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Opening Hour: Admission Fee: CNY 190
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Brief Introduction
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Impression Lijiang is the second
outdoor production of Zhang Yimou’s debuted open-air performance at the
foot of Yulong (Jade Dragon) Snow Mountain in southwest China.
Around 500 local people from 10 ethnic groups have been selected from 16
towns and villages in Lijiang of Yunnan Province to perform daily folk
songs, dances and rituals for tourists. The performance entitled
Impression Lijiang was innovatively staged in the morning that Zhang
Yimou spent two years producing this one-hour outdoor performance. The
performance began with more than 400 male performers in their
traditional costumes of respective ethnic groups shouting to the sky "we
are farmers, we are stars".
Unlike indoor or evening performances that can use lighting to cover up blemishes, an outdoor performance in full daylight allows no room for mistakes or "artistic decoration or artificial disguise". Actually, there is nobody dared to put an outdoor performance at daytime before Zhang Yimou made this decision after having wide-ranging investigation. This outdoor production has undergone hundreds of times of discussions and rehearsals before staged. All the songs and dances were artistically produced on the bases of folk people's daily life.
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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Top via cable car
