On September 16, 2021, in the afternoon, we came to Longli Water Village, which is only a few tens of kilometers away from Guiyang. The positioning of Longli Water Town is "Guiyang Welcome Gate, Guizhou Tourism Front Living Room". The overall water system is used as the carrier, and the architecture is featured. The river flows through it, surrounded by mountains and rivers, reflecting each other, which is so beautiful. Our tourist bus came out of the high-speed toll station. From a distance, we could see a huge golden faucet inlaid on the facing cliff. Water gushed out from the dragon mouth, like a waterfall. This so-called largest "faucet" in China is a dragon. One of the landmark buildings in Li County, it is 16 meters high and weighs about 12 tons. It is adjacent to Longli Water Town.
Longli Water Town is surrounded by green hills and the Duohua River. The city is built with water to create a unique waterfront experience. It adapts to local conditions and forms a wealth of unique mountain features in Guizhou. With the theme of "Dragon Walking in the World·Longli Station", The history of the changes of "zhai, post, Wei, and city" in Longli is the starting point, and multiple story clues are integrated, so as to comprehensively display Guizhou history, folk customs, art, commerce, products, and multi-ethnic culture through post road culture. Large, thus creating a brand-new humanistic leisure environment.
We walked into a large archway in front of the Longli Water Town Scenic Area, stood on the steps and looked from a distance, what caught our eyes was the scene of a group of people with small bridges and flowing water. It's like walking into a Jiangnan water town, where small rivers flow through it, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scattered wooden houses and small buildings on both sides, and the upside-down oil-paper umbrellas on the long street are full of the breath and charm of Jiangnan water town.
We entered the park from Yunlong Square. Because we were in a hurry to watch the performance, we did not take a cruise ship. We walked quickly through the Xiduo Corridor, Yueqin Wharf, the Great White House, Longshan Street, Hongwu Street, Xichi Art Garden, Shuimu Mingse, Guan Shanting, Guanshan Bridge, Yinglong Academy, Huahai, Sanyuanzi Pagoda, Yanwu Square, Shuiyunjian, Acropolis Lake, etc., came to Guixiu Theater, ready to enjoy the large-scale indoor performance show "Longxiang Water" · Guixiu".
According to the tour guide, "Longxiang Waterside·Guixiu" is a performance show carefully created by Guizhou Longli Water Town Tourism Eco-City and a team of cultural and tourism directors with more than 20 years of rich experience. The play uses advanced creation concepts , using the means of expression of modern dance beauty, incorporating Guizhou's representative cultural symbols such as the origin of life, regional features, historical legends, folk customs, etc., aims to become a new cultural business card representing Guizhou's performing arts market.
"Longxiang Shuili·Guixiu" is an attempt to present Guizhou's regional history and culture to the world. It takes the vertical line of historical development in this magical land as the axis, uses the combination of cultural platters, and uses cultural Creative ways of thinking express themselves eclecticly. During the one-hour performance period, art forms such as dance, music, martial arts, and acrobatics are packaged and coordinated with technical means such as stage art, video, lighting, sound, special effects, special effects, and stage machinery.
"Longxiang Water·Guixiu" is performed by more than 100 Chinese and foreign performers. More than 400 sets of performance costumes have been designed and produced, bringing together Miao, Buyi, Dong, Yi, Tujia, Gelao, Shui, There are more than 60 different costume styles based on the style elements of 8 ethnic minorities including the Yao nationality, among which 12 sets of ethnic Chinese costumes are unique and extraordinary. The repertoire is divided into six chapters, including "Changhai Changtian", "Landscape Legend", "Madam Shexiang", "Iron Blood and Loyal Soul", "Genting Clothes" and "Guizhou in the Prosperous Age".
The prologue of "Longxiang Water Guixiu" is "Bright Dawn". As the music plays, the stage gradually becomes brighter. Actors in Stone Age costumes perform one after another, and savages, torches, and trees are presented one by one in front of the audience. , the story of ancient civilization in Guizhou gradually kicked off from here.
The first act is "Landscape Legend". With the opening of the curtain, the background of the whole stage is a beautiful landscape. A group of graceful young girls dance in the water, with vivid eyes and full of charm. The real water splashes are spinning and falling in the air. A vivid picture scroll of the life of the people in ancient Guizhou. Brother A Long and A Shui Mei made their debuts, using light and graceful dances to describe their beautiful love. Suddenly, rumbling, the flood from the sky hit our faces, and a real flood of 1,000 tons poured down and splashed on the audience. In order to protect his homeland, Brother Along guarded the land with his life, but unfortunately a pair of lovers are separated by yin and yang.
The second act is "Mrs. Shexiang". Mrs. Shexiang is a real person in history. The Yi nationality's name is Shezi, also known as Pu Lousheheng. She was born in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. He is a heroine who has made great achievements in maintaining local ethnic unity and national unity. Mrs. Shexiang built roads and set up post stations after serving as a consolation envoy in Guizhou, which communicated the traffic between the inland and the southwestern border, consolidated the frontier regime, and promoted the social, economic and cultural development of Shuixi and Guizhou. Zhu Yuanzhang once praised: "If extravagant fragrance is attached, one hundred thousand soldiers will be won." On the stage, the magnificent palace appeared in front of our eyes. Mrs. Shexiang made a grand appearance in gorgeous costumes, majestic and amazing, and the lighting changed from bright to smart. Chen" sent sachets to the audience, expressing good wishes to the audience.
