The picture shows the Dai dance skewer "Phoenix Flying". Photo by Li Jiaxian
Kunming, January 28 (Xinhua) -- Under the guidance of the Information Office of the State Council, the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province and the Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province jointly sponsored the 2022 Transnational New Year Literary and Art Gala and Spring Festival Cultural Exchange Series activities of the "Four Seas for a Long Time, Five Continents and Spring Festival Cultural Exchanges" will be officially launched on the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Spring Festival (January 31). As the highlight of the event, the "'Spring Warm Blossoms' Transnational Chinese New Year Literary and Art Evening" will also be broadcast to a global audience through the Internet on Chinese New Year's Eve night, and will also be broadcast on the new media platform of mainstream media in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and West Asia.
In recent years, Yunnan Province has successfully held a number of New Year literary and artistic evenings in Bangkok, Thai Valley, Vientiane, Laos, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Kathmandu, Nepal, and Yangon, Myanmar, and fully demonstrated the achievements of friendly exchanges, economic construction and people-to-people exchanges between Yunnan and Southeast Asian countries with transnational literary and artistic performances full of New Year atmosphere, festive atmosphere, Yunnan characteristics, exotic customs and unique ingenuity.
This year's "'Spring Warm Blossoms' Transnational New Year Literary and Art Evening" continues the wonderful and colorful events of the past, showing the colorful literary and artistic programs of South Asia and Southeast Asia", "this land where humanities gather and flourish", and at the same time showing the beautiful picture of win-win cooperation between Yunnan and the countries in this region, and hoping to build a rainbow bridge between the people, connecting hearts and dreams, and passing on the fiery Chinese New Year and strong human feelings to thousands of households and to everyone's heart.
What are the highlights and highlights of the party? The reporter interviewed the main creator of the party and some of the participating artists, and gave everyone a little spoiler in advance.
The picture shows a dance performance by a South Asian artist. Courtesy of the performers
Highlight 1: Internet technology lights up the "cloud" party
Affected by the global COVID-19 epidemic, "cloud exchange, cloud interaction" has become the main form and means of transnational cultural exchanges at present and in the future. This year's "'Spring Warm Blossoms' Transnational New Year Literary and Art Gala" transforms traditional theater art into an audiovisual feast, using Internet technology to help present it, and presenting it to global audiences through the Internet and other communication media.
"In fact, before the epidemic, the way people receive stage information has changed, from the two-way communication field with a sense of ceremony in the traditional enclosed space to the diversified interactive methods of internet new media communication." The creator of the party said, "The special form of the Internet party gives the participating artists more possibilities to realize their imaginative ideas. ”
It was revealed that the evening program "Rice Noodles" is that the artist uses yunnan characteristic ingredients to build a real scene, and then introduces animated microfocal photography techniques to transform the ingredients into the landscapes and rivers of Yunnan, telling the story of the origin and development of rice noodles. "Such a program, on the Internet, with the help of new scientific and technological means to achieve, will bring a refreshing look and feel to the audience."
Highlight 2: Multinational artists work together to create an exotic atmosphere
The party included about 20 programs at home and abroad such as China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, etc., and the program types included dance, song, skewers, ethnic customs, and food scenery.
In addition to the wonderful programs showing traditional Chinese culture such as the dance "Harvest Encouragement" presented by Chinese artists, the video "Friendship in Food", and the dance "Taiping Elephant", there are also artists from South and Southeast Asia who bring special programs such as the Malaysian dance "Pulsating Rainforest", the Sri Lankan dance "Auspicious Light", the Lao song "Champa Flower", the Thai dance "Long Armor Dance", and the Indonesian song "Star Cord in the Heart".
Because the evening was broadcast to a global audience, they strived to make the evening show diversified regional characteristics and cultural connotations, making it a very distinctive, wonderful, joyful and peaceful transnational "cloud" Chinese New Year literary and art evening.
Highlight 3: Yunnan ethnic minority elements are wonderful
Located in southwest China, Yunnan borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and is adjacent to many countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Geographical proximity, cultural similarity and cultural affinity have made Yunnan the forefront and radiation center of China's people-to-people exchanges in South and Southeast Asia. This "'Spring Warm Blossom' Transnational New Year Literary and Art Gala", Yunnan elements are indispensable.
