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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

7 MARCH 2008: JIUZHAIGOU (Evening)

The evening event of the day was a Tibetan/Qiang Cultural Show in a theatre of a hotel, a packaged deal together with the previous evening 's Tibetan Hospitality Programme.

It was a colorful show full of Tibetan and Qiang traditional costumes, songs (both traditional and current pop and folk music) & dancing and acrobatic shows.
One of the singers, she was designated as the "bride" for the audience event.
What colourful costumes!
There was an event where audience was selected to take part in a one-to-one tug of war. One of the American from our group was selected to take part and by sheer size and strength, he won the contest with the other 3 participants all Chinese nationals. He was over 60 years old and it was quite a demanding task trying to outdo much younger persons. He was also picked to perform during the 1st night's event where he told a "dirty" joke in English, translated by his lady friend, about an old lady having a Marilyn Monroe-moment when the wind blew whereby the old lady chose to hang on to her hat instead of her skirt! I had heard this one somewhere before but it was still as funny.
The eventual winner - a.k.a. the bridegroom.
The lovely "Bride" and her "Man".
For this tug-of-war event, his "prize" was much bigger! He was to "go through" a Tibetan wedding ceremony being the bridegroom and his bride was a lovely lady chosen from the performers of the show. He was dragged backstage to be dressed in traditional Tibetan clothing and head wear. Eventually he had to bring home his "bride" by piggybacking her. Everyone had a good laugh! He was such a sport, really!
"Bridegroom" and his "Prize".
During the wedding ceremony.
The finale!

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