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About this programme
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese traditional Festival, which carries the rich sentiments of the Chinese people for family reunion, harmony and a better life. In its historical evolution of thousands of years, the Festival has always been the home of emotional heal of the Chinese people. From ‘As the bright moon shines over the sea, we share the moment no matter how far we are from each other’ to ‘May we all be blessed with longevity, though far apart, we still share the beauty of the moon together’, the Festival has been accumulating the profound and romantic cultural foundation of the Chinese nation and shaped the unique spiritual symbols of the Chinese nation and the common aspiration of the Chinese people through the inherited cultural activities such as eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon.
To celebrate the Festival in a special way amid the pandemic, China Cultural Centre in Sydney and Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcast-TV and Tourism will present 2022 Mid-Autumn Festival: A Moon moment to Remember – Meeting Chengdu Online Feature Programme on websites and social media platforms on 1st September 2022. With various medias including photos, short videos, online concert and virtual exhibition, the programme highlights beautiful garden city landscape, tasty Sichuan-style delicacies, sonorous and subtle Sichuan opera music and openness and inclusiveness of vibrant Chengdu, inviting the Australian people and overseas Chinese in Australia to enjoy the festival together to know more about the historic inheritance of the Festival and the cultural values of family reunion, gratitude to the nature, social harmony and care about the family and country.
About Chengdu
Chengdu is city suitable not only for business, living and travelling but also a beautiful garden city where people and city are in harmony. The magnificent landscape and the exquisite city garden complement each other and the traditional culture and fashion trend are perfectly blended here, like a long picture scroll that runs through ancient and modern times. In this programme, the audience could appreciate the charm of Chengdu through virtual exhibition of Chengdu cultural and tourist attractions; experience the Sichuan-style elegance through Sichuan traditional opera music, taste the local delicacies following the footsteps of the well-known Chinese-American chef Martin Yan and watch the rapid urban development through five wonderful documentaries.
Let’s travel through time and space together and meet on the ‘cloud’ to experience the unique traditional art, taste the savory and numbing spicy food, enjoy the leisure of life in Chengdu and appreciate the profound Chinese cultural traditions.
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Chengdu is the park city at the foot of the snow mountain, a famous historical and cultural city, and a vibrant fashion metropolis. It is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, where the Baodun culture came into being 4,500 years ago.
Documentaries are known as “national photo albums” and have important documentary value, aesthetic education value and integrated communication value. The new era provides rich themes and a broad stage for the development of documentary creation. This exhibition features five documentaries produced by Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcast-TV and Tourism, including “Greetings from Chengdu, China“, “A French Lacquer Artist in China“, “Spoil Pandas with the Spotlight“, “Portraits of Chengdu by Foreign Writers” and “Hanfu: Beauty from the Orient that Amazes the World“, with diverse themes and rich content, show Australian audiences a rapidly developing and vibrant Chengdu from different perspectives.
Greetings from Chengdu, China
This film takes the opportunity to exhibit China through the old photos of Chengdu taken by a German, Fritz Weiss 100 years ago.
Portraits of Chengdu by Foreign Writers
Some books about Chengdu were written by four foreign writers of different nationalities over the past one hundred years.
A French Lacquer Artist in China
This film tells the story of an artist, who comes from a country that does not produce lacquerware, but is obsessed with lacquerware, which is France
Hanfu: Beauty from the Orient that Amazes the World
This film tells the story of how Zhuo Tongzhou, a Chinese girl returning from Australia, brought the oriental aesthetics of Hanfu to the world.