"Spring, River, and Flowers on Moonlit Night"

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Title (English): "Spring, River, and Flowers on Moonlit Night"
Title (Chinese): 《春江花月夜》
Title (Romanization): "Chun jiang hua yue ye"
Description: In 1962, the Beijing Dance School created the solo "Spring, River, and Flowers on a Moonlit Night," which represented China at the World Federation of Youth and Students dance festival in Budapest that year. Here, we see Chen Ailian (陈爱莲 b. 1939) performign this work. She won an award for this piece, making it one of the most canonical Chinese classical dance solos of all time.
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Date: 1962
Performers (Romanized name): Chen, Ailian
Performers (Chinese name): 陈爱莲
Company/School (Romanized name): Beijing Dance School
Company/School (Chinese name): 北京舞蹈学校
Dance Style: Chinese Classical
Subjects: Chen ,Ailian; World Federation of Youth and Students
Object Material: Black & white photograph
Contributing Artist: Chen, Ailian, 1939-
Image Filename: CA00036
Collection Title: Pioneers of Chinese Dance

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Collection: Pioneers of Chinese Dance
Image Size: 1120 x 880
File Size: 76 KB
Record: CA00036
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dance1ic/x-ca00036/ca00036

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Full citation: ""Spring, River, and Flowers on Moonlit Night"." In the digital collection Pioneers of Chinese Dance. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dance1ic/x-ca00036/ca00036. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2025.