Time + location
Time: October 1 - October 8
Location: Lhasa Potala Palace
Introduction
7 is the last day of China's National Day Holiday, the night, "I love you China" theme light show lit up the millennium old city of Lhasa, for the This year's National Day-themed light show drew a successful conclusion.
This unique highland culture light show with the Potala Palace as the core, along the three directions of the southeast and west extends to the Da Zhao Temple, Barkhor Street, Lhasa River, Liu Wu New District and other city landmarks, will be more than 3,600 meters above sea level of Lhasa lit up.
In the Potala Palace Square, accompanied by a cool audio-visual experience of the musical fountain, hundreds of beam lights will be projected onto the white walls of the Potala Palace and the red mountain, forming a group of beautiful patterns, reflecting the highest altitude, hiding many rare treasures of the palace group of majestic.
As one of the unique sights of the night in Lhasa, nearly 300 local people danced the "Happy Lhasa" Square Dance, a carefully choreographed dance that includes traditional Tibetan pots and pans, fruit harmonies, and modern dances that are popular today.
The cheerful music and dance moves showed the warmth and hospitality of Lhasa. Many tourists were infected by the joyful atmosphere of the scene, and could not help but walk into the center of the venue, dancing to the music. Among the crowd, two foreign tourists dressed in traditional Tibetan clothing is quite striking, many tourists and the public have taken pictures with them.
They are GianLuca and Lorenzo from Canada and Italy respectively, and just arrived in Lhasa by car from Xining that day. After learning that there was a National Day-themed light show in the evening, the two, who have a strong interest in Chinese culture, put on their newly purchased Tibetan clothes and rushed to the Potala Palace Square.
Lorenzo said the show was a perfect blend of tradition and modernity, and he was honored to see Chinese people of all ethnic groups celebrating their country's birthday in such a unique way.
GianLuca also said he found the Tibetan people to be hospitable and friendly, and the Tibetan culture to be full of wisdom, pointing to the Tibetan robes that he was wearing, which he said were uniquely designed to not only be comfortable to wear, but also to cope with the stark difference in temperature between day and night in Lhasa. When he returns to Canada, he will continue to wear the Tibetan robe to show the wisdom of Tibet to people around him.