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Culture China's spring comes from all over the world, and the overseas Spring Festival Gala becomes more and more exciting (photo)

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Culture China's spring comes from all over the world, and the overseas Spring Festival Gala becomes more and more exciting (photo) Ren Qiliang, deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, led a delegation to express condolences to the overseas Chinese (Alberta Times in Los Angeles...

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Culture China has the Spring Festival all over the world, and the overseas Spring Festival Gala is getting more and more exciting (Photos) Ren Qiliang, deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, leads a delegation to express condolences to the overseas Chinese (Photography report by Zhen Songwei, reporter of the Alberta Times in Los Angeles) "The sound of Chinese music inherits Chinese classics, and Ming Dynasties gather to congratulate the New Year." The "Cultural China, Spring Together" 2012 Spring Festival Gala, hosted by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, the China Overseas Exchange Association, the Hubei Overseas Exchange Association and other units, was grandly performed at the Pasadena Civic Center Theater in Los Angeles on January 29, presenting an audio-visual feast to more than 3,000 audiences. The performance lineup of this Spring Festival Gala is stronger than in previous years, and the content is more colorful. The curtain of the party opened, with cheerful music, lively stage atmosphere, cheerful dances, auspicious and auspicious lights, the "Happy Spring Festival" dance brought the hearts of the overseas Chinese back to their hometowns for the Spring Festival. A huge red Chinese knot on the stage firmly touched the China complex of overseas children. "Meeting You Is My Destiny" is a solo sung by Aru Azhuo, a young actor from the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe. This Yi girl who has won China's highest vocal music award, the Golden Bell Award, the Popular Singing Gold Award and many other domestic awards, has a sweet singing voice and is melodious to the ears. The solo performers this time are all well-known actors in China. The national first-class actor who performed the cross talk "Small Chorus" on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala this year, the famous tenor Lu Jihong's "The Sun That Rises and Never Sets on the Grassland", and the famous tenor Wang Hongwei of the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe who also performed in the Spring Festival Gala's cross talk "Lovely A Rose" received continuous applause from the audience. They couldn't stop and sang again after many curtain calls; top contemporary Liyuan celebrities, when Yu Kuizhi, deputy director of China's National Peking Opera Troupe, and Li Shengsu, a national first-class actor who is widely influential in China today, performed Peking Opera, which is known as the quintessence of China. A huge tender green lotus leaf, in which the actress transformed into a red lotus, the dance "Fragrant Lotus and Red Lotus" by the Hubei Youth Art Troupe, people seemed to see the waves of Honghu Lake, sending refreshing breeze, and the fragrance of lotus; "Spring Breeze, Spring Rain, Spring Girl", "Xiajiang Moonlight", these performances with strong Jingchu style and festive atmosphere, regardless of the beauty of the dance, the artistic conception of the lighting, all give people a beautiful enjoyment and intoxication. As Ren Qiliang, deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, said in his speech at the opening reception before the performance, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council sent five art troupes to various countries this year to express condolences to overseas Chinese. Our purpose is to bring the atmosphere of the Spring Festival overseas. "Cultural China, Spring in All Countries" will become more and more sophisticated, hoping to bring a beautiful audio-visual feast to overseas Chinese. It is said that the art troupe will visit overseas Chinese in Seattle, Chicago, New York and Vancouver, Toronto and other places in Canada. On the evening of January 30, Ambassador Qiu Shaofang and his wife of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles hosted all the actors of the art troupe at the Consulate General. Officials from various groups of the Consulate General, many media reporters and some community leaders attended the reception in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere. Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu sang the modern Peking opera "I am Chinese". Alua Zhuo, a young soloist from the Yi ethnic group of the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe, danced "Clap Song". Wang Hongwei, a famous tenor from the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe

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