During the periodof First Chinese Poets Festival, poetry organizations from all over the countrygathered at this ancient city to study the culture of poetry, and seek for theinspiration of creation to promote the prosperous development of Chinese poetry.Experts and scholars all agreed that it was of great significance to host theFirst Chinese Poets Festival.

There are festival diet customs recorded in Jing-Chu in Mind, “when spring begins, relatives and friends get together to eat spring pancakes and lettuce”; “on the first day of the first lunar month, ...people drink pepper and parker wine and spiced sake, eat peach soup and JiaoYa soup”; “on the seventh day of the first lunar month, people have porridge made of seven k...

On July 16th,1966, Chairman Mao, at his 73 ages at that time, swam again in Yangtze River.Since then, people called this day as the Memorial Day of Chairman Mao Swimming in the Yangtze River. In order to memorize Chairman Mao, Jingzhou citizens setup a folk Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. What’s in it? The Memorial Hall, located at the Purple Palace, consists of ten exhibition halls, whichwer...