MEXICO CITY Cheap Adidas Yeezy Womens , June 5 -- China's Hakka artists captivated thousands of local people with exotic musical performances in central Mexico, before a four-day exhibition of Chinese intangible cultural heritage was wrapped up here on Sunday.
Festivities kicked off in the city of Tlalnepantla in the central State of Mexico with a series of musical performances that began on Thursday and continued through Sunday. The cultural events are also part of the celebrations marking the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mexico.
The artistic performances featured a 25-member troupe from Meizhou in China's southern Guangdong province, showcasing traditional songs and dances of China's ethnic Hakka people.
While Tlalnepantla is located just north of Mexico City, few cultural events travel outside the capital, remaining inaccessible to communities in other parts of the country, said Abraham Trejo Cheap Adidas NMD Mens , head of Tlalnepantla's office of international affairs and sister cities.
"The residents of the State of Mexico come to these events full of curiosity and anticipation, appreciating the unique performance without having to travel to the other side of the world," Trejo told Xinhua.
Such cultural events build a bond between the peoples of China and Mexico, and at the same time underline China's efforts to preserve its rich cultural heritage, Trejo said.
One of China's greatest cultural treasures is the traditional "mountain song" of the Hakka people, sung in their own dialect Cheap Adidas NMD Womens , which represent the Hakka's oral history and literature.
Hakka songs, one of China's best-known folk music traditions, "are numerous and colorful, sound harmonious and sweet, and ... rely on musical resources to express human emotion," Yang Yuanling Cheap Adidas Superstar Mens , deputy director of Meizhou City's Center for Preservation of Hakka Songs, told a press conference.
During the conference, Yang invited the audience to learn a bit about the traditional singing style, and several people joined her on the stage.
Fellow artist Li Huanxia, who specializes in playing Qingyi, the most important female role in Peking opera Cheap Adidas Superstar Womens , said she was happy to be in Mexico to perform fragments of Guangdong Han opera, whose history dates back to more than 300 years ago.
Han opera, most popular in regions of China where the Hakka dialect is spoken as well as in some regions of southeast Asia that are home to Hakka communities, was included in China's second list of intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
Li invited the spectators to take a closer look at the elaborate costumes worn by opera performers and practiced a few traditional gestures and postures used to convey emotion, as a group of young Mexicans on the stage attempted to imitate her moves.
"When listening to a Hakka song, you can feel very much at peace as the voice reaches your insides Cheap Adidas Yeezy Shoes , leaving behind problems and focusing only on hearing the sound," local resident Pedro Pena Corona said.
But what most caught his attention was the way in which China is succeeding in preserving its traditions and pass them on from generation to generation.
"Both cultures (Mexican and Chinese) are very tenacious and persevering, as the conservation of their traditions shows," said Pena.
JAKARTA, June 1 (Xinhua) -- China's Lin Dan survived an uphill battle in his first match of the 2016 Indonesia Open, as he came from behind to beat Malaysian Zulfadli Zulkifli 16-21, 21-18 and 21-16 here on Wednesday.
The third seed Lin becomes the favorite to win the men singles title after the withdrawl of his fellow Chinese and world No.1 Chen Long.
Against twice Olympic champion Lin, the non-seeded Zulkifli showed his potential from the start by taking the first set, before Lin quickly returned to his normal form and turned over the tide to secure his victory by winning the last two.
Lin will next face rising local star Jonatan Christie, who trashed Hsu Jen Hao of Chinese Taipei 21-12, 21-19.
Another Chinese player Wang Zhengming also went through a difficult match against Danish Vittinghus Hans-Kristian, who led the Danish men's team to win the Thomas Cup for the first time last month in Kunshan, China.
Wang eventually won the match which lasted over one hour, 18-21, 25-23 and 24-22, and will next play 7th seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei.
The women's doubles witnessed an upset as Huang YaqiongTang Jinhua of China toppled world No. 5 Christina PedersenKamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark 23-21, 14-21 and 21-10. Enditem
YICHANG, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project Cheap Adidas NMD Shoes , received the record number of daily visitors Thursday, the second day of the week-long National Day holiday, authorities said.
As of 4:30 p.m., tourists to the Dam in Yichang city of central China's Hubei Province had reached 40,000, the upper limit for a single day Cheap Adidas Superstar Shoes , China Three Gorges Corporation said in a press release.
The previous record of daily tourists to the Dam was 35,000, it said.
Of Thursday's tourists, 392 were international visitors and 39,608 were domestic tourists, the document said.
It expected the number of visitors to remain high throughout the holiday week.
Starting from Sept. 25 Cheap Adidas Shoes From China , the Three Gorges Dam opens for free to all Chinese tourists, including overseas Chinese and those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Tourists can make online reservation or walk up with an identity card. But the maximum number of tourists every day will be restricted to 40,000.
The dam receives an average of 1.8 million tourists every year, about 15 million tourists since its completion in 2006.