Wang Qingjin, chairman of the Wang Family Council in Taiyuan, Myanmar, told reporters that the event of the King of Min was successfully held in the King of Min to visit Myanmar last year, inheriting the culture of the King of Min.

China News Service, Fuzhou, April 20 (Liu Kegeng, Li Yi) "As a descendant of the overseas Fujian King , I feel very honored to be invited to come for the first time." Wang Qingjin, chairman of the Wang Family Council of Taiyuan, Myanmar, told reporters that last year, the King of Min was successfully held to visit the Incense event of the King of Min to Myanmar, inheriting the culture of the King of Min.

The 6th Fujian King Cultural Tourism Festival was held in Fuzhou on April 20. Guests and relatives from Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar and Singapore and from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gathered at the Minwang Memorial Square in Xindian Town, Jin'an District, Fuzhou City to celebrate the "Three Kings" of Fujian (i.e., the three brothers of Wang Chao , Wang Shenzhi, and Wang Shenzhi).

htmlOn April 20, the 6th Minwang (Wang Shenzhi) Cultural Tourism Festival in Jin'an, Fuzhou, China was held at the Minwang Memorial Square in the Minwang Cemetery, Xindian Town, Jin'an District, Fuzhou City. Photo by Chen Jianguo

Like Wang Qingjin, Kinmen County Deputy County Mayor Wu Chengdian is also the first time to come to Fuzhou to participate in the Minwang Cultural Tourism Festival. "I am very moved to see so many people at home and abroad."

This year's Minwang Cultural Tourism Festival has added a joint stage for youth from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to worship the Minwang King, attracting Taiwanese youth to visit the mainland and experience the hometown feelings; arranged for Taiwanese youth to visit the Straits Youth Entrepreneurship Base to promote Taiwanese youth to come to Fuzhou for employment and entrepreneurship.

Therefore, there are many Taiwanese compatriots participating in this Fujian King Cultural Tourism Festival, from Taichung, Kaohsiung , Chiayi , Taoyuan, New Taipei , Keelung , Changhua , Danshui, Kinmen , Penghu , Mazu and other places. Wang Jiankun, chairman of the Wang clan association of Taichung City, said that the Wang clan members on both sides of the Taiwan Strait jointly worship their ancestors, commemorate the kindness of their ancestors, and communicate with each other, and are practitioners of "one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait".

The 6th Fujian King Cultural Tourism Festival held a ceremony for the joint worship of the "Three Kings" of Fujian on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and clans at home and abroad. Photo by Chen Jianguo

"The establishment of the Taichung Yongqi Minwang Memorial Hall fully reflects the results of exchanges and allows the Fujian King culture to take root in Taiwan." Looking to the future, Wang Jiankun said, "We are all descendants of Yan and Huang and descendants of the "Three Kings" of Kaimin. The blood-soluble family affection is endless."

At the ceremony of "Three Kings" of Kaimin that day, the Wang clans at home and abroad bowed to the "Three Kings" of Kaimin. 3. 36 dancers performed the six-dance dance. The whole process showed the traditional Chinese sacrificial ritual. Wang Shirun, vice president of the Jin'an Fujian-Taiwan Wangshenzhi Research Association of Fuzhou City and chairman of the Fujian-Taiwan Wangshenzhi Cultural Exchange Center, said that he hopes that the Fujian-Taiwan culture will always be evergreen with the joint efforts of the descendants of the Fujian-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-Taiwan-T

Fuzhou Minwang Memorial Hall, as an important "cross-strait exchange base" in Fuzhou City, has been signed as a "brother's hall" with Taichung Yongqi Minwang Memorial Hall. The King of Fujian has been listed as a "provincial intangible cultural heritage" by the Fujian Provincial People's Government in January 2017. (End)