, a number of offline and online "travel" activities will fully demonstrate the charm of Dragon Boat Festival folk culture from all angles. Among them, in the Panmen Scenic Area, the organizers will carry out "Youth never ends at 8:30 in Gusu" - Qingjiang BOX experience activity, "Minwen Cup" our festival - "Gusu at 8:30" themed lantern riddles for everyone to guess , youth on-site painting of the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival kite flying, Wu family clan sacrifice activities and the "Gusu Eight-thirty" night tour Panmen experience activity.

Online activities are also exciting. It is reported that the mobile phone game "Traveling in Suzhou? Lighting up the eight city gates" will also be launched. Citizens only need to enter the mobile WeChat game applet to light up the city gates, tour the ancient city along the canal, learn about Suzhou's Dragon Boat Festival customs and traditions, and participate in games such as guessing lantern riddles and dragon boat races. In addition, on the same day, the organizers will also invite folklore experts and overseas travelers to introduce the characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival in my country and different regions around the world to the Suzhou audience through live broadcasts and express their best wishes.

Lion Dance Performance

It is also understood that on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on June 25, Suzhou Panmen Scenic Area is open to citizens and tourists whose household registration is within Suzhou City for free, wearing cheongsam. Visitors wearing a complete set of Hanfu can also enter the park for free.

Do you like any of these activities? Whether you like to eat rice dumplings or watch lion dance performances and other activities, everyone can see them here, and there are also online activities to accompany them. , let everyone enjoy the joy of the Dragon Boat Festival!