Diverse folk songs hit the right note

From: China Daily | Date: December 10, 2002 | Copyright information

NANNING: While the Internet makes Western pop music ever more available to Chinese through online downloading, foreigners are increasingly warming to the unique charm of China's diverse folk music.

Nanning, capital of South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, last month hosted an international folk song and art festival.

At the festival, which ran from November 22 to 26, Lavinia Craciunescu, an amateur singer from Romania, won much applause for singing the Chinese folk song "Ocean, My Homeland" in putonghua.

People in Romania are familiar with Chinese folk songs and like the tempo of the ...

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