Through the millennium, poetry and painting dance, feel the Song style and elegant rhyme.
Vermilion lips, distant mountain eyebrows, mountain buns, long green skirts... CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger, from the Song Dynasty famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" of the dance poetry drama "Only this green" excerpt "green" appeared, from social media to WeChat circle of friends, are quickly brushed screen.
More viewers were struck by the beauty of Song Dynasty art, calling it "a work of immortals created by the immortal team" and "a feast of Chinese aesthetics". The surging news learned that this "Only This Green" jointly produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group and the Palace Museum has previously landed at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the origin of "dance painting" comes from the Song Dynasty's green landscape painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". "Only This Green" adopts the narrative structure of interlacing time and space: "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is about to be exhibited, a researcher of the Forbidden City (exhibition volume) travels through time and space, to the time when Wang Ximeng is about to finish the manuscript a thousand years ago, and the audience also follows the steps of the exhibition volume, following the outline of the chapter of "exhibition volume, seal, singing silk, searching for stones, learning brushes, quenching ink, and entering painting", entering Wang Ximeng's painting world...
Northern Song Dynasty "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (partial)
The scene of the Spring Festival Gala performance
Dance poetry drama "Only this green"
Spring Festival Gala Dance Poetry Drama "Only This Green"
The surviving Northern Song Dynasty "green landscape" famous relics and northern Song Dynasty genius teenagers
Wang Ximeng, the author of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", is the only talented teenager in the history of Chinese painting who has been famous for a painting for thousands of years. In April of the third year (1113) of the Song Dynasty, Wang Ximeng spent half a year to finally paint the volume of the famous masterpiece "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which was only eighteen years old, and there was no record of him, and he died young soon.
When the Palace Museum's "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was exhibited in 2017
Part of the Song Dynasty's "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"
Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains (Partial)
The Northern Song Dynasty painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" collected by the Palace Museum, which was exhibited in 2017 and 2013, is the work of the Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng when he was 18 years old, and it is also the only work that has been handed down. In 2018, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, the Peking University Humanities Forum held the "View of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Across a Thousand Years of Time and Space- What is the Truth of History and Art History".
Part of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (1)
Part of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (2)
Part of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (3)
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a large green colored silk book, dyed with water, 51.5 cm in length and 1191.5 cm in width, and the momentum is vast and extraordinary. The upper layer of the picture is full of peaks and peaks, and the layout of various characters in the picture is orderly, and the complicated forest villages, boats and bridges, pavilions, and various characters in the picture are orderly. The painting of zhongshan stone is first painted with ink color, and then green and heavy color, and the top of the mountain is dyed with bluestone green, showing the green mountains. The rivers outline the water patterns, which contrast with the boneless colors. The whole picture is both magnificent and majestic, but also delicate and exquisite, and it is a huge masterpiece in the green landscape painting.
Part of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (4)
In the painting, the landscape near and far, the momentum is open, the cottage market, the fishing boat, the bridge waterwheel and the forest bird, the pen and ink are exquisite, the location is appropriate; the whole volume of green and green is recolored, showing the beauty of the mountains and rivers.
Part of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (5)
Ma Jige, a researcher at the Palace Museum, once wrote an article pointing out: "The Volume of the Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" inherits the traditional "green and green method" in color setting and pen, that is, with minerals such as stone green and stone green as the main pigments, the color is exaggerated, and it has a certain decorative nature, which is called "green landscape". This method of expression is one of the earlier developed techniques of mainland landscape painting, and many painters such as Zhan Ziqian, Li Sixun, Li Zhaodao and many other painters in the Sui and Tang dynasties were good at green landscape painting. Looking at the painting world of the Song Dynasty, although there are also some painters who use this method to create, from the current surviving works, none of them can surpass the volume of "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains". On the basis of inheriting the previous law, Wang Ximeng showed a more delicate painting style, reflecting the rigorous style of the era of painting in the Northern Song Dynasty. This picture is well used with a pen, and there is no failure to paint a single stroke. Although the characters are as small as beans, they are dynamic and distinct. The ripples of the water are all drawn in one stroke, and the fishing boats are swaying among them, making the picture more dynamic. Looking at the whole picture, without losing the majestic realm and magnificent momentum, it is convincing to see it from a distance and up close. In the use of color, the painter seeks changes in the monotonous blue-green, although the turquoise is the main color, but when applying color, pay attention to the change of the technique, the color is either thick, or light, and the ochre is used as a lining, so that the picture is layered, the color is like a jewel, and the brilliance is dazzling. Pu Guang, a famous calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty, praised this volume and praised it in the inscription at the end of the volume: "In the small scenery of ancient and modern Danqing, you can walk alone for a thousand years, and the lonely moon ear of the stars is lost." This argument is fair.
