On the evening of January 12, the 7th Hunan Arts Festival, which lasted for nearly four months, was successfully concluded at hunan hotel.
The grand event is over, and the "art" is still unfinished. Three years of artistic practice and exploration, Huxiang Stage full of fanghua. At the award ceremony of the 7th Hunan Arts Festival, a number of outstanding literary and artistic works were commended on the spot. On behalf of Xiangtan City, the large-scale modern flower drum play "Battlefield Yellow Flower" represented Xiangtan City in the 7th Hunan Arts Festival, accumulated a lot of fame and returned home, and won five major awards in the professional art category: Tian Han New Repertoire Award, Tian Han Screenwriting Award, Tian Han Director Award, Tian Han Dance Beauty Award, and Tian Han Performance Award.
The flower drum play pays tribute to the revolutionary martyrs
Xiangtan is the hometown of the great leader Chairman Mao, and the people of his hometown have deep feelings for the chairman; in order to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs, carry forward the spirit of patriotism, and also to express the profound nostalgia of the xiangtan people for the six relatives of Chairman Mao who sacrificed for the revolution, the Propaganda Department of the Xiangtan Municipal CPC Committee and the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, and Sports decided to focus on the creation of a large-scale modern flower drum play "Yellow Flowers on the Battlefield" based on the revolutionary story of Mao Zedong's cousin Mao Zejian.
It took more than two years and accumulated more than two years. From the prototype of the text to the stage presentation, to the drastic improvement and revision, "revolutionary belief" and "hometown feelings" run through the whole process. Xiangtan City's artistic creation and practice have always adhered to the people-centered approach, walking with the times and telling the story of China.
Over the past two years, the main creative team of the play and all the cast and crew of Xiangtan Art Theater have overcome the inconvenience and difficulties of the epidemic, funds, venues and other aspects, and devoted themselves to the creation and rehearsal of "Yellow Flowers on the Battlefield". The creative team and cast members have said that participating in such a work of revolutionary history has not only gained artistic gains and growth in creative practice, but also profoundly inspired by the great revolutionary spirit and patriotic spirit of revolutionary martyrs, and undoubtedly experienced a vivid party history education lesson.
In 1949, Mao Zedong said: "It is a pity that Ju Meizi's sacrifice is a pity, she is a good comrade." "For the sake of the family, she is a good sister, unswervingly supporting the revolutionary path of the third brother; for the people, she eliminates evil and promotes good; for the country, she is a heroic and indomitable martyr." It is precisely in this kind of fearless revolutionary spirit that the main creative team of "Battlefield Yellow Flower" lasted more than 2 years of planning and design, and after many times of collection, research and discussion, the story of "her" was finally put on the stage.
Traditional opera with modern elements
Blended exploration
"Battlefield Yellow Flower" with artistic director Lou Xiangqian and art director Tong Xiaoyang as the core of the main creative team to explore unremittingly, whether it is the excellence of stage, lighting, or character modeling, costume design as the history of love, in the music also adopted a new accompaniment mode, the flower drum opera traditional instruments and MIDI music combined, through modern opera vocabulary, stage design and character modeling to create a modern atmosphere, giving revolutionary themes to contemporary art aesthetics. The traditional flower drum opera art and the expression of contemporary art are integrated, and the traditional flower drum opera vocabulary echoes with the spirit of the times and the trend of thought, which is a vivid practice of the creative team's creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture.
The audience at the festival performance said that as a modern flower drum play, the flower drum drama has a strong taste, the music design is full of strong local characteristics, and the dance aesthetic costume has both a heavy sense of history and adapts to the modern aesthetic. Through the life story of Mao Zejian' characters, the whole drama is connected, combined with the integration of modern art elements, and at the same time integrated into the traditional intangible cultural heritage projects such as xiangtan local mountain songs and shrimp lamps, so that the play is "good to hear and look good".
The victory of the Seventh Hunan Arts Festival came to an end, and Mao Zejian's revolutionary spirit and "the courage to dare to teach the sun and the moon for a new day and righteousness for the sacrifice of many heroes will always inspire and inspire us." Zhang Xianghan, secretary of the party committee and director of the Xiangtan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports, the producer of the play, said: Xiangtan's literary and artistic creations must tell the Story of China well, first of all, we must tell the story of Xiangtan, Xiangtan is a city with a rich revolutionary historical background, after the end of the art festival, we must continue to improve the quality of "Yellow Flowers on the Battlefield", tour and promote at the same time, deeply explore the red resources of Xiangtan, create more literary and artistic works with profound thinking, exquisite art, and excellent production of the red revolution history theme, and pay tribute to the great Xiangtan revolutionary pioneers! Salute to all the revolutionary martyrs who gave their blood and lives for our happy life today! Do not forget the original heart, forge ahead, look back at the road ahead, only a word of heart to comfort the revolutionary martyrs - the grand scenery of mountains and rivers, as you wish!