Chapter 20: A Big Show
Afternoon, 20 December 2003.
Times Square, New York City.
Because it's Christmas just around the corner, Times Square is noticeably a little more crowded than usual, and there has been snowflakes since last night, and it hasn't been raining much, but there is a bit of a Christmas atmosphere.
At a certain moment, four girls suddenly appeared, walking from four directions to the center of Times Square. And from the moment they appeared, their strange costumes and shapes immediately attracted the attention of almost all the pedestrians around them.
The men and women around were almost all trench coats, furs and down jackets, but these four girls were all wearing very thin, strange and beautiful clothes.
They each carried a very strange thing in their arms, which looked like a musical instrument, a kind of harp.
They, their clothes, their shapes, and the instruments in their arms, are simply full of charming exotic colors.
So, as they walked towards the center of Times Square with a smile on their faces, many pedestrians stopped one after another, looked at them, and some were still whispering, "Japanese, Chinese, Korean?"
Living in New York, one of the world's most famous modern metropolises, almost everyone is qualified to say that they are well-informed, so when they see such a strange costume in the winter, they do not heckle or follow, they think it is a performance art performance.
At this time, some people noticed, but many more people did not notice at all, from all directions of Times Square, at least one or two dozen video equipment poured in, following the shooting.
Several large outdoor screens in Times Square have also stopped broadcasting commercials, and have begun to play bright landscape paintings - it is impossible for anyone with such a strong memory, but if there is, they will find that this is one of the official promotional films of the Chinese side before the opening of last year's World Cup in China.
Its director is Li Qian.
The entire Times Square, at the same time may have thousands of people walking outdoors, suddenly dozens more people, not enough to attract large-scale attention, but at this time, there are still a lot of Chinese in Times Square, they almost recognize the four girls who are walking towards the center of Times Square at first glance, as their compatriots.
Their sleeves are fluttering, and their looks are extremely beautiful.
This kind of classical beauty is not homogeneous in any country or nation in the world except China.
Suddenly, someone shouted in Chinese, "It's Feitian, the Feitian of Dunhuang!" I remember this shape! They should be holding a pipa! Our Chinese pipa!"
Just when the four girls had not yet reached the center of the square, suddenly, in all directions of Times Square, more girls suddenly began to pour out at once.
They are all oriental faces, and their bodies are extremely beautiful, wearing a kind of oriental silk fabric with strange shapes, and the tailoring fit greatly sets off the beauty of the woman's figure.
And on the clothes, there seem to be some specially drawn patterns, including landscapes, flowers and birds.
This time, even the Chinese don't know each other.
Because of this style of clothing, there are only a few stores in China at present, and the price is high, although it has been sold for a year or two, the number of people who have seen them is still pitiful.
This style of clothing was named "cheongsam" by Li Qian.
And at such a time, in Times Square in New York before Christmas, I suddenly saw such a beautiful group of oriental women, wearing such clothes, and at that moment, countless people were stunned on the street.
They are so breathtakingly beautiful!
At this time, almost all the people in the entire Times Square have been alarmed.
And suddenly, there was music.
It seemed that all the speakers around Times Square were playing the same music — a unique but beautiful instrument that was almost unforgettable.
Large beads and small beads fall on the jade plate.
When the crowd collectively stopped and looked at the strange people around them and in front of them, then some people would find that at some point, there were already people in the square who had set up various strange musical instruments, and many people in robes were playing at this time.
At this time, four women wearing voxel white silk cheongsams walked up to a middle-aged man dressed in a fashionable fashion and wearing a hat, behind whom was a paint shelf erected, and he held a brush in his hand.
It was on the plain white cheongsam that he began to paint.
Countless people were amazed.
However, the color was stained, and the plain white cheongsam seemed to give birth to a soul in an instant.
The bizarre depiction instantly made the entire plain white cheongsam begin to be smart and elegant.
At this time, about thirty or forty women wearing various cheongsams have gathered in Times Square, and the four flying women holding pipas who originally walked to the center of the square have successfully converged, and they are standing in the center of Times Square at this moment, standing in the center of a group of cheongsam women who are constantly moving around, each facing one side, making various styling changes - each one is so beautiful that it is moving!
