Chongqing - Are you still stressed out about your annual work performance report? Have you ever experienced a stroke of panic for your parents' constant nagging about finding yourself a girlfriend? Do you feel anxious about not traveling long distances without restrictions in the upcoming Spring Festival holiday due to the nationwide campaign of encouraging people to stay put for concerns of epidemic control and prevention?

Artists play the violin, erhu, and yangqin together.

Well, look no further away. Let me introduce you to a particularly motivating and soothing octet, Czardas in Horse Racing, an ingenious remix of an Italian rhapsody concert piece titled Czardas, and a classical Chinese ethnic song called Horse Racing. The remix portents opening a new chapter of mutual friendship between China and the West, just like how the "Belt and Road" initiative bridges the cultural and economic gaps and promotes people-to-people exchanges.

Artists play the violin, the cello, and the accordion for the Czardas part of the show.

The octet is performed using traditional Chinese musical instruments such as erhu, pipa, and yangqin, as well as western musical instruments like the violin, the cello, and the accordion, which as a whole is a metaphor referring to the "community with a shared future for mankind" that transcends geographic and language boundaries.

Czardas in Horse Racing is a revolutionary and creative piece that seeks to integrate famous Western and Chinese music works and combine audiovisual stimulates with adrenaline-filled storylines, which helps the audience fully immerse themselves in the plot and experience quasi-real life feelings throughout the show.

Artists playing traditional musical instruments (Right) invite their counterparts playing Western musical instruments (Left) to join the group.