Expo Shanxi Week Opens May 19Th

The "Shanxi Activity Week" in World Expo, Shanghai will be unveiled this morning at the Baosteel stage in Expo Park.

In the next 5 days, 38 literary and art teams and over 1200 theatrical staff in Shanxi province will give audiences at home and abroad over 70 performances including performances, intangible cultural heritage projects, street parades, and Shanxi stage performances.

The basic content of activity week can be summed up as "one theme" is "charming Shanxi". The three major sections are the opening ceremony, the cultural exhibition and the 8 Shanxi stage stage performance.

The opening ceremony of the "the Yellow River romance" invited Yan Weiwen, Tan Jing, Gao Baoli, Niu Baolin, Wang Gaolin and other 5 Shanxi artists, as the ambassador of Shanxi to bring the wonderful performance. At the same time, the drum music performances such as Jiang Zhou drum dance, Shuozhou drum dance, Lvliang drum rhyme and other styles of drum music performances and Shanxi classical folk songs, folk dance and folk music as part of the curtain of the Shanxi activities week were celebrated with a festive atmosphere.

In the cultural display section, Baosteel's stage performance, "the Yellow River rhyme", will be performed 3 times a day after the opening of the week. The two activities of Baosteel's small stage and intangible cultural heritage project are jointly named by the ancient wind and Jin Yun.

In the exhibition of intangible cultural heritage project, the 16 national intangible cultural heritage projects, such as the production technology of Chengzhou Chengyan inkstone, the paper-cut of Guangling and the carving techniques of carved porcelain, will be displayed all day.

In the central axis of the central Expo Park, the "hot Shanxi" series of performances on the parade Road, a daily performance is performed, along with a full dress float to accompany the procession.

In addition, 8 plays will be staged in Shanxi from 19.