What does Jingzhou Chu Culture Festival mean?

Jingchu culture, named after Chu State and Chu people, is a regional cultural festival that rose in Jianghan Basin from the Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. ?

Jingzhou Chu Culture Festival began on April 8, 2023.

As the root of Jingchu culture, Jingzhou is the birthplace of Chu culture. The first Chu Culture Festival will reflect novelty, strangeness and uniqueness, and strive to become a grand event for the city and a festival for the citizens. Co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of Hubei Provincial Party Committee, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, it opened in Jingzhou on April 8, 2023.

On April 8, 2023, Lan Yu, the host of movie channel, Guo Xiaodong, the filmmaker and actor, Li Jinze, the host of movie channel, and John Yang, the host of Jingzhou Radio and TV Station co-chaired the opening ceremony of the first Chu Culture Festival.

The theme is inheritance and innovation, Chu Yun Jingzhou. On April 8-9, there will be the opening ceremony, the grand meeting of Chu merchants and the signing ceremony of major investment projects, the Chu culture inheritance and development forum, the fifth international symposium on Chu culture, the 2022 China Film Big Data Festival and other activities.

Jingzhou geographical environment

Jingzhou City is located in the south-central part of Hubei Province, in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in the hinterland of Jianghan Plain, bordering Hannan District of Wuhan City in the east and Jiayu County and chibi city of Xianning City across the river in the southeast. Nanbinjiang is adjacent to Yueyang City, Hunan Province, and borders Yiyang City and Changde City. It borders dangyang city, zhijiang city, Yidu and Wufeng counties in Yichang in the west, and borders Jingmen, Qianjiang and Xiantao in the north.

The maximum horizontal distance from east to west is about 274.8km, and the maximum vertical distance from north to south is about130.2km.. Jiajiang is distributed in a strip shape. The Yangtze River runs through the city from west to east, with a total length of 483 kilometers.

Jingzhou is a typical humid climate zone in the northern subtropical monsoon, with four distinct seasons, sufficient heat, suitable illumination, abundant rainfall, the same season of rain and heat, and a long frost-free period. There are many rivers and lakes with dense water networks, which is one of the areas with the widest inland waters and the highest density of water networks in China.