On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve 2022, the national style dance "Only This Green" appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and became popular. 14 women with long sleeves and thin waists, they either look at the moon and meditate, or walk alone on the dangerous peak, a series of Zen and rich imagination of the scene action, showing the beautiful scenery of thousands of miles.
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is one of the top ten famous paintings in the mainland, and it is also the pinnacle of green landscape painting. This masterpiece was completed in half a year by a "genius teenager" Wang Ximeng, a disciple of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, who painted "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at the age of 18, painting a god, and died young three years later.
The splendid rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty are all included in this paper and green room. "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with the fine silk as the canvas, with azurite, turquoise, malachite, cinnabar, ochre, brick (shell) as the pigment, the painting process also uses the high-grade ejiao, through the ink outline, five layers of depiction, to create its breathtaking color aesthetics, in thousands of years later, the color has not faded.
On the stage, the water surface is vast and the mountains are gradually dyed green, and "Only This Green" activates the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with a modern dance context and light and shadow rendering, creating the beauty of green mountains and green waters with traditional Chinese aesthetic implications.
Zhou Liya, choreographer of the dance poetry drama "Only This Green", said that in the early stage of creation, they watched all the poems and paintings of the Song Dynasty, and for half a month in the early stage, they did not arrange the program, quieted down, and savored the connotation of the program.
Choreographer Han Zhen said that the entire dance program from creativity, choreography to the stage in a year and 8 months, from the design of the costume to the body language, is full of freehand colors, such as designing hair into mountain stones, a series of movements simulated into the texture of mountains, forming a sense of layers of mountains. They integrate their understanding of traditional Chinese literati into the dance, which is both calm and proud.
The mountains are silent, and the still water is deep. "Only This Green" brings not only a beautiful and stunning visual feast, but also brings the harmonious beauty of man and nature and China's cultural self-confidence.