The “Experience China-Jiangsu Culture Week” was concluded Sunday in Thailand with the performance of the Dance DramaNanguo Hongdou at the Aksra Theater in Bangkok.
Korn Dabbaransi, former Vice Premier of Thailand and the President of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association, delivers a speech at the closing ceremony.
Korn Dabbaransi, former vice premier of Thailand and the president of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association, said: “China and Thailand are one family. The cultures of China, Thailand, and Cambodia are connected, which is clearly manifested by the performance.”
“I hope that there will be more new forms of cultural exchange in the future, so as to enhance the understanding of the Chinese and Thai people and to promote diversified cooperation between the two countries,” said Korn Dabbaransi.
Zhang Yiyi as the leading actress in the dance drama Nanguo Hongdou.
Zhang Yiyi, the actress who plays the Cambodian girl Mando in the dance drama, said she was very happy to be in Cambodia and Thailand: “Cambodia is the place where the story of Nanguo Hongdoutakes place. Interacting with the local people has immersed myself deep into the dance drama.”
“After several performances, I found that the audience was very enthusiastic and inspiring. Although I had to perform four times from Cambodia to Thailand in just a few days, I didn't feel tired at all,” Zhang said.
In the past week, the Culture Week provided a platform for people in Cambodia and Thailand to understand Wuxi, Jiangsu, and China as thousands of people from Cambodia and Thailand were attracted to the love story.
Zuo Liang, an entrepreneur from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, has been in Thailand for two years. His dream is to open a Cantonese food restaurant in Bangkok. He was attracted by the Culture Week after he heard that a delegation from Jiangsu had come to Bangkok. Zuo said that culture is the soft power of a country, and that the Chinese culture needs to be promoted overseas in a more powerful way. He also thought that the Chinese culture could be accepted more easily by foreigners through culture weeks and original dance dramas.
Yang Liqun, Deputy-Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, delivers a speech at the closing ceremony.
Yang Liqun, Deputy-Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, said: “It is with the sincerity of cooperation that we have brought cultural activities such as the dance drama Nanguo Hongdou and the exhibition of intangible cultural heritages to Cambodia's Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Siam Reap and Thailand’s Bangkok.”
“We will do more concrete things to promote cultural cooperation in the spirit of ‘peaceful cooperation, openness, tolerance, learning from each other and mutual benefit’, and to bridge the China-Cambodia and China-Thailand cultural exchanges so as to bear more fruit of cooperation,” said Yang.
(Source : ourjiangsu.com)
