The night of the Jinji Lake has been “awakened” by the music, and more than one hundred people are gathering around a stage where many kinds of arts including ballet, symphony, street dance, Kun Opera present themselves one by one with their respective melodies touching your heart. This assorted arts show named “Encounter A Young Suzhou”held at Jinji Lake scenic area will surely make this June a special one! 

Street dancing: With a rock-and-roll playing, six energetic young men take to the stage to demonstrate their dazzling skills in Breaking.

Kun Opera: As a world’s intangible cultural heritage, Kun Opera performing has added much tradition to the activity. The famous scene “Amazing Dream” adapted from the ancient playbook “The Peony Pavilion”is the most representative of Kun Opera frequently displayed on the stage to show the gentleness and elegance of art.

Ballet: The dancers from Suzhou Ballet Theatre under New Era Group strut the stage on their tiptoes, and their performance entitled “Watertown in Drizzle”will set off your imagination for a romantic“Paradise”.

Symphony: The performers from Suzhou Symphony Orchestra have brought concert hall-confined lofty art outbound accessible to more people. Flute, violin, clarinet collaborate to produce grand tone.   

When music rises, the lights of “The Gate of the Orient”begin to shine against the dark night. Music and light go their own different ways to feast our ears and eyes respectively. What a dynamic culture to enjoy amid night outing!

June 21st  18:45-19:15  Xinghai Square

June 28st  18:45-19:15  Central Park Square

July 5th   18:45-19:15  Suzhou Center Square

The activities are postponed for raining days.

On the 25th day of June which is China’s traditional Dragon Boat Festival, Moon Harbour of Jinji Lake will witness an annual dragon boat regatta,the eleventh time that it has been held in SIP.

This year, we have 1168 participants divided into 56 teams to take part, who will attend the following three boat races respectively:

1. Men’s Team 300m  ( 12 men in a smaller boat): 29 teams

2. Women’s Team 300m (12 women in a smaller boat): 14 teams

3. Mixed Team 300m (total 22 members in a larger boat): 13 teams

Among the teams, six are composed of expatriates now living in Suzhou or Jiangsu Province who are from more than fifteen countries including France, Germany, Russia and Brazil. They all have good health code in their mobile phones. Because of the pandemic of COVID-19, the organizing committee have worked out a response scheme, to be specific, they will scale down the event and encourage audiences to watch the game online.   

At present, under the unified planning of the organizing committee, all teams are busy taking intensive training guided by coaches including the training on using proper safety equipment to protect themselves.  

Before the event was officially announced, the so-called “white ladies” team with its members coming from worldwide has already attracted broad attention. Symbolic of the friendship between China and the outside world, “white ladies” team take an earlier step than most others in preparing for this event. Regardless of differences in skin, language, culture, etc.among team members, they have same ardent love and enthusiasm for dragon boat racing. Will this team stand out from its peers? We will sit back and see. 

Other teams participating in the training include men team and women team from“Etron”, Drag-Me on The Boat, “Candy Zicai” dragon boat racing team,  “Candy Haitai” dragon boat racing team, ULVAC team, to name just a few. They will all go all out for the competition, thus, the dragon boat racing of this year is so much to be expected!

Authored by Converging Media Center of SIP, “Jinji Lake in Bloom”  compilation team