Watching the Spring Festival Gala Chinese New Year's Eve night is a reserved program for many Chinese New Year's Eve. In last night's Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger, Sichuan elements frequently appeared on the stage, among which the most eye-catching was the shining appearance of the bronze mask of Sanxingdui.
Sleeping for thousands of years, waking up shocked the world. In the "Sanxingdui Cultural Relics Site Release Ceremony", the narrator Zhang Guoli and Ran Honglin, director of the Sanxingdui Archaeological Research Institute of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, unveiled the mystery of the new archaeological discovery of the Sanxingdui site: the bronze mask.
This large bronze mask was excavated in June 2021 in Sanxingdui No. 3 Sacrifice Pit, it is 131 cm wide, 71 cm high, 66 cm deep, weighing 65.5 kg, more than 3,000 years ago, is currently the world's most complete shape, the largest volume, the best preservation of the large bronze mask. It uses the same casting technique as the Anyang Yin Ruins bronzes, reflecting the profound influence of the Central Plains culture on the Sanxingdui culture, and confirming the pluralistic unity and profundity of Chinese civilization.
Behind the stunning Spring Festival Gala with a large bronze mask is the meticulous protection of many people. The reporter learned that in order to safely transport it from Sichuan to the Spring Festival Gala site more than 1800 kilometers away, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, sanxingdui Museum, together with professional cultural relics transportation and exhibition units, formulated a complete set of cultural relics safety guarantee program. After the large mask arrived in Beijing, various links such as storage and display were also carefully arranged.
Zhu Yarong, deputy director of the Sanxingdui Museum, told reporters: "The packaging boxes of the Sanxingdui bronze masks are tailor-made, and the transport vehicles are also constant temperature and humidity. Before the rehearsal, the staff made a model of the same scale through three-dimensional printing in advance, and this model was used during the rehearsal. ”
After the appearance of the sanxingdui bronze mask, the dance "Golden Face" selected by the Propaganda Department of the Deyang Municipal Party Committee also appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, showing the beautiful yearning of the Chinese nation for a happy life through poetic expression. Jia Suzhu, deputy director of the Sanxingdui Management Committee, expressed great honor for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala: Sanxingdui can meet the people of the whole country on the platform of the Spring Festival Gala, and its display style is very fresh and high-tech.
In the spring evening of the Year of the Tiger, "Only This Green" choreographed and directed by Zhou Liya, a Sichuan sister, brought the classic painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" to life. Inspired by the Northern Song Dynasty Huizong period cultural relic "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", this dance poetry drama extracts the head green and stone green as the main colors in the painting, and the green dance section is dyed step by step, restoring the landscape painting of Qingfeng and Mountain. In fact, Zhou Liya is an old friend of CCTV Spring Festival Gala. The clip of the blockbuster dance drama "The Eternal Wave" directed by her has left a deep impression on the audience at the 2020 CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
At midnight, Sichuan astronaut Ye Guangfu and teammates Wang Yaping and Zhai Zhigang sent New Year greetings from space to the audience from space on the China Space Station by video link. Sichuan horn player Zeng Yun blew "Ice and Snow Shining Chinese Year", and Sichuan singer Liao Changyong and Li Wei sang the Winter Olympics theme song "Light Up Dreams" in the most artistic way to cheer for the upcoming Winter Olympics.
In addition, There are Li Yuchun, Ji Kejunyi, Yu Kewei, Tan Weiwei and other Sichuan compatriots who also gave wonderful performances on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to accompany you to live a lively new year.