中新社柳州3月29日电 题：新西兰音乐人打“飞的”广西赶“歌圩” 用音乐解码跨文化共鸣

Written by Lin Xin

The festival craze of "Guangxi March 3" has attracted New Zealand's "post-90" Levi Patel (Chinese name "Lin Wai") to come to "fly" recently. Through an immersive trip to "March 3rd in Guangxi", he deeply experienced the charm of Guangxi folk songs, integrated Guangxi's landscape and humanities into his creation, and used music to build a bridge of cross-cultural communication.

On the 28th, there was a loud mountain song tune at the foot of Yufeng Mountain in Liuzhou - "Hey, hey, hey". Lin Wai sang mountain songs with local mountain song lovers, and although his Chinese was still a little jerky, he still won applause. "The interactive form of singing mountain songs is very special, which allows me to better understand Guangxi culture and feel the happy atmosphere of local people singing mountain songs."

Lin Wai, who taught himself Chinese because of his obsession with Chinese culture, is coming to China for the second time. In 10/0, he set foot in Liuzhou for the first time. "At that time, I thought that Chinese cities were only high-rise buildings and crowds." At that time, he only taught himself Chinese for a year to communicate with the locals. But he was unexpectedly attracted by the landscape, music and fireworks of Liuzhou. In the mountains and rivers of Guangxi, musical inspiration flows in his mind like the water of the willow river.

Lin also found that on Chinese social platforms, there are thousands of comments on his music works, and Chinese people share different stories through music. "Here, music becomes a shared container of emotion." He admits that this resonance drove him to write the single "Gravity" after returning home.

This time, Lin Wai also shared this original song on stage. He believes that in communicating with the Chinese people, he unexpectedly gained a lot of friendship and empathy, as expressed in the lyrics: "Two different stars are converging, influencing each other." ”

Lin Wai made a series of short videos about himself and Guangxi and released them on social media platforms, attracting the attention of Chinese and foreign fans. One of the videos looking for musical inspiration in Longtan Park in Liuzhou has accumulated more than one million views. Therefore, the New Zealand media invited Lin Wai to tell Chinese stories unknown to Westerners.

In Lin Wai's view, many Westerners don't understand China. Now that Chinese social media platforms are gaining popularity overseas, he hopes to use them to let more Westerners know about the charm and culture of different cities in China. "Many New Zealanders are interested in the Chinese stories I shared, and they saw me learning Chinese on my own, which helped them build their confidence in learning Chinese, and they want to travel to China in the future." Lin Wai said.

The trip to China also made Lin Wai fall in love with Liuzhou snail noodles. As soon as he landed in Guangxi, he "showed off" a few bowls of authentic Liuzhou snail noodles. "I found out that there are also many Liuzhou snail noodle shops in New Zealand, and I also took my friends from New Zealand to taste Liuzhou snail noodle so that they can also learn about this special snack."

"March 3rd" is the most solemn national traditional festival and song day in Guangxi. Lin Wai plans to visit Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Liuzhou City to experience the culture and music of different ethnic groups in Guangxi. "Music is our common language," Lin said. (ENDS)