News

2008.0428

Shaanxi Students and NTNU Students Bounding Through Singing and Dancing

By Vickie Lo Assistant Coordinator Shaanxi Normal University (SNU) students tried to impress their counterparts at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) by their traditional Shaanxi dance and songs during the “Night of Shaanxi” show at the auditorium tonight. These 19 Shaanxi students’ show was echoed but none of them is arts or music related majors. Xu Wu (許武), a junior from SNU’s College of Chinese Literature, said that they spent more than a month for the preparation of the show, which was designed to bounding with NTNU counterparts. "Although we are not professional singers or dancers, we hope our show would have satisfied you tonight,” Xu said. To the audiences’ astonishment, Shaanxi students, in addition to their performances of traditional Shaanxi singing and dancing, they also sang Taiwanese pop songs. "Thanks to satellites,” said Wang Xiang (王翔), a senior from SNU’s College of News and Media.  “We also watch a lot of Taiwanese TV back at home through satellites so many hotshots in Taiwanese entertainment business are not strangers to us, such as Jay Chou (周杰倫) and Aska Yang (楊宗緯).” In return, a group of NTNU students presented their street dancing while National Experimental Chorus sang four songs in four different formats – Shaanxi, Taiwanese, Hakka and Taiwanese indigenous – during the show.  The chorus was invited to the show because NTNU President Gou Yih-shun (郭義雄) is also leading the group. The SNU delegates, led by SNU Vice President Zhang Jianxiang (張建祥), arrived in Taiwan on April 25.  Upon their arrivals, these SNU students have visited Taipei 101, Maokong Gondola and will visit Sun Moon Lake and Alishan.  They will leave Taiwan on May 3.