Zhang’s Impression Liu Sanjie
We got to Yangshuo, our final destination. This week we had our vacation from our vacation. We sat around our room, ate really great food, went shopping and rode bikes for three days around the most incredible scenery in the world (in my opinion). We have some pictures uploaded of the week that we’ve spent lounging and riding.
We stayed in a great hostel - Yangshuo Holiday Lodge and Miss Yuan, the owner, hooked us up with stuff to do. One night we got tickets to a huge outdoor performance. It’s the largest natural landscape theatre in the world and closes off a large section of the river (about 2k) each night for the performance. The show was truly amazing, but exemplified the elaborate scale in which much Chinese art is done. I like to call it the “because we can” style. Its staggeringly enormous, its astonishingly spectacular, it takes your breathe away and it means absolutely nothing. There’s nary a story or meaning to be pulled from it. 600 cast members participate and the show requires amazing technicals took five years to complete. Basically what happens is they bring something out to amaze you, like 250 woman dressed in costume with hundreds of little lights on them. Then once the shock wears off they do everything they can with the gimmick. They flash the lights on and off, they flash in sequences ect… So its just a collection of awe inspiring visuals. Hundreds of fishermen floating around with lights on their boats and then pulling big sheets of red silk from the water as if they appeared out of no where! A lady sitting on a giant glowing moon and then running back and forth on it! Whole mountains appearing and disappearing before our eyes! I have no idea whats going on! I joke, but it was really worth seeing.
Impression Liu Sanjie
The name of this show is Impression Liu Sanjie, I was told that it was directed by Mr. Zhang Yimou, the most Chinese famous movie director, the guy who directed the unbelievable open ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games months ago!
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