First bamboo flute festival completes in Bacheng

Jiang Guoji's performance of Boat Song in Water Village portrays enchanting Yangtze River Delta sceneries and the joyous celebration of a bump harvest.

Bamboo flute performer Jiang Guoji played Boat Song in Water Village for the first Bacheng Bamboo Flute Festival on June 22 in Bacheng town of Kunshan city. [Photo from Kunshan Tourism Resort]

Shi Lei, dressed in a red traditional Chinese jacket, played the Ballad of Red Sorghum, an adaptation from the theme song on the TV series Red Sorghum. The TV series was based on a novel by Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.

Wang Hua performed the flute music classics Flying Partridges.

Young flutists Zuo Xiaoyan, Fan Jianqing, Liu Guoqing and Wang Hui played a duet with the folk theme Pao Han Chuan.

Four young bamboo flutists Zuo Xiaoyan, Fan Jianqing, Liu Guoqing and Wang Hui performed Pao Han Chuan at the first Bacheng Bamboo Flute Festival on June 22 in Bacheng town of Kunshan city. [Photo from Kunshan Tourism Resort]

The event concluded with a group performance of Journey to Suzhou, a classic flute composition by Jiang Xianwei in 1962. The piece is elegant, with a lucid and lively rhythm, while maintaining a simple and concise structure.

During the event, students from Bacheng Primary School showed their talents in traditional music by playing Little Cowboy. They took a group picture with the flute artists at the end of the event.