Warm Up For Gansu Activity Week; Chinese Classic Dance Drama "Silk Road Flower Rain" Performed In Shanghai

From June 18 to 20, the Chinese classic dance drama "Silk Road Flower Rain" (new version) came to Shanghai, which had been absent for ten years, and brought a wonderful performance for the third time for enthusiastic audiences. The reporter learned that "Silk Road Flower Rain" will come to Shanghai again in September to make its debut in the "Gansu Week" of Shanghai World Expo.

The Silk Road Flower Rain takes the world-famous Dunhuang murals and the Silk Road as the theme, peace and friendship as the theme, through the story of Dunhuang painter Zhang and his daughter Yingniang sharing weal and woe with Persian businessmen, and the intersection of life and death, with a unique artistic style, the magnificent and colorful Dunhuang murals are put on the stage, vividly representing the broad and profound Dunhuang culture, It eulogized the glorious artistic image of the working people creating Dunhuang culture and the moving story of the long-standing friendship between Chinese and foreign people.

At the beginning of China's reform and opening up, the crew of "Silk Road, Flower Rain" came to Shanghai for the first time in the winter of 1979 after their performance in Hong Kong, and created a miracle of more than 40 consecutive performances at the Maggi Grand Theater, bringing a refreshing artistic experience to the Shanghai audience at that time. This time, the dance drama "Silk Road Flower Rain" made a wonderful appearance during the Shanghai World Expo and will once again appear on the familiar stage of the Maggie Mae Theater. It will certainly set off a wave of "Silk Road Flower Rain" again in the beautiful Shanghai as it did 31 years ago.

Since its debut in 1979, the Silk Road Flower Rain has performed nearly 1600 times with 3.2 million audiences. Over the years, "Silk Road Flower Rain" has visited more than 20 countries and regions, including North Korea, France, Italy, Japan, Thailand, the former Soviet Union, Spain, Turkey, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and its performances are highly praised, which can be called "the model of Chinese national dance drama".