Yongfu, with a long history, is the hometown of longevity in China, the birthplace of colored sculptures in Guangxi, a national intangible cultural heritage, and the origin of Siraitia grosvenorii, the "Oriental God Fruit", which brings together the most auspicious longevity culture in the world. There were 36 centenarians in the whole year, which exceeded the currently recognized assessment standard of 7 centenarians per 65,438+10,000 people.
Since 2006, Yongfu County has actively excavated, inherited and carried forward the unique culture of Yongfu Fushou. Since 2006, the Fushou Festival has been held every year, which has launched the brand of Fushou culture and politely enhanced Yongfu's popularity and influence.
According to reports, this year's 6th China Guilin Yongfu Healthy Tourism Fushou Festival will take Guilin as an opportunity to build a national comprehensive tourism reform pilot zone, closely focus on the theme of "Yongfu-Fushou Healthy Home", and strive to build a cultural brand of "Healthy Tourism Demonstration Zone", fully display the profound cultural heritage of Yongfu County, vigorously carry forward the virtues of respecting and loving the elderly, actively optimize the development environment of Yongfu, and strive to improve its popularity and reputation, and demonstrate its development vitality and display power.
The theme activities of this year's Fushou Festival are colorful and bright. During the period, hiking and longevity landscape activities will be held and launched on the same day; The "County Mountain Bike Road Race" will start in Yongfu County, where many mountain cyclists will compete. Guangxi TV information channel "Happy Country Tour" will be a highlight of this year's Fushou Festival, and Yongfu local grassroots stars will take turns to perform on stage; West Lake rubber boat speed rowing competition, so that the audience feast their eyes; Farmers' basketball match in the county, where farmers' athletes will show their charm; There will also be black and pink in the tone performance of Fushou Festival. During the Fushou Festival, traditional activities will be held, such as respecting and loving the elderly, cultural and sports activities for the elderly, "Gourmet Street", the proliferation and release of fishery resources in Yongfu Qingjiang River, the "Fushou Healthy Home" photo contest, painting and calligraphy exhibition, the closing ceremony of Fushou Festival, and the award evening. In Tianfeng Square, the county seat, nearly 100 men, women and children are practicing birthday exercises every morning and evening. Beautiful scenery, beautiful music and people's relaxed and natural movements make the Xijiang River in the county look like a beautiful and harmonious scenery.
Since the popularization of hands-down exercises, in just a few days, its elegant and free movements have attracted a large number of fans to join the practice, and our county has quickly set off a craze for practicing hands-down exercises.
"From the moment we came into contact with birthday exercises, we fell in love with this sport. I don't play cards now, I practice birthday exercises every day, and I have new gains every day. " "I only practiced for a few days, and now my appetite is greatly increased, and my body seems to be a lot tougher. I will take part in this beneficial exercise more in the future and exercise well. " This is what the reporter heard from several elderly friends in an interview with Tianfeng Square in the county town recently. Aunt Wang is a retired doctor in the county hospital. She has rich experience in health care and exercise. She is also one of the coaches of health and longevity exercises in our county! She strongly advocates practicing birthday exercises. Every evening, "leading exercises" in Tianfeng Square is her compulsory course. She told the reporter very seriously: "50%-80% of human diseases are caused by mental factors. Being cheerful and open-minded is one of the factors of longevity and the key to self-cultivation It is a good way to eliminate various diseases caused by nervous system disorders and practice longevity exercises. " At the scene, the reporter also saw a little coach, a little girl of eight or nine years old, seriously correcting the movements of an old man. After a short rest, the cheerful child opened his mouth to the reporter. She said, "I practice birthday exercises here with my grandmother every night. All the students in our school have studied it. Listening to adults say that birthday exercises can strengthen the body, I still think the movements are very beautiful. I especially like the action of' flying'. " Say that finish, she is better than painting.
A staff member of the county Fushou Festival Organizing Committee told the reporter: "This sport is very popular with people of all ages, which shows that everyone attaches great importance to health preservation. Often practicing longevity exercises is good for longevity and health care. "
The reporter learned in the county cultural and sports department that Fushoucao is a highlight program of this year's County Health and Longevity Festival. Fu Shou Cao has received a good social response since its launch. At present, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people in counties and towns are practicing birthday exercises. Shouxi aerobics is all the rage in our county, and it has well guided the national fitness under the condition of imperfect sports infrastructure. Practicing Fushoucao once again set off the climax of the national fitness campaign in the county.
On the afternoon of June 5438+1October 19, 2007, a giant group gymnastics team composed of 825 elderly people, 15000 government officials and school teachers and students performed "Walking with the Olympics" at Feng Fei Square in Yongfu County and the surrounding streets at the same time, and the World Health Assembly Yongfu International Health Festival and the second Guilin Yongfu Fushou Festival were successfully concluded.
In the beautiful music, the exercise of longevity for ten thousand people began slowly, and three generations of players danced with their arms outstretched at the same time, which was magnificent. The core area of ten thousand people's health and longevity exercise is a huge word "fu" arranged by 825 elderly exercisers. Old people wear red clothes to form a big word "Fu", which expresses the common blessing of Yongfu people for the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and also implies that fitness can prolong life and keep fit. Countless people boarded the top floor of the building to watch and were shocked by this spectacular scene.
Birthday exercises for 10,000 people pushed Yongfu International Health Festival and the Second Birthday Festival to a climax. Health experts from the United States, Canada and Britain said that they were shocked to see thousands of people's health performances. They deeply appreciated the hard work, wisdom and health care of the people in the hometown of longevity and saw the vitality embodied by the people of Yongfu.
Fushou grass has a history of hundreds of years, which is quite characteristic of Yongfu Fushou culture. During the performance, 825 elderly exercisers lined up in Tianfeng Square in Yongfu County, stretching their limbs gently and slowly. Let's pray for the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, a traditional festival in China, by doing exercises.
Teacher Feng from Yongfu Middle School, Guangxi, who led the drill, introduced that health and longevity exercises were based on the local characteristics of Yongfu and Tai Ji Chuan, and created 2 1 movements, such as "white crane brightens wings", "white ape presents fruit" and "birthday star stroke". At present, it is a group of ten and a half minutes. Because of its gentle movements, it is especially suitable for the elderly to exercise. Yongfu Fushou exercise has been fully promoted since August this year. Aunt Qin, who took part in birthday exercises in Tianfeng Square, said happily that now her whole family, old and young, like to practice a group of birthday exercises in their free time in the morning or evening.
Dozens of media reporters at home and abroad witnessed the touching scene of 10 thousand birthday exercises.