By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, September 21 — Just as leaves are turning to all kind of colors all across New England, two wonderful shows by the Cultural China will be staged in Boston at John Hancock Hall. Dozens of top performers from premier art and music organizations in China will bring unforgettable performances to Boston audience.
Wind form the Home Province of Confucius
On September 29, the day before the August Moon Festival on Chinese Lunar calendar, Cultural China Qilu Wind show will be part of Cambridge Center for Chinese Cultural (CCCC)’s Chinese Cultural Day. Top performers from Shandong province in northern China will bring traditional Chinese music and dance from west shore of Pacific to Boston.
According to Wikipedia, Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism, and Confucianism. Shandong’s Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and one of the world’s sites with the longest history of continuous religious worship. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius, and was later established as the center of Confucianism.
| Shandong’s location at the intersection of ancient as well as modern north-south and east-west trading routes have helped to establish it as an economic center. After a period of political instability and economic hardship that began in the late 19th century, Shandong has emerged as one of the most populous (95,793,065 inhabitants at the 2010 Census) and most affluent provinces in the People’s Republic of China (GDP of 3.94 trillion CNY in 2010). |
For ticket information, please call CCCC at (781) 786-2050 or (781) 788-8558.
Colors from Splendid Yunnan
A month later, on the evening of October 30, Cultural China Splendid Yunnan will be presented by Asian Cultural Center Boston. Known for its natural beauty and diverse population, Yuan province also is also famous for its talented dancers and singers.
| Yunnan, which refers to “the place south of the colorful clouds”, or ‘the place south of Yunling (cloudy ridge) Mountain’, is the most southwest province of mainland China. Externally, it borders Vietnam, Laos and Burma; internally, it is neighbor to Guizhou, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan and Tibet. It is a land of various ethnic groups, landscapes, natural scenery, creatures, etc where one could taste the most aspects of our planet. |
Yunnan has the most ethnic minorities in China, which make up about 1/3 of the province’s population. Of China’s 55 ethnic minorities, the province is home to 51 and 25 of them exceed populations of 5,000. These ethnic minorities live together over vast areas in Yunnan while some live in individual concentrated communities in small areas. The residences of the ethnic minorities are various and characteristic; their clothes are colorful and distinctive; some of them have their own languages and writings. Last, but not least, they celebrate varied and colorful festivals. The most famous ones include the Torch Festival of Yi Nationality, the March Fair of Bai Nationality, the Water-splashing Festival of Dai Nationality, the Zongge Festival of Jingpo Nationality and the Knife Pole Festival of Lisu Nationality, etc.
Tickets of the show can be ordered online at www.eventbrite.com/event/3848619324?ref=ebtn.