4. Silk Road, Strewn with Flowers
Premiere: 1979
Gansu Opera and Dance Theater
The dance drama Silk Road, Strewn with Flowers, which portrays stories of an old painter and a kabuki, and their friendship with a Persian merchant, is based on the Silk Road and Dunhuang murals.
It eulogizes the long-standing friendship between China and the Western regions. The dance drama is honored as "the best dance drama in China", and "the Oriental Swan Lake".
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