Multicultural uo the Northern Territory Festival colorful stage

Black Lulu (Ayers Rock) at different times of the day, with the changes of light and changing color

In the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the Australian pavilion to leave a deep impression on visitors from all over the world, especially the red ocher rock style, the Australian outback style to show without involuntary discharge of urine. In fact, the design inspiration is derived from the shape of the northern territory of Australia red centre black Lulu (Ayers Rock), the external color and black like Lulu in a day with the changes of light and render different colors. As the world's largest single rock, black Lulu reaches as high as 348 meters, perimeter 9.4 kilometers, is Australia's only world natural and cultural heritage. It started from five hundred million years ago. When the Australian heart position, experience the vicissitudes, bearing time changes, with the nature of the footprint, with fifty thousand years ago, Aboriginal rock paintings, also with Aboriginal belief and spirit, through time and space to today.

Aboriginal dance, Darwin

In BIU Lu Luyan painting earlier period, in the Northern Territory indigenous breed, interest-bearing, so far, has been with the inland area expanse of red earth com., formed the most representative indigenous culture, honest, a long and mysterious. From Darwin's La rokia group (Larrakia) to Alice Springs area of the Ahrendt family (Arrernte), the Northern Territory Aboriginal accounted for 1/3 of the total population, here, still have 40 many native languages are being used, art form of painting, music and dancing have a variety of rich, vivid presentation of profound connotation of indigenous culture the. In the northern territory of some art center and the Museum of art, such as the Tiwi islands and Arnhem Land of El Cara (Yirrkala), visitors can talk with and Aboriginal artists, understand their creative process, the creation of the world, all listen to their creation story, or enjoy the original and dazzling dance. With simple earth atmosphere of the painting is very popular in the Northern Territory, the traditional painting is composed of ochre, but today the Aboriginal artists also use some modern materials such as acrylic paint creative painting, oil painting, color is rich, has the innovation of interest.

In addition to having a long history of aboriginal culture, the northern territory is a multicultural territory, from all over the world people and indigenous people here live in harmony, live together. Only Darwin had lived, people from different racial backgrounds of the 70 kinds of more than 60 different countries or regions, such as the Northern Territory, came 100 years ago the Greeks, 1874 in Darwin lived the life of the chinese.

People from different background for Darwin and the Northern Territory to bring the rich and diverse cultural. In Darwin, you can see the Chinese temples, can also see the Greek school. Even more gratifying is that, throughout the year there are various cultural characteristics of the festival, event staged. From the Darwin Festival shows multiple culture, to the Chinese Spring Festival, the festival grand to Greece, to the aboriginal traditional festival, the northern territory of Australia inland region -- real, every year there are hundreds of events waiting for visitors to enjoy and participate in the celebration.