The picture shows the performance stills of the Malaysian dance "Pulsating Rainforest". Photo by Hu Yuanhang
Kunming, January 28 (China News Network) (Reporter Hu Yuanhang) The 2022 "Four Seas Love Long- And Five Continents Gong Chunhui" Transnational New Year Literary and Art Gala and Spring Festival Cultural Exchange Series Activities will be launched on January 31 in a combination of online and offline. At that time, the global Chinese and overseas Chinese and overseas friends will feast on the "cloud" with a Chinese New Year cultural feast "cooked" by Yunnan and "ingredients" from many countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
The event was guided by the Information Office of the State Council, co-sponsored by the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province and the Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, hosted by the Yunnan Branch of China News Service, and co-organized by the Information Office of the People's Government of 16 prefectures and municipalities in Yunnan. The activities are rich and colorful, including the launching ceremony of "Light Up Spring", the transnational Spring Festival Literary and Art Evening of "Spring Warm Flowers", the "Gathering in Spring" New Year documentary, the "Feast of The Clouds" series of short videos of the "Happy Cloud Feast" Series of Skillful New Year Dishes, and the "Elephant" to Yunnan - Beautiful China Colorful Yunnan Video and Photo Exhibition. At that time, officials from Yunnan, Sri Lanka and Malaysia will send New Year greetings to people at home and abroad.
The picture shows the stills of the Lunar New Year documentary "The Chinese Year of the "Foreign Son-in-Law"". Photo by Hu Yuanhang
Located in the southwestern border of China, Yunnan is geographically close to South Asian and Southeast Asian countries and has frequent exchanges. In recent years, with the in-depth advancement of the "Belt and Road" construction, Exchanges and cooperation between Yunnan and Sri Lanka and Malaysia in various fields have become closer and closer. The event will be launched by simultaneously illuminating the lights of famous landmarks in Kunming, China, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At that time, representatives from all walks of life in the three places will gather together in the "cloud" to jointly "light up the spring" and express their expectations and good wishes for the new spring.
On the night of the Chinese Lunar Chinese New Year's Eve, a transnational New Year literary and art evening called "Spring Warm Blossoms" will also be officially launched. This "Spring In Full Of Joy" party is divided into 6 chapters, including Spring Enlightenment, Spring Ploughing, Spring Feast, Spring Joy, Spring Flower, Chunhui, etc., which invite artists from China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and other countries to participate in the performance, including dances, songs, sounds and other elaborate productions.
The picture shows a screenshot of the short video of the "ChangYi Cloud Feast" Series of Skillful New Year Dishes. Photo by Hu Yuanhang
Among them, Yunnan Performing Arts Co., Ltd. will bring the Hani ethnic dance "Oriental Tap", and the Malaysian Shared Space Professional Dance Troupe and China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. will bring the Malaysian dance "Pulsating Rainforest" and the Indonesian song and dance "Star Cord in the Heart" respectively. In addition, the Mengba Naxi Orchestra from Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, will sing the adapted song "See Cooking Smoke Again", singing the tenacity and strong nostalgia of the local people in fighting the epidemic; the artists of the Yunnan Provincial Flower Lantern Troupe and the Yunnan Academy of Arts will also join forces to fight pots and pans and national musical instruments in the hope of "Sound into the Ears".
Through the empowerment of "cloud", this event will also focus on the cultural core of the Chinese New Year, and vividly display the folk customs, folk music and intangible cultural heritage of China, especially Yunnan, through various forms such as documentaries, short videos and online exhibitions.
Among them, the three "Get Together in Spring" New Year documentaries, with the three scenes of "Chinese Year of "Foreign Son-in-Law"", "Niuhu "Copper" Greeting the New Year", and "Overseas Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve Rice", show the beautiful picture of "Good New Year in Yunnan"; "Chang Yu Yun Feast" Skillful New Year Cuisine Series Short Videos, which launch the special New Year dishes of 16 prefectures and cities in Yunnan, are expected to set off the climax of "learning to make Yunnan cuisine" in the cloud.
The picture shows the screenshot of the "Elephant" to Yunnan - Beautiful China Colorful Yunnan Video and Picture Online Exhibition. Photo by Hu Yuanhang
"Elephant" to Yunnan - Beautiful China Colorful Yunnan video and picture online exhibition, will be in a cartoon Asian baby elephant muttered to himself - "a letter to mankind", leading friends at home and abroad to appreciate Yunnan's natural spirits, picturesque scenery and simple folk customs, feel the Chinese people in the co-construction and sharing of the beautiful picture of common prosperity.
Including Sri Lanka's "Daily News", NewsWire, Neth FM, Malaysia-China Insight (Malaysia-China Perspective), Malaysia National News Agency, and Myanmar's "Golden Phoenix Newspaper", "Silk Road New Observation Russian Network", "Silk Road Today" (Kazakh version) and other media and institutions in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and West Asia, will broadcast the event in a bundle. (End)