When the lights come on, night falls, accompanied by beautiful music, actors in gorgeous costumes give wonderful performances... At 22 o'clock on August 28, the large performing arts block "Pomegranate Flower Lane" in the Grand Bazaar Pedestrian Street of Urumqi City was officially opened.
Pomegranate Flower Alley is located on the north side of the Food Street in Area C of Grand Bazaar Pedestrian Street, which houses a large-scale performing arts area with full-time and all-domain situational installations, as well as the Central Asian National Theme Hall, the Wang Luobin Theme Hall, and the Silk Road Cultural and Creative Museum.
Brightly lit, crowded and bustling. Tourists follow the parade and dance procession slowly into the neighborhood.
"It's amazing! This newly created neighborhood is so beautiful! Distinctive stage, costumes, architecture... Every place is showing the beauty of Xinjiang. Zhang Jing, a tourist from Inner Mongolia, took out her mobile phone and recorded beautiful pictures, which she said she wanted to post in her circle of friends and share them with her friends.
Accompanied by beautiful and beautiful music, a large-scale performance area was installed in the full-time and all-round situation, and the large-scale performance "Silk Road Mutual Learning" kicked off. The performance area is surrounded by a Central Plains style stage, a Western Regions style stage, and a gold-armored warrior stage, and the performers show the audience the culture along the Silk Road through wonderful interpretations.
"This performance inherits the artistic characteristics and cultural heritage of the Silk Road, and the culture and art of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty gather and mingle, and we use music, lighting, dance and performance to reveal the cultural secrets that have been sealed for thousands of years to the audience..." said Liu Junqi, deputy general manager of Xinjiang Fruit Group, who is in charge of building the block.
The live-action drama blends magnificent stage sets with professional performing arts, bringing a magnificent visual culture feast to the audience. In particular, the brilliant lighting is the icing on the cake for the performers, and the immersive live-action drama attracts the audience frequently.
Tourist Hu Xiaoliang said: "This show is so good, the lights will shoot stars around, bubbles and smoke fill the air, the actors walk off the stage to interact with us, and at that moment I am immersed in it as if I have entered the ancient country of the Western Regions..."
The reporter learned that the large-scale performance "Silk Road Mutual Learning" of the full-time all-domain situational installation in Pomegranate Flower Alley will start at 21 o'clock every day, and 2 to 3 performances will be performed according to the flow of passengers.
"Pomegranate symbolizes unity, and the neighborhood is named 'pomegranate' to represent that our people of all ethnic groups are clinging together like pomegranate seeds." Liu Junqi said that the large-scale performing arts block of "Pomegranate Flower Alley" is different from other formats of the Grand Bazaar Pedestrian Street, aiming to let more people understand and fall in love with Xinjiang while playing.