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A performer interacts with the audience at Beijing's Happy Valley in a file photo. [File Photo: Xinhuanet.com] |
'A mooncake for Mid-Autumn Fest.' Repeat. Find the rhythm? Can it be more rhythmic? Find the answer this weekend from rappers at Beijing's Happy Valley.
The amusement park will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with China's first ever hip-hop music carnival, park authorities announced Tuesday.
With the traditional mooncake-eating festival falling on a Sunday, Chinese people will get Monday off for an extended three-day weekend. The bonus day comes after the Mid-Autumn Festival was for the first time named as a national holiday.
A line-up of hip-hop artists will join the celebrations. Headliners are local band Yintsang, Chinese-American singer Jeffrey Kung and his band, as well as street-dance group Zoo Nation, who led an eight-minute showcase of London culture at the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony.
Graffiti, the 'bling-bling' outfit fashion, and other elements of hip-hop culture, will also be highlighted at the event.
(CRI September 9, 2008)