Elephant News reporter Wu Jingjing
Spring Festival, family reunion. This is the most important traditional festival in Chinese culture, carrying people's warm and perfect emotional memories. In the special moment, the concept of family reunion extends beyond, from "small family" to "everyone", precipitating the deep feelings of the unity of home and country and the unity of home and country. At such a moment, the 2022 Henan Spring Festival Gala, in the name of "home", will open up a warm "New Year Universe" space through AI, real-life interaction and other technologies to accompany the audience to look back and look forward. The 2022 Henan Spring Festival Gala is produced by Henan Radio and Television Station, co-produced by Youku and premiered exclusively on the whole network. The party will premiere exclusively on Youku at 18:30 on January 28, 2022, and will be broadcast on Henan Satellite TV and Elephant News Client at 19:30.
In the name of "home"
Based on the present and looking back and looking forward
The 2022 Henan Spring Festival Gala takes "home" as the core theme and presents the special emotions and feelings of "home" in the whole evening. According to the main creative team, the evening party adopts the big picture, small start, from the family to the family, home country, home country and homeland emotions and divergence, all programs are original, condensing the theme of "going home" in the body, heart, emotion and spirit during the Spring Festival. In the musical "The Direction of Home", "Henan Baby" Wang Yibo sent blessings to his hometown, and singer Zheng Yunlong interpreted his deep yearning for home with a moving song.
In the past year, rooted in traditional culture to find innovative expressions, Henan Radio and Television Station launched the "Chinese Festivals" series has done a lot of exploration. If the "Chinese Festivals" series is more in the long river of history, let the audience indulge in the profundity of Chinese history and culture, in this Spring Festival Gala, continue the theme style of "national tide", continue to plant traditional culture, but the intention is to choose to return to the present - based on the moment we are in, looking back and looking forward, the general director of the party Chen Lei introduced, in the evening, you can see the New Year's tradition that has been Chinese for thousands of years, and you can also see the new folk customs that continue to emerge and rise in the new era.
For example, the song and dance "Shenzhou Gate God" combines the classical dance and martial arts action elements in traditional Chinese culture with the popular street dance loved by young people at present, and uses the trendy National Style Dance as the carrier to reflect the traditional beauty, sense of strength and trend of the program. There is also a children's dance "Yellow River Mud Baby" based on the national intangible cultural heritage clay sculpture technology as the prototype, telling the inheritance of the Yellow River cultural roots. Cute children imitate clay dolls, reminding everyone of those innocent childhood "old times".
With women's feelings of home and country as the core, portray the heroes of the scarf group portraits... The dance "Towel Order" combines the wonderful performances of Ling Yun, the inheritor of the Emei Sect, and a number of well-known pop dancers in the industry, and pays tribute to the independent self-reliance and home and country feelings of women in different eras through the integration of dance, film and television narrative lines.
The song and dance "The World under Health" specially invited lyricist Fang Wenshan and singer Zhang Yixing to co-create, interpret the culture of traditional Chinese medicine with fashion songs and dances, and through the empowerment of AI technology, create a warm and dreamy visual spectacle for the audience.
Opening the Warm "Year Universe"
Real-life interaction creates a multi-dimensional space
Last year's "Chinese Festivals" series broke the traditional stage performance form and created a new presentation of "network drama + network synthesis". In this Spring Festival Gala, it returned to the stage, carried out creative development on the basis of the form of the stage, adopted the form of stage performance + real scene interpretation, built a 5,000 square meters of multi-scene, multi-dimensional performance space, in the form of real-scene interaction, with storytelling as the main technique, once again presented to the audience a visual spectacle feast with great innovation and breakthrough.
What is surprising is that many explosive cultural IP images such as Tang Xiaomei and Roselle hatched in last year's Chinese festival will all be reunited to replace the host of the party and become an important tandem role. In the opening program "Spring Festival is Coming", the five protagonists of Tang Xiaomei, King Kong, Roselle and Tmall dolls gathered together, walking on the old street full of festive atmosphere, suddenly a time and space door opened, and the five protagonists led everyone through time and space to enter a wonderful and endless "Nian Universe".
In this "Nian Universe", closely following the New Year culture, to create a comprehensive performance: in addition to the innovative performance of song and dance interpretation as the core of the wonderful tour, it also adds the forms of cross-talk, sketches, creative performances and other forms that the masses like to hear during the Spring Festival, and boldly tries the cross-border integration of various elements.
For example, the dance "Lantern Red" structures the Spring Festival symbol of the lantern in the form of a dance; the instrumental music "The Year of the Tiger" presents a humorous, New Year's flavor, laughing and tearful informal performance; the creative tai chi "Next Second" uses the philosophical thinking of tai chi as a thought guide, and with the image of modern dance, it will present "tai chi program without playing tai chi".
Luoyang peony, the national color of heavenly fragrance, full of dynastic weather. The dance "National Color Tianxiang" gathered eleven of China's top dancers, interpreting legendary figures such as Bai Juyi, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan'er and other legends of the Tang Dynasty, and went to a grand "Peony Covenant". According to the creators, when they are planning, regardless of the form of the program, there is a common standard, "that is, the theme expressed can evoke everyone's emotional resonance." ”
Convey warmth and confidence
Cooked with a rich Yu flavor spring festival gala
As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, thousands of years ago civilization flourished and passed on the cultural heritage, leaving many valuable cultural heritages on the land of Henan. The oracle bones found in the Yin Ruins of Anyang, Henan Province, are the earliest mature writing systems ever found in China. The dance program "Good Year" dismantles the word "Nian" in the oracle bone, and through the interpretation of the dancers, the harmonious coexistence of human beings and nature is shown one by one with the wish of blessing. When the wheat gradually forms a golden wheat wave wheat bran, people greet the harvest, and it also indicates the growth of tenacious vitality.
The sketch "Elephant Fantastic Tour", which combines Henan dialect and Henan cuisine, interprets a wonderful story in a youthful trend and creative way. Xiangsheng "Festival High" invites "Yuyu" young cross-talk actors, incarnated as "festival" planning masters, to discuss "Chinese festivals", competitions to find "high", a "high" word throughout the venue, wonderful, in a happy and lively atmosphere to send laughter and blessings to everyone.
2021 has experienced a lot, torrential rain disasters, new crown epidemics, critical moments, ordinary people come forward, you and I watch to help each other, so some from the emotions that everyone has experienced at the moment, the creator hopes that he can soothe his heart, express gratitude and inspire confidence through the party at the spring festival moment.
The stage play "Like for You", starting from a small office in the People's Daily, through the expression of two ordinary intern reporters, through three stories: the average 60-year-old grandmother realizes her youthful ballet dream, the owner of the coffee shop does not forget the original heart to adhere to the inheritance of Peking Opera, and the post-90s lion teenager inherits the culture of the lion... Looking back on this extraordinary year, reproducing those ordinary and touching moments, every effort deserves to be respected.
The sketch "Don't Talk About Money" uses witty and humorous stories to express the gratitude of Henan people in the past year, experiencing various dangers. There are also songs such as "People's Country", "Heart to the Distance", "Pilot", etc., with magnificent and exciting melodies, inspiring lyrics, and magnificent pictures, condensing the majestic power of the new journey with their heads held high.
Tigers and tigers are full of Chinese trends, rejoicing and celebrating the New Year! In the world of the "Year Universe", there are still many surprises waiting for you to see! Henan Spring Festival Gala program single official announcement, take a look at it!