China News Service, Beijing, September 30 (Reporter Yu Lixiao) Two live concerts of "The End of the World-Mid-Autumn Music Appreciation" and "The End of the World-High Mountains and Flowing Water · Wanli Mingyue" will be held on September 30. At 20:30 and 20:30, it was the first time to publicize Beijing's central axis culture, Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival culture, and Beijing contemporary literati life aesthetics on a global scale.
"The End of the World-Mid-Autumn Festival Music" live concert was held online for the first time after the new crown pneumonia epidemic. The international promotion activities with the theme of "Connecting the Central Axis" and "Listening to the Music and Looking at the Moon" will be on the central axis of Beijing The Zhongshan Park Yuyuan, Zhongshan Park Concert Hall and Gubei Water Town in Beijing will be held in Beijing. The main content is music performances, Mid-Autumn Festival intangible cultural heritage display and the promotion of the charming central axis, showing the Mid-Autumn Festival with Beijing characteristics.
"The End of the World-Enjoying Music at Mid-Autumn Festival" live concert poster.
Photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
The event was hosted by the famous host Chun Ni. Shuang Yan, the national representative inheritor of "Beijing Tuerye", shared the culture of the central axis and the traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing, introduced interesting stories about the Tuerye culture in Beijing, and showcased Beijing with hundreds of years of history. Mooncake style.
The Beijing Spring Children's Choir sang "I Wish People Long Last" written by Su Shi, a writer of Song Dynasty, with a heavenly singing. The work exaggerates the special atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival watching the moon, and brings the audience into a beautiful mood of moonlighting and deep thinking.
The famous pipa master Zhang Hongyan and the young harpist Sun Shimeng performed the Chinese ancient song "Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye" by combining Chinese and Western styles.
Violinist Huang Bin and pianist Zhang Fang cooperated in the performance of Ma Sicong's masterpiece "Homesickness". The melodious music conveys the deep yearning for hometown.
In the live program, the landmark buildings on the central axis of Beijing will be presented one by one, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Qianmen, Yongdingmen, Temple of Heaven, and Drum Tower are magnificent and harmonious, and the charm of traditional Chinese culture and the ancient capital of Beijing is unobstructed.
This event will also come to Gubei Water Town in Beijing to fly the lanterns to convey their wishes. Hundreds of drones will present the Beijing opera facial makeup, the Great Wall and the artistic words on the theme of this event "The End of the World at this Time" for the audience. Romantic and warm holiday wishes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival Live Concert of "The End of the World-High Mountains, Flowing Water, Thousands of Miles and Bright Moon" will be staged at the Beijing Juntianfang Guqin Base. It is composed of three movements of "Nature, Rhythm, and Fusion", combining the "spirit of heaven and earth" in traditional Chinese culture with " Humanistic feelings are perfectly displayed in front of audiences at home and abroad.
The live concert takes Guqin as the main body and integrates with various art forms such as Kunqu Opera, Qin Song, Tai Chi, Percussion, etc. The repertoire includes traditional Chinese classical music that spans thousands of years, such as the Song Dynasty literati song "Xinghua Tianying", There are also excerpts from the guqin song "High Mountains and Flowing Water" and Kunqu "The Peony Pavilion", as well as modern masterpieces that are improvised, such as the "Border of the Sky" by the ensemble of the guqin and the matouqin and the flute, and the "Bright Moon" by the cooperation of the guqin and the cello, which demonstrate the nature and humanity of Chinese civilization. To convey the openness and tolerance of contemporary China.
This event will comprehensively present the "Five Dao" (Qin, Book, Tea, Flower, Incense) elements of Chinese traditional culture, and will add a cultural feast to the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet for the people of the world.
"The End of the World-Mid-Autumn Festival" is one of the global linkage brand activities of cultural and tourism organizations abroad. In recent years, a variety of cultural and tourism promotion activities have been held for the audience in the country.
In the face of the global situation of prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic this year, the 2020 "End of the World-Mid-Autumn Festival" brand series activities will mainly adopt online formats. Virtual exhibitions and online exhibitions will be held from September 28 to October 5 Various types of Mid-Autumn themed activities such as concerts and short videos.
The event was jointly planned by the Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Center and the Sino-foreign Cultural Exchange Center, guided by the Bureau of International Exchange and Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, supported by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and supported by the Sino-foreign Cultural Exchange Center, Overseas Chinese Cultural Center, Co-hosted by overseas tourist offices, planned and undertaken by Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Center.
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