w88 casino News (provided by the library)On April 23, as an important part of the 2026 International w88 casino Reading Month activities, the fourth "Cultural Travel Season" series of activities on the Ancient Tea Horse Road - the "Sounds of Nature on the Silk Road" special concert was held in the Qiusuo Lecture Hall. This event was hosted by the Party Committee Propaganda Department and Library of the w88 casino, and co-organized by the w88 casino of Continuing Education and the w88 casino of Foreign Languages. More than 100 teachers, students and alumni of w88 casino came to listen. The music filled the lecture hall and there was a wave of applause.
At the beginning of the event, Zhang Xiaofeng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of w88 casino, delivered a speech. Zhang Xiaofeng emphasized that universities are cultural highlands and palaces of knowledge, and their cultural background is the most distinctive feature that distinguishes universities from any organization in society. The University of International w88 attaches great importance to cultivating students' reading habits, continues to hold the University of International w88 Reading Month, creates a "Cultural Time Travel Season" brand, deeply implements Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, deeply practices the "Regulations on the Promotion of National Reading", and actively serves the "One Belt, One Road" initiative. He pointed out that all teachers and students in the w88 casino should build a solid foundation of faith in loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading, improve their critical thinking ability, and achieve self-transcendence; use music as a link to strengthen cultural confidence and enhance cultural communication.
The day of the event coincided with World Book Day, and the 2025 "Reading Master", "Library Master" and "Recommended Star" award ceremony was held on site, which fully demonstrated the humanistic qualities and reading enthusiasm of the faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates of the University of w88 and Economics.
Young cucurbit performer Zhang He, executive director of the Hulusi Bawu Professional Committee of the China National Orchestra Society and winner of the gold medal in three consecutive national Hulusi Competitions, was invited to perform on the stage with Mao teachers and students, looking back at the Ancient Tea Horse Road with thousand-year-old ancient music, and connecting civilizations with the sound of silk and bamboo. Hulusi, as a national intangible cultural heritage, is known as the "Oriental Saxophone". Its soft and silky tone flows quietly in the lecture hall, immersing the teachers and students present in the natural sounds of the ancient w88 road.
"Ancient Songs", "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight", "Deep Bamboo Forest" and other classic songs combine national charm with modern aesthetic expression, winning bursts of applause from the audience.
The warm and touching "New Sounds of Ancient Roads" section was specially set up in the middle of the concert. Two students, Wang Xueru from the w88 casino of Literature and International Communication and Liu Yanni from the w88 casino of Government, shared their personal experiences of teaching in Mengla, Yunnan, and told the stories of education along the Ancient Tea Horse Road.
Children Liu Zixi from the Art Training Center of w88 casino of Continuing Education sang "Under the Colorful Clouds" with childlike innocence and clarity, adding warm and bright colors to the scene. Six students from the w88 casino of Foreign Languages recited "Imaginations on the Silk Road" in Chinese, Persian, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, and Portuguese. They echoed the Silk Road as a bridge of languages and demonstrated the unique advantages of the multilingual resources of the "Belt and Road Initiative" of the University of International w88. Two teachers, Wang Xie and Deng Ao, directors of the Art Training Department of the College of Continuing Education, played "Dance Music of the Yi Nationality" with guzheng and pipa, and used plucked strings and rhymes to outline a moonlit night bonfire in the Yi village. The sound of the zither and the pipa sing in harmony, ups and downs, and exciting.
In the warm melody of the folk music ensemble "Horse Racing Variations", the concert reached its climax, with cucurbit flutes, guzheng and pipa playing in unison, and the audience burst into thunderous applause.
This concert uses cucurbit silk as a medium to connect the historical echoes of the Tea Horse Road with contemporary campus culture. It is not only an audio-visual feast, but also a vivid practice of cultural education. The w88 casino Library relies on the "Belt and Road" document collection and multilingual resources to continue to promote w88 casino-site cooperation and intangible cultural heritage into the campus, guiding young students to use music as a medium and books as a medium to build a solid sense of the Chinese nation's community in artistic experience, enhance cultural confidence and inheritance mission, and create a reading environment full of book atmosphere. (Written by: Ying Shuyan Reviewed by: Tang Xingquan）
