The picture shows the dance "Fish Leaping Dragon Gate Backgammon". Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- From January 30 to February 2, the 2022 "Happy Spring Festival" Cloud Literary and Art Festival was unveiled on city television, networks and social media in Finland, Estonia, Greece, Canada and Belgium, and was disseminated and pushed internationally on Beijing time, Visit Beijing and other platforms.
This is what the reporter learned today from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism.
"Happy Spring Festival" is a large-scale cultural exchange activity brand jointly launched by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in conjunction with relevant ministries and commissions of the state, cultural groups and overseas institutions, aiming to spend the Lunar New Year with the people of all countries, share Chinese culture and build a harmonious world together.
The picture shows non-genetic heirs blowing dolphins, a greek national treasure, on the spot. Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
Artistic performances blend in with the cityscape
In this year's "Happy Spring Festival" literary and artistic festival, the martial arts, dances, Peking operas and music performances with Chinese style are wonderful, and the scenery of Beijing, ice sculptures in the Year of the Tiger, and ice and snow winter Olympics are beautiful.
"Happy Spring Festival" invites professional academies and troupes to carefully create programs using modern stage art means, integrating various performing art forms such as opera, music, martial arts, dance, etc., interspersed with wonderful short films such as Beijing's traditional and modern city scenery, intangible cultural heritage, and zodiac ice sculptures, and producing a literary and artistic festival full of visual charm, showing The charming style of Beijing as a national cultural center, an international exchange center, a world cultural city and a world tourist destination city. The program is tailor-made for each city, and the video content is colorful.
The new interpretation boosts the national tide to go overseas
In the program of the 2022 "Happy Spring Festival" literary and artistic festival, the dance "Fish Leaping Dragon Gate Backgammon" brought by the Dance Troupe of the Central National Song and Dance Troupe came to life and borrowed from the past and the present; the program "Cow Joyful Tiger Leaping" performed by the Central Conservatory of Music was played with a big drum, which showed the stubbornness and toughness of the cow and the mighty and bravery of the tiger. The cattle and tigers meet and are full of vitality, ushering in the Year of the Tiger.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, wushu was displayed in front of the world as a special competition item, and Chinese martial arts is an important part of traditional Chinese culture and one of the main contents of national sports. The martial arts performance "Zu Wu Chengyun" brought by the Dragon Yun Martial Arts Troupe uses Chinese fans as martial arts props, combining elements of etiquette with sports to express the tribute to the Olympic spirit.
In addition, the Peking Opera song "Ode to the Pear Blossom" brought by Bai Jin, an artist from the Beijing Opera House, sings in a gentle, magnificent and beautiful mood, and the characteristic Meipai singing voice promotes the "national tide" to show its style overseas.
The picture shows Luo Tong and George visiting the Houhai Sea. Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
Together with overseas sister cities, we will move forward to the future
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics coincides with the Spring Festival, and ice and snow sports are intertwined with Chinese New Year folk customs and traditional culture. The song "Ice and Snow Winter Olympics" composed for the Beijing Winter Olympics combines the theme of the Winter Olympics with the festive and peaceful Spring Festival atmosphere. The literary and art festival specially invited the artists of the Central Conservatory of Music to adapt the theme song of the Winter Olympics into a folk music version, and the program was full of ice and snow tenderness and the enthusiasm of the New Year.
Liu Binbin, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Beijing sugar painting, came to the scene of the grand ceremony to display his 12 Zodiac works, and improvised "blowing sugar people" at the invitation of the guests. The piping hot maltose was constantly flipped in Liu Binbin's hand, and a long straw was pulled out of it in an instant, and a blow was blown with his mouth, and the magical animal image was exquisitely displayed in front of his eyes.
In order to welcome the New Year with overseas people, the inheritors have bred the Finnish cartoon image "Moomin", the Estonian cartoon image "Lotti", the Greek national treasure dolphin, the Canadian maple leaf, etc., and the intangible cultural heritage works are vivid and lively, and the taste of the year is full.
Visiting Beijing brings a new experience of Sino-Greek exchanges
2022 coincides with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Greece, the Sino-Greek Cultural Tourism Year activities continue to be held, and the Greek version of the "Happy Spring Festival" specially planned Chinese New Year's Eve dinner session, inviting ancient Greek theater experts Luo Jinlin and Luo Tong's father and daughter, Greek photographers George and his wife, Beijing Hebei Wuzi Theater Troupe leader Wang Hongling, and China Commentary Theatre art director Wang Yaxun to celebrate the Chinese New Year and talk about Sino-Greek friendship.
Luo Tong and George also led the audience to tour Shichahai and visit Sanlitun to feel the unique charm of Beijing's historical and cultural features and modern urban civilization. Visiting ancient cultural shops in Yanbao Xie Street, rabbits, paper fans and other traditional Chinese crafts are given new ideas; Shichahai Ice Rink is popular, showing the warm ice and snow sports atmosphere of the Winter Olympics; tasting rock sugar gourds, donkey rolls, enemas, barbecues and other Beijing specialties in the hutongs; Various fashion brands, trendy dressing and rich cultural and artistic activities in Sanlitun Taikoo Li highlight the fashion vitality of Beijing as an international metropolis.
In order to help the Winter Olympics, Luo Tong and George also introduced the winter Olympic video theme exhibition held at the China Millennium Monument to the audience. The exhibition showcases more than 20 precious photographs taken by the famous photographer Albert Meyer at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. These historical images have traveled across the ocean to China for the first time from the Benaki Museum in Greece, offering good wishes from the Olympic homeland for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games.
The picture shows a folk music artist playing "Jasmine". Courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism
Chinese-Finnish artists play "Jasmine" in the air
In 2021, Beijing Design Week was successfully held, and the sister city of Helsinki was the guest city of the Design Week. Performed by Ida Elina, a famous Finnish singer, composer and top kontler, Jasmine made her debut at Beijing Design Week, where she combined Chinese folk songs with Finnish instruments to form a unique artistic style of Sino-Finnish fusion.
The Finnish version of "Jasmine" was also unveiled in the online Finnish version of the "Happy Spring Festival" literary and artistic festival. In response, the Central Conservatory of Music will perform "Jasmine" in the form of traditional folk music in the form of live broadcast, and artists from China and Finland will communicate over the air and use music to dialogue.
It is understood that the 2022 online "Happy Spring Festival" literary and art festival is co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the Helsinki Municipal Government, the Tallinn Municipal Government, the Chinese Embassy in Finland, the Chinese Embassy in Estonia, the Chinese Embassy in Greece, the Chinese Embassy in Canada and the Chinese Embassy in Belgium, co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Helsinki Municipal Ministry of Culture and Leisure, the Tallinn Municipal Bureau of Culture and Sports, and produced by the Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Center. (End)