Tickets for Henan "Zen Shaolin Music Festival"
5 km mountain scenery stage & 20-meter diameter artificial moon & 1400-meter high Buddha laser projection + Enjoy the Zen beauty of "Water Music" + Explore the Zen meditation of "Wood Music" + View the Zen martial spirit of "Wind Music" + Comprehend the Z
Zen Shaolin: Music Ritual
- 【Mountain Scenery, Giant Stage】Based in the Songshan canyon, the mountain scenery is distinctly layered. Streams, forests, and stone bridges are integrated into the nearly three-kilometer performance area, with a maximum height of 1400 meters, creating the world's largest mountain real-scene stage, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the blend of nature and performance.
- 【Unique Seating, Distinct Experience】The auditorium is constructed of wooden corridors and temple architecture, blending with nature. Seating on futons provides a unique viewing experience.
- 【Musical Maestro, Leading Creation】Oscar-winning musician Tan Dun serves as artistic director and original music composer, joining hands with Mei Shuaiyuan, planner of "Impression・Liu Sanjie," Zen consultant Yi Zhongtian, Abbot of Shaolin Temple Shi Yongxin, and dance choreographer Huang Doudou, a luxurious lineup that creates quality.
- 【Five Chapters, Myriad Zen Meanings】The five movements of "Water Music," "Wood Music," "Wind Music," "Light Music," and "Stone Music" encompass monastic and secular dialogues, martial monks' growth, Zen martial arts mountains, pagoda forest Zen enlightenment, and stone music praise, fully demonstrating the cultural connotations of Zen Buddhism.
- 【Diverse Arts, Integrated Bloom】Music, martial arts, dance, and light and shadow intertwine, 88 zithers are played passionately, 600 people perform Zen martial arts, monks chant, and the four seasons change, creating a visual and auditory feast.
- 【Revamped Stage Design, Brilliant Lighting】Thousands of lighting equipment are integrated with mountains and rivers, carefully tuned to create a more dreamlike and shocking visual scene.
- 【New Look for Actors, Injecting Vitality】A large number of young actors have joined, using their superb skills and full enthusiasm to give the performance a new vitality.
- 【Zen Martial Arts Exploration, Cultural Inheritance】Deeply explore Zen and Shaolin Kung Fu resources, integrating natural Zen music to showcase the culture, martial arts, and landscape of the Central Plains, inheriting and innovating Shaolin Zen martial arts culture.
What to expect
- "Zen Shaolin: Music Ritual" performance is arranged according to the musical structure, divided into five movements: "Water Music", "Wood Music", "Wind Music", "Light Music", and "Stone Music".
- "Water Music: Zen Realm" depicts the beautiful Zen imagery of the classic Chinese landscape painting "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams". Starting with water, we meditate with the monks: village girls come from Tang poems, the Bodhi tree chants, the empty mountains are noisy after the rain, the dialogue between monks and laity, everything is transformed 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 turned it into music. The polyphonic wooden fish performance tells the story of the growth of Shaolin monks: the naughty teenager, the strong youth, the cultivated old age... The legendary shepherdess comes with her flock, and the song breaks the Zen meditation of the wooden fish, bringing the beauty of the world to this pure Buddhist land. Zen, therefore, has a secular explanation.
- "Wind Music: Zen Martial Arts" begins with "Bodhidharma Facing the Wall", telling the inheritance of a thousand-year-old style. The Shaolin martial arts, interpreted in a new way - wind chimes, wind fists, wind sticks, and wind flags - set off the mountains and forests. In an instant, we realize the great beauty of the world. This is a display of martial arts and a picture scroll of mountains and rivers.
- "Light Music: Zen Enlightenment" is the gorgeous movement of the performance. Snow-covered landscapes and cold forests, pagoda shadows in the Buddha's light, and long-gone eminent monks appear in illusions, telling us Zen stories. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the seasons cycle in the music, and the monks on the plum blossom piles seem to break through the limitations of life, stretch upward, transform into spirits of heaven and earth, and fly into eternity.
- "Stone Music: Zen Ode" is the chant of the performance, playing the grand realm of "cultivating Zen in the mountains, and stubborn stones speaking". At the end of the performance, the Buddha's light shines everywhere, and the world is peaceful. This is Zen's chanting of nature, its love for life, and its praise for all things in the world.
- "Zen Shaolin: Music Ritual" takes the natural landscape of Mount Song as its natural stage, the cultural connotation of Shaolin and Zen as its foundation, and music, dance, martial arts, and lighting as its carriers for a large-scale live performance. The live performance site is located in the Songshan Canyon. The 180-degree panoramic vision, the beautiful mountains and clear springs, and the looming ancient temples and Zen courtyards constitute the real background of the performance. The most fluid three-dimensional sound and the natural sounds such as the sound of water, wind, and insects on the scene constitute a panoramic three-dimensional sound field. Combined with the grand art lighting project, the Central Mountain, which has been sleeping for thousands of years, shines again, reflecting the world. Grand momentum, grand lineup, grand atmosphere, very shocking and soul-washing.
