China Media Group (CMG)'s much-anticipated Mid-Autumn Festival Gala started at 20:00 Beijing Time on Tuesday, conveying the delightful and romantic sentiment of China's traditional festival to the global audience through a poetic, lyrical, and artistic presentation.
The annual gala broadcast, also known as "Qiuwan" in Chinese, was recorded in Shenyang City in northeast China's Liaoning Province, a 2,300-year-old city boasting three world cultural heritages sites and over 1,500 historical and cultural sites. The city is also one of the most well-known industrial cities in China.
With theme of "moon culture", the gala vividly presented Chinese traditional culture with over 30 artistic performances, including poem recitals, songs and dances, as well as full-featured operas.
Divided into three chapters themed "Moon Rise" "Moon Light" and "Bright Moon", respectively, the grand gala began with a song adapted from a poem by Li Qingzhao, a female poet living in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), depicting and extolling sweet osmanthus flower, which blooms around the Mid-Autumn Festival and has been cultivated in China for over 2500 years.
The gala is now available on various China Central Television (CCTV) channels and other new media platforms.
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar. It is a traditional festival symbolizing family reunion and amity. This year, the festival fell on Tuesday (Sept 17).
CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala highly poetic, lyrical with full-featured cultural displays
CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala highly poetic, lyrical with full-featured cultural displays