In addition to the outstanding artistic value of the painting itself, the life of the painter's genius teenager Wang Ximeng has also added a lot of legendary color to this painting.
Northern Song Dynasty Cai Jing Title "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"
After completion, the "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was collected by the then chancellor Cai Jing, whose inscription on it recounted the experience of Emperor Huizong of Song instructing Wang Ximeng and accepting him into the Hanlin Academy of Calligraphy and Painting. At the end of the volume, Cai Jing inscribed: "Zhenghe Three Year Leap April 8th Gift." At the age of eighteen, Xi Meng was a disciple in painting, and was summoned to the forbidden Chinese library, and several paintings were dedicated, but they did not work. Knowing that his nature is teachable, he instructed him, and taught him the Dhamma himself, not more than half a year old, but in this way he tried to advance. Shangjiazhi, because he gave the subject Jing, said that the world's corporal was just doing it. ”
According to Yang Xin, former vice president of the Palace Museum and an expert in calligraphy and painting, in his article "On the Map of a Thousand Li Jiangshan", there is no author's seal of the "Thousand Li JiangShan Map". Only from the inscription of Cai Jing on the yellow aya at the end of the volume does it be known that the author of this huge work is called Xi Meng. In the early Qing Dynasty, Liang Qingbiao's label and Song Jie's "On Painting Sentences" only mentioned the surname of Xi Meng as "Wang". Song Shi said: "Xuanhe enshrined Wang Ximeng, and Tianzi personally passed on the essence of penmanship. As soon as he entered the figure, he died, and the empty teaching intestines cut off the Taishi Jing. Notes to Yun: "Xi Meng Tianzi Gao Miao, Dehui Zong's secret transmission, after years of making colored landscapes and rivers into the imperial palace, not dying a few years, more than twenty years, its relics are only this ear ... ”
Yang Xin also said, "Song Ji wrote the above verses and notes when he saw this volume of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at Liang Qingbiao's home. However, the Liang and Song clans have been going to the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 600 years, and from where they learned that Xi Meng's surname was Wang, and how did he know that 'he had not died a few years ago, more than twenty years', because at present we have not found the third piece of information about the life of Xi Meng, here is temporarily from Liang and Song. ”
There is only a few words for the record of Wang Ximeng's life and deeds. According to the above records, people can vaguely speculate that Wang Ximeng is the only talented teenager in the history of Chinese painting who has been famous for a painting for thousands of years. When he was more than ten years old, he entered the palace to "study painting" as a disciple, and did not work much at the beginning, When Emperor Huizong of Song was a student of the Academy of Drawings, he was later summoned to the library of forbidden Chinese, and he served around Emperor Huizong, but Emperor Huizong of Song had a unique vision: "Its nature can be taught", so he personally taught his law. After Zhao Tuo personally taught the pen and ink technique, the art improved, and the painting exceeded the moment. Gongshan water, works rare.
In April of the third year (1113) of Huizong Zhenghe, Wang Ximeng spent half a year to finally paint the volume of the famous masterpiece "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at the age of eighteen, and there was no account of him, and he died young soon.
For Wang Ximeng's death, there are now two theories circulating: one is that the body is too weak; the other is that the "Map of Hunger and Death in a Thousand Miles" was presented later, and Emperor Huizong was furious and gave death.
Yuan Dynasty Pu Guangbao
According to Yang Xinwen, after the creation of the "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" came out, it was given to Cai Jing by Zhao Tuo. Later, it was returned to the Southern Song Dynasty Inner Province, and the front of the volume had the seal of the Song Lizong "Ji Xi Dian Bao". By the Yuan Dynasty, it was collected by the monk Li Puguang, and the paper at the end of the volume had his inscription in the seventh year of Dade (1 3 03 years). At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, liang Qingbiao obtained it, he wrote it himself, and then stamped the Liang collection and printing many parties on this painting and the water separated before and after it, and the connecting paper. Later, he entered the Qianlong Inner Province, which has the inscription of the poems of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty and the many seals of the seal, and is recorded in the "Shiqu Baodi · Preliminary Edition · Royal Study". After the qing dynasty, Puyi stole out of the imperial palace, and after liberation, it was recovered by the people's government, and is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Green is the only abstract freehand character in the play, and "Green Waist" originates from "Dangerous Front"
The dance poetry drama "Only This Green" is directed by Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, the "twin stars" of the Chinese dance world, and talks to the talented painter Xi Meng of the Northern Song Dynasty. According to the creator's previous introduction to the surging news, Qinglu has also become the only abstract and freehand character in the play, just like the soul of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
"Only This Green" adopts the narrative structure of interlacing time and space: "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is about to be exhibited, a Researcher of the Forbidden City (exhibition volume) travels through time and space, to the time when Xi Meng is about to finish the manuscript a thousand years ago, and the audience also follows the steps of the exhibition volume, following the outline of the chapter of "exhibition volume, asking seals, singing silk, searching for stones, learning pens, quenching ink, and entering paintings", and entering the painting world of Xi Meng...
