▲On February 18, 2020 local time, Tokyo Tower in Japan joined hands with Matsuyama Ballet and the Executive Committee to light up the Chinese red on New Year’s Eve, once again lighting up the Tokyo Tower in Chinese red to cheer for China and Japan to join hands in fighting the ep

▲ On February 18, 2020, local time, Japan’s Tokyo Tower joined hands with Matsuyama Ballet and the New Year’s Eve Lighting in China Red Executive Committee to once again light up the Tokyo Tower in Chinese red to cheer for China and Japan to join hands in fighting the epidemic and for China , Japan, and mankind pray for blessings. (China News Agency file photo by Lu Shaowei)

Huayu News According to Japan's "Chinese Herald" report, on New Year's Eve in 2022, Tokyo Tower will be lit up in Chinese red again.

Since New Year's Eve 2019, the annual "Tokyo Tower Lights Up China Red" event has become a hot spot of concern among overseas Chinese society, Japanese society and even the world. Every year, the event of lighting up Tokyo Tower in Chinese red has something new.

On New Year’s Eve 2019, as Tokyo Tower lit up in red, Chinese children in Japan released more than 1,000 balloons symbolizing peace wishes.

On New Year’s Eve 2020, a huge iron pot was set up under Tokyo Tower to cook dumplings, and dragon and lion dances filled the Spring Festival atmosphere.

On New Year's Eve 2021, amid the epidemic, no large-scale events were held under the tower, but for the first time the word "hope" was typed on Tokyo Tower. This is also the first time that Chinese characters have been used in Tokyo Tower. It was a period when the epidemic was serious. These two words comforted people and were widely reported by domestic and foreign media, especially in Japan.

On New Year's Eve 2022, the Tokyo Tower Lights Up China Red event is hosted by the Tokyo Tower Lights Up China Red Organizing Committee, co-organized by CCTV, CGTN and TOKYO MX, and organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Saga Prefecture, Oita Prefecture and the Chinese Embassy in China. Support from the Japanese Embassy. The event is mainly supported and sponsored by the Saga Prefectural Government of Japan, which has profound historical and cultural ties with China, highlighting the significance of the special year 2022. The event will be held in full compliance with Tokyo’s epidemic prevention regulations.

2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and is the year when Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. With the reaffirmation of the friendly and peaceful relations between China and Japan, with blessings for the Winter Olympics, and with prayers for the global cessation of the COVID-19 epidemic - in such an important year, the 2022 Tokyo Tower lights up China The red event will be exciting again.

January 31st, what kind of light will Tokyo Tower leave behind in the post-epidemic era? Virtue is not alone, but must have neighbors. As a meaningful event, the Tokyo Tower lighting in 2022 is also expected to be lit up in conjunction with the domestic Chongqing, Wuhan, Qingdao, Shanghai and Oita Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan. Oita Prefecture, Japan, was selected as a cultural exchange city between China, Japan and South Korea in 2022. In response to the lighting of Tokyo Tower, the Prefectural Museum of Art in Oita Prefecture lit up "Future" that night and there will be live performances.

The music video "Believe in the Future", the theme song of the 2022 Tokyo Tower Lights Up China Red event "Future" jointly produced by Chinese and Japanese artists, will also be premiered globally at the Tokyo Tower event.

Fukuhara Ai will live broadcast the feeling of overlooking Tokyo Tower from a helicopter;

cooperates with the scene, and the video prepared by the organizing committee for the Tokyo Tower event will convey blessings from various time and space;

is composed by overseas Chinese ski enthusiasts and Japanese friends in Japan A beautiful video shot on Mount Fuji to support the Beijing Winter Olympics;

A Spring Festival blessing video shot by overseas Chinese children in Japan in the snow of Mount Fuji and a video of lighting blessings at Sensoji Temple;

"Manpukuji Temple", a thousand-year-old temple in Kyoto that symbolizes Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges Videos lighting up "peace" and "prayer";

Japan's Matsuyama Ballet also sent videos recorded on stage blessing the Winter Olympics and blessing Chinese friends for the New Year...

At the scene, Chinese children wearing kimonos carried lanterns , placing the lanterns one by one in the quiet night of Zojoji Temple, with Tokyo Tower in front, showing a dreamlike scene;

The opening taiko performance of DRAM TAO, the Oita taiko drum team selected by the 2022 China-Japan-Korea Cultural Cities , DRAM TAO is famous for its overwhelming timbre performance. It has been performed in 500 cities in 26 countries around the world, representing the extremely high level of Japanese taiko drums;

Japanese comedian team Bicsmalln's "Beijing Winter Olympics" performance, the three of them Body art is also very famous in the world. The body expression "2020 Tokyo Olympics" was once created for the Tokyo Olympics. This time there are new ideas for the Beijing Winter Olympics;

Chinese second-generation musician Li Mei created through online crowdfunding Japanese bilingual song "Motto Motto Come Together!" ! "Dancers led by singer-songwriter Remi, Chinese-Japanese singer Chang Yu and former Chinese dancer Cai Xiaoqiang of the Four Seasons Theater Company, as well as dancers led by Tokyo Huawu Dance School, Tokyo Hua Lefang Art School, Japan Huashi Art School and Sakura Art "Five Rings" composed of a total of 25 teachers and students from the troupe and the Japanese Overseas Chinese International Dance Alliance will be presented together;

Z generation overseas Chinese Chinese, Japanese and English trilingual singer Mei Mei has a unique voice condition. After graduating from a famous art high school in the United States, she She signed a contract with Warner Music at the beginning of 2021, and a well-known Japanese music producer created a new single for her;

Japan Chinese Education Association Children’s Choir and Peony Choir’s chorus "Believe" will sing people’s aspirations for the future - " Believe in the future";

In 2022, the on-air host will be Fukuhara Ai, and the ground host will be Matsuda Ayuko and Osa Dolma. After the final speech by Yan An, chairman of the "Tokyo Tower Lights China Red" organizing committee, everyone present will release balloons with wishes for peace and blessings for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Tokyo Tower is 333 meters high and was built in 1958. It is not only a TV signal transmission tower, but also a landmark building that represents Japan and is well known in China. The lights of Tokyo Tower are generally orange at night. There have been some special lighting moments in history: such as the five Olympic colors when Japan successfully bid for the Olympics in 2016, the blue in 2013 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Japanese Football League, and the 2018 lights. Light up special colors to celebrate Tokyo Tower's 60th anniversary. On New Year's Eve, February 4, 2019, Tokyo Tower was lit up in Chinese red again to celebrate the Chinese New Year. On January 31, 2022, it will be lit up in Chinese red for the fourth time, and two Chinese characters will also be printed on the tower, 2022 What is the Chinese character for year? (Original title: Tokyo Tower on New Year’s Eve 2022: Lighting up China Red and shining brightly towards the future)