Immerse yourself in the world of the Qin Dynasty with a ticket to the Great Qin, China’s first large-scale dance epic and immersive fantasy theatre production. Premiering in Xi’an in late 2024, the production has quickly become a cornerstone of the city’s cultural tourism landscape.
Blending rigorous historical research with avant-garde stagecraft, the show narrates the rise of the Qin Empire, focusing not on emperors alone, but on the ordinary individuals whose lives and sacrifices built the foundation of unified China.
Rooted in the profound history and culture of the Qin Dynasty, Jiujiu Daqin is a groundbreaking immersive live performance inspired by the famous Yunmeng Qin Bamboo Slips. The show takes the real-life storey of Heifu, an ordinary Qin soldier who wrote home during the Warring States Period, as its core narrative clue.
The show adopts the world’s leading multi-space through-type immersive theatre design, equipped with 4 core performance areas and 6 scene chapters. The theatre features 1,500 dynamic moving auditorium seats that follow the plot progression, allowing the audience to “walk into the history” in real time. With a super-wide 165-meter fully open and retractable stage and a 220m×65m ultra-large indoor stage space, it has won the Guinness World Record for the largest indoor performance stage, creating an unprecedented panoramic viewing experience.
The show integrates 3D holographic projection, BlackTrax real-time tracking technology, and Asia’s largest indoor aerial moving stage device. It perfectly restores stunning scenes such as terracotta warriors breaking through the earth and suspended Qin palaces. Combined with full-dimensional special effects of wind, fog, water, and electricity, as well as more than 600 professional control lights and 30,000 decorative lights, it builds a realistic ancient Qin scene, bringing the audience immersive visual, auditory, and tactile sensory impact.
Since its opening, Jiujiu Daqin has won many industry honours, including the Excellent Case of Immersive Performing Arts of Lingjing Award, the Annual Creative Case of China Tourism Products, and has been selected into the National Excellent Catalogue of Tourism Performing Arts, becoming a new cultural business card of Xi’an and even Chinese ancient civilisation tourism.
The Great Qin serves as a powerful medium for cultural confidence and international exchange. By focusing on the “ordinary people” behind the grand historical narrative, it humanizes the Qin Dynasty, highlighting themes of patriotism, sacrifice, craftsmanship, and the pursuit of unity. The production has been praised at international forums, including the Silk Road International Arts Festival, for its ability to tell Chinese stories through a global artistic language. It stands as a testament to the resilience and spirit of the Qin people, encapsulated in the famous line from the Book of Songs: “Who says we have no clothes? I will share my robe with you.”
