From July 28 to 30, 2026, at the Meizhou Liangsheng Hakka Arts Center, the Hakka folk song opera "Misty Rain Over Songkou" (烟雨松口), produced by the Meizhou Hakka Folk Song Heritage Protection Center, ran for three consecutive days to packed houses. Nearly 3,000 audience members stepped into the misty rain of the ancient town of Songkou.

Hakka folk song opera is inscribed on Guangdong Province's intangible cultural heritage list. Performed in the Hakka dialect with traditional folk melodies as its musical foundation, it carries the living soul of Hakka culture. "Misty Rain Over Songkou" unfolds across generations of two families — the Liangs and the Lis — in the ancient town of Songkou, tracing a century of Hakka history through the joys and sorrows of ordinary people.

The creative team represents the highest caliber of Hakka folk song opera: director Li Jiansheng (Second-Class Director), stage designer Ji Qiao (National First-Class Stage Designer), and lighting designer Xing Xin (National First-Class Lighting Designer at the National Theatre of China, recipient of multiple Wenhua Awards).

Yajiang Photoelectric's Neptune NW10 high-power moving head wash served as the core atmosphere-rendering fixture for this production.

Ji Qiao's stage design is minimalist and impressionistic — a poetic suggestion of Songkou in misty rain. Xing Xin used light to carve two distinct spaces within a single frame: a brightly lit performance zone and a deeply shadowed environmental zone — "cutting out the performance space and the environmental space."

Light traces the Hakka imagery of Songkou's ancient town: misty rain, the old wharf, the encircling tulou dwellings. On stage, the NW10's coverage ranged from narrow beam to wide wash, meeting the dual demands of the folk song opera stage for both uniform color temperature and rich spatial layering.

The Meizhou Hakka Folk Song Heritage Protection Center spent three years refining this work. From scriptwriting to directing, from stage design to lighting, from composition to performance — this entire creative ecosystem reflects the direction in which Hakka folk song opera, as an intangible cultural heritage art form, is evolving toward higher stage standards.

For Yajiang Photoelectric, being part of this is a trust we hold with gratitude. Light speaks no words in the folk song. But it is there.

Special Thanks

Director: Li Jiansheng   Stage Designer: Ji Qiao   Lighting Designer: Xing Xin

Multimedia Designer: Feng Jiangzhou

And the entire creative team

Meizhou Hakka Folk Song Heritage Protection Center