4 October 2015
On 26 September, delegated by the National Hanban, the Chinese Cultural Exchange Tour Show Group formed by teachers and students of the Chinese Traditional Opera College of our Academy staged an exchange performance at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The performance was organized by the Scottish Confucius Institute for Business and Communication The performance packed that night, and the atmosphere was very warm. The Chinese Consul General in Edinburgh Pan Xinchun and all Consulate staff attended to watch the performance. Consul General Pan delivered a passionate speech on stage before the show. He also invited the tour group to visit the Consulate at the Moon Festival night to enjoy and celebrate the festival together with the Consulate staff.
At the performance night, the foreign director of the Scottish Confucius Institute for Business and Communication in Heriot-Watt University presented the university’s coat of arms of the university to our tour show group and we reciprocated with the video of the performance.
During the party, the teachers and students of the Chinese Traditional Opera performed the full enthusiasm a number of Peking Opera and Kun Opera fragments as well as a number of instrumental ensembles. Their superb artistry and cheerful music inspired the warm applause from the British and Chinese audience once and again.
Heriot-Watt University is a famous university founded to commemorate Jiemusi Wate, the famous industrial pioneer in the history of mankind who invented the steam engine of the famous industrial pioneer. The university focuses on the advanced cultural knowledge base, with "enlightened, professional, scientific and technical education" as its educational philosophy, and has trained a large number of professional talents for the United Kingdom. The university has five campuses. The largest and main campus is the one our tour show group visited, which is located in the western suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland. There are also two overseas campuses, one in Dubai and one in Malaysia.
