'Warm Spring and Flowers' Transnational Spring Festival Gala was Online on the Lunar New Year’s Eve

The "Warm Spring and Flowers" Transnational Spring Festival Gala, jointly contributed by art teams from China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other countries, was displayed to global audiences online on New Year's Eve (January 31), offering a multi-cultural feast for friends around the world at this Chinese traditional festival.

Guided by the Information Office of the State Council, jointly sponsored by the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province and the Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, and hosted by the Yunnan branch of China News Agency, this evening party was the highlight of the 2022“Enjoying Long-lasting Friendship and Greeting the Spring Festival Together” Transnational Spring Festival Gala & Spring Festival Cultural Exchange Activities.

In recent years Yunnan Province has successfully held several spring festival galas in Bangkok of Thailand, Vientiane of Laos, Phnom Penh of Cambodia, Kathmandu of Nepal, and Yangon of Myanmar. The cross-border cultural and artistic performances full of spring festival atmosphere, festive atmosphere, Yunnan characteristics, exotic customs and unique ingenuity have fully demonstrated the friendly exchanges, economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between Yunnan and South and Southeast Asian countries.

"Warm Spring and Flowers" Transnational Spring Festival Gala was a great relay of the galas before, took the common cultural context of Yunnan and South and Southeast Asian countries as the theme, and embodied the three concrete images of the rice, road and divine bird; having the warm and romantic "Warm Spring and Flowers" as the main style, this spring gala was consisted of six chapters: spring start, spring ploughing, spring banquet, spring joy, spring flower and spring glow, reflected the concept of affinity, sincerity and inclusiveness, and revealed the beautiful vision of being good to neighbors, being partners with neighbors, being inclusive and learning from each other.

Affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, "cloud communication and cloud interaction" has become the main form and means of transnational cultural exchanges at present and in the near future. "Warm Spring and Flowers" Transnational Spring Festival Gala transformed traditional theater art into an online audio-visual feast. With the help of Internet technology, it was much possible for participating artists to realize their unrestrained creativity. The program "Rice Noodles" was a real scene built with a variety of ingredients required for Yunnan characteristic food rice noodles by artists. Using the principle of animation and micro focus photography, he transformed the ingredients into the mountains and rivers of Yunnan, told the story of the origin and development of rice noodles, and delivered a new experience to the audience.

Yunnan is located in Southwest China, adjacent to many countries in South and Southeast Asia. Geographical proximity, cultural similarity and cultural links make Yunnan the forefront and pivot of China's cultural exchanges with South Asia and Southeast Asia. Yunnan is the province with the largest number of ethnic groups in China. There are 26 nationalities living in Yunnan, including Han, Dai, Hani, Bai, Zhuang and Miao. The ethnic culture here is rich and diverse. This feature is fully demonstrated in the gala. Hani group dance "Oriental Tap", Yi dance "Happy New Year", Tibetan women's group dance "Origin" and "Phoenix Flying into the Sky" adapted from Dai intangible cultural heritage dance "jinnaluo" are all programs with great ethnic characteristics of Yunnan.

In order to make the gala more diversified, many artists visited ethnic villages such as De'ang and Tibetan Ethnic Groups in Yunnan, carefully observed and collected the sound environment in the life and production of local people, and then made artistic processing to create the sound work “Impressive Sound”. When watching this program, the audience around the world felt as if they "walked into" the villages in Yunnan and experienced the diversified national culture of Yunnan.

In addition, the exotic customs jointly presented by many artists from different countries, such as Malaysian dance "Dynamic Rain Forest", Sri Lankan dance "Auspicious Light", Thai Dance "Changjia dance", Indonesian song ""Sing Sing Soin the Heart"", also dazzled the audience.

It is said that media from South and Southeast Asia, Central and West Asia including Sri Lanka's DailyNews, News Wire, Neth FM，Malaysia-China Insight, Malaysian National News Agency, Myanmar's Golden Phoenix, Silk Road New Watch Russian Network, “Silk Road Today” (Kazakh edition) etc. will report this event intensively.