“The Song of Everlasting Regret,” China’s first large-scale live-action historical dance drama, is widely acclaimed as a benchmark for the country’s tourism and cultural creative industry. Centered on the love story of Tang Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, the production redepicts moving passages from the long poem of the same name at the very place where the story unfolded, weaving history with reality, nature with culture, human with celestial, and tradition with modernity, combining everything into a seamless whole.

This dance drama runs 65 minutes and unfolds in ten acts: “A daughter of the Yang family, newly come of age,” “One day, chosen to serve by the emperor’s side,” “Whispered words of love in the dead of night,” “In the chill of spring, an imperial bath in the Huaqing Pool,” “The Palace on Mount Li, reaching high into the clouds,” “After a feast in the jade tower, drunk on the joys of spring,” “Heavenly music drifting on the breeze, heard everywhere,” “War drums from Yuyang shake the earth,” “A jeweled hairpin fell, left untouched on the ground” and “In heaven or on earth, we shall meet again.” Through natural scenery, classical music and dance, poetic narration, and high-tech lighting, sound, and special effects, the show vividly conveys the magnificence of the High Tang era and an immortal love legend, transporting audiences across time to experience the poignant tale that took place over a thousand years ago at the foot of Mount Li beside the Huaqing Palace.