Culture is the spiritual lifeblood of the nation, and literature and art are the clarion call of the times. In the past five years, the vast number of literary and art workers in Shaanxi Province have closely focused on the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, grasped important time nodes such as commemorating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, relying on the rich cultural resource advantages of our province, focusing on major revolutionary and historical themes, realistic themes, and Shaanxi's local themes, focusing on planning and launching a series of fine works of Acura Party, Acura Motherland, Acura People, and Acura Heroes. Continue to promote the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings, and strive to depict the magnificent picture of the construction of a culturally strong province.
Novel "Protagonist"
The famous writer Chen Yan's novel "Protagonist" was published by writers publishing house in January 2018, and in 2019, the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award and the 15th Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project" Award were successively included in the pocket, showing the fruitful results of the "Literary Shaanxi Army" people-centered creative orientation, in-depth life, and persistence in creation.
"Protagonist" has been loved by the majority of readers since its birth, and is considered an important harvest of realist novels, a book of fate that moves people's hearts, and a far-reaching "Chinese story" told in a classical Chinese aesthetic way.
"The Protagonist" revolves around a Qin actor named Yi Qin'e, narrating her life course and stage career from the age of 11 to becoming famous at the age of 51 with a solid and delicate brushstroke, and from Yi Qin'e to her daughter Song Yu, the time span is more than 40 years. What unfolds in the book is a grand picture of a complex world, containing a complex consideration of human destiny, and a symphony of culture, human nature and the times. "Protagonist" writes the essence of history with its magnificent social life and distinct coordinates of time and space, and it focuses on what is deep in history, rather than the appearance of historical light.
Short story "Out of the Police"
In 2018, Yi Zhou, a young writer in Shaanxi Province, won the Short Story Award of the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award for his work "Out of the Police".
As the title suggests, this novel is about the police, about the police, and mainly tells the ups and downs of life stories that "I" saw after entering the police force. "Out of the Police" has now been included in the author's short story collection "The Story collection of Prophecy".
The jury of the Lu Xun Literature Prize wrote this in the award speech to "Out of the Police": ""Out of the Police" embodies a deep understanding of the dialectics of the mind. Not avoiding the darkness and desolation of human nature, he also seeks responsibility and healing with persistent patience. The edge of the rapidly expanding city, in the hustle and bustle of the crowd, the forgotten are also watched, and the chilling cold is tirelessly searched for and illuminated by a lamp. ”
Yi Zhou once said that writing is also like a coin, and the front and back sides form its complete shape. Writing "Out of the Police" is that the author wants to faithfully return to the ethics of the novel, let each reality of life explain itself, let the novelist's pen dispel those "social" appearances, and understand the original meaning of human beings more deeply, just like the two sides of the Mozi coin, and look at our world completely and comprehensively.
Drama "Liu Qing"
In 2019, the drama "Liu Qing" launched by Xi'an Drama Theatre Co., Ltd. stood out among the 38 repertoire participating in the competition and won the Wenhua Award of the 16th China Culture and Art Government Award.
The drama "Liu Qing" tells the story of the people's writer Liu Qing and his peasant life. Liu Qing took root in Huangfu Village, took his wife and children to stay in Huangfu Village for 14 years, recorded the lives of the people with a pen, drew nutrition from the colorful life of the people, and used the entrepreneurial history of the villagers in the township to witness the changes of the times, and wrote the "History of Entrepreneurship".
The plot design of the play is compact and ingenious, the character image is full, and the language is vivid and funny, which vividly shows the deep feelings of Liu Qing and other artists of the older generation for the masses and the noble sentiments of going deep into life, taking root in the people, and writing for the people. At the same time, the play organically integrates the relationship between writer Liu Qing and the people, Liu Qing and the "History of Entrepreneurship", and the people and the "History of Entrepreneurship", so that the audience is addicted to it.
With the help of the delicate and innovative artistic outline of the luxurious creative team and the exquisite drama stage vocabulary, the drama "Liu Qing" highly presents the spiritual personality of Chinese intellectuals. Zhong Chengxiang, chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, once commented that the drama "radiates the people's spirit, practical character and ideals throughout the work, so that the viewers can fully appreciate the charm of the era of realistic creation."
Stills from the play "Ordinary World".
Drama "Ordinary World"
In 2019, the drama "Ordinary World" won the 15th "Five One Project" Award and the "International Drama Academy Award" of the 15th Spiritual Civilization Construction.
The Propaganda Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee focused on supporting the repertoire, and the drama "Ordinary World", rehearsed by The Shaanxi Performing Arts Group and the Shaanxi People's Art Theater Co., Ltd., showed in a panoramic manner the ordinary and tortuous life path of the working people in northern Shaanxi in the 1970s and 1980s in the historical process of the great era, and was a fine work of ideological, artistic and ornamental unity, reflecting the social life of contemporary urban and rural areas in China, and profoundly showing the hardships and hardships faced by ordinary people in the historical process of the great era.