At this time, there was another singing.
Accompanied by the music of several classical instruments from China, there was a female voice who sang slowly in a not-so-standard accent, "What a beautiful jasmine, what a beautiful jasmine, fragrant and beautiful, fragrant and white people praise ......"
Hearing this "Jasmine", although with a strong Westerner-speaking Chinese accent, there are not too many Chinese in Times Square at this moment, and many people subconsciously cover their mouths.
Although the tune is unfamiliar, it is full of the charm of a Chinese tune, and the kindness of the local sound is enough to make people excited and uncontrollably want to shed tears.
At this moment, for the vast majority of Westerners and Americans in the square, even if they can't understand Chinese and can't understand the lyrics, in this situation, hearing such a melodious song, they feel like hearing the heavens, and they are instantly intoxicated.
Suddenly, a Western girl screamed and shouted, "It's Millie Fair!"
Within a local scope, many people heard this scream, and then countless people instantly turned their heads to look in the direction where the scream came from - it was really the little diva who has become popular in recent years, Millie Fair!
I don't know how many people are her fans and fans at the scene, but at this time, everyone who saw her could feel that she sang so emotionally and attentively - and her cheongsam style made Millie Phil, who was already known as "the pinnacle of American music", look even more glamorous.
At this time, the pedestrians who were lucky enough to bring their cameras, the photographers who had been contacted in advance, and the professional reporters of several major newspapers, began to aim at Millie Phil and took pictures with clicks!
It was at this time that among the pedestrians who had been staring at the Chinese who was painting on the cheongsam, suddenly someone's eyes widened, staring at the painter's face for a long time, and then his voice trembled and said: "It's Cao, the Chinese Cao, the bass player of the four beauties...... Oh my God, is that you?
No one answered, and Cao Zhan was concentrating on painting.
In fact, in addition to one camera and two cameras, there were at least three or four plainclothes guards standing covertly around Cao Zhan - there were at least a hundred such plainclothes guards in the entire Times Square at this moment. Once they find out that something is wrong, their task is to stand up and stop or even subdue those fanatical spectators as soon as possible.
After all, with Millie Phil and Cao Zhan, this is no longer a simple street show.
Fortunately, although many people were excited, no one rushed over recklessly.
In Europe and the United States, where we are accustomed to street art, almost everyone understands that this is a performance.
So, no one interrupted.
And just then, when Millie Fell finished her first song, she smiled and waved to the fans in the crowd who were shouting her name, while turning back to point in the other direction of Times Square.
In the accompaniment of strange oriental music, suddenly another female voice sounded like a heavenly sound—
"What a beautiful jasmine, what a beautiful jasmine, fragrant and beautiful, fragrant and white people praise ......"
At this time, on the other side of Times Square, there was also a woman in a cheongsam, singing while walking towards the center of the square.
Her voice is a standard Chinese pronunciation, and her singing voice is ethereal and clear, which brings the first hearing to the vast majority of people in the square at this moment, which is simply the level of complete intoxication!
actually steadily overpowered Millie Phil, the little diva who appeared in front of her and had a huge influence in Europe and the United States!
Although the vast majority of people at the scene didn't recognize this face at all, this voice alone was enough to shock them collectively at the first time.
However, at this time, there were actually a few Chinese in the square, but many people immediately recognized the owner of this voice as soon as they opened their voices——
Zhou Yan!
Even if you listen to it all over the world, her unique voice will make people absolutely unforgettable!
Ethereal and decadent!
There is a strange beauty that cannot be explained.
And at this moment, when those Chinese bravely squeezed out of the crowd and saw Zhou Yan wearing a cheongsam walking towards the square, they couldn't help but bite their lips excitedly.
When she was wearing a cheongsam, Zhou Yan, although she was still expressionless, was so beautiful!
Far more beautiful than any of her past concerts, any gala, and the cover of any album - so beautiful that she no longer seems to be human.
