2023 Happy Chinese New Year celebrations launched with concert
In addition, the concert was peppered with a potpourri of Chinese and western cultural elements such as Taiji (or tai chi), paper-cutting, oracle bone inscriptions, landscape painting, ballet, and hip-hop dance. Powered by extended reality (XR) technology, Chinese cultural relics, historical sites, and intangible cultural heritage came alive and meshed well with all performances.
For example, in Divine Bird, pipa diva Zhao Cong embarked on a journey to search for the divine bird in Sanxingdui, a world-renowned Bronze Age site in Southwest China's Sichuan province. She chanced upon a group of mysterious men covered in gold masks who were holding a New Year sacrificial rite. The bronze bird at the center of the altar awakened and flew to China's central plains area to seek its roots. To the mesmerizing sound of the pipa, a four-stringed plucked instrument, the bird slowly turned into a songstress played by digital idol Luo Tianyi, clad in a flowing bronze-green dress.