The drama "Ordinary World" closely follows the spiritual core of the original novel, and with the creative purpose of being close to the people, close to life, and close to reality, it faithfully restores the ordinary and tortuous life stories of ordinary people in northern Shaanxi in the early days of reform and opening up described in the original work, and successfully shapes a large number of simple, kind, flesh-and-blood characters such as Sun Shao'an, Sun Shaoping, Tian Runye, and Tian Xiaoxia, and enthusiastically praises the spirit of hard work and unremitting self-improvement of the working people of northern Shaanxi. Inspire generations of young people to strive for a better life.
The play uses a variety of stage expressions to integrate Shaanxi's unique yellow land culture into theatrical performances, so that the original Shaanxi culture blooms magnificently on the national stage, and promotes the formation of a "Shaanxi school drama" trend in the country.
Drama "Anesthesiologist"
The major cultural quality support project of the Propaganda Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, the key literary and artistic creation project of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture, and the drama "Anesthesiologist" created by the Xi'an Performing Arts Group Drama Theater have successively won the Wenhua Award of the 15th China Culture and Art Government Award and the 14th "Five One Project" Award for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization.
The drama "Anesthesiologist" was created based on the deeds of Chen Shaoyang, the late deputy director of the Department of Anesthesiology of Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Military Medical University. Chen Shaoyang is an ordinary doctor, he is based on his post, conscientious and dedicated, with "great doctor sincerity, clever hands and benevolence" as his professional ethics, with his own life to interpret the most noble medical ethics of a doctor. Xi'an Performing Arts Group Drama Theatre took him as the prototype and successfully created a vivid artistic image on the stage - Chen Shaoqiang.
The Anesthesiologist is based on real people and real events, but is not tied to established facts. The drama shapes the image of the protagonist Chen Shaoqiang from the three-dimensional three-dimensional aspect of love, family affection and friendship, perfectly combines the spirit of realism and romantic feelings, and portrays Chen Shaoqiang with flesh and blood, real and touching. At the same time, the play profoundly reveals the doctor-patient relationship in the real society and the social phenomenon of "being anesthetized", has bones, morality and temperature, carries forward the Chinese spirit, tells the story of Shaanxi well, and shows the shining point of human nature in contemporary social life.
Qin Lu's new historical drama "Guanzhong Xiaoyue"
In September 2020, the 30th Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Performing Arts Awards was announced. Qi Aiyun, an actor from the Shaanxi Provincial Academy of Opera, and Hou Hongqin, an actor from xi'an Sanyi Society, won the magnolia drama award for its wonderful performances in the newly compiled historical drama "Guanzhong Xiaoyue" created by the Xiyan Group and Zhou ZhiXian Theater Troupe, respectively.
The newly edited historical drama "Guanzhong Xiaoyue" is based on Zhou Ying, a merchant in Jingyang, Shaanxi Province, and the hostess of Anwubao, which creates a character image of Shang Ying, who is deeply influenced by Guan Xue's thought and represents the spirit of Qin Shang, telling the story of Shang Ying who took risks to save Liu Guyu, a great Confucian in modern Guanzhong, and in the face of many difficulties, poured out his family property, and finally preserved the story of Guan Xue' lineage. On the basis of historical truth, the play starts from the righteous deeds of a little girl, embeds her emotional changes in the context of history, and through the perspective of human nature and human feelings, profoundly shows the mental process of an ordinary woman committed to protecting the lifeblood of culture at the time of the change of old and new ideas.
The play aims to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and show the excellent creative achievements of the grass-roots theaters and groups in our province to inherit and develop the art of opera and the good spiritual outlook of the grass-roots people.
Qin Cavity Modern Drama "Yi Folk Society"
In May 2018, the 28th Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Performing Arts Awards were announced. Hui Minli, president of Xi'an Yi Folk Society, won the Magnolia Drama Award for The Lead Actor Award for her wonderful interpretation of the role of Lin Mengyun in the Qin Cavity Modern Drama "Yi Folk Society".
Yi Folk Society is an ancient drama company with a history of 100 years. The Qin modern drama "Yi Folk Society" tells the history of the Yi Folk Society for more than 30 years in the early days. Through the real line displayed by historical materials and the dotted line of plot interpretation, the play combines the story of the heroine Lin Mengyun who has followed the Yi Folk Society for more than 30 years and finally became the first actress of the Yi Folk Society with the important historical events of the Yi Folk Society, intertwines the choices of the characters, the rise and fall of the drama club and the fate of the country and the nation, and shapes the group image represented by Guan Zhenyi, Lin Mengyun, Liu Tianfeng, and Gao Yuxuan. The spirit of pioneering and innovating, persistent persistence, willingness to dedicate, courage to take responsibility and the feeling of home and country that always breathe with the nation and the people and share a common destiny.
TV series "Loading Stage"
In June this year, the winners of the 27th Shanghai TV Festival "Magnolia Award" were announced. The Best Screenwriter (Adaptation) was won by Ma Xiaoyong, screenwriter of the Shaanxi local TV series "Loading Stage". The Shanghai TV Festival "Magnolia Award" and the Chinese TV series "Feitian Award" and the Chinese TV "Golden Eagle Award" are called the three awards of Chinese TV dramas.
