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1 November 2010 09:21 
A night entertainment show in Yangshuo, China. It is performed in the natural scenic setting and popular with tourists from all over the world.In China, the "Legend of Liu Sanjie" has been told for hundreds of years. That is what let the show be performing on a real stage today.
Impression Liu Sanjie is a major project for the tourism development of Yangshuo, a pearl-like county on the beautiful Li River. The performance venue, the largest natural theater in the world places on a riverbank surrounded by 12 mountains, boasts 2,000 seats, from which the audience can see for two kilometers into the distance.
This grand folk musical show directed by Zhang Yimou, a world-renowned Chinese film director.
During the one-hour performance, more than 600 actors who are local fishermen, will be dressed in different styles of Zhuang, Miao and Yao ethnic groups' clothing, and will jointly sing folk songs, popular both at home and overseas.
The magnificent background setting, artistic neon lighting, and celestial beauty of the show took the audiences' breath away. The story is about a legendary figure Liu Sanjie who represents the beauty, love, and courage. Much has changed in the outside world, but people in this remote village are still singing the old songs... Time seems stagnant here.
the performance has been performed every two or three days.
Thousands of people from the surrounding villages participated in the show. Each show employs 600 local village performers.
This is absolutely a world-class show - as someone said: "a masterpiece by the Creator and man."
From the trip with GPI 17th of May 2010 "Wonderful China Spring Tour 2010"