"We were also eager to go into Shimon's room and see how he painted. The person on the exhibition is the perspective of modern people, it is you, it is me, and it is a leader who can talk to Simon in a thousand years. The two choreographers introduced that Wang Zhongxu was the prototype of the exhibition volume person, and it was precisely because of contact with him that the idea of portraying the exhibition volume person came up.
Spring Festival Gala "Only This Green"
The two directors designed a series of aesthetic and extremely beautiful modeling actions for Qinglu, such as "Waiting", "Looking at the Moon", "Falling Clouds", "Thinking", "Walking Alone", "Dangerous Peak" and "Lying Stone".
The women's group dance "Green" appears in the middle of the dance poetry drama. The dancing greens seem to transform into the steep mountains and cascading mountains in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", dancing out of the scenery of layers of mountains and mountains, and dancing out of the beauty of the mountains and rivers.
The long sleeves are thrown off, and the upper half lies behind him, almost parallel to the ground... This difficult action, which seems to float in mid-air, is jokingly called "green waist", which has amazed countless audiences.
The inspiration for "green waist" actually comes from the intention of "dangerous front" in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", simulating the dangerous and steep part of the mountain.
"It's quite strenuous at first, you can do it, but you can't stick to it for that long, (so) you often do physical fitness training in private." You need the ability of your waist and abs to support this movement, and you can achieve the same effect on the stage over time. Meng Qingyang, the lead dancer and green actor, said.
Such a purely intentional, large-scale role is difficult to play. Accustomed to ballet training, the girls often have their heads raised high, their qi is also raised, and their state is very high. In order to play the green and green, they spent a lot of time washing away the inertia of dancing, letting the qi leak down and going inside, with their chests and nests, to achieve the state of Song Dance's shoulders and backs.
When he first started looking for a posture, Meng Qingyang was always laughed at as coming out of the Western Museum, not simple enough, not introverted enough. After 5 months of precipitation in the role, she is like coming out of a Song painting, with a cold beauty. Her steps became calm and powerful, with a state of heart with hills and mountains and rivers in her eyes.
Zhou Liya, the general director, told the surging news: "This work has many lines, some realistic, some freehand, and the big intention of the green color of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" can be expressed, mainly the two paragraphs of 'green' and 'into the painting'. The Spring Festival Gala crew found the China Oriental Performing Arts Group, watched two clips, and felt that 'entering the painting' was also very good, but it also needed to be turned, and the stage of the Spring Festival Gala could not be specially arranged for a program, so in the end 'green'" was chosen." ”
Zhou Liya said that we have a sentence in this paragraph: if you can accommodate the hills and valleys in your heart, you can only meet the mountains and rivers under the pen, although Xi Meng is not present, but the "green" danced on the stage is the temperament and soul contained in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
"Green" belongs to the middle part of the whole play, and the color of the actor's clothes is faulty, the top is stone green, and the bottom is stone green. A national non-hereditary inheritor, a teacher who studies Chinese painting pigments, told us that when the stone was first collected, it was very angular and the color was very clear, so we extracted the color of the stone before it was not ground into pigment, which was more simple and closer to the state of the rough. At the end of "Into the Painting", the actor's clothes are very similar to the blending process of the final painting of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
"The girls' breakthrough is quite big. Not as feminine as the previous women's group dance, but sonorous and powerful, very atmospheric. Their dance state is sinking, especially like the Chinese landscape, and the power is sinking. In many static pictures, you can feel their limbs, their skirts, their flowing formations, the edges and corners of mountains and stones, and the feeling of mountains and rivers. Through their powerful movements, you can feel the majestic, powerful soul of the thousands of miles.
There was also a cold sense of alienation in the girls' eyes. We were very strict with our actors. The internal driving force of each action is not only externalized to the action body, but also the inner feeling - she must have that round of bright moon in her heart, she must have that deep foundation, she can convey it through the body. ”