Taizhou's head-turning float features the shape of a giant Jingjiang crab-roe soup dumpling. [Photo/WeChat account: gh_2ce7c52a22da]
The opening ceremony of the 36th Shanghai Tourism Festival Float Parade was staged with gusto in Shanghai on the evening of Sept 13, with 25 elaborately crafted floats and 24 performance teams from 15 countries and regions igniting the night in a blaze of light and color.
A charming Taizhou-themed float, created by Jingjiang, a county-level city administered by Taizhou in East China's Jiangsu province, attracted the audience with its quirky shape of a giant Jingjiang crab roe soup dumpling.
A total of 25 floats with different shapes and 24 performance teams from 15 countries and regions light up the evening in Shanghai. [Photo/WeChat account: gh_2ce7c52a22da]
Jingjiang's performers also staged Farewell My Concubine, one of the most popular pieces by Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, to salute this artist whose ancestral home was in Taizhou.
The float participation was seen as an important promotion of Taizhou's cultural and tourism industry, in its bid to connect with Shanghai and integrate into the Yangtze River Delta.
