As part of “Mid-autumn Festival: A Moonmoment to Remember”,”Ode to the Moon concert” is now available on the social media platforms of China Cultural Center in The Hague. The concert consists of three subthemes: “Singing to the Moon”, “Looking up at the Moon” and “Central Chord”. Featuring children choirs, intangible cultural heritage demonstration, Chinese folk music and Western music performance, lighting up Kongming Lanterns, the concert celebrates families and the nation, as well as the pursuit of happiness and harmony.

1.Children's Chorus: May They Live Long

Lyrics: Su Shi Composition: Liang Hongzhi Chorus adaptation: Hou Tianyuan
Singing: Beijing Spring Children's Choir Conductor: Su Danna

An everlasting moon, a cake-like moon... at the Mid-Autumn Festival, let us extend our sincere blessing to our relatives and friends, and the bright moon will send our greetings and missing of them. Let us gather together under the bright moon that shines tenderly on the world…

''May They Live Long'', a piece of music composed from the popular Song poem Prelude to Water Melody, creates a specific mood during the mid-autumn festival, and places the audience in a realm where people miss their beloved under the bright moonlight. It gives a vivid and touching expression to people's longing for staying together with their beloved. The music, with bold and unrestrained artistic conception, optimism and open-mind, enables people to enjoy the aesthetic feeling.

2.Ancient song: Moonlit River in Spring

Pipa: Zhang Hongyan Harp: Sun Shimeng

Vividly depicting the fascinating scenery of a moonlit river in springtime, this piece is an ode to the beauty of Jiangnan water towns south of the Yangtze River. The Pipa, first documented nearly 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty, is a highly expressive Chinese plucked-string instrument.

3.Nostalgia

Composition: Ma Sicong
Violin: Huang Bin Piano: Zhang Fang

The music is alive with people's homesickness as they stay far away from home.

Shuang Yan, inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. He is the inheritor of clay sculpture (Beijing Lord Rabbit). On December 28, 2017, he was included on the list of the representative inheritors of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects. Shuang Yan was born into a family of artistic technique. The traditional clay sculpture "Lord Rabbit" is a very important folk artwork for the old Beijing custom. Taught by his family since a little boy, he has inherited the artistic technique very well.

Online Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival – A VR Experience Journey to China

Through new technologies such as 5G and VR, this online celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival invites you to enjoy the festival and tour around China.

The online tour tells the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival, introduces China’s intangible cultural heritage. It covers cultural and urban landscape of seven regions in China, including Tibet, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Through VR live broadcasting technology, you can look through different tourist attractions, fly the Kongming Lanterns and send electronic postcards.

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