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Show re-creates legendary tale

Classic story, with ethnic group performers concerning Wuzhi Mountain and Monkey King, takes to the stage, promotes cultural diversity and aims to boost tourism, Chen Bowen reports in Haikou.

By Chen Bowen | China Daily | Updated: 2023-05-18 08:23

The young protagonist Shuiman with his adopted mother.[Photo provided to China Daily]

With high-tech stage lighting and visual design, the immersive show takes the mythical Wuzhishan Tropical Rainforest as its backdrop, combines the unique culture and joyous life of the Li and Miao people, and adopts the legend of the Wuzhi Mountain and the Monkey King.

Within five chapters, it tells the story of how the good-hearted and hardworking Li and Miao people build their homes, create a civilization, and unite to resist natural disasters.

Zhao Limin, art director of Adventures in Wuzhi Mountain, explains that the show incorporates a beautiful story with live performance.

"We present Wuzhishan city's culture and customs through art and color, and more importantly, give the show a spiritual core and present it in the form of a story," he says.

"Wuzhishan city, China's big natural oxygen bar, is a simple and primitive place, full of ethnic culture. Here, we can feel the happiness of Hainan people," says Chen.

"If you get close to the life of the Li and Miao people, you'll feel their passion from the inside out. They embrace the world with a love for life."

The show, which lasts 55 minutes, features breathtaking acrobatics and local performances, including gongs and drums, coconut tree climbing, Li-style brocade-weaving, tea picking and campfire dances.

The majority of the show's actors are from Hainan province.

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