On November 1, 2024, on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, China's traditional ancestor worship festival, Hongdong big locust tree root seeking Ancestor Worship Garden was held in the scenic spot ancestor worship square. On the same day, the launch ceremony of "Walking through Tianya Hongdong is home to the third Hongdong Big locust Tree Root Zu Cup of Poetry at home and Abroad" was held at the root carving gate of the scenic spot.
At 9:38 am, the ancestor worship activity began. After worshiping the ancient pagoda tree, the main priest and the attendant went to the ancestor worship square, and the ancestor worship ceremony of the Cold clothes Festival of Jiachen officially began. The theme of this ceremony is "thousands of people with the same family name and root ancestor worship". Descendants of the big pagoda tree immigrants from home and abroad, the cooperation units and judges of the Genzu Cup Poetry Competition, cultural scholars, media journalists, and network experts gather in Hongdong Big Pagoda Tree ancestor worship square to worship the big pagoda tree immigrant ancestors.

In accordance with the national intangible cultural heritage "big pagoda tree ancestor worship custom", the ceremony in turn carries out the traditional process of "Welcome God", "Worship incense", "ceremony silk", "offer offerings", "wine offering", "Toast", "music and dance", "Looking for Liao Xie God", "Drinking Fu by Zuo" and "bowing to God", leading the on-site personnel to worship the ancestors of immigrants and inherit Chinese filial piety. Zhang Feng, director of Sanjin Cultural Research Association, special expert, deputy director of the Surname Culture Committee, offered cold clothes to the ancestors of immigrants; Mr. Wang Zhengyu, chairman of Canstar Property Management Co., Ltd. in Vancouver, Canada, offered incense to the ancestors of immigrants and offered wine to the ancestors of immigrants with two other descendants of immigrants from Vancouver, Canada. The scenic spot simulates the ceremony through the official accounts of the Douyin and Kuaishou short video platforms, allowing online audiences to taste the charm of intangible cultural heritage together.

Find the roots of Hongdong, inherit filial piety. In the early Ming Dynasty, eighteen large-scale official migrations took place under the big pagoda tree in Hongdong, Shanxi Province, involving more than one million people and 1,230 family names from the big pagoda tree to all parts of the country, so that the big pagoda tree has the reputation of "the holy land of Chinese roots." "All over the horizon Hongdong is home" is not only a slogan, but also the feelings of immigrant descendants. The children of Huaixiang who do not forget the contributions of their ancestors and the descendants of the big locust tree immigrants, during the Qingming, Zhongyuan and Hanyi festivals, will worship their ancestors, send their condolences, and gradually form the traditional ritual of today's "big locust tree ancestor worship custom". In 2008, this custom was included in the national intangible cultural Heritage list. As the inheritance and protection unit of the "big Locust Tree Ancestor Worship custom", Hongdong Big Locust Tree Root Search Ancestor Worship Garden has been exploring the active performance and innovative development of outstanding traditional intangible cultural heritage in the new era for many years. Every year, during the three traditional ancestor worship festivals of Qingming, Zhongyuan and Hanyi, the ancestor worship ceremony is held to display this national intangible cultural heritage ancestor worship custom, which has become a scenic tradition and formed a kind of inheritance. Let more immigrant descendants and tourists pay attention to and support the protection of outstanding intangible cultural heritage, jointly promote the creative transformation and innovative development of intangible cultural heritage, and also let tourists who come to the big pagoda tree to experience the custom of ancestor worship of the big pagoda tree and feel the rich cultural heritage of the scenic spot, have the travel experience of "returning home and happy life", and further enhance the brand of "Tourism Satisfaction in Shanxi".

At 9 a.m. on the same day, outside the root carving gate of the scenic spot, the launch ceremony of "Going through the Tianya Hongdong is home to the third Hongdong Big Pagoda Tree Root Zu Cup of Poetry at home and abroad" was held on time. At the ceremony, Guo Huijun, member of the Standing Committee of the Hongdong County Party Committee, member of the Government Party Group, and Minister of the Publicity Department announced the launch of the poetry competition, Wang Hongjian, general manager of Hongdong Big Acacia Tree Root Worship Garden Co., LTD., gave a welcome speech, and Jing Beiji, president of the Zhongzhen Poetry Society, gave a speech and introduced the event. Fan Zhongyi, chairman of Hongdong Big Locust Tree Search Ancestor Worship Garden Co., LTD., Zhang Honghong, chairman of Hongdong County Federation of Literature, Zhang Chunyi, Vice president of Taiyuan Poetry Society and poetry contest judge, Gao Haisheng, vice president of Jin Society and Poetry Contest judge, Jing Xiaoying, director of Big Locust Tree Moving People Site Service Center, attended the ceremony. Liu Lijuan, director of Hongdong County Culture and Tourism Bureau, presided over the ceremony.

This poetry competition is jointly sponsored by Hongdong Big Locust Tree Root Search Ancestor Worship Garden Co., Ltd. and Zhongzhen Poetry Society, aiming to promote poetry creation through the history, culture and folk customs of Big Locust Tree scenic spot. To express the eternal thoughts of the roots and feelings of home and country in the classic expression form of traditional poetry, further promote the brand image of Hongdong's featured poetry culture with big pagoda trees, better promote the long history and cultural landscape resources of Hongdong and the unique urban brand of "Hongdong is home", and stimulate the attention, love and inheritance of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation in the whole society. Let the ancient traditional poetry bloom more brilliant in the new era. The contest is open from November 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025. After the deadline, the professional evaluation committee composed of well-known poets will conduct the first review and final review, and finally determine the winning works, and reward a total of 46 poets with the first prize and the excellence award, of which the first prize will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan in cash. In April 2025, the award ceremony will be held in Hongdong large locust Tree Root Search Ancestor Worship Garden.