Abstract: As an important form in the integration and development of culture and tourism, cultural tourism performing arts have gradually become an important carrier for the inheritance and development of ethnic cultural heritage and the urbanization of ethnic areas by virtue of their distinctive presentation of regional culture. By analyzing the core cultural tourism performing arts production Dreaming back to the Solar Calendar-Source of Fire of the Chuxiong Yi Torch Festival 2023 in China, this study finds that the cultural tourism performing arts have realized the reshaping of culture and tourism through the inner integration and outer packaging of “national symbols”. The cultural tourism performance realizes the reshaping of culture and tourism through the internal integration and external packaging of “national symbols”, and constructs the identity of “national cultural identity” through the cultural perceptions of “sensory stimulation”, “emotional resonance” and “cultural identity”. This case points out an effective direction for the casting of Chinese national community consciousness. However, from the perspective of reflection, as a performing arts activity with entertainment genes, attention should be paid to protecting the originality of national culture and avoiding the “loss of words” of national core culture under the “tourists’ gaze”.

Key words: ethnic festival, intangible cultural heritage, cultural tourism performing arts, ethnic-cultural identity