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Charming Xiangxi Theater's on CCTV Spring Festival Gala

The original name of "Chasing Love" is "Chasing Love Acacia Building", also known as "Climbing the Building", which originated from Hunan's large-scale tourist show "Charming Xiangxi". Since the show was staged in Zhangjiajie, Hunan in 2010, it has been widely praised for its perfect blend of flavorful dance and interesting acrobatics. The work presents the kind of original love, clear as a spring, strong as wine, for the world long in the mortal world to provide a true and pure emotional feast, was named the national tourism and cultural key projects and outstanding works.

"Chasing Love" is based on the Yao people's unique traditional custom of courtship: when the moon rises from the east mountain, young men gather in groups of three or five under the hammock of the girl they love to show their love with songs and dances. The girl wants to choose a man of her choice who is brave, intelligent and skillful, so they see who can climb up the tall wooden building without using the stairs, and the winner will win the girl's heart. The young men showed their superhuman skills and finally won their sweethearts.......

For this program, in order to push the rich minority flavor and excellent traditional culture of western Hunan onto the CCTV Spring Festival stage, Zhangjiajie Charming Xiangxi Company had been picking the winds in the whole province of Hunan. The effort was not enough, "Chasing Love" made a name for itself, not only became the only one of this year's Spring Festival Gala "exemption" program and national songs and dances, but also CCTV Spring Festival Gala held in 30 years, Hunan's local ethnic original programs on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time.

The biggest attraction of "Chasing Love" is that the actors are top-notch, and the lead singer Lei Jia and the lead dancer Shagun Junnan are both assigned by CCTV. In the program, there is a "folk song diva" known as Xiangmeizi Lei (microblogging) Jia as the girl on the hanging floor, with beautiful singing and acrobatic dance movements, a complete interpretation of the wedding customs of ethnic minorities; Second, the choreography is wonderful, three dancers stacked on top of each other on a ladder of adults, four dancers jumping "people rope "and other amazingly difficult acrobatic movements, the program's excitement to a climax.

"I couldn't help but clap my hands the moment the music came to an abrupt end!" The success of "Chasing Love" in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and its dazzling and mesmerizing performance have added a colorful touch to "Charming Xiangxi". This honor not only belongs to "Charm of Western Hunan", but also to 1.8 million people of Zhangjiajie and 70 million people of Hunan. We look forward to the Zhangjiajie Charming Song Performing Arts Group as the representative of the "Performing Arts Xiangjun", and then produce masterpieces, so that more original ethnic songs and dances to the Spring Festival Gala, to the country, to the world!