I really really enjoyed many of the performances in this year’s Spring Gala, which included a dance rendition of a Mo Li Hua (茉莉花) instrumental, the suspended dude on a mast on top of a digital display of the ocean (直挂云帆), and the Drum Dance in Prosperity Xi’an Terracotta Army, The Silk Road (ä¸ç»¸ä¹‹è·¯), The Beauty of China (山水ä¸å›½ç¾Ž). Also, my biases Zhao Wei and Sa Dingding (doing the Good Luck Song (å‰ç¥¥å‰ç¥¥)) were there! Donnie Yen showed up too! Dude! I even enjoyed the super Red Song, My Homeland (我的祖国), which was performed by Wang Li (王莉), Wang Qing Shuang (王庆爽), You Hong Fei (尤泓婓), Jin Ting Ting (金婷婷) and a special appearance by opera soprano Guo Lanying (éƒå…°è‹±).
I also enjoyed the Inner Mongolia [1][2][3] and minorities medley In the Great Embrace of your Hometown (åœ¨ä½ ä¼Ÿå¤§çš„æ€€æŠ±é‡Œ) numbers xD In turn into a bit of a Red Song somewhere there by the end, but it wasn’t even the Reddest song of the night. LOL But I enjoyed it.
Tan Wei Wei’s (è°ç»´ç»´) number, though, featuring Zhang Ximin (å¼ å–œæ°‘) and Huayin Lao Qiang performers (“åŽé˜´è€è…”â€æ¼”员) floored me. So much damn fun and energy. I loved it. The song was presented under the titled “the Huayin old tune in high tone shout” (åŽé˜´è€è…”一声喊, huayin lao qiang yi sheng han). It also teaches us all about Huayin Lao Qiang (Huayin Old Style “Chinese Rock’n’Roll)!