The sound of folk music is written in Jiangnan. On the evening of October 29, the 2022 Zijin Culture and Art Festival kicked off with the grand and beautiful national orchestra "Great Jiangnan" appearing in the "cloud".

"The south of the Yangtze River is good, and the scenery is old. Who doesn't remember the south of the Yangtze River?" In the evening, folk music was flying in the live broadcast rooms on various platforms, with sections of passionate or lyrical Chinese melodies, blending Kunqu Opera, Pingtan and other Jiangsu opera elements. The performance was jointly performed by more than 110 performers from the Provincial Performing Arts Group National Orchestra, Nanjing National Orchestra, Suzhou National Orchestra and Wuxi National Orchestra, demonstrating the overall strength of Jiangsu folk music.

The national orchestra Great South of the Yangtze River was composed by the composer Wang Danhong, the conductor Tang Muhai, the erhu player Deng Jiandong, and the Kunqu opera performing artist Shi Xiaming. It is divided into five movements: Thousand Rivers of Water Moon, Plum Rain Sunny Time, Hometown of Water Color, Blooming Flowers, and Remembering South of the Yangtze River. Among them, Qianjiang Shuiyue plays a zither on the flowing water, telling about the bright and continuous civilization of the Yangtze River; When the Plum Rain is Sunny, the sound of bamboo flute shows the vitality and praises the beauty of labor and struggle pursued by children in the south of the Yangtze River; The Water Color Hometown tells of homesickness with erhu, which is full of poetic feelings, stirring people's sense of gain, happiness and belonging; In the Blooming Age of Flowers, the melody of Jasmine Flowers is flying, and the pipa is dancing with a new sound, which outlines a picture of Jiangnan in a new era. The leisurely Kunqiang Opera adapted from Bai Juyi's famous poem "Remembering the South of the Yangtze River" has become the finishing touch, and a prosperous and future oriented Jiangnan leaps onto the stage.

Zijin Culture and Art Festival is a platform for displaying Jiangsu's literary and artistic strength and image, exchanging excellent literary and artistic achievements, and sharing the spiritual and cultural life of the people. The 2022 Zijin Culture and Art Festival is co sponsored by the Provincial Propaganda Department, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Adhering to the purpose of "art festival and people's festival", the festival is composed of stage art performance, art works exhibition, "youth of art movement" Jiangsu outstanding young art talents exhibition, college students' drama exhibition, Zijin small theater repertoire exhibition, art film exhibition, "enjoying purple art" series of activities, mass cultural activities, etc., covering nearly 100 activities in various categories, such as drama, music, dance, calligraphy, art, photography, etc.

Focusing on the study, publicity and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the festival carries out performances, exhibitions, exchanges, discussions and other activities with rich connotation and various forms. In addition to the stage art performance, the joint exhibition of "Ode to the New Era" art photography theme fully demonstrates the progress of China in the new era and the beauty of Jiangsu in the past ten years in the form of Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, photography and other art forms. The festival also continues to innovate. Following the launch of small theater performances last year, the 2022 Jiangsu Talk Show Conference was held this year. With the theme of "Our Better Times", about 50 outstanding works were selected for performance, vigorously promoting the new trend of the times, condensing and leading young audiences.

In order to benefit more people, the festival continues to tilt to the grass-roots level, setting up branch venues in Nantong, Huai'an, Yangzhou and other places. Build the "Cloud Art Festival" platform, set up special columns for the art festival on the "Learning Powerful" Jiangsu learning platform, Xinhua Daily, Intersection News, Litchi News, etc., create the never ending "Cloud Art Festival", and let the whole people share the achievements of literary and artistic prosperity and development through the cultural matrix of multi space, multimedia and various art forms.