This flower based party in Guangzhou connects many international sister cities in the cloud

On the evening of November 15, the "Flower Dance" - Guangzhou International Sister City Cultural Exchange Performance and Guangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition, sponsored by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism and the Foreign Affairs Office of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, were held in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is known as the "Flower City". The evening party, with flowers as the theme, Lingnan culture as the link, Guangdong art as the carrier, and the Internet as the channel, connects the sister cities of Guangzhou to show the world's humanistic style.

Use flowers as a medium to connect sister cities through cloud

Culture is the "root" and "soul" of a city, and culture is also the link of exchange and cooperation between sister cities. Since 1979, Guangzhou has established friendly relations with 98 cities in 64 countries. In order to spread Lingnan culture and jointly build a road of friendship between China and foreign countries, the Foreign Affairs Office of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism jointly established the Guangzhou International Sister City Culture and Art Troupe in 2017.

Since the establishment of the delegation, Guangzhou artists have traveled all over Indonesia's Surabaya, Sweden's Lin Xueping, New Zealand's Auckland, Germany's Frankfurt, France's Lyon, Japan's Fukuoka and other international friendly cities and cities for international cooperation and exchange. By holding influential cultural exchange activities, the art troupe not only shapes Guangzhou's open and inclusive urban cultural charm, promotes the connection between Chinese and foreign people, but also is committed to building a brand of foreign cultural exchange in which Guangzhou "tells Chinese stories well" to the world.

At present, the foreign cultural exchange work has been impacted unprecedentedly by the COVID-19 epidemic, and the exchange performance of the Guangzhou International Sister City Cultural and Art Troupe has also been deeply affected. "A single flower is not spring. A hundred flowers bloom in spring." The reporter learned that in order to continue to create a colorful multicultural exchange between sister cities, show the common feelings of people of all countries for the pursuit of "beauty", and express the expectations of people of all countries for a better life. This performance adopts the form of "online+offline", which is broadcast to international friendly cities and international friendly cooperation and exchange cities simultaneously through the network.

Among them, in the Guangzhou International Sister Cities Cultural Exchange Promotion Film "Blossoming Across the World and Neighboring on the Cloud" played at the party, the audience can enjoy the charm of the sister cities around the world by connecting them on the cloud through flowers. At the evening party, the audience of the sister cities also enjoyed the art performances from Gwangju, South Korea, Surabaya, Indonesia, Bogota, Colombia and other sister cities with the help of multimedia technology.

With flowers as the theme, Guangzhou competes to display the charm of urban cultural integration

According to the sponsor, this performance, with flowers as the theme and Lingnan culture as the link, combines many different kinds of artistic programs, such as Cantonese opera, Guangdong music, acrobatics, puppets, ballet, jazz, singing and dancing. Among them, several programs that organically combine traditional art with modern performance show the charm of Guangzhou's cultural integration.

Guangdong music is a musical form with unique Lingnan characteristics. At the evening party, the foreign performer Renaat Beheydt, Bo Fusheng, and the performers Huang Liping, Mai Yi and Li Zhicheng from the Guangdong Music Troupe played the Full Moon Song together. The ballet "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon", performed by Guangzhou Ballet Culture and Art Co., Ltd., organically combines ballet with Guangdong music, and depicts a relaxed and freehand life scene. In the evening, you raise me up, an acrobatic and song jointly produced by Guangzhou Acrobatic Art Drama and Guangzhou Song and Dance Theater singer Wan Cheng. Guangzhou rhythm band played the jazz "Roll over Beethoven", combining Beethoven's sonatas with jazz music.

Based on Chinese culture, tell a good story about Guangzhou

It is understood that the "Flower Dance of the Four Seas" - Guangzhou International Sister City Cultural Exchange Performance is based on Chinese traditional culture, tells the story of Guangzhou well, focuses on the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and takes Guangdong art as the carrier to lead the audience in Guangzhou and the Sister City on a wonderful journey to pursue the "root" and "soul" of Chinese culture.

Meeting Lingnan, performed by Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Theatre, shows the unique traditional charm of Cantonese Opera as the only representative work of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO in Lingnan area. Cui Keqin, a famous puppet performing artist from Guangdong Puppet Art Theater, and his students performed the staff puppet long silk dance "Human Puppet Love".

"The rain falls heavily, flooding the street..." "The rain falls heavily" is a classic Guangzhou dialect nursery rhyme, which is sung in the streets and lanes, and the song is lively and catchy. The Cantonese opera performance "Big Rain" presented by the Guangdong Music Troupe and the Guangzhou Song and Dance Theater shows the poetic life of southern China. In addition, the "Lingnan Golden Autumn" and "Lingnan Lizhi Hong" performed by the Guangdong Music Quyi Troupe respectively show the culture of awakening lions in Lingnan and the humanistic customs of "eating lychees".

At the same time with the evening party, there was also the "Flower Dance of the Four Seas" - Guangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Selection Exhibition, which contains profound Chinese cultural heritage. There were many intangible cultural heritage exhibits on site, such as Cantonese Opera, Guqin, Cantonese Embroidery, Xingshi, etc. "The evening party and exhibition on that day became a 'window of Guangzhou' to showcase Chinese culture and tell Guangzhou stories to sister cities," the organizer said.

(The original title was "Guangzhou This Flower based Evening Party, Connecting Many International Sister Cities on Cloud")