Yunnan is the province with the largest ethnic diversity in China, with 26 ethnic groups living in the world, including Han, Dai, Hani, Bai, Zhuang and Miao. Therefore, Yunnan national culture is rich and diverse, and the evening party fully demonstrated this characteristic. The Hani ethnic dance "Oriental Tap", the Tibetan female singer solo "Abba", the Yi dance "Happy New Year", and the Dai dance skewer "Phoenix Flying Sky" are all programs with great Yunnan ethnic elements.
The picture shows a Tibetan female singer singing "Abba". Photo by Li Jiaxian
In particular, it is worth mentioning that in order to make this evening more diverse, a number of artists in Yunnan visited the villages of Yunnan Deang, Tibetan and other ethnic groups, carefully observed and collected the sound environment materials in the life and production of ethnic people, and then artistically processed and created the sound work of "Sound into the Ears". "We went to the mountains and fields of Yunnan, took sound elements from the lives of ethnic people, collected sound elements such as Deang roasted sour tea, Tibetan butter tea, and found representative sound elements from the fire pond culture and farming culture in Lijiang and other places." The creators said.
The picture shows the artist performing the sound work "Sound into the Ear". Photo by Li Jiaxian
Highlight 4: Express the beautiful vision of mutual learning among civilizations
The evening will take a large number of video videos showing the cultural connection between Chinese Spring Festival culture, ethnic culture and South Asian and Southeast Asian countries as the main narrative line, take the outstanding literary and artistic performance works in Yunnan Province and some South Asian and Southeast Asian countries as the main content, take the warm romance of "Spring Warm Blossoms" as the theme and style, and use the six chapters of "Spring Qi", "Spring Ploughing", "Spring Feast", "Spring Joy", "Chunhua" and "Chunhui" to highlight the concept of affinity, sincerity, benefit and tolerance, and show the beautiful vision of being kind to neighbors, taking neighbors as companions, inclusiveness and mutual learning among civilizations.
How to highlight the concept of sincerity and benefit? The evening programs of the Tea Horse Ancient Road "Playing Songs" skewers, the video "Southern Silk Road" and the video "New Silk Road" start from the exchanges between ancient China and South and Southeast Asia, and extend to today's "Belt and Road" initiative to make this huge region with a population of about 3.7 billion people once again closely linked.
How to talk about inclusiveness and mutual learning among civilizations? The party invited the "Puman Band" from Yunnan to bring the song "Who is the Mountain Horse Gang" that combines Yunnan ethnic music and reggae music.
The picture shows the "Puman Band" performing the song "For whom the Mountain Horse Gang Comes". Photo by Li Jiaxian
Reggae music comes from North America and blends elements of American rhythm and blues with elements of Latin music. The lead singer of the "Puman Band" said that the Yunnan national music style is very suitable for the beat of reggae music. "Combining the original ecology of Yunnan national music with the empty inspiration of reggae music can create a spatial illusion that makes people feel as if they are in the middle of a mountain." In recent years, Yunnan national music has gradually begun to collide with reggae music to create sparks.
For thousands of years, multi-ethnic groups have lived harmoniously in the paradise of Yunnan, people are kind to their neighbors, neighbors as companions, inclusive, showing amazing civilization tolerance and integration, Yunnan national music itself inherits this trait, which gives them the courage to explore the integration path with different music in the world. With the help of the performance opportunity of this evening, they hope that the integration and collision of Yunnan national music and reggae music can bring enlightenment to the mutual learning of civilizations in the world.
It is reported that including Sri Lanka's "Daily News", NewsWire, Neth FM, Malaysia-China Insight (Malaysia-China Perspective), Malaysia's National News Agency, and Myanmar's "Golden Phoenix Newspaper", Silk Road New Observation Russian Network, "Silk Road Today" (Kazakh version) and other South Asian, Southeast Asian, Central Asian, West Asian media, institutional television stations, new media platforms will broadcast the evening. (End)