Silk serves as a matchmaker to connect bridges of friendship, and a cultural feast blooms in the hometown of overseas Chinese. On July 2, the activity of Weifang City, the hometown of Haiyun Overseas Chinese on the ancient Silk Road Road, to create the “Cultural Capital of East Asia” and enter the “Hometown of Chinese Silk Culture” was successfully held at the Silk Town Art Museum of the Silk Road Silk Culture and Creative Park in Changyi City.
The event kicked off with the “National Rhythm and Chinese Style” performance. This event aims to inherit the spirit of the Silk Road, explore the connotation of silk culture, let the ancient silk culture shine with new brilliance on the road of inheritance and innovation, and actively integrate into the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” to build a bridge for cultural exchanges between China, Japan and South Korea. Promote people-to-people connectivity through cultural exchanges, promote regional development through urban exchanges, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in East Asian culture.
After the launching ceremony, the participants visited the Silk Road Silk Cultural and Creative Park, the Weifang Overseas Chinese History Museum, and the Silk Culture Museum.
Weifang has a long history and profound cultural heritage. As early as 8,000 years ago, humans lived here. The prehistoric culture sequence is complete and rich in connotation. Houli Culture, Beixin Culture, Dawenkou Culture, and Longshan Culture sites are dotted here; it is the birthplace of China’s sea salt industry and an important town for Confucian classics. , an important node of the land and maritime Silk Road, the eastern center for the spread of Buddhism, and the political and economic center of Shandong; Shihu Garden, Qi Great Wall, Yunmen Mountain, Fan Gongting, Shanwang Fossils, Dinosaur Fossils, Yishan National Forest Park, etc. are well-known at home and abroad. . Weifang regards the creation of the “Cultural Capital of East Asia” as a new starting point for building a “culturally strong city”, continuously improves its cultural strength, expands cultural exchanges, accelerates the construction of a culturally strong city and an international cultural tourism destination, and allows the international community to deeply understand and perceive Weifang. Weifang is an important carrier and path to improve the international awareness of urban culture and accelerate the construction of an international metropolis through cultural internationalization.
Changyi is the “Hometown of Silk” and “Hometown of Overseas Chinese”, one of the birthplaces of Dongyi culture. It was called Yiyi and Duchang in ancient times. It was established as a county in the Qin Dynasty and named after the Song Dynasty. It has been established for more than 2,700 years. Evolution history. Marine civilization and farming civilization meet here, and traditional culture and modern civilization blend here, making Changyi, a modern modern city in the new era, show its vitality. Changyi City won the honorary titles of the 6th National Civilized City, National Sanitary City, and National Garden City.
Changyi has been “raising silkworms and weaving silk and twisting threads to weave” since the Zhou Dynasty. It has a production history of more than 3,000 years. Changyi merchants are typical representatives of Qilu merchants. They have been doing business since the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. Carrying silk across the ocean, sailing to the North, the West, the East, and the South, creating one of the starting points of the “Modern Maritime Silk Road”. “Changyi Silk” has become a national geographical indication protected product, and Liu Tuan’s silk skills have been Listed as provincial intangible cultural heritage. In recent years, Changyi City has used silk as a medium to actively integrate into the creation of the “Cultural Capital of East Asia”, strengthened external cultural exchanges and multi-level civilization dialogue, built links and bridges connecting the world, and continuously enhanced the international influence and spread of culture. Changyi’s strength is to promote exchanges, mutual learning, and harmonious coexistence among civilizations in East Asia and other countries.
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