In China, New Year's eve or Chuxi every year is the time when all the members of the family gather and enjoy a reunion dinner while watching CCTV New Year's Gala together. This year, a special recital gala was sponsored by Zhejiang Library and also contributed by public libraries at all levels in the province. On January 30, this recital gala was simulcasted on China Blue TV App and Zhejiang Library’s official platform on Bilibili App, which attracted more than three million online viewers.

Combined with musical works describing the local characteristics, this recital gala showed the charm of classical literature and local culture to the residents in the province and celebrated the New Year at the same time.

Full of the elements of Chinese New Year and reading, all those performances provided audiences with a feast of folk culture. They could listen to the folk music from Ningbo, experience the fishing life in Huzhou and also enjoy the county gala in Lishui.

I’m a Boat, by Jiaxing Library

Ditty Madengdiao from Ningbo Library

Fishing and Farming Life in Lake Tai from Huzhou Library

Songs at Mirror Lake from Shaoxing Library

Gala in County from Lishui Library

Since Chinese New Year is the most important festival for every Chinese people and also an essential symbol of Chinese folk culture, we hope this recital gala could provide the wanderers a feeling of "wherever my heart has settled down, there is my hometown."

Wherever my heart has settled down, there is my hometown by Zhejiang Library