On the morning of April 5, the 2023 Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the 
Yellow Emperor was held at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Shaanxi 
Province. The mausoleum, located in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, is the 
location of the tomb of Yellow Emperor, the common ancestor of the Chinese 
nation. 

At 9:50 am, the memorial ceremony officially started. All the attendees were 
standing solemnly for the drum beats and bell rings. The 34 drumbeats 
symbolized the common aspiration of the whole Chinese nation, as well as all 
overseas Chinese to worship the ancestor of the Chinese nation. The 9 bell 
rings represented the highest etiquette of traditional rituals of the Chinese 
nation, expressing the infinite admiration and gratitude of sons and daughters 
of the Chinese nation to their ancestor, the Yellow Emperor.

During the superb and elegant memorial music and dance performance,Xiao Jie, 
Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, presented 
the flower basket to the statue of the Yellow Emperor. Zhao Yide, Secretary of 
the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Director of Shaanxi Provincial 
People's Congress Standing Committee, presented the flower basket on behalf of 
the representatives of Shaanxi province. Zhao Gang, the governor of Shaanxi 
Province, delivered the memorial address.

Upon the end of the memorial address, all the attendees made three deep bows to 
the statue of the Yellow Emperor.

After the memorial music and dance performance, a 56-meter-long Chinese dragon 
hovered and leaped from the center of the altar, soaring to the sky. The dragon 
traveled through five thousand years of history, gazing at the ever-changing 
present and flying towards a bright and magnificent future. 

As the Memorial Ceremony was completed, the attendees visited the Xuanyuan Hall 
and the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, they then planted the Qiaoshan 
cypresses.

The memorial ceremony was jointly organized by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the 
State Council, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, All-China 
Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and Shaanxi Provincial People's 
Government.

Source: Shaanxi Provincial People's Government

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   Caption: Guimao (2023) Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow 
Emperor was held  in Shaanxi