Source: Xianning Daily
As a tourism performance that integrates ornamental, artistic and cultural nature, it has always been one of the core formats attracting tourists in cultural tourism scenic spot projects, and it is also one of the most popular cultural and leisure formats for tourists. In Xiangxi Never Sleeps City, a cultural tourism block in Jishou City, Xiangxi, diversified performances with local folk characteristics have attracted a lot of popularity for the neighborhood and become the "traffic responsibility" of the block.
As an ethnic minority inhabited area, Xiangxi people have a reputation of "can sing when they can speak, and can dance when they can walk", they dance and sing to express the blessings and prayers in their hearts and the faith in their hearts, and various folk activities are extremely rich from the beginning to the end of the year. Xiangxi Never Sleeps City deeply explores the folk culture and folk art of Xiangxi region, invites local folk art troupes, creates 11 characteristic stages, and brings more than 100 cultural audio-visual feasts to tourists every day.
On the one hand, Xiangxi Never Sleeps City retains its original characteristics, and the local Tujia and Miao villagers wear national costumes and use local traditional musical instruments to bring the purest festival performances, such as knife ladder, waving hand dance, Miao drumming, swinging, blowing pipe, ethnic fire dance, folk song and dance, etc., among which the Miao drum was also included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
On the other hand, Xiangxi Never Sleeps City is based on local traditional folklore, myths and historical allusions, combined with modern art trend elements, to create new performing arts programs and performance art performances, such as "Xiangxi Tumbler", "Dunhuang Flying Sky", "Marriage Line", "Flying Rhyme", "Hanging Ring", "The Best Stage", "Tambourine", "Persian Dance", "Orchid Pavilion Order", "Spirit of the Sparrow", etc., each with its own characteristics and colors, often triggering the scene of "empty alleys" to stop and watch.
In addition, Xiangxi Never Sleeps City has also created a number of performances with great Xiangxi mysterious colors, such as Taoist Parade, Mountain Ghost, Daoshan Fire Sea, etc., as well as lion dances, magic, flying lions, clown performances, Xiangxi flash mobs, "Love You" and other popular song and dance and traditional acrobatic performances.
Xiangxi Never Sleeps City takes cultural scene performance as the core attraction, activates local cultural resources through innovation, captures multi-age customers, artistically packages local culture, creates a form of display that modern people like, forms a unique, irreproducible and differentiated cultural tourism explosive product, occupies the local and regional night tour market, and creates a unique and innovative night tourism IP.