"Chinese eat dumplings, which have been passed down for nearly two thousand years!"
"Sure enough, the craftsmanship left by the ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation!"
"It's so shocking that I can actually see the dumplings of the Tang Dynasty, and I actually have a feeling of traveling through a thousand years!"
"How strong is the inheritance of Chinese culture?"
Recently, the short video topic #Dumplings of the Tang Dynasty is almost exactly the same as now # caused a hot discussion on the Internet, ranking in the top five of Weibo hot searches, with more than 13 hours on the list and 330 million reads. Through the "Eastern Han Dynasty Grey Pottery Female Chef Figurines" and dumplings unearthed in Turpan more than 1,000 years ago, the video shows the traditional custom of eating dumplings during the Spring Festival Chinese.
Dumplings from the Tang Dynasty were almost exactly the same as they are now
This video is the first cultural creation program "Ancient Rhymes and New Spring" jointly produced by the China Central Radio and Television Corporation and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, which traces the origin of the Chinese Spring Festival customs across the millennium. It is reported that the full program will be broadcast on CCTV-1 Chinese New Year's Eve at 12:40 p.m., accompanying the audience to bid farewell to the old year, welcome the new year, and explore "how the ancients spent the Spring Festival".
As a special program of the Spring Festival Gala of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the "Ancient Rhyme new spring" produced by the comprehensive channel (CCTV-1) revolves around the atmosphere tone of "cultural New Year", takes "one thing and one song" as the core concept, takes the traditional cultural elements in ancient cultural relics as the clue, adopts the innovative form of "cultural interview traceability + literary and artistic interpretation", deeply excavates and combs the "opening way of the Spring Festival" of the Chinese nation from ancient times to the present, and traces the cultural connotation of the Chinese New Year.
Taking cultural relics as the line, the "Chinese Year" millennium vein is connected in a panoramic manner
Tracing back to the source, where did the "Year of China" come from? How do New Year customs come about? And how to pass it on step by step to the present?
In order to answer these questions, "Ancient Rhymes and New Year" specially invited Four experts and scholars, Zhang Zhiqing, deputy director of the National Library of China, Ren Wanping, vice president of the Palace Museum, Kang Zhen, professor of the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, and Wang Zhan, deputy research librarian of the National Museum of China, together with the hosts of the general station, Sabine and Wang Jianning, spanned the millennium time, counted the traditional cultural elements related to the Chinese New Year on the timeline, deeply excavated and sorted out the formation and evolution of the New Year culture and annual customs, and traced the inheritance of the "Chinese Year" culture over the millennium.
Turning the time compass, the program from the ancient painting "Feng Feng Tu", leading to the earliest record of the "New Year" in historical documents, "Shijing, Feng Feng, July", explaining the ceremony of the Western Zhou people celebrating the harvest in the New Year; from the Western Han Dynasty Sima Qian's proposal to revise the "Taichu Calendar", telling the time of the first month of the year, from the "Western Han Painted Long-sleeved Female Dance Figurines" to show the grace and magnificence of the "Hanle Dance" and the characteristics of the dance costumes of the "HanLe Dance" at that time; from the ancient painting "Gongsun Da Niang Dancing Sword Diagram" and other cultural relics, explaining the "New Year Group Meeting" on the night Chinese New Year's Eve of the Tang Dynasty and the "New Year Group Meeting" on the first day of the first lunar month of the Tang Dynasty The grandeur will also introduce the traditional New Year custom of "Watching Drama in the New Year", which began in the Qing Dynasty, from the opera program list "Chinese New Year's Eve Drama Folding" treasured by the Palace Museum and the "Celebrating Shengping" opera character album stored in the National Library of China.
In addition to depicting the footprints of the "Year of China" for thousands of years, "Ancient Rhymes and New Spring" also uses the power of cultural relics to bring together thousands of years of annual customs.
The harmonic melody that has been circulated for thousands of years - the Spring Festival food "Baishiji", the ancient painting "Lanting Xiuyu Tu" depicts the elegant activities of the Wei and Jin literati to welcome the New Year - "Qushui Liuxiang", the origin of the puzzle recorded in the ancient book "Wenxin Carved Dragon", one of the earliest surviving woodblock prints in China, "Sui Dynasty Miao Miao Presents the Fangrong of the Country" (a copy), Su Shi Chinese New Year's Eve wrote a group poem "Three Songs of the Late Year" in the night of missing his family, "Keeping the Age", and the ancient painting "The Anniversary of the Year Dynasty Village Celebration Map" recorded the release of firecrackers and worship of the Great Year... Through the display of rich and diverse cultural relics and historical materials, the history of traditional culture such as eating dumplings, pasting Spring Festival, guessing lantern riddles, pasting New Year paintings, Chinese New Year's Eve keeping the age, and wearing new clothes also jumped out.