- "Zen Shaolin: Music Ritual" was jointly created by Mei Shuaiyuan, the founder of Chinese landscape live performances, Tan Dun, an internationally renowned musician, Yi Zhongtian, a famous scholar, Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin Temple, and Huang Doudou, a Chinese dance artist. Master Tan Dun has devoted himself to the excavation,整理与再创作of Zen music. After a long period of sketching in Mount Song, the holy mountain of culture, and multiple comprehensive contacts and wisdom collisions with the ancestral court of Zen, Shaolin Temple, he created this organic music known as "Buddhist Passion Music" by the world——"Zen Shaolin: Music Ritual", guiding us to re-recognize ourselves and return to our spiritual home. The performance you are about to see, because of its profound and broad connotation, its value far exceeds the scope of general performances. It takes Zen and Shaolin martial arts as carriers to display and interpret a broad and profound Chinese cultural realm.
- The 5-square-kilometer mountain live stage, the 20-meter-diameter artificial moon, the 1,400-meter-high Buddha laser image, the more than 2,800 stage lighting equipment extending to the top of the mountain, the all-round and three-dimensional sound equipment that fully meets the auditory needs of 3,000 audiences, and the somersaulting and fighting of martial arts actors in the 80-meter-high air are all features of the performance.
- "Zen Shaolin: Music Ritual" has been successively rated as "National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base", "China Creative City - City Cultural Card", "2008 China Creative Industry Advanced Unit", etc. In the national "Most Beautiful Five Live Performances" selection activity, it won the first place in online voting and is a masterpiece of Chinese live performances and a "new business card" for Henan cultural tourism. It is a must-see performance in Henan.
Zen Shaolin Music Ritual is a large-scale live performance set against the natural landscape of Song Mountain in central China, rooted in the cultural essence of Shaolin and Zen Buddhism, and expressed through music, dance, martial arts, and lighting.
The Zen Shaolin Grand Ceremony live performance is arranged according to the musical structure and divided into five movements: "Water Music," "Wood Music," "Wind Music," "Light Music," and "Stone Music."
"Aqua Zen" depicts the beautiful Zen spirit of the classic Chinese landscape painting "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams." Rising from the water, we meditate alongside the monks.
Village maidens and washerwomen seem to have stepped out of Tang Dynasty poems; the Bodhi tree chants, the empty mountains bustle after the rain, the conversations between monks and laypeople – all transform into a cool, Zen-like feeling in the sound of t
"Feng Yue: Chan Wu" begins with "Bodhidharma Facing the Wall," recounting the heritage of a thousand-year-old tradition, and presenting Shaolin Kung Fu in a completely new way.
As the night deepens, every gesture exudes Zen, perfectly blending the strength of Shaolin with the ethereal quality of Zen, leading us into a spiritual journey.
Wind chimes, wind fists, wind cudgels, wind flags, stirring up mountain forests and waves. In that instant, we perceive the great beauty of nature, a display of martial arts and a panorama of mountains and rivers.
The sound of the zither seems to flow from a Zen realm, intertwined with the surrounding light and shadow, mist, as if breathing in harmony with the heavens and earth. In this moment, time stands still. Amidst the sights and sounds, we explore the profoun
"Mu Le · Chan Ding": A thousand-year-old temple, the sound of wooden fish echoes. Legend has it that a shepherdess came driving her flock, her songs breaking the Zen tranquility of the wooden fish, bringing the beauty of the human world to this sacred Bud
In the interplay of light and shadow, she is a vibrant touch of earthly life, sketching a simple yet touching scene within the Zen world of Shaolin. Accompanied by her affectionate lamb, she leaps with agility, revealing the vitality of nature.
As the performance draws to a close, the Buddha's light shines universally, bringing peace and serenity to the world. This is Zen's ode to nature, its love for life, and its praise for all things in the universe.
"Zen Shaolin: Music Ceremony" Performance Seating Chart
Good to know
- 【Address】Daixiangou, 10 kilometers from Shaolin Street, Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province (Zen Shaolin Grand Music Ceremony)
- 【Show Time】20:15-21:20 (Subject to actual performance time)
- 【Show Duration】Approximately 65 minutes (Subject to actual performance duration)
- 【How to Enter】Enter the park by scanning the QR code sent by Klook
- 【Cancellation Policy】Ticket information cannot be changed after placing an order. Cancellations are allowed 24 hours before the activity starts (only full order cancellations are supported, partial cancellations are not supported)
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