Impression Wulong Real Scene Show

Chinese Name: 印象武隆 (Yin Xiang Wu Long)
Location: Taoyuan Grand Canyon, Wulong District, Chongqing
Ticket: CNY238.00 to CNY888.00
Estimated tour time: 1-2 hours
Recommended time to visit: Mar to Oct. 
Nearby attractions: The Three Natural Bridges, Xiannu Mountain National Forest Park, Furong Cave, etc. 

"Impression · Wulong", the real scene show in the Peach Garden Canyon in Wulong, Chongqing involving more than 100 performers and having the famous Chinese film director Mr. Zhang Yimou as the art adviser and director. They perform real songs, with the disappearing "haozi song" as its main content(a kind of working song sung to synchronize movements, with one person leading), let the audience experience the magnificent natural landscape of the natural heritage site of Wulong and the unique customs of Bashu land in the 70 minute performance.

About 9km away from Xiannvshan Town, the Peach Garden Canyon is a U-shaped canyon with a depth of nearly 188m, where there are unusually majestic mountains and ravines. The selection of the site for the show is out of consideration for ecological protection and for providing a superb space for performance. On space design, the theatre has a stage stretching into the stand to allow for zero distance between the performers and the audience. A 288m-long man-made tunnel runs underground to the theatre from the outside of the canyon, dug to give the audience an unusual impression of the “heavenly pit and earth crack”, so that the awaiting and unknowing audience, while walking inside, feel as if passing through a time tunnel, and all of a sudden are astounded to find a wholly different landscape.

Directed by Chinese famous director Zhang yimou( To Live, Hero etc movies) , FanYue , Wang Chaoge . take the endangered "Haozi "( Chant of boat trackers ) as main content. the audience will experience the splendous nature and ancient culture of Ba and Shu Kingdom.

Impression Wulong revolves around Chuanjiang Haozi (work songs of boat trackers in Chongqing). Besides, the live-action show is on the verge of disappearing. This real-scene show features local haozi, a kind of work songs sung to synchronize movement, which is on the verge of extinction.

Lasting 70 minutes, it exposes the audience to local customs, love stories, and traditional work and life scenes peculiar to Sichuan, including the stirring Chuanjiang (Sichuan River, the upper section of Yangtze River from Yibin to Yichang) haozi, gracefully sad wedding melodies, and huagan, sedan chairs borne by two bamboo poles used in Sichuan Province.

Meanwhile, it will encourage the audience to reflect on why it will disappear and how we can inherit it. Moreover, the live-action show reveals the tolerance, tenacity, endeavors, solidarity, and cooperation of the people in Sichuan and Chongqing. In the meantime, it seeks to live on with an indomitable and optimistic spirit. Since premiering, Impression Wulong has won wide acknowledgment from the grand public.