Recently, the China Sports Culture Expo and the China Sports Tourism Expo opened at the Suzhou International Expo Center in Jiangsu Province. As an important supporting activity at the "Two Expos" every year, the "2024 China Sports Culture Excellent Project" and "2024 China Sports Tourism Boutique Project" were promoted on the spot. Among them, the Yi Nationality Axi Jumping Moon in Maitreya City was rated as "Excellent National Project of Chinese Sports Culture".
Ah Xi Dancing Moon, which means "happy jumping", is a representative ethnic folk dance of the Yi Nationality Ah Xi people, because they dance around the bonfire in the moonlight, so it is called "Ah Xi Dancing Moon". In 1950, "A Fine Jumping Moon" jumped into Beijing for the first time, and since then it has performed in United States, Poland, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, and has become well-known at home and abroad. It is an excellent national cultural brand of Maitreya to the world, showing the "most dazzling national style" of Maitreya people's diligence and wisdom, unity and progress, optimism and open-minded spiritual quality.
The rhythm of the moon is warm and cheerful, mostly in the sacrifices, festivals, grand ceremonies, it integrates singing, dancing and music, the rhythm is warm and cheerful, the movements are bold and rough, the dance posture is vigorous and elegant, the rhythm is strong, the momentum is magnificent, and it has a strong charisma. In June 2008, it was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list. Nowadays, in Maitreya's "A Xi Jumping Moon" into the classroom, campus, community, village, from the traditional old people and young people, the development of a variety of forms such as a fine square dance, aerobics, shuttlecock exercises, etc., has become a fitness sport loved by the masses.
In recent years, Maitreya City has organically integrated ecological appearance, urban temperament, cultural tourism and health care quality and national cultural characteristics, and has held 12 consecutive sessions of the Axi Moon Jumping Festival, which has further enhanced the influence and popularity of Maitreya national culture, promoted national unity and progress, and forged the sense of community of the Chinese nation. The "Axi Moon Jumping Festival" was selected as an outstanding sports and cultural project in Yunnan Province in 2023 and was listed as one of the four major ethnic festivals in Honghe Prefecture.
In this year's Axi Moon Jumping Life Art Festival, Maitreya City carefully planned the three themes of "urban activities, scenic activities, and township activities", and launched high-quality "all-weather, all-regional, all-age", with more than 40 days and more than 80 series of cultural tourism activities, presenting a joyful feast shared by the host and guests for the majority of tourists and friends, attracting more than 4 million tourists to come to Maitreya to enjoy the "cool summer" and deeply experience "there is a life called Yunnan and is good in Maitreya ·".
Zhao Yunfei reports