Tickets for Henan "Zen Shaolin Music Festival"

[Mountain Scenery, Super Large Stage] Based on the Songshan Grand Canyon, the mountain scenery has distinct layers, with streams, forests, and stone bridges integrated into it. With a performance area of nearly three kilometers and a highest point of 1400 meters, it creates the world's largest mountain real-scene stage, allowing the audience to experience the fusion of nature and performance immersively.

[Unique Seating, Distinctive Experience] The audience seating area is composed of wooden corridors and temple buildings, blending with nature. Sitting on futons provides a unique viewing experience.

[Music Maestro, Leading Creation] Tan Dun, winner of the Oscar Music Award, serves as the artistic director and original music composer. Together with Mei Shuaiyuan, planner of "Impression Liu Sanjie," Yi Zhongtian, Zen consultant, Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin Temple, and Huang Doudou, dance choreographer, this luxurious lineup ensures quality.

[Five Chapters of Interpretation, Infinite Zen] The five movements, "Water Music," "Wood Music," "Wind Music," "Light Music," and "Stone Music," cover dialogues between monks and laypeople, the growth of warrior monks, Zen martial arts in the mountains, Zen enlightenment in the pagoda forest, and praise for stone music, fully showcasing the cultural essence of Zen Buddhism.

[Diverse Arts, Intertwined Bloom] Music, martial arts, dance, and light and shadow intertwine. 88 guzheng instruments play passionately, 600 people perform Zen martial arts, monks chant, and the four seasons' landscapes change, creating an audio-visual feast.

[Stage Design Renewal, Brilliant Lighting] Thousands of lighting devices blend with the mountains and rivers, meticulously adjusted to create a more dreamlike and stunning visual scene.

[New Actors, Infused with Vitality] A large number of young actors have joined, bringing new vitality to the performance with their exquisite skills and full enthusiasm.

[Zen Martial Arts Exploration, Cultural Inheritance] Deeply exploring the resources of Zen Buddhism and Shaolin martial arts, integrating natural Zen music, showcasing the humanities, martial arts, and landscapes of the Central Plains, and inheriting and innovating Shaolin Zen martial arts culture.

The "Zen Shaolin Music Grand Ceremony" performance is arranged according to its musical structure, divided into five movements: "Water Music" to "Wood Music" to "Wind Music" to "Light Music" to "Stone Music."

"Water Music: Zen Realm" depicts the beautiful Zen meaning of the Chinese classical landscape painting "Travelers in Streams and Mountains." Starting from water, we sit in meditation with monks: village girls and washerwomen emerge from Tang poetry, the chanting of Bodhi trees, the hustle and bustle after a mountain rain, the dialogue between monks and laypeople, all transforming into a cool Zen meaning in the sound of the stream, flowing into our hearts.

"Wood Music: Zen Meditation" The wooden fish is a Buddhist instrument, but the composer transformed it into music. The multi-part wooden fish performance tells the story of the growth of Shaolin warrior monks: mischievous youth, strong adulthood, and cultivated old age... The legendary shepherdess comes with her flock, her singing breaking the Zen meditation of the wooden fish, bringing human beauty to this pure land of Buddhism. Zen, thus, gains a secular interpretation.

"Wind Music: Zen Martial Arts" begins with "Bodhidharma Facing the Wall," narrating the inheritance of ancient traditions spanning a thousand years. Shaolin martial arts, interpreted in a new way—wind chimes, wind fists, wind staffs, and wind flags—stir up the mountain forests. In an instant, we perceive the great beauty of heaven and earth; this is both a display of martial arts and a scroll of mountains and rivers.

"Light Music: Zen Enlightenment" is the most brilliant movement of the performance. Snowy landscapes and cold forests, Buddha's light and pagoda shadows, and departed eminent monks appear in an illusion, telling us Zen stories. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter, the seasons cycle in the music. The warrior monks on plum blossom piles seem to break through the limits of life, stretching upwards, transforming into spirits of heaven and earth, flying into eternity.

"Stone Music: Zen Chant" is the chanting chapter of the performance, playing out the grand realm of "meditating in the mountains of intention, and stubborn stones speaking." At the end of the performance, Buddha's light shines universally, and heaven and earth are peaceful. This is Zen's ode to nature, its love for life, and its praise for all things in heaven and earth.

The "Zen Shaolin Music Grand Ceremony" is a large-scale real-scene performance that uses the natural landscape of Mount Songshan as its natural stage, with the cultural connotations of Shaolin and Zen Buddhism as its foundation, and music, dance, martial arts, and lighting as its carriers. The real-scene performance venue is located in the Songshan Grand Canyon, with a 180-degree panoramic view, beautiful mountain forests and clear springs, and ancient temples and Zen courtyards appearing faintly, forming the real background of the performance. The most flowing three-dimensional sound system, combined with the natural sounds of water, wind, and insects on site, creates a panoramic three-dimensional sound field. Combined with a grand artistic lighting project, it makes the Mount Songshan, which has been dormant for tens of thousands of years, shine again, illuminating the human world. Its grand scale, large cast, and magnificent atmosphere are very shocking and purifying to the soul.

The "Zen Shaolin Music Grand Ceremony" was jointly created by Mei Shuaiyuan, the founder of Chinese landscape real-scene performances, Tan Dun, an internationally renowned musician, Yi Zhongtian, a famous scholar, Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, and Huang Doudou, a Chinese dance artist. Master Tan Dun devoted himself to the excavation, arrangement, and re-creation of Zen music. Through long-term fieldwork in the sacred cultural mountain of Songshan and multiple comprehensive contacts and intellectual collisions with the Shaolin Temple, the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism, he created this organic music, "Zen Shaolin Music Grand Ceremony," which is known as the "Buddhist Passionate Music" by the world. It guides us to rediscover ourselves and return to our spiritual home. The profound and extensive connotations of this performance make its value far exceed the scope of ordinary performances. It uses Zen Buddhism and Shaolin martial arts as carriers to display and interpret a profound and extensive realm of Chinese culture.

The mountain real-scene stage covering an area of 5 square kilometers, an artificial moon with a diameter of 20 meters, a 1400-meter-high laser image of the Great Buddha, over 2800 stage lighting devices extending to the mountain top, a comprehensive three-dimensional sound system that fully meets the auditory needs of 3000 spectators, and warrior monks performing acrobatics and fighting at an altitude of over 80 meters are all features of the performance.

The "Zen Shaolin Music Grand Ceremony" has successively been rated as a "National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base," "China Creative City - Urban Cultural Card," and "2008 China Creative Industry Advanced Unit." In the national selection of "Top Five Most Beautiful Real-Scene Performances," it won first place in online voting, making it a masterpiece of Chinese real-scene performances and a "new calling card" for Henan's cultural tourism. It is a must-see performance when visiting Henan.

[Address] Daixiangou, 10 kilometers from Shaolin Street, Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province (Zen Shaolin Music Grand Ceremony)

[Show Time] 20:15-21:20 (subject to on-site performance time)

[Performance Duration] Approximately 65 minutes (subject to on-site performance duration)

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[Cancellation and Change Rules] Ticket information cannot be changed after placing an order. Cancellations are allowed 24 hours before the event starts (only for full order cancellations, partial cancellations are not supported)