Beer Avenue Haiyun Avenue Music Avenue Star Avenue Text/Peninsula reporter Wang Liping Photo/Peninsula reporter Wu Jing Song Hongrui Qingdao Beer Festival, the most beautiful west coast.

Beer Avenue

Haiyun Avenue

Music Avenue

Star Avenue

Text/Peninsula Reporter Wang Liping Photo/Peninsula Reporter Wu Jing Song Hongrui

Qingdao Beer Festival, the most beautiful west coast. The expanded Jinshatan Beer City covers a total area of ​​1,200 acres, and the overall layout is "three verticals, one horizontal and seven districts". The three verticals refer to Music Avenue, Star Avenue and Beer Avenue; the other horizontal is Haiyun Avenue, which opens up a new space for the passionate carnival of the whole nation through humanized layout. In addition, the beer city also has four stages in the center, east, west and south. The major stages shine together and showcase wonderful performances. On August 18, the reporter visited the four major stages and four avenues in the beer city one by one, hoping to provide tourists with the most practical travel guide.

West District stage is mainly international and diverse performance forms, attracting many tourists to stop here.

[Four major stages shine]

◎Central stage

Phoenix Fire Dance Show ignited the whole city

There is a huge exhibition stand printed with "Welcome to the West Coast" on the east side of Haiyun Avenue and on the west side of the Phoenix Grand Theater. This is the center stage. The center stage is the shape of an eye in the center. The place of the eyeball is a circular screen, which plays the promotional video of the beer city.

is behind the exhibition stand, which is the main stage of the center stage. The main body of the stage is composed of three arched truss , and each truss has multiple sets of spotlights. Thousands of lighting equipment, more than 40 laser equipment, 4 sets of large-scale Wias, nearly 100 customized special effects equipment... make the central stage truly the center of all stages. On the central stage, the Phoenix Fire Dance Show is the biggest highlight of this year's Beer Festival cultural performance project.

"The Phoenix Fire Dance Show takes flame performance as the core, integrating dance, stunt performance, multimedia interaction, aerial performance, fireworks performance and other forms, and has very high requirements for stage design and performance equipment." Wang Gong, executive director of the 28th Qingdao International Beer Festival Cultural Event, introduced that the stage design uses a large number of multimedia devices, special effects equipment, etc., and is combined with top stage lighting, audio, smoke, video and laser equipment.

It is understood that the Phoenix Fire Dance Show brings together more than 160 top actors from more than 40 countries around the world, and it took nearly a year to create it. The unique creativity, the world's top actors, and the high-intensity training day after day, made this Phoenix Fire Dance Show show an unexpected stage effect. "The Phoenix Fire Dance Show is the biggest highlight of the Beer Festival cultural performance project. The creation and performance are presented at the international first-class level. There is no line or lyrics in the entire 80-minute performance." Wang Gong said that the stage incorporates various elements such as sound, electric and optical technology to present an exquisite performance effect.

It is worth noting that the Phoenix Fire Dance Show uses fire to show, and while it is exciting, it requires high technical indicators on the stage. In this regard, in terms of stage design, the stage surface and infrastructure are specially treated with high temperature resistance. "The tabletop uses the latest materials of stage floor glue, which is not only fire-proof, high temperature resistant, corrosion-resistant, but also more anti-slip, which is very good at coping with the current wet weather by the sea." Wang Gong said.

It is reported that during the Beer Festival, the Phoenix Fire Dance Show will be held on time at 8 o'clock every night, and the ticket price is 100 yuan in Area A, 80 yuan in Area B, and 60 yuan in Area C.

◎East Stage

Rock music "Hi" all over the audience

At the intersection of Haiyun Avenue and Star Avenue is the location of the East Stage. The East Stage consists of three parts: music stage, food stage, and high-altitude performance in square radius space.

According to Dong Stage Director Wang Leping, the music stage is mainly composed of international rock band performances, bringing different musical experiences to the audience. The stage design incorporates related elements such as punk and industry. The special background LED screen uses industrial gears as the main elements. The airships on both sides of the stage are the embodiment of modern and modern industry. The stage combines metal, punk, rock and other elements, and combines a large amount of sound, light and electricity to finally present the audience with a shocking and pure rock performance.

The bands performed on this rock-filled stage are also extraordinary, including the fashionable and handsome pop band ivory, and the full moon band that combines surrealism and electronic funk. In addition, the East District Music Stage will also bring wonderful dance performances from the Russian National Art Troupe from time to time.