At 3:10 p.m., New York's Times Square stopped bustling and commotion.
The crowd automatically retreated and tightened the space, making a large open space for the art performances that suddenly appeared in the square, and the models wearing cheongsams were walking around, showing their clothes, and also showing the beautiful and beautiful figure of the oriental woman, and the four flying women were still constantly changing their posture and shape, showing the extreme beauty of Chinese women more than 1,000 years ago in the Dunhuang murals.
The wind ruffled their flowing sleeves, and flakes of crystal clear snow slowly fell down.
Cao Zhan, an outstanding bassist from the Four Beauty Bands, is still painting intoxicated, and the four models wearing plain white cheongsams in front of him will be painted with plum orchids and bamboo chrysanthemums in turn in ten minutes.
Several musicians in moon-white oriental robes are playing a variety of strange oriental instruments, which are played together with all the sound equipment in Times Square through radio and amplification equipment.
Millie Phil and Zhou Yan, who each have a very high reputation in the East and the West, and their own sound quality and singing skills have also reached a certain level, use their different tones to interpret a beautiful oriental ballad.
Such a scene, such a street performance, is so beautiful that it is breathtaking.
And as many as dozens of cameras, and a few more cameras, all the beauty that happened in this square at this moment is captured.
Tonight, its clips will be broadcast on three of the nation's largest television networks, and its photos and reports will appear in some of the nation's best-selling newspapers tonight and tomorrow morning.
You will see the wonderful picture of this moment, you will hear the beautiful music of this moment, and you will know that the people who have performed in Times Square in New York will be almost everyone in North America and the world.
The singing stopped, and Millie Fell and Zhou Yan gathered in the middle of the square.
But the music did not stop, nor did Cao Zhan's paintings, the musicians' performances, and the display of the models.
The music began to shift from melodious and cheerful to a faint sadness and sorrow, but it was still bright.
Another oriental woman wearing a cheongsam walked out of the crowd on the other side of the square, her face was also so delicate and beautiful, her cheongsam was painted with similar decorative patterns on Peking Opera costumes that were different from others, and her voice was very different from the beauty and beauty of Millie Feier and Zhou Yan, the two divas -
"But it turned out that it was all over the place, and it seemed like this to be paid in a broken well and a ruined ......"
Not to mention foreigners, even Chinese can directly listen to stupidity at this time.
As a treasure of ancient Chinese art, Kunqu Opera has become less popular and popular in recent centuries, so even in China, not too many people are familiar with its tunes and singing.
But the beauty of her singing voice, her graceful beauty, there is no need to question it.
As a Tsing Yi actor in Peking Opera, Cheng Suping has been studying opera since she was a child, and Kunqu Opera is one of the basic skills.
Babbling, babbling, rhyme.
The tactful and delicate beauty of Kunqu Opera was sung by Cheng Suhua to ten percent at this moment!
The entire Times Square in New York fell into complete silence.
Only Cheng Su's intoxicating and unique singing voice remains.
For more than ten minutes, "Garden Dream" was still singing, Cao Zhan's four screens were finally finished, he straightened up, looked at it, and nodded at the four models.
The four models turned and walked towards the center of the square.
Many pedestrians and spectators who have been paying attention to the painting process here since just now were amazed to see the pictures of the four models full of the mysterious beauty of the Orient.
Plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum.
Those who don't understand Chinese culture may not understand anything, and they can't figure out what kind of Eastern philosophy is behind these four pictures, and what kind of meaning they have in Chinese culture, but the simplest and most exposed beauty is something that everyone can understand—even if they are expressed, they are often just simple lines.
A typical Chinese artistic expression.
After another two minutes, the small fold of "Garden Dream" was closed, Cheng Suhua smiled, nodded slowly at the audience in front of him, and bowed slightly.
The instrument slowly stops.
Someone subconsciously wanted to applaud, but before the applause could start, many large screens on all sides of Times Square lowered their huge frames almost at the same time, and they wrote in English-
"Merry Christmas!"
After gasping, the applause and whistles in the entire Times Square quickly rang out.
and for up to a few minutes.
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