Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival 2015 Grandly Opened
Release Time: 2017-10-25
Today, a 1,000m2 sea of flower is waiting for you; tonight, 1,000 wishes of the New Year are waiting for you. Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival 2015 was opened grandly. For the benefits to the people, a half-price ticket of RMB 30 was enforced that visitors could have access to the whole museum and exhibition halls and all activities.
Flowers and Shows
Endless Joys of the New Spring
Flowers and lanterns are always a necessity in festivals. At the Jinsha Flower Market, a flower sea of almost 1,000m2 was formed with herb trinity, tulip, cymbidium and such other species, which decorated both the day and the night. Flower rivers and floats in different shapes retained the most visitors while over 10 flowery houses in Southeastern style and rosy arches on the lawn made themselves another highlight. On the lotus stage, dances specially rehearsed for the Sun Festival were quite driving. The show in Han costume explained what is the Chinese style while performances with violin and Konghou achieved a mixture of Chinese and western styles.
This night, a 3D light show will be presented in Jinsha Site Museum and then cycled every night during the Sun Festival. Audiences will be guided a tour of space to the Silk Road culture and history, and to a feast of eyes. Indian shows and African dances, shows with ostrich or on pillars generated wonders one after another. The mascots Xiyangyang, Huitailang, Xiongda, Xionger and Guangtouqiang were responsible for Paying New Year’s Call abd giving presents. Every night, the theme shows on the Silk Road will be on stage so that audiences would have an experience of its unique Charm.
Moreover, comedians of Sichuan, including Liao Jian, Badeng, Tiegongji, Zhong Yanping and the super-girl Wang Zi would show up to celebrate the New Spring with you all!
The Silk Road Starts in Chengdu
As one of the oldest and renowned historical and cultural cities in China, Chengdu has played an indelible and important role in the process of China's foreign exchange. A number of "Chengdu-made" cultural relics have been found on the Silk Road. In recent years with the rising of the "Silk Road Economic Zone," Chengdu revived.
By gathering the Northern Silk Road, the Southern Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road, the Jinsha Sun Festival guided people a journey of space from Qin to the Two Han Dynasties, via the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, from Chengdu to the world. More than 30 groups of color lanterns and thousands of LED lamp strings were used to show the long culture of the Silk Road and make the session the most cultural one: the oldest international road in China—the Southern Silk Road; the longest and refined road—the Northern Silk Road…on the festival, lantern artists were also invited to reproduce the enchanting makeup of the ladies in Tang Dynasty according to paintings. The “Empress Wu Mei Niang” is just beside us!
Creative Sun Festival New Games with Digital Technology
Celebrate the Spring Festival with culture and the creative Sun Festival. This year, more creativity was embodied in materials that almost 10,000 ping-pongs were used for different experience; the Goat lanterns of 18m tall brought the most blessings; grapes, watermelons and carrots, all were imported but common in our daily life. Then where are they from? What's the story between them and the Silk Road? A Bite of the Silk Road would give you the answer.
Other highlights on the “Digital Jinsha Festival” were that visitors could make use of the WeChat function “Shark if off” to know the little stories about them; the Magic Postcard for 3D images; all followers of the official WeChat account of Jinsha Site Museum would receive gifts! Moreover, convenient WeChat voice guide, simple but interesting games, Jinsha Sun Festival APP 2015 made the festival more attractive.