It is worth noting that the Chinese cooking skills held some time ago were held on the food stage of the East District of Beer City. The hula hoops and scissors on the spot were turned on the stilts; the balloons blown on the face; the golden silk noodles as thin as cicada wings as thin as hair... 6 super chefs turned into "masters" with unique skills and performed 12 Chinese cooking skills on the spot, which made people applaud. Next, the 8th National Seafood Cooking Skills Competition and the 1st China Intangible Cultural Heritage Food Dumpling Cooking Competition will be held.

The performances of the entire East District stage of Beer City are concentrated from 18:00 to 22:00 in the evening. Among them, the food stage time is 18:00~19:00, 20:00~21:00, the music stage performance time is 19:30~20:00, 21:00~21:30, and the altitude performance time is 19:00~19:30, and 21:30~22:00.

◎West Stage

Acrobatic roller skating presents colorful colors

On the west side of Beer Avenue and on the south side of the Fantasy Island Playground is the west stage. The reporter found that the West Stage is divided into three levels. According to the director of the West Stage Wang Zheng, this design can satisfy different styles of performances and highlight the layering of the performance. The one-stage platform can narrow the distance between the audience and feel the roadshow live feeling like a music festival. The three-layer LED screen can be displayed at the same time or in different contents, and combined with sound, light and electricity, it finally presents a shocking performance to the audience.

In addition, according to Wang Zheng, in order to meet the needs of different performance forms to show on the same stage, the ground of the western stage uses the same advanced fire-proof and anti-slip floor glue as the main stage to ensure the safety and smooth progress of the performance.

Wang Zheng told reporters that the West District stage is mainly international and diverse performance forms, so it is also called the colorful stage. On the western stage, there are many performance teams including Brazilian Samba, African Zuma Acrobatics, American Breakthrough Roller Skating Team, Recycling Percussion Band, Fire Dance Show highlights, and 5+ Dance Team from Russia. Among them, the performances of the percussion band were recovered for more than 20 sound outputs, and advanced lighting and audio equipment brought shocking presentation effects to the performance.

◎South Stage

Sea rhyme style focuses on elegant and fresh

On the west side of the Sands Coast Square, there is a small performing stage. This is the South Stage, and it is also the stage closest to the sea among all stages.

Compared with the other three stages, the South stage is relatively small in scale and the design style is more marine. The four-color trusses of red, yellow, blue and green have a simple stage setting. The blue stage ground and the adjacent sea shine together.

is located in front of the stage, with many pavilions, black iron railings and light yellow cool umbrellas, providing tourists with a good place to enjoy the scenery. Next to the pavilion, there are many snack shops, such as Zhou Hei Ya, coffee dessert shop, Xizhen barbecue shop, chicken and rice flower shop, etc., which provide a variety of snacks for tourists watching the performance.

When night fell, the South Stage also "lively". The American rock band Myth Band is performing on stage. It is understood that in addition to performing programs on the East Stage, the Myth Band will also bring dreamy performances to tourists on the South Stage every night.

Amid the dreamy music, many tourists in the audience bought dessert coffee and sat in the pavilion to chat. "There is sea breeze, music, coffee and wine here. This is the most literary and artistic on all stages." Wu Xiaofei, who was drinking coffee with her friends in the pavilion, is from the West Coast. She told reporters that every time she comes to the Oktoberfest, she will sit in the pavilion in the South Square. She likes the most literary and artistic feeling here.

[Four avenues have their own characteristics]

◎The most photogenic: The Avenue of Stars

The lights and fireworks are beautiful every night

If you want to say that the most photogenic road in the beer city is the Avenue of Stars. The Avenue of Stars is the longitudinal axis of the entire venue in the north-south direction. On its east-west sides, the beer garden block and the beer culture expo are distributed in a fan shape. The two districts combine foreign style Western food and regional specialty brands, and open 28 specialty food stores such as Jiaodong Zou Noodles, Shaanxi Food Hui, and Shilin Night Market to form two specialty food blocks.

Entering the city from the main entrance of Jinsha Beach Beer City, the first thing that catches your eye is the atmospheric cheer sculptures. From time to time, tourists stop here to take photos after entering. Walking farther forward, a red and white conch sculpture appeared in front of you.As the most classic avenue in the beer city, this year, the organizers have written a lot about the Avenue of Stars, targeting the 18 lighthouses and avenues in the style of countries along the "Belt and Road" to creatively brighten and improve, and will also offer wonderful lighting and fireworks show every night. According to the staff, two of these 18 lighthouses represent China, one is the Little Qingdao Lighthouse, the other is the South China Sea Chigua Reef Lighthouse, and the other 16 represent countries with friendly relations, such as Belgium , Canada, India, etc. Each lighthouse is built based on the shape of the country's famous lighthouse. The reporter found that there are cylindrical and pentagonal in the lighthouse, both with white as the main walls, and red or blue, presenting a simple and festive marine style.