Diversified interpretation, creative presentation of the charm and fashion of "Chinese New Year"
On the stage of "Ancient Rhymes and New Year", nearly 20 original programs will meet the audience for the first time, using dance, song, instrumental performance and other diversified art forms, through the modern interpretation of dancers, singers and performers, creatively interpreting the "Chinese Year" culture from generation to generation.
Dancer Tang Shiyi will perform "Dream Back to Chang'an" for the first time, using a set of "Neon Dress Feather Dance" to reproduce the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty's Chinese New Year's Eve night; the "Feather Dance" that carries the romantic imagination of the ancients to the universe will also appear for the first time; singer Gong Linna will sing "Ode to Orange", which symbolizes Qu Yuan's loyalty, and creatively integrate the sound of more than 2,400 years old played by the replica version of "Zeng Houyi Chimes"; Yu Kewei will be placed in the Lantern Lantern Festival like "Fire Tree And Honeysuckle Never Sleeps", singing "Qingyu Case , New Year's Eve" for the first time... In addition, original songs such as "Wind and July", "Shou Nian", "Self-Unitary New Zheng" and other original songs, as well as original instrumental performances such as "Qu Shui Liu Qian", "Alpine Flowing Water", "Pi Imagination" and so on, will also bring refreshing audiovisual enjoyment to the audience.
From the excavation of cultural heritage to the creation of stage presentation, every detail is ingenious. The program innovatively uses cutting-edge technologies such as XR, with the semi-enclosing arc main screen, and with the blessing of stage settings such as ground screen, ice screen, and screen screen, it constructs a multi-level Chinese style dance scene, bringing an immersive audio-visual experience and visual impact, so that the audience can feel the atmosphere of the ancient New Year more immersively.
In the song "A Thousand Years of Painting", one of the earliest surviving woodblock prints, "Four Beautiful Pictures "Reproductions", will be presented on the screen, and the ice screen will show the production process of the woodblock New Year painting; in "Pi Imaginary", the young pianist Wu Chun will create a moon "Zu Chong's Crater Mountain" created by XR, transforming pi into a beautiful piano song; in "Music and Dance welcoming spring", dancers will dance next to traditional instruments such as fire busi, horse head qin, harmonic organ, huqin and other special effects to form an organic interaction between dancers and musical instruments The creative costume show "Millennium Neon Dress" will select the twelve most representative costume cultural relics in ancient times, and compare them with the shapes in the cultural relics through the form of fashion catwalks to show the beauty of Chinese costumes.
From the stage art to the costume design, every link of "Ancient Rhymes and New Year" launched by the Comprehensive Channel (CCTV-1) is carefully crafted, showing the cultural heritage and aesthetic identity of the Chinese nation that has never stopped, bringing the audience a New Year feast full of charm.
In the same vein, the "Year of China" contains the confidence of cultural self-confidence
The Spring Festival, like a mirror, reflects the spiritual appearance and emotional sustenance of the Chinese nation in the flow of thousands of years, condensing the long humanistic history and rich cultural connotation of the Chinese nation.
As a large-scale Spring Festival special program of the main station, "Ancient Rhymes and New Year" focuses on the excellent traditional Chinese culture, shows the long history of the Spring Festival cultural customs, explores the cultural significance of the Chinese New Year, traces the roots of cultural self-confidence, and presents a cultural feast on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the performance of ancient music, feel the high purity and elegance of the literati of the Wei and Jin Dynasties who "qushui flowing" and "high mountain flowing water"; in the graceful and graceful "Feather Dance" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, feel the spirit and emotional resonance of the ancient and modern people's exploration of the vast star dome; in the Western Music and Dance "Silk Road Dance Rhyme" celebrating the New Year, see the diversity of the Chinese nation; in the song and dance "Youth Line", pay tribute to the home and country feelings of those who have watched from ancient times to the present.
Cultural New Year, full of ancient charm. Chinese New Year's Eve 12:40 p.m., let us walk into the Spring Festival special program "Ancient Rhyme and New Year" of the CCTV-1 Comprehensive Channel of the General Station (CCTV-1), and cross the millennium together, in the historical relics and modern interpretation, find the cultural imprint that has never been interrupted, and feel the spiritual resonance of the millennium.
Source: CCTV