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as the mid-autumn festival in 2024 is approaching, the beijing municipal bureau of culture and tourism has carefully planned and launched the "beijing lantern festival", 10 "walking in beijing" sunset viewing and romantic moon-watching themed tour routes, 12 golden autumn rural art roaming routes and the "beijing under the moonlight" night tour recommendation list. the city has launched 678 mass cultural activities of various types and 896 performances.

lantern festival brings a visual feast

from september 14 to october 31, the "beijing lantern festival" - 2024 beijing mid-autumn festival and national day lantern festival will be held in fengtai district garden expo park. the park has carefully planned nine theme areas, and it is expected to exhibit more than 200 sets of lanterns and more than 100,000 lighting pendants. it is the largest, most invested, and most concentrated intangible cultural heritage craftsmen in beijing's history. it can be called a visual feast. in addition, various districts will also hold a variety of garden tours and lantern festivals.

public cultural service institutions at all levels in the city have carefully planned poetry recitations, special exhibitions, parent-child reading, knowledge quizzes and other activities around the mid-autumn festival, so that citizens can celebrate the mid-autumn festival and enjoy the fragrance of books. beijing city library will bring more than 20 cultural activities such as cultural exhibitions, lectures, parent-child reading, and handicraft experiences, including "when this flower blooms, there will be no more flowers - appreciation of chrysanthemums", "showing chinese music" "forest friends club" cross-border fusion appreciation and sharing concert, "harmony but difference, integration and progress" - china-france cultural exchange and mutual learning document exhibition, "book forest hidden language dream painting mountains and seas" immersive reading, etc.

each district and unit will also organize various colorful mid-autumn festival folk experience activities. dongcheng district will hold the "echoes of the times" red memory intangible cultural heritage exhibition in the south square of longfu temple, and invite 12 intangible cultural heritage inheritors to create the "night tour of the corner tower" intangible cultural heritage night event in the corner tower library. shijingshan district will hold the "full moon in beijing, feelings for china" handmade experience activities such as round fans, wind chimes, facial makeup, kites, and cloisonné enamel at the district cultural center. fengtai district will hold the mid-autumn festival intangible cultural heritage reunion market at the intangible cultural heritage exhibition and experience center.

chinese and foreign dramas take turns to be staged

during the mid-autumn festival, theme performances, drama exhibitions and chinese and foreign dramas will be staged in turn.

the national peking opera company will present a special mid-autumn festival peking opera performance "looking at the moon and missing the hometown" at the small theater of the national grand theater, performing national quintessence such as "a hundred flowers presenting a sword" and "da gua yuan"; the beijing peking opera company will present an exhibition to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of mr. cheng yanqiu at the chang'an grand theater and the shunyi grand theater respectively - a concert of famous peking opera artists and famous pieces and the classic play "farewell my concubine"; the jixiang grand theater, huguang guild hall, yanghua guild hall and other performing arts spaces will present opera performances such as "iron crown picture: stabbing the tiger", "cheng ying saves the orphan" and "chen sanliang".

theme music celebrates the festival. the national grand theater concert hall will present the china national broadcasting orchestra's "autumn river moon night" mid-autumn festival concert; beijing comedy theater will present the beijing national orchestra's national style festival - folk music "flowers and full moon" mid-autumn festival concert; zhongshan park concert hall and china puppet theater kaku theater will perform the mid-autumn festival music - dutch trio baroque night concert and colorful clouds chasing the moon - mid-autumn festival parent-child concert respectively. during the mid-autumn festival of the "see beijing opera" 2024 exhibition season, the "grand theater exhibition unit" will stage high-quality repertoires such as the ballet "the red detachment of women".

excellent works from abroad continue to appear. beijing tianqiao art center will stage the french musical "notre dame de paris", which is the first french musical milestone to start a global tour and residency; cao yu theater will perform the classic play "the manor of joy and sorrow" by the german froz mime company. at the same time, mariah carey's beijing concert, wang yuan's "living room carnival" concert in 2024, and the "here at mayuan" concert of mayuan poets in 2024 will be held at beijing workers' stadium, hua xi live wukesong, and the national speed ​​skating hall, respectively, presenting "double surprises" for chinese and foreign singers. in addition, the municipal bureau of culture and tourism and music weekly jointly launched the "chinese opera and song creation plan·original opera and song excellent works concert", which will be broadcast online at 19:00 on the evening of september 17 on the official video account and douyin account of culture and tourism beijing and music weekly.

follow the themed tour route to enjoy the moon

on the eve of the mid-autumn festival, the municipal bureau of culture and tourism jointly designed and launched 10 "walking in beijing" sunset viewing and romantic moon-watching theme tour routes, including "chasing the most beautiful sunset at jingshan on the central axis", "chasing the most beautiful sunset at the olympic tower on the north central axis", and "chasing the most gorgeous sunset at feiyantai on the south central axis".

at the same time, 12 golden autumn rural art tour routes have been launched, including "village cafe whispers autumn encounter art village" (wa art museum—wachang hotel—xinying village—mutianyu great wall scenic area), "books accompany autumn lights and afternoon tea talks about autumn" (four seasons flower sea—heihanling village—dajixiang village), and "exhibitions and bird watching for fun in autumn" (huoshaoying village—rural aesthetic education museum—wild duck lake), involving rural tourism resources such as rural art galleries, art markets, and characteristic village cafes.

in addition, the 2024 "beijing under the moonlight" night tour recommendation list involves 60 cultural and tourism projects with the capital's night economy characteristics, including the badaling great wall, olympic forest park, qianmen street, nanluoguxiang, panjiayuan cultural night market, liangmahe waterfront, 798·751 park, beijing book building, beijing lantern festival-2024 beijing mid-autumn festival and national day lantern festival, covering beijing's rich and diverse cultural and tourism resources elements and new business formats and new scenes at night, such as scenic parks, business district night markets, waterfront economy, theme parks, cultural and creative parks, theaters, cultural and sports activities.

information related to the recommended night tour list will be released on the official website of the beijing municipal bureau of culture and tourism and new media accounts such as the "cultural and tourism beijing" weibo and wechat public accounts.

source: beijing daily client

reporter: lu yanxia