When night falls, tourists can enjoy the newly upgraded lights and fireworks show, which intertwines fireworks and lights, creating a dreamy and dynamic atmosphere. There are two best viewing points for the light and fireworks show: one is the cheers sculpture, which allows you to see the whole picture; the other is the stage on the south side of the Avenue of Stars, surrounded by light and shadow, which is beautiful. "This year's light and fireworks show covers the entire Beer City area, and you can get different excitement in every part of the city." The staff told reporters that this year's light and fireworks show has reinnovated the lighthouses of countries along the "Belt and Road" of the Avenue of Stars and the member countries of the SCO, and expanded the lighting scope to the wooden house areas of Beer Avenue, Music Avenue, Haiyun Avenue, and the east and west areas, covering the lights of the entire Beer City area. The lights and fireworks show is presented to tourists from 19:30 to 22:00 every day.

◎The most joyful: Beer Avenue

String the tent recreation area to the end

Beer Avenue is named after it is close to the beer tent area. Visitors enter the city from the north gate, and see Beer Avenue, and you can enter the beer tent area along Beer Avenue. It is understood that the design of Beer Avenue highlights the beer theme, combining beer cultural elements to create and brighten and improve the landscape.

reporters headed south along Beer Avenue, beer elements can be seen everywhere, and the Guli covers on the road alone are impressive: the appearance of these Guli covers is like beer covers, and the patterns on the "Wine Cover" are all landscape elements of Qingdao . It has iconic patterns such as Golden Sand Beach, Tangdao Bay, Dazhu Mountain, Xiaozhu Mountain , and other local characteristics on the West Coast, as well as elements such as Laoshan Scenic Area, Pier Bridge, Flower Stone Tower, and Catholic Church representing Qingdao.

Beer Avenue is surrounded by the most closely related to beer elements: the expo town is on the east side, you can see the Beer Culture Museum and other venues on the west side. The north side is the amusement area. Every evening, you can meet waves of tourists coming to experience it; to the south, there are carnival beer tents and fashionable and casual beer tents. The dynamic music and the aroma of beer in the air tell you that the carnival is going on here.

◎The most elegant: Music Avenue

is full of notes along the way, leading to the Grand Theater

The Oktoberfest is very lively. If you want to find an elegant place, you might as well walk to the east side of the beer city. The music Avenue there should be very much to your appetite. Music Avenue is a new road added this year. As the name suggests, it is related to music. Visitors can enter the city from the North Second Gate and enter the Music Avenue and go directly to Qingdao Phoenix Voice Grand Theater.

According to the staff, the Music Avenue highlights the musical characteristics in the design, and combines music cultural elements to create and brighten the landscape. "The avenue connects the north-south entrance of the Beer City in a vertical direction, and connects with the Beer City landmark "Voice of the Phoenix" Grand Theater, which builds an art avenue to the international music hall for tourists.

reporter walked south along the Music Avenue and found that although the Music Avenue is not long, it is quite distinctive. There are white guitar, harp, large-sized instruments on the west side of the road, and every few steps on the ground is the pattern of notes. These sculptures and patterns are all lighted, waiting for the night When the curtain fell, the gorgeous lights lit up, and the Music Avenue seemed quiet and elegant.

is located near the east stage of the Music Avenue, and you can enjoy wonderful aerial performances. Going further south is the Phoenix Voice Theater, which was put into use this year, where the Beer Festival opened, Lang Lang is here to contribute master-level performances to the island's citizens. In addition, various music performances are performed one after another, complementing the Music Avenue.

◎The most oceanic: Haiyun Avenue

uses marine biological elements throughout the city

As a beer city built by the sea, there must be avenue that can reflect the characteristics of the ocean, this is Haiyun Avenue. Haiyun Avenue followed the expansion of the beer tent area and began to extend westward, connecting the tent area and the stage area.

In the road design, the organizer uses marine biological elements to create and brighten the landscape. Along the way, you will see many marine animal-shaped elements appearing next to the road, which complements the colorful lights when night falls.

Haiyun Avenue is the horizontal axis of the beer city running through the east and west, connecting the east and west entrance of the beer city, connecting the Music Avenue, Beer Avenue, and Star Avenue. At the westernmost end of Haiyun Avenue is the comprehensive service guarantee area of ​​the venue. The newly built Jinsha Beach Beer City Fire Station, Police Office, etc. are located here. If an emergency occurs in the venue during the Beer Festival, the district can immediately dispatch forces along Coastal Yun Avenue to all parts of the venue.

[edit: Liu Xiaoming]