The sound of hoofbeats during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Horse – a snapshot of the Tucson Chinese Spring Festival Gala (photo)

The crisp sound of hooves during the Spring Festival of the Horse – a snapshot of the Chinese New Year Gala in Tucson (photo) Tucson Huiming No matter how frozen it is in the north and how windy and snowy it is, Arizona...

>Tucang Huiming

Regardless of how frozen it is in the north and how windy and snowy it is, Arizona is still warm and pleasant. The peach blossoms couldn't wait to spit out their buds, and the beautiful roses couldn't bear it and dedicated their first beauty to the early spring.

Spring is spring, and the phoenixes and local thunderbirds that flew from afar could not help but sang the Spring Festival overture at the UA auditorium surrounded by green trees and purple bamboos, exaggerating the beautiful hopes in people's hearts.

> Xiao He, the child with sharp horns, was the first to feel the festive atmosphere. The tranquility and beauty of the moonlit lotus pond described by the master are conveyed by childishness. The trembling lotus leaves are "like pearls, stars in the blue sky, and beauties just emerging from the bath." A gust of wind blows, spreading the endless fragrance far and wide.

The girls are full of childishness, carrying their own hopes and the love of their teachers, and looking forward to tomorrow.

Also longing for tomorrow, American children prefer to use coldness to show maturity. Although there is no smile in the song "Song and Smile", the metallic sound like a bird of paradise evokes memories and friendships of the past, and brings the hearts of young people from the United States and China closer.

The girls were naturally not to be outdone and held out their beloved jasmine flowers. What is pleasing to the eye is that this Chinese flower is represented by exquisite ballet art. The girls' training and hard work since childhood have given this traditional flower its unique beauty and vitality.

Unexpectedly, the singing stirred the emotions of young men and women. The song "Lovesickness" expresses the "love-sickness" of the youthful period, but Hongdou expresses the most lovesickness in every detail. It's a pity that the beautiful girl turned around after saying goodbye, but the handsome man strode away, leaving the audience with endless sighs.

The American jazz band also followed High. With a higher-pitched voice than Jay Chou, "Chrysanthemum Terrace" has since been marked as a black female singer, although the audience hopes that her Chinese can be more palatable. What is also captivating is the brass band's "Lift Your Hijab", in which trombones and trumpets come into play, using strong rhythm changes and a unique lyrical tone, which rivals the loess love expressions of the original suonas.

What can rival jazz rhythm is Chinese martial arts. I don’t know where so many martial arts masters appeared from. Their swords, sticks, clubs and fists flickered, and they were both strong and soft. If it weren’t for the heavy golden cudgel, it would have made people feel as if Shaolin, Wudang and even Wukong had emigrated to a foreign country.

The seamless combination of toughness and softness in the martial arts dance of "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger", the natural connection between movement and stillness, made the audience fascinated and suddenly jealous: how beautiful the martial artist would be if he were himself.

The sound of horse hooves is crisp, and the flying sky is beautiful. In the dance "Small Town Rain Alley", there is only an umbrella and a Tsing Yi, "I left as quietly as I came". "Gently waving, bidding farewell to the clouds in the western sky." When you wave your sleeves, not a drop of water can be seen, but you feel like you are immersed in the nostalgia of the white walls and black tiles of Jiangnan in the hazy rain.

There is also "Cloud Picking", which uses beautiful karate to turn green tea and red fruits into five-colored clouds in the sky and pocket them, and the hard work turns them into romance and poetry.

Tradition and classical music also appeared on the American stage. The guzheng "Lin Chong Night Run" and the Peking opera "Farewell My Concubine" vividly and shockingly express the spirit of the ancient nation's determination to break away from the constraints of tradition. Without the sentiments of a strong warrior and a chivalrous woman who cuts off her wrists and seals her throat, would this sleeping lion of the East be what it is today? I really hope that American audiences can understand this Eastern heaviness and thinking.

It is said that wind, horse and ox are not related, but bidding farewell to the Year of Ox and welcoming the Year of Horse is so intimate. At this moment, people would rather turn into wild geese and fly over thousands of mountains and rivers. Even if the wind and rain are noisy and the Spring Festival travel is difficult, they still want to return to their beautiful homes and reunite with their parents and villagers for the New Year. Many local American-Chinese choirs used their seamless cooperation to present their voices to the audience, and used the New Year to give people the best hospital stay in the first month.

The audience thanked all the performers and directors with continuous thunderous applause. Even those friends who couldn't understand the show and just talked stood up and applauded to express their apology. No matter whether the sound of horse hooves in the Tucson Spring Festival Gala is crisp or broken, at least that beautiful moment of shining horses' hooves is intoxicating.