China doesn't really celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas, but they have something bigger! Bigger than the turkey you got from Pick 'n Save or the assortment of Christmas cookies your mom made. China has Spring Festival. Otherwise known as Chinese New Year. Since traditionally, China follows the Lunar calender, the New Year changes from year to year. Sometime around the end of January to beginning/middle of February. To prepare of it, there are New Year's Concerts/parties. Last year I attended one, this year, I've already attended two. The first one was put on for foreigners throughout Wuhan. The second on, by Wuhan University. The second one was only traditional Chinese music, very nice, but nothing too special. I was the only foreigner. The first one... amazing! It was more like a variety show. Enjoy the pictures...
The concert started with a group of zithers. It was very soft, smooth, and relaxing.
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| Two co-workers from school. The girl is from Europe (Natalie) and the guy is from America/New Zealand (Linus) |
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| Some of the performances were singers. They even had bubbles. :) |
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| This performance was very interesting. I'll try loading a video of it. Hard to explain it. |
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| We also saw a short Beijing Opera |
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| It was cool, but the "music" is a lot of banging on what sounds like pots and pans, so it hurt your ears after a while. |
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| The acrobats were very interesting to watch. |
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| She could move in very unique ways. |
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| They were both very strong. |
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| This just amazed me! |
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| There was a group of dancing girls. I enjoyed it. |
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| The ending was a Chinese orchestra. Different sounding than a Western orchestra. They were quite good. |
