Source: The Great Wall Network
The 9th Haizi Poetry Art Festival kicks off in Haigang District, Qinhuangdao. Photo by Wu Peijian/The Great Wall Network
On October 24, the 9th Haizi Poetry Art Festival kicked off in Haigang District of Qinhuangdao City. More than 40 poets, writers and critics from all over the country gathered together to share a feast of poetry with their works, discussing the outstanding achievements of Haizi’s poetry art and the prospect of modern poetry.
The theme of the festival is “Charming Mountains and the Sea, Poetic Port City”. Sponsored by the Haigang District Party Committee and District Government, the 3-day event consists of a series of cultural activities such as symposium, poetry reciting, lectures, and music salon.
The Great Wall and the Bohai Sea are two cultural business cards of Haigang District, which has become people’s “Poetry and Future” with the majestic Great Wall, blue sea, lush mountains, and lucid waters. As the main urban area, and the center of politics, economy and culture of Qinhuangdao City, the superior environment of natural resources and long history and profound culture of the ocean, port, the Great Wall, and geology make a poetic and livable coastal city featured with leisure, vacation, and health care. It has been awarded the “Hometown of Chinese Poetry” and “Top Ten Poetry Town in China”. In recent years, the cultural activities such as the Festival of Worshiping to the Sea, the mass election for the Chinese Poetry Conference, Qinhuang Shanhai National Reading, and Golden Autumn Pen of Chinese Poetry have been held, attracting guests home and abroad to visit, travel, buy houses, invest or start businesses.
At the opening ceremony, Chen Yuguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Publicity Department, presented Qinhuangdao gifts to the China Writers Association on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. Photo by Wu Peijian/The Great Wall Network
At the opening ceremony, guests, poets, writers, and critics watched the promotional video of “The Pearl of the Bohai Sea: A Beautiful Port City". Guan Renshan, chairman of the Hebei Writers Association, presented calligraphy works to Haigang District on behalf of the Hebei Writers Association. Chen Yuguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Publicity Department, presented Qinhuangdao gifts to the China Writers Association on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. Fan Haitao, secretary of Haigang District Party Committee, Zhao Zhi, poet representative and editor-in-chief of the Writers Network, and Ye Yanbin, director of the Poetry Committee of the China Writers Association delivered speech, respectively.
It has been the 9th festival held in Haigang District, and a very influential brand poetry festival in Hebei Province and even in China. Over the past eight years, hundreds of poets and scholars have gathered here to commemorate the genius poet Haizi, praising the port city with outstanding works, which improves the artistic influence of poetry culture and the city image of the port city. Poets, writers and literary critics from all over the country gathered here to promote the beautiful scenery, profound culture, good bushiness environment, and refined spirit of Haigang District with their literary talent, to show the charming mountains and the sea, the harmonious society, and amazing regional culture.
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