In the New Year of the Year of the Dragon, Guangdong has added a major new cultural tourism business card. On February 6, the Guangdong Eternal Scenic Area located in Xiqiao Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City opened for tours before its official opening. A reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News visited the park to have a look.
It is reported that the Qiangu Scenery Zone, which is popular across the country, has landed in Guangdong for the first time, and it has aroused eager anticipation among "Laoguang" before it even opened. According to the staff of the scenic spot, a total of 100,000 tickets were sold on the first day of pre-sale before the opening of the park, ranking first among Guangdong tourist destinations on major platforms. The reporter learned that it will be officially opened to the public on February 10 (the first day of the Lunar New Year). At present, all performances, venues and related services in the park are ready to welcome tourists.
In order to facilitate tourists' travel during the Spring Festival, the scenic spot has launched a free round-trip shuttle bus to Foshan Nanzhuang Subway Station during the Spring Festival (from the first to the seventh day of the new year), running every 30-40 minutes.
Greater Bay Area Cultural IP "Eternal Love in Guangdong"
Shows the historical context of Guangdong
"A performance is the history of a city." As the iconic Guangzhou performing arts show in the Guangdong Eternal Scenery Zone, "Guangdong Eternal Love" is the twelfth "Eternal Love" show after Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an, Sanya and other places. Twelve "Eternal Love" shows the culture and history of their respective regions with unique cultural performances and immersive experiences.
"Eternal Love in Guangdong" is the first resident performance in the Greater Bay Area that presents the historical context of Guangdong in a panoramic view. The entire performance lasts for 60 minutes. It is a retrospective journey of the past and present of the Pearl River Delta, and it writes a story about the Cantonese people's "self-improvement" spiritual path. Ms. Huang, an audience member from Guangzhou, said that after watching the show, she felt as if "one hour of viewing has seen six thousand years" and that she could not calm down for a long time.
The reporter watched the performance and saw that the performance uses cool stage special effects and full of high-tech stage machinery as the highlights, integrating Guangfu culture, Xiqiao culture, Baiyue culture, Kung Fu culture, lion dance culture, southern culture, Nanyang culture, overseas Chinese culture, reform and opening up culture and many other local elements of Lingnan create an extraordinary masterpiece that is dazzling and subverts imagination.
From the splendid civilization of ancient Xiqiao and the ethnic integration of various tribes in Baiyue, to the neon lights of Guangfu style, the enthusiasm and pride of knights and knights, the poetry and picturesqueness of southern beauties, and the arduous past of exploring Nanyang... scenes of magnificent historical pictures. Slowly unfolding on the stage, every minute is filled with artistic tension and cultural beauty.
What is particularly rare is that the audience feels like they are at the center of the performance, immersed in the plot. Sometimes horses gallop by, and other times they exclaim that historical figures such as Madame Xian and Huang Feihong fly overhead and land on the stage...
The theater turned into a starry sky in an instant, the stage turned into an ocean in an instant, thousands of sets of stage machinery and equipment rose from the sky to the ground, and thousands of tons of water poured down... Throughout the performance, the audience was immersed in a visual feast in a stage performance that combined virtuality and reality. There were bursts of exclamations and endless applause.
When the heroine Madam Xian and the hero Huang Feihong appeared with great righteousness, classic figures in the long history of Guangdong appeared before their eyes, taking the audience on a journey through time. The Guangdong spirit of "dare to venture and dare to fight" became the basis of the performance. soul. As one of the six major scenes, the "affectionate letter from home" scene is composed of large-scale matrix point-to-point calculations to form countless batches of overseas Chinese. Through the overseas batches rising and turning in mid-air, it shows that a "letter from home" full of affection has crossed the ocean and will go to Southeast Asia. The wanderer's endless concerns are written into a magnificent historical painting, which is touching.
Mr. Liu, a tourist from Guangzhou, said that the entire performance deeply explored the Cantonese people's spirit of "traveling". Through folk custom display, historical reappearance and cultural reappearance, people can experience emotions that are either inspiring, tear-jerking or gripping. "It's like experiencing A grand drama of Guangdong’s historical and cultural travel.”
"There are so many surprises! I don't know where to look. The actors always appear from unexpected places. It feels like they are right next to me." said Mr. He, a tourist.
Visitor Xu Minling said: “I used to feel like a spectator when watching other performances, but here, I feel like I have become a participant.When the actors appear, it feels like they are appearing from beside you, it is simply breathtaking! "
Ms. Chen, a Hong Kong citizen who has watched many Taiwanese "Eternal Love" performances, said bluntly: "The interpretations of Guangdong culture in "Once Upon a Time" and "Going to Nanyang" are very good. As a member of the Greater Bay Area, I can relate to it. "
uses Guangdong's culture and history
to express the humanistic spirit of Guangdong
" From script polishing to on-site rehearsal, "Eternal Love in Guangdong" lasted nearly five years. It took about two and a half months and nearly 40 overnights to get to the project site in Foshan before we could present this performance to the audience as scheduled today. Shan Chenwei, deputy director of "Eternal Love in Guangdong", said in an interview with reporters after the performance that the entire performance hopes to use Guangdong's culture and history to express the humanistic spirit of Guangdong, and to integrate Guangdong's tolerance, openness and acceptance since ancient times. And the spirit of hard work and "breaking in" is conveyed to the audience.
It is reported that the performance started from Xiqiao Mountain because the project is located in Foshan, and the cultural influence of Xiqiao Mountain is not only in Foshan and Guangdong, but also in Foshan and Guangdong. It also radiates to Lingnan, which is the birthplace of Lingnan culture. ""Eternal Love in Guangdong" is rooted in Lingnan culture and focuses on the Cantonese people, Guangdong culture and Guangdong history. Through such expressions, we hope that every tourist can truly feel the unique charm of Guangdong and feel the culture and spiritual state of Guangdong. "Shan Chenwei said.
The reporter learned that in addition to the wonderful show, the Guangdong Eternal Scenic Area is also a place for Internet celebrities to check in. Shijing Street, Chuanchuan Street, Martial Arts Street, Fengqing Street, Bohemian Street, Yefenghai Yun Street... is dotted with open art spaces and more than 20 unique theaters and performance venues, integrating national trends, exotic places, technology, fashion and many other features.
It is reported that a live theater with 10,000 people in the scenic area will also be launched Thousands of people performed "Oh! Pearl River" in a live performance, interpreting a great migration that made the South Vietnamese nation a success. "This war that shocked the world and changed the history of Eurasia is also a hymn dedicated to the world by the people of Guangdong, and it is worth looking forward to." "The person in charge of the scenic spot said.
text | reporter Liu Xingtong
picture | reporter He Quansheng
video | reporter He Quansheng Wang Jiongxun