The third act is "Iron Blood and Loyal Soul". The soothing music sounded, and the time came to the era of the Red Revolution. The story of this scene almost made all the audience burst into tears. In order to create a red country, the Red Army reluctantly separated from their families, went to the battlefield, and regarded death as home. The hail of bullets and explosions on the stage presented real war scenes in front of the audience. Red Army soldiers crossed rivers, climbed mountains and ridges, and finally died heroically on the battlefield, which moved and sighed the audience. The vivid performances of the actors and the presentation of the full-sound scenes inspire people today to always remember history and remember the martyrs.
The fourth act is "Neon Clothes on the Top of the Clouds". The tea-picking girl is beautiful and presents the tea to the audience. Harmony, simplicity, and nature are fully reflected at this moment. The Miao sisters and elder brothers sing and dance, leading the audience to understand the ethnic minorities in Guizhou style culture.
The end of "Longxiang Water·Guixiu" is "Guizhou in the Prosperous Age". As the saying goes, the bridges of the world look at China, and the bridges of China look at Guizhou. Bridges have risen from the ground, and Guizhou has proved its strength with its strength. The acrobats leaped and flipped high in the air, showing the miracle of Guizhou's bridges with thrilling movements. In the end, the actors came on stage together and grandly invited tourists from all over the country to visit Guizhou.
Guizhou is famous both at home and abroad with its rich national cultural resources. The stage expression emphasizes the three-dimensional and jumping block concept of large scenes, highlights the rendering of psychological and emotional atmosphere, combines the emotional rhythm changes, and conducts visual bombing at different time periods. Sound and light multimedia, stage machinery , high-altitude acrobatics, large-scale props, special effects system, scene interpretation, dance art, music effects, off-screen commentary and other all-round means perfectly cooperate to create the most amazing audio-visual experience and make the plot more immersive and shocking. Softness, sound and color, mystery and novelty, the ultimate challenge of the human body and the grand production of sound and light simulacrum subvert the perception of beauty, evoke the inner warmth and aesthetic experience, and bring the audience a strong space from surface to point sense, layering, time-traveling and integration. Since its opening, the performance of "Longxiang Shuili·Guixiu" has received rave reviews and has become a veritable "golden brand" in the Guizhou tourism performing arts market. "Looking at Guixiu in the water of Longxiang, you can see the thousand-year-old Guizhou at a glance." "Guixiu" is a gluttonous feast for Guizhou's cultural industry, and it is also an audio-visual feast.
"Guixiu" theater is China's first 5G tourism performing arts theater, and it is also the biggest architectural highlight in Longli Water Town Tourism Eco-City. The theater building is a steel frame structure, covering an area of 42,047 square meters and a building area of 14,994 square meters. It can accommodate 1,548 people to watch at the same time . The main design of the theater building takes the meaning of "dragon coming out of water", and uses "dragon scales" as the main facade decoration of the theater, which complements and perfectly matches the existing "dragon head" landscape in Longli. It is both lively and has a certain cultural connotation. At the same time, the lower part of the main body adopts "dougong" as a design element, forming a light and shadow effect with a strong sense of order, echoing the traditional Chinese architectural style of the surrounding commercial streets; the theater takes "mirror", "flower", "water" and "moon" as design concepts, Continuing the cultural intention of the building, create a "dream" experience of the four spaces of entry and exit-flower opera-water town-moon garden.
Watching "Guixiu", a thousand-year-old Guizhou reveals the mystery of Yelang's hometown for us, and appreciates the magical and magnificent landscape and humanistic inheritance of Qianzhou for thousands of years. A performance, a moving story, "Longxiang Water-Guixiu", a large-scale epic performance show, experience the multi-dimensional effects of hearing, vision and touch, an immersive experience brought by culture, giving people unlimited imagination space.
Walking out of the theater, we wandered freely in the scenic area. On the exquisite pavilion with strong exotic flavor, there is a beauty from the Western Regions who is dressing up. Who is she dressing up for? Where does she go after grooming? It is full of stories and imaginations.
We walked to the school grounds, where the counting ceremony was being held, the general was about to start counting troops, "I am a man of Ming Dynasty standing up to the sky...", the general showed the demeanor of many years of fighting on the battlefield, counting troops at the school ground of Longli Water Village. During the performance, you can Seeing the unyielding of the "Ming Man", you can also enjoy the martial arts performances of the soldiers with their unique skills.
The architectural design in Longli Water Village is exquisite, with painted pillars and carved beams in the pavilions, flying corners and double eaves interlaced, exquisite stone carvings, and lifelike wood carvings, exuding a strong artistic atmosphere. It is said that they visited many traditional courtyard buildings and former residences of celebrities in Guizhou, traced their profound historical features and cultural heritage, and combined the vitality of these historical buildings with modern elements during design and construction. Extraordinary taste and unique humanity.
Longli Water Town is a place only half an hour’s drive away from Guiyang. This is a leisure water station that tells history, a history museum built on time, and condenses the accumulation and thickness of Guizhou’s colorful culture between mountains and rivers. Some people say that traveling is the best way to decompress people with fast-paced lives, because it can bring you another feeling. As long as you go out, you will find that the magnificence of nature and the great rivers and mountains of Guizhou are in the The trip to Longli Water Village Eco-City is a spiritual journey. Here you can forget the troubles in life and work, unload your tired body, and enjoy the leisurely and elegant life here. The interior design of Longli Water Village is exquisite, the pavilions are painted with carved beams, the flying corners and double eaves are interlaced, the exquisite stone carvings and lifelike wood carvings exude a strong artistic atmosphere.