
Foreign consular officials wearing Hanfu, traditional Chinese attire, attend the Dujiangyan Water-discharging Festival in Dujiangyan in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, yesterday, the Qingming Festival. The annual water-discharging festival expresses Sichuan people’s worship of water and their respect to Li Bing, the designer and founder of this great project.The oldest irrigation system in the world built 2,200 years ago, Dujiangyan is regarded as a major landmark in the development of water management and technology in China. It is still functioning perfectly.China News Service |