Wu Jingjing, chief reporter of Elephant News Oriental News
There are hot singing and dancing, traditional opera, folk music, and international performances...... Mango TV's self-produced international women's cultural exchange and music competition variety show "Riding the Wind 2024" officially launched today. The stage integrates the theme of the 24 solar terms, starting with the wonderful appearance of 36 female guests, officially opening the cross-border cultural exchange of this season. Female members of all ages from all over the world brought their first stage performances, including opera, folk music, fan dance, and ancient style dance, and they integrated traditional Chinese culture into the stage, bringing a refreshing audio-visual enjoyment to the audience. At the same time, members from France, Vietnam, the United States, Thailand, Russia and other countries also performed their masterpieces in their own Chinese language, which also filled the stage with an atmosphere of international cultural exchange.
The traditional culture is wonderful
With the neat action of swiping the eyebrows upward, Chen Lijun completed the transformation of the two classic characters of Mulan and Sun Wukong. She is well-known and loved by the audience as a student of Yue Opera, bringing the traditional opera culture to the stage, and the song "Mandate of Heaven" integrates opera singing and sword dancing performances, showing the heroic image of Chinese women to the fullest.
Sa Dingding, an artist who led Chinese folk music to the world's top music palace, also performed two of his masterpieces on the stage of Chengfeng, "Left Finger Moon" and "All Things". The lyrics and songs of the four seasons and the revival of all things reflect each other with the theme stage of the 24 solar terms, so that the traditional Chinese aesthetics flow and shine with the melody on the stage. The soft fan dance in Liu Yan's national style song "Sigh", the red costume worn in Zhang Yuxi's ancient style song and dance "Red Zhao Wish", and the national style lyrics and songs in Qi Wei's original song "Seven" all let the audience feel the profound charm of oriental aesthetics.
Chinese and foreign cultures compete on the same stage
French chanson singer Joyce Jonathan brought the audience the familiar French classic folk song "Champs-Élysées", which was as fresh as a spring breeze, Korean American singer Zheng Nicole sang and danced the masterpiece "Mr", the classic hip dance caused a burst of screams, the Russian artist Mari Kraimbrery creatively added acrobatics to the original song "you are born a star", and the American pop singer Sasha Alex Sloan played and sang "dancing with your ghost", which became popular on the Chinese short video platform, and the soulful piano melody was moving. According to the program team, the sisters from all over the world not only brought wonderful performances in their own Chinese dialect that resonated with the audience, but also carefully prepared Chinese clips for the wind riding stage, using this special gift to start their journey in China.
In addition, Vietnamese singer Sun Xialing Suni also shocked the audience with a ribbon dance, and her sweet smile and steady typhoon captured the hearts of many audiences, and her fluent Chinese was even more surprising. Talking about the opportunity to learn Chinese, she said that she loves to watch Chinese costume TV series, and usually follows TV dramas to learn Chinese. Thai artist Mai Davika appeared in a red dress and stunned everyone with her soft dance. She smiled sweetly in the audience, and blurted out the Chinese Internet buzzword "zun dut fake dut" that made people can't help but be handsome. When we first met, Chinese sisters such as Wang Lin, who is familiar with Russian, Shang Wenjie, who majored in French, and Han Xue, who is good at English, took the initiative to take on the responsibility of helping international friends quickly integrate into the environment. Overcoming the language barrier, the sisters exchanged cultures from different regions and occupations in cooperation, and the brilliant sparks generated were eye-catching.
36 members convey the power of women
"Everyone has their own path to bloom. Fan Xiangyan used a song "What to Ask for in Life" to tell the story of his pursuit of film and television dreams over the years. He Jie's "I love it" is steady, with a unique sense of power and full of penetrating singing, and Shang Wenjie's first challenge to dance, "Swing Up" not only shows her extraordinary singing ability, but also shows her love and thinking for the stage with a layered performance.
Rapper Wanida incorporates her own understanding of the power of women in "Man in the Mirror", "Today it's her, tomorrow it's me, who will be next?" Xie Jinyan sang and danced her own electronic music "Sister", after a long recovery after a car accident, she never gave up her beloved stage, and her youthful and energetic posture was moving. On the stage of "Riding the Wind 2024", Miss (Han Yiying), who is well-known to the public as an e-sports anchor, performed the League of Legends theme song "more" full of "memory killing", actor Wang Lin performed the sexy and cute song "Carmen", and host Zhu Dan brought the energetic singing and dancing stage "Sisters...... The cross-border sisters also gave their efforts and breakthroughs as gifts to those who supported them, and they also set off again with their new goals.
"Ride the wind of the season, and meet the friends of the world. According to the program team, this time with the four seasons as the theme of the performance, "Riding the Wind 2024" tailored five meteorological theme performances for 36 international members and produced six original songs. "The female members pour their love for the stage and their dreams into every moment of their performances, and they will also pass on the female power of constantly breaking through and moving forward bravely to every audience."