经济学人：疫情后的中国小镇音乐节
本文重点在于介绍中国小镇音乐节的方方面面，包括迷笛音乐节，包括民族歌手Kawa和Ts.Bayandalai，也介绍了美国的伍德斯托克音乐节，grunge metal punk三种音乐风格，Coachella、Boho Chic、hipster等西方国家特有的文化现象，给读者带来一场文字上的文化盛宴。
Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
And exhausted urban youngsters are flocking to them
LOCKDOWN WASbrutal. But nature is healing. And, it turns out, nature is also part of the healing. As frazzled urbanites emerge from their pandemic hibernaculum into a grim economy, some want to venture to the great outdoors. Small cities and rural areas are obliging by putting on funky new music festivals where the youth can dance and hug and relax once again.
注：frazzled urbanites，Frazzle动词，表示使人精疲力尽。也可作名词，表示精疲力尽的状态。Urbanite指居住在城市中的人，尤指对城市生活方式和文化习惯有深入了解和熟悉的人。
Obliging指愿意帮助或顺从他人。一个乐于助人的人可以被形容为obliging。
Music festivals were a growing business when covid struck. China’s Woodstock moment had happened back in 2000, when the first festival emerged at Midi, a renowned music school in a Beijing suburb. Covering a range of musical tastes from grunge to metal to punk, they grew in number to more than 250 in 2019. So far this year alone, 150 have been announced.
A perfect example took place in mid-April at a remote wetland park in the southwestern province of Sichuan. Some 5,000 revellers gathered outside the city of Meishan for the Chunyou Festival (chunyou means “spring outing”). Sparkling lakes dot the landscape between green hills and idyllic forests not far from Sichuan’s famous panda sanctuaries. A fifth of those attending came from outside Sichuan, many from Shanghai and Beijing. Many discounted tickets also went to locals, some of whom just came to watch the city folks boogie. With everyone dressed up in boho chic, it felt like a small-scale Coachella, without the weed.
注：Reveller指热爱狂欢和聚会的人，与"partygoer"或者"celebrant"类似，但更强调狂欢和庆祝。
Sparkling lakes dot the landscape between green hills and idyllic forests. 波光粼粼的湖泊点缀在青山和田园森林之间
Sanctuary通常指教堂、神庙、修道院等，或者难民营、庇护所、避难所。在这里指大熊猫保护区。
Boogie是一种音乐风格和舞蹈风格，起源于20世纪40年代的美国。其特点是强烈的鼓点、重复的旋律和快节奏的节拍，会让人们感到兴奋和跳舞。
Boho Chic结合了波西米亚（Bohemian）和时髦（Chic）的元素，强调自由、放松的风格，同时也展现了一种艺术气息。在文化上，它强调自由、放松和个性化。
Coachella：科切拉音乐节（The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival） 是由Goldenvoice主办的每年在加州Indio的沙漠里举办的音乐节，在加州本土举办的三大音乐节中，Coachella音乐节是最大，也是乐队阵容最强大的音乐盛会。Coachella音乐节上也会有艺术展览、食品和手工艺品市场等各种活动。Coachella音乐节吸引了来自世界各地的数十万人前来参加。
"Weed"这个词在某些地方也可以用来指代大麻，尤其是在口语中。但是在正式场合或文学作品中，"weed"通常指的是杂草或野草
"Weed"是指大麻，在很多地方被认为是非法毒品。
Many urban hipsters have been to such festivals this spring. Others have friends who have just returned from a forest near a town no one had ever heard of before, where they talked about love and peace and forgot about parental pressure to find a spouse and the ”996” grind (9am till 9pm, six days a week).
注：Hipster指的是一群潮流文化的追随者，他们通常有着独特的审美观和生活方式。Hipster文化产生于20世纪40年代的美国，强调个性化和反传统。和Hipster不同，Hippie文化是在20世纪60年代兴起的，强调反战、反传统、和平、自由和爱等价值观，反对物质主义和消费文化。
parental pressure to find a spouse 父母催婚
996 grind 996“福报”（这两个短语可以在写作时使用）
Seeing their popularity, another struggling tribe has looked to cash in. Local officials also had a tough lockdown, exhausting their budgets chasing down every single case of covid, while watching their income slip away. Now, realising that anxious urban youths will pay good money to loiter near a yoga tent drinking craft beer or mingleat a Tibetan tea area, officials are scramblingto compete for tourists, and looking to build their small-town brand by getting the cool kids posting online. Type #musicfestivals into Xiaohongshu, a social-media app, and you get 2m hits. Chunyou was part of a series of culture-and tourism-awareness programmes for Renshou county, where the wetland park is located. A local newspaper said the number of tourists visiting the park increased 50% from the last festival two years ago.
注："Loiter"意思是闲逛、逗留或徘徊，而没有明确目的。也可表示在某个地方无所事事。
"Mingle"意思是混合、交往、融合。例如：At the party, people mingled and chatted with each other.（在聚会上，人们互相交往和聊天。）
scramble to表示爬、攀登或争夺。作爬行、攀登或爬时。例如：The hikers had to scramble up the steep hill.（徒步旅行者不得不攀登陡峭的山丘。）
作争夺、争抢时。例如：Several companies are scrambling to buy the new technology.（几家公司正在争相购买这项新技术。）本文中即表示地方官员争抢游客资源。
Renshou county指仁寿县，隶属于四川省眉山市，位于成都市正南方向。
During the May Day holiday this year, more than 40 music festivals were held across 19 provinces and regions, with many of those in lower-tier cities. Zhuji, a small city two hours from Shanghai, reported that tourists spent 450m yuan ($64m) the weekend it launched its first-ever music festival, including an increase of 365% on hotels and restaurants from the previous weekend. Yantai, a coastal city in Shandong province where this year’s Midi festivalwas held, said 340,000 tourists visited and spent 200m yuan. In the midst of a national economic slowdown, Zhuji and Yantai have both been struggling with debts. “Music festivals have ‘brought fire’ to us,” claimed the Zhuji government on WeChat, a social-media platform, using the Chinese phrase for “going viral”.
注：go viral (bring fire火了)
Midi festival，迷笛音乐节，2000年由北京迷笛音乐学校创办的国内首个原创音乐节，被称为中国的“伍德斯托克”,经过多年发展，现已成为现代音乐最响亮的品牌之一。
注："Reggae"是一种起源于牙买加的音乐流派，具有明显的重拍感，歌词往往涉及到社会和政治问题，例如爱、和平、反战和种族平等。
Kawa是一支成立于2015年，五位成员均来自云南普洱西盟的乐队，主打少数民族音乐文化。Ts.Bayandalai（巴彦达莱），来自新疆的蒙族音乐人。
hedonism享乐主义，强调追求快乐和享乐的价值。但有些人认为过度追求快乐和享乐会导致道德堕落和精神空虚。
"Gigs"指小型音乐演出。此外，gigs也可指其他短期工作或临时性雇佣,Fiverr中就用gigs来表示工作任务。
Vibe是vibration（震动）的缩写，指氛围、感觉，通常用来形容某个地方或某个人散发出的能量情感状态。例如，一个房间里好的vibe指积极、愉悦的氛围，让人感到舒适和放松。