Based on the novel of the same name by the famous writer Chen Yan, the TV series "Loading The Stage" adheres to the simple and fiery original intention of film and television, focuses on the emotional delicacy of ordinary laborers, tells the sour, sweet and bitter life of stage builders led by Diao Shunzi, and is a TV drama work with double harvest of word of mouth and ratings.
Since the TV series "Loading Station" was broadcast on a golden file on CCTV in November 2020, it has received praise from the public and the industry. In addition to the ups and downs and gripping plots in the play, the rich pyrotechnic atmosphere, the humorous "Shaanxi Pu", the Qin yun full of Qin cavity, the unique flavor of Xi'an, and the simplicity and integrity of the Shaanxi people have become the hot topics of discussion among the audience.
For this TV series with a strong Shaanxi style and full of human fireworks, the People's Daily published an article entitled "Only Works That Cut into the Depths of Life Are Charming", commenting: "The TV series "Loading Stage" has won praise from the audience and the market, once again revealing and confirming such a truth, placing creation in a fundamental position, and digging deep into social life and the spirit of the times, which is the foundation of the success of literary and artistic creation." ”
TV series "Years and Years of Persimmon Red"
In September 2020, the "Persimmon Red" launched by our province won the 32nd China TV Drama "Feitian Award" Outstanding TV Series Award.
"Years and Years of Persimmon Red" is a rural drama directed by Shen Hang and starring Wang Xihua, which tells the touching story of an ordinary rural woman Yang Persimmon, from marriage and family to encountering difficulties, and finally the happiness of her children and grandchildren. The play shows the fate, spiritual and emotional history of a generation of peasants in the 40-year history of rural changes, with an epic character.
"Persimmon Red" is obtained from digging deep into life, which is an exquisite presentation of rural customs paintings in northern Shaanxi, and is known as a real conscience drama and a clear stream in the film and television industry. The drama uses a simple way to tell the epic hardships of a woman in the background of the big era, with tears and laughter, and the warmth of human nature surges in the game of fate.
Movie "Zhou En's Return to Yan'an"
The film "Zhou En's Return to Yan'an" won the 15th "Five Ones Project" Award for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization in August 2019.
The film "Zhou En's Return to Yan'an", co-produced by the Propaganda Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and China Culture Media Group Co., Ltd., was released nationwide on May 15, 2019. Based on the film literary script "Premier Zhou Returns to Yan'an" by the well-known Shaanxi writer Cao Guxi, the film tells the story of Zhou Enlai, who was suffering from cancer in June 1973, after a gap of 26 years, and returned to Yan'an for 22 hours.
The film takes the historical event of Zhou Enlai's return to Yan'an in June 1973 as the narrative center, and uses four artistic techniques interlaced with time and space to tell the story of what Zhou Enlai saw, heard, thought and felt in Yan'an, connecting the group portraits of the people of Yan'an, Beijing Zhiqing, Zhou Enlai's staff and other characters, and interpreting the deep concern of a generation of great people for the people. The film recreates the little-known history of Zhou Enlai's 22-hour short visit to Yan'an from a unique perspective, which is of profound significance to the current realistic themes, especially the film and television creation of major revolutionary historical themes.
3D Qin Cavity Movie "Three Drops of Blood"
In December 2020, the first 3D Qin-cavity film "Three Drops of Blood", jointly promoted by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and the Xi'an Performing Arts Group, and produced by Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd., won the Excellent Opera Film Award at the 3rd China Opera Film Exhibition.
The China Opera Film Exhibition is the most professional and authoritative opera film exhibition in China, aiming to build a platform for the integration and common development of opera and film, and promote the inheritance of Chinese opera art and the development of film art.
In the 1960s, the first Qin-style black-and-white film "Three Drops of Blood" came out and won the praise of countless audiences. The 3D Qin Cavity film "Three Drops of Blood" takes the performance of opera as the foundation and the film display as the form, finds the convergence point between high-tech and traditional arts, effectively combines music, text, performance, etc., and finally perfectly displays this stage classic in front of the audience, so that Qin Cavity "Three Drops of Blood" enters the 3D film world from the opera stage.
Song "All the Way"
The song "All the Way" won the 15th "Five One Project" Award for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization in August 2019.
The song "All the Way", composed by Zhao Jiping and lyrics by Qu Yuan, writes the history of China's 40 years of reform and opening up. From "pushing open the window" to "opening the door", from "planting seedlings" to "growing into a forest", the lyrics are written from small to large, from far and near, integrating the feelings of home and country and the sense of historical responsibility into it, and the imagination space is wide and the connotation is profound and rich. The song is entered by the horn accompanied by the bell, creating a morning song-like introduction, at this time the music is like a calm stream, after the string group and the wind group blend, gradually converge into a surging tide. The musical material is exquisitely refined, concise and not complicated, and the melody is natural and smooth. Baritone singing makes the music warm and intimate in the lyrical passages, rich and firm in the excitement of pride. (The text is compiled by reporter Chen Zhitao and the pictures are all information pictures)