Yangshuo Impression. It was a theatrical event to celebrate Liz's birthday. We will never experience the like of it again. The director was the director of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. He has taken the natural spectacular beauty of Yangshuo's Li River and its kyrsts, floodlit them, added a cast of hundreds ordinary folk doing what they know, highlighted them with rays of lights and lasers, set them to a vast musical score overlaid with careful blending of folk and operatic voices, and told a simple love story of which I couldn't understand a word, but felt every emotion. The performance is in the open air at night, on a stretch of the river. The opening scene is one from classic Chinese opera on a floating stage. Suddenly a torchlit armada of small bamboo boats glide
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