Host of the first Beijing Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly. Courtesy of the Civil Affairs Department of Beijing
Beijing, January 28 (Xinhua) -- Today, the reporter learned from the Beijing civil affairs department that the first Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly in Beijing has been successfully recorded and will make a wonderful appearance on the third day of the Chinese New Year on February 3, carrying forward the traditional virtues of filial piety and respect for the elderly through "cultural pension", and showing the happy life and positive spiritual outlook of the elderly in the new era.
The first Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly in Beijing was hosted by the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau and Beijing Radio and Television Station, co-organized by the Beijing Pension Industry Association, hosted by brTV Life Channel Center, and exclusively titled by Gonghe Home. With the theme of "National Strength and Prosperity, Youth of People", based on the development trend of the aging cause in the capital, deeply respecting the elderly, pouring out love for the elderly, doing the things of the old, taking the warm emotions as the dark line, and taking the colorful literary and artistic programs as the way of presentation, the evening party vividly interpreted the happy scene of the elderly in the new era of "beautiful life , every journey" and "beautiful life , every day", and jointly composed the prosperous chapter of the Spring Festival Gala for the elderly in the transmission of warmth and positive energy.
Deconstructing the happy life of the elderly in the new era
The evening party lasted for one month from preparation, audition, re-selection, rehearsal to performance, and the participants included well-known old artists, elderly performance groups, Beijing pension industry practitioners, representatives of outstanding pension institutions, as well as children and ordinary elderly people in the community, and the program performance covered singing, dance, instrumental music, recitation, catwalk and other art forms.
In order to be able to comprehensively show the happy life of the elderly in the new era, the evening party is divided into four chapters in the choreography structure: "National Strength and Prosperity, People's Youth", "Love and Beauty, People's Warmth", "Filial Piety And Promotion, People's Happiness", and "Heartless People's Youth", from the four angles of national security, social service, children's filial piety, and their own mentality, to deconstruct the happy life of the elderly in the new era, and convey the main idea of "the country is not old, the family is not old, and the people are not old" with real and vivid emotions. The beginning of each chapter adopts the form of children's recitation of the Three Character Sutra, which uses profound cultural heritage to highlight the moral feelings, rhythm and beauty of the Chinese nation, and it is appropriate to chant and chant.
As the main provider and backbone of old-age care services, elderly care workers promote the high-quality development of old-age services in the new era. There are currently 12,000 nursing staff in Beijing, who use endless patience and love like parents to send meticulous care to countless elderly people and bring a happier life experience. The evening party specially invited 16 representatives of outstanding nursing staff in the city to jointly perform the chorus song "Like You", showing the style of the current elderly care workers and their contributions to the development of the elderly care cause, bringing a sincere mark that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the public.
Zhu Mingying sang "New Year Arrives". Courtesy of the Civil Affairs Department of Beijing
The old artist sings the classic virtue and art double xin and blooms again
Li Guangxi, a 93-year-old famous tenor artist, despite his inconvenient legs and feet and usually relies on a wheelchair to walk, still insisted on standing at the party scene and sang his classic song "Toast Song".
Zhu Mingying, a famous singing artist who has become popular all over the country with a song "Back to Mother's Home", is 72 years old this year. In the opening chapter, she led the audience to embark on the footsteps of finding spring with a song "New Year Arrives" in a cheerful song, and jointly painted a happy picture of the new year.
The 86th edition of Journey to the West is an insurmountable classic, and so is the affectionate golden song in the play. Singer Wu Jing, as the original singer of the interlude "Daughter Love" in the play, reproduces the natural sound of "Daughter Love".
The 63-year-old Mou Xuanfu sang calmly and melodiously, and at the party he prepared a song "Grassland Night" in cooperation with the ethnic choir with an average age of 70 years old, dedicated to the first Spring Festival Gala for the elderly.
Although Fan Shengqi, the first chinese saxophone, is 89 years old, the scene is still the same. Danced by the children, Fan Shengqi prepared a cheerful Yi classic song "A Xi Jumping Moon".
The 78-year-old hongyun, the first batch of golden microphone award winners, and Chen Duo, an 83-year-old first-generation television worker, also appeared, and the two veteran artists joined hands to reproduce the classic cooperation of the Peak of Chinese documentary "Talking about the Yangtze River", and specially brought a recitation entitled "Every Spring is a New Youth" for the first Spring Festival Gala for the elderly.
Young and old share the joy of youth and song
On the first Spring Evening of the Elderly, "Duet Story" brought the stage enjoyment of pop and classics in the form of the interpretation of the elderly singing new songs and children singing old songs, and highlighted the "one old and one small" people's livelihood temperature in the music of the old and the young; the fashionable grandmother group that had been wearing the non-heritage batik cheongsam in Sanlitun and exploded on the network joined hands with the cool grandfather group to stage a catwalk skewer, and these grandparents whose average age was nearly ancient walked out of a new chapter in their lives with a fashionable pace In the bright and cheerful musical language and vibrant rhythm, the National Choir and the Hepingli Community Elderly Choir poured out the infinite yearning and longing of the young heart for the future, bringing "Meet Again in Twenty Years" and the original song "Just Tu Solo Music" respectively.
In addition, the outstanding works that stood out in the "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly": the men's solo "Your Appearance", the men's solo "Beijing Dialect Beijing" and the women's group dance "Yihai Love" also made a wonderful appearance in the first Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly.
Fan Shengqi played saxophone's "A Fine Jumping Moon". Courtesy of the Civil Affairs Department of Beijing
The new era of affection for the elderly celebrates the new style of filial piety and civilization
In recent years, Beijing has comprehensively expanded the development connotation of the old-age service industry, and strived to create a "home-based, community-based, institutional supplementary, medical and nursing care combination" old-age service system. The chorus song "Better Home" in the evening was jointly created by the families of the elderly in the Gonghe Home Community and the community G.O (Good Life Organizer), showing the harmony and warmth of the community and the closeness of the neighbors. At the same time, the song "Mother is Old" brought by Xu Fei, a music therapist of Gongheyuan, became a memory point in the evening in the warm melody.
In addition to the wonderful and beautiful literary and artistic performances, the first Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly specially designed in each chapter of the "Tell Your Story" link, through the group video of more than 80 elderly people in various pension institutions and pension communities in Beijing, tells the stories of ordinary people, presents the heart-warming moments between the elderly and their children, and resonates with plain and sincere emotions. and
At the same time, the evening party group filmed the smiles of more than 60 elderly people by entering the pension community, and captured the tidbits of the smiles of the elderly in the background of the party scene, showing the most real mental outlook and old age life of the elderly in the new era.
In terms of stage design, the first Spring Festival Gala for the Elderly broke the previous inherent design of the Spring Festival Gala, mixing and matching rose red and blue in tones, supplemented by white, gray, gold and other shades, and integrating the image creativity of "bowl" into the stage shape. In Chinese culture, the "bowl" symbolizes the reunion of the family, meaning that thousands of families gather together to celebrate the New Year, and pinned good wishes for the new year. (End)
Source: China News Network