Chinese pay respects to Yellow Emperor
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More than 10,000 people gathered on Tuesday to pay their respects to the emperor believed to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese.
They came from around the world for the grand annual ceremony held at the Mausoleum of Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor, who is recognized as the legendary first sovereign of China.
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The festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, is a 2,500-year-old tradition observed in China to mourn the deaths of ancestors and loved ones.
Yan Junqi, vice-chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), and Wu Poh-hsiung, honorary chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) Party in Taiwan, took part in the ceremony.
Before leaving Taiwan for the ceremony, Wu told local media on March 28 that cross-Straits peace and development should be cherished, according to chinanews.com.
"We cherish the day so much. And we should continue to strengthen cooperation and exchanges and to seek common ground while putting aside differences," said Wu.
Zhao Zhengyong, governor of Shaanxi province, read the elegiac address in which he said that reunification of the Chinese nation is a hope for Chinese all over the world.
Huangdi, a great tribal chief of China's prehistory, has been credited with the invention of carts, boats, bows and arrows, and traditional Chinese medicine. One of his imperial historians is believed to have created Chinese pictographs.
On this year's Tomb-Sweeping Day, many Chinese both home and abroad showed their respects to Huangdi on a special website, huangdi.cnwest.com, where they stressed their hope for prosperity and reunification of the Chinese nation.
This year marks the centenary of China's epoch-making 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution, which ended the imperial rule of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and gave birth to Asia's first republic.
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