Yang Liping, a Chinese dance artist known as the "Peacock Princess", appeared in Kunming on 13 February, to share the story behind her latest creation, the zodiac series dance art films.

Since 2021, Yang Liping has successively launched three zodiac dance art films,Spring Cow, Roaring Tigerand Jade Rabbit and Chang'e, dedicated to combining dance, video and other artforms as a wayto promote traditional Chinese zodiac culture.

Hardly had a heated discussion at home and abroad on the zodiac culture and dance videobeen sparked whenthese three films were released.Motivated by this, Yang Liping decided to launch a corresponding zodiac series dance art film every year.

The concept of dance is very broad and should not be limited to the stage. By leveraging the Internetand film-TVtechnology to expand the viewing mode of dance and dance dramas, shooting zodiac series dance art films is indeed a revolutionary attempt per se. In a sense, thesezodiac-themedart films is not only an artwork, but alsoa significantChinese cultural IP.