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Cultural China Tour: Minxian County, Gansu Province: "Flowers" Flowing Rhymes Singing about a New Look

2025-06-17   

The flowers of the world are one family, with hearts connected and hands held together. Various peonies bloom together, and beautiful days move forward! "Recently, at the Flower Art Month and Cultural Tourism Promotion Conference in Min County, Gansu, the song" The Flowers of the World are One Family "sang the passionate" heartfelt words "of people of all ethnic groups. Entering the fifth lunar month, Min County in Dingxi City, Gansu Province, welcomes the annual "Flower Month", where people of all ethnic groups dress up in festive costumes. On the banks of the Tao River and in the mountains and forests, loud and passionate yet gentle songs resounded one after another, and the entire land of Minzhou became a sea of "flowers". Since the beginning of this century, Min County has regularly held the 'Taomin Flower' Singer Competition, and this year is already the 25th edition. ”Feng Xiaohu, Deputy Director of the Minxian Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced that the purpose of the event is to discover more 'flower' singers, so that this world-class intangible cultural heritage of Minxian can be better inherited. Minxian is located on the eastern edge of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Between Erlang Mountain, Minshan Mountain, and Dongshan Mountain, the Tao River and Diezang River flow endlessly. The "three mountains sandwiching two rivers" nourish many ethnic groups such as Han, Hui, and Tibet, and also give birth to the unique "Tao Min Flower", which has been sung for hundreds of years. In 2009, "Taomin Flower" was selected as a representative work of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Zhang Runping, a cultural scholar from Min County who was invited to participate in the United Nations' "Flower" Forum, introduced that "Tao Min Flower" has been sung in Min County for more than 600 years, forming a unique style of the North and South factions. The Nanlu School is represented by "Ah Oulian Er", with rough and high pitched melodies full of primitive beauty; The North Road School is represented by "Two Laments", with a free and soothing melody, and is skilled in narrative and lyrical expression. Every year on the 17th day of the fifth lunar month, people spontaneously gather and express their love for life and longing for the future through improvisation using "flowers". 52 year old Bao Xiaoju is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of the Taomin Flower in Dingxi City. I have been singing 'Hua Er' since I was 8 years old. When I was a child, I listened to my grandmother and mother sing, and we sang together in the fields while doing farm work, "she said. ”Miao Jing, director of the Minxian Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, couldn't hide her pride in her words. With the annual "Flower Festival", Min County not only continues to polish the two "golden signboards" of "United Nations Folk Song Inspection and Collection Base" and "China Flower Inheritance Base", but also finds the "traffic code" for developing tourism economy. In recent years, Min County has been using "Hua'er" as a medium to continuously promote the integration of "tourism+" and "+tourism", accelerate the development of cultural and tourism industries, and focus on building a self driving tourism node city in southern Gansu, achieving rapid growth in the cultural and tourism industry. (New Society)

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