Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 6 - Interview: with the "cloud ensemble" put up a new exchange-Egypt bridge - Interview with Director of Cairo Chinese Culture Center Danyue Wen
Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Jie Gu Kang
"In the recent process of Chinese and Egyptian musicians cheering on the new crown epidemic through the 'cloud ensemble', we have transferred confidence and friendship to each other and built a new bridge for non-governmental exchanges between China and Egypt." Shi Yuewen, director of the Cairo Chinese Culture Center, said in a remote interview with a Xinhua reporter in Cairo.
In late April, the “Cloud Ensemble” video of “Triumphant March” produced jointly by the Cairo Chinese Cultural Center and the Liaoning Opera House (Liaoning Symphony Orchestra) and the Cairo Opera House was broadcast on the Internet and was immediately obtained by China and Egypt Net friendly comment. The exquisite playing skills and beautiful melody make the music lovers who are in the background of the new crown epidemic full of delight.
"Triumphant March" is selected from the popular opera "Aida", with rich Egyptian characteristics, has a beautiful meaning of heralding victory. Shi Yuewen said that Chinese and Egyptian musicians jointly perform passionate music that is very familiar to both peoples on the Internet, and it is easy for the audience to resonate.
"Cloud Ensemble" is a brand new attempt, in which musicians from China and Egypt record videos in their own homes, and then edit and synthesize them into complete tracks. It is not easy to implement this kind of performance, which is produced and displayed online, and organizers and musicians have encountered many difficulties, especially in the use of technical means and remote communication.
During the epidemic, Egyptians used to stay online at home, causing the Cairo Internet connection to be extremely slow. Shi Yuewen said that on one occasion, a local musician sent him a performance video through his mailbox, and the transmission was completed for a whole day; there was also a musician ’s video that was too low to use. After repeated communication, many retakes, Re-sending only meets the requirements. "When communicating with the latter musician, telephone, WeChat, Whatsapp, email ... all communication methods are used, and the communication has been repeated more than 100 times." Shi Yuewen said.
Shi Yuewen said that after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, China and Egypt have watched each other and helped each other to overcome difficulties. The Cairo Chinese Cultural Center and the Egyptian Palace of Wisdom Culture and Media Company have translated the new coronavirus infection protection reader into an Arabic version, which is free for download by the Egyptian people, and organized an online epidemic prevention knowledge contest, which has received widespread attention from Egyptian netizens.
At present, the Cairo Chinese Cultural Center is carrying out a series of "Cloud · Traveling to China" activities, including "Cloud Classroom, Cloud Exhibition, Cloud Food, Cloud Performance, Cloud Competition" and other online exchange and interactive projects, such as Chinese teaching online classroom, "online The "Chinese Restaurant" gourmet teaching workshop, etc., enriched the cultural life of the Egyptian people during the anti-epidemic period through online cultural activities, thereby further promoting China-Egypt nongovernmental exchanges.
Shi Yuewen said that the center will also plan to launch online interactive cultural exchange activities with strong interactive and novel forms, such as "'Joining Together', the Original Song of China-Egypt Cooperation in Anti-epidemic", "Martial Arts Routine Video Solitaire" and "Thematic Creative Work Collection" These happy activities will help the local people in Egypt learn more about China. (Participating reporters: Wu Danni, Duan Minfu)