Tianjin Students' Performance Welcomed in Sweden

Students from China's Tianjin Experiment Middle School Thursday gave wonderful performances on Chinese folk music and won a lot of warm applauses in a concert in Stockholm.

Chen Xuefei was at the concert and filed this report.

 
Chen Ling, Party Secretary of Tianjin Experiment Middle School explained why they came to Sweden and gave the performances.

Chen Ling said that the delegation¹ came to attend the opening ceremony of the first Confucius Classroom in Sweden in Bolan High School in Uppsala near Stockholm.

He said that after nine years of mutual² visits by students and teachers of the two schools, they decided³ to establish a Confucius Classroom here to meet the Swedish students' demand of learning Chinese language and culture.

To promote Chinese culture and art, the folk music troupe⁴ in Tianjin Experiment Middle School came together with the delegation to give a grand concert in Uppsala Tuesday night.

Two days later, they gave another performance in Stockholm at the invitation of the Nordic Confucius Institute in Stockholm and the Chinese Embassy in Sweden.

About 30 students played various kinds of folk musical instruments including erhu, guzheng, Sheng, Pipa, flute⁵ and drum.

They began with a folk ensemble⁶ prelude⁷, and then performed Guzheng, Sheng, Erhu, Yangqin and various dances including Mongolian dance, opera dance and group dance. The concert concluded with the ensemble of Tea-horse Road to express the mysterious landscape in southwestern China.

Greja was among the hundreds of audiences. She has just begun to study about China and the Chinese language. She said she enjoyed the performance very much.

"I like it, I think it was really interesting, and I like the clothes of the dancers."

Chinese education counselor⁸ Zhang Ning commented that the Chinese students not only study hard, they also have various recreational activities and art skills as these wonderful performances are good examples.

For CRI, this is Chen Xuefei reporting from Stockholm.

1 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

2 mutual   

adj.相互的，彼此的；共同的，共有的

参考例句：

• We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
• Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 troupe   

n.剧团，戏班；杂技团；马戏团

参考例句：

• The art troupe is always on the move in frontier guards.文工团常年在边防部队流动。
• The troupe produced a new play last night.剧团昨晚上演了一部新剧。

5 flute   

n.长笛；v.吹笛

参考例句：

• He took out his flute, and blew at it.他拿出笛子吹了起来。
• There is an extensive repertoire of music written for the flute.有很多供长笛演奏的曲目。

6 ensemble   

n.合奏(唱)组；全套服装；整体，总效果

参考例句：

• We should consider the buildings as an ensemble.我们应把那些建筑物视作一个整体。
• It is ensemble music for up to about ten players,with one player to a part.它是最多十人演奏的合奏音乐，每人担任一部分。

7 prelude   

n.序言，前兆，序曲

参考例句：

• The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
• The German invasion of Poland was a prelude to World War II.德国入侵波兰是第二次世界大战的序幕。

8 counselor   

n.顾问，法律顾问

参考例句：

• The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
• Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。