Beijing News (reporter Zhang Chang) Beijing Tongzhou is the northern head of the Qianli Canal, and Hangzhou Gongshu is at the southernmost end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. On October 22, the 2021 China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
The event lasts for three days, with the theme of "Millennium Canal Towards Common Prosperity", the "1+N" event will be carried out, that is, an opening ceremony and main forum and a number of sub-activities, integrating the release of government, industry, education and research results, expert discussion, cultural integration, art collection, cultural tourism promotion, scientific and technological exchanges, industrial landing, and media communication.
On October 22, the opening ceremony and main forum of the 2021 China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue was held in the Grand Canal Music Park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Beijing News reporter Wang Zicheng photographed
At the main forum, Beijing Tongzhou District and Hangzhou Gongshu District signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement for friendship urban areas, and Hangzhou Canal Group will also sign a cooperation agreement with Beijing Shougang Construction and Investment Co., Ltd. to further promote cooperation between the two places.
The Grand Canal is a river of culture, and the cultural activities of the 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue are also wonderful. The cultural exhibition "Millennium Canal Toward Common Prosperity", the large-scale Peking Opera symphony suite "Beijing Grand Canal", the charm of Beijing Zhejiang Zhou Cultural Tourism Activities, the China Grand Canal Temple Fair, the Brand Release of the Day Reading Canal Cultural Tourism, the Grand Canal International Poetry Festival, the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue Collection, etc., with the help of cultural and artistic means, show the prosperous culture on both sides of the Grand Canal and the lives of the people who are moving towards common prosperity.
Since the 22nd, Beijing has held a charming Beijing Zhejiang Week cultural tourism activity on the banks of the Hangzhou Grand Canal, which integrates Beijing's colorful cultural formats into the Hangzhou Canal Historic District in a diversified form, and shows the charm of the capital Beijing to citizens and tourists in an all-round way.
At the opening ceremony, the new books "Beijing Famous Objects" and "Qianlong and the Grand Canal" were released. Beijing News reporter Wang Zicheng photographed
On the afternoon of the same day, the large-scale Peking Opera Symphony Suite "Beijing Grand Canal" from Beijing was staged at the Hangzhou Grand Theatre. As the first stage art work focusing on the Beijing section of the Grand Canal in China, the play combines symphony and Peking Opera art, and for the first time uses the stage form to display the historical relics and humanistic features of the Beijing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in three dimensions, excavating and promoting its epochal value.
Li Biao, artistic director of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, introduced that at the end of last year, "The Grand Canal of Beijing" premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts and received a lot of praise, after which the team made extensive revisions to it. "This is the first time to bring our story of Beijing to all parts of the country, the first two days in the Shanghai Grand Theatre was the first stop, today to Hangzhou, the starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, to open the second stop."
2022 is a big year of sports, and Beijing and Hangzhou will host the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Hangzhou Asian Games respectively. During the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" event, the organizers will invite the mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics to Come to Hangzhou Gongchen Bridge, together with the Mascot of the Hangzhou Asian Games "Chenchen", to lead the public to tour the canal and talk culture together to carry out "dream linkage".
In addition, the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue And Art Collection will be staged on the 23rd, focusing on opera, poetry, calligraphy and painting, song and dance and other art forms, inviting artists from Beijing and Zhejiang to gather at the canal to enjoy the beautiful scenery, display talents, and carry out cultural exchanges between the north and the south.
Beijing News reporter Zhang Chang photojournalist Wang Zicheng
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