What is Gangnam? Everyone has a different answer. Oriental Satellite TV's first cultural program "Sven Jiangnan" will be broadcast at 22:00 on January 6. The program focuses on the five major cultural landmarks of Jiangnan, and invites performing arts masters and cultural scholars to combine the "reading around" of modern drama and traditional Chinese chanting to jointly interpret and read classic texts from all over the world, restoring an original Jiangnan.
Stills from the first episode of "Sven Jiangnan"
As a new original cultural collection program with rich cultural heritage, "Sven Jiangnan" will be invited by a star initiator to invite a number of performing arts masters and cultural scholars to participate together, from the local chronicle to the regional color, around the classic literary works created in the region, leading the audience to the five major Jiangnan cultural fields.
According to reports, the first season of the program has a total of 10 episodes, each of which is set up with two major theme chapters, which are divided into two parts: "speech" and "surrounding discussion". Among them, "Acting Reading" is mainly based on the immersive drama reading field in the studio, and the invited performing arts masters will each play a local related cultural figure. Guests will perform with sound, using classic works to create original scripts, supplemented by imagery of musical and dance situations. In "Wei Tan", cultural scholars will interpret historical figures and events, appreciate classic texts, and deeply collide with performing arts masters to show the aesthetics of life in the Jiangnan context.
In the first Special Program of Shaoxing broadcast on the evening of January 6, there were four Shaoxing cultural heroes "in battle" - Wang Xizhi, Lu You, Wang Yangming and Lu Xun. Li Zefeng, Mao Weitao, Bao Guoan and Hao Ping will serve as speakers, and together with the host Cao Kefan, cultural scholars Zhi An and Huang Xiaodan, they will "go" to Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, taking the Chinese family style and family training, the beauty of traditional Chinese love and Chinese the materialistic and open-minded concept of life and death as the topic, and reinterpreting it in combination with the values of people at present.
According to reports, "Sven Jiangnan" seamlessly connects historical figures of different eras "through time and space", and the actors' interpretations make the first program full of points. Among them, the old drama bone Bao Guoan played Wang Yangming for the first time, and he interpreted the Yangming xinxue that obeyed his heart very deeply. Yue opera actor Mao Weitao has been playing Lu You for more than 30 years, claiming that he was "also shaped by Lu You in the process of shaping Lu You", and even blew himself up because he was too into the drama and felt "out of his soul" during the performance. Mr. Lu Xun brought by the powerful actor Hao Ping is less familiar to the public, and more love and pity for the young son, so that the public can see a more homely image of Lu Xun. Young actor Li Zefeng incarnated as "Book Saint" Wang Xizhi, he admitted that this performance experience made him interested in calligraphy, and Wang Xizhi's identity as a martial artist also refreshed his inherent cognition.
Following the first visit to Shaoxing, Zhejiang, the program will also travel through Suzhou, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Xuancheng, Anhui and other cultural centers in Jiangnan, traveling through time and coming face-to-face with the literati and heroes in the long river of history.