Fuchun Mountain Residence map is an ink painting on paper created by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in 1350, which depicts the beautiful landscape of the Fuchun River in Zhejiang Province. At the Spring Festival Gala this year, the CCTV director team, teachers and students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the artists of the Beijing People's Art Theater worked together to present this poetic picture of Jiangnan to the audience: people are in the painting, the painting moves with the scene, and the program innovation integrates poetry, music, animation and interpretation, conveying a strong humanistic mood. Step behind the scenes of the creative music and dance poetry and painting program "Memories of Jiangnan"
This year's Spring Festival Gala innovatively created a creative music and dance poetry and painting program "Remembering Jiangnan" that aroused heated discussion among the audience. The program breaks through the performance space of the traditional Spring Festival Gala stage, and reproduces the famous work "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang with dynamic effects, combined with the performances and chants of the actors, to create a poetic jiangnan picture of people entering the painting and painting with the scene.
Tian Mei, deputy director of the 2022 Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television Corporation: From the beginning, we wanted to do a cultural program, and the first thing I thought about was how to do it in this mode, that is, I used the current animation method to interpret it. From landscape painting to today's well-off life, what we want to do is that "cross-strait culture is one", which is our big theme.
Carefully viewing this "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map", Huang Gongwang also depicted eight characters with their own characteristics around the image of "fishing tree cultivation reading" in the light and unique landscape scenery.
Tang Ye, director of the Beijing People's Art Theater: So at that time, we really studied the original painting carefully and used a magnifying glass to find it. The traveler played by the expedition teacher may have traveled to the north and south of the river, and then walked to this place, Teacher Li Liqun may have been in this mountain, he may live in this, so he is already very relieved about these things.
In order to present a cultural, connotative, aesthetic, innovative and eye-catching thing on the national stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the CCTV director group gathered multiple resources and cooperated with many first-class teams such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Beijing People's Art Theater, musician Chen Qigang, costume design Cui Xiaodong, And Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater. Three performing artists from Beijing Renyi, Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng and Ding Zhicheng, and Li Liqun, a performance artist from Taiwan, played the roles of readers, walkers and woodcutters in "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" in the show.
Feng Yuanzheng, Vice President of Beijing People's Art Theater Actor: First of all, this character is a walker, and he is a cultural person, I think, seeing this picturesque beauty, and then he will make a big fuss, so for us, it is actually a kind of responsibility to promote Chinese culture in this program.
2022 Spring Festival Gala Creative Music and Dance Poetry Painting "Memories of Jiangnan" Costume Design Cui Xiaodong: These are the turquoise colors of our China, the three-blue stone green of the light landscape, which leads the entire audience's vision to our Fuchun Mountain residence map.
One of the biggest challenges of the "Remembrance of Jiangnan" program is the dynamic restoration of "Fuchun Mountain Jutu". This time, the program team cooperated with teachers and students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts to split "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" into more than 150 Chinese painting elements, refining the elements that originally had only two or three strokes of ink into two flat feet to four flat feet of painting images, and striving to refine and restore on the basis of retaining the charm of Huang Gongwang's painting style. Post-production integrated these elements into three-dimensional scenes, forming a three-dimensional, dynamic, and modern version of "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" that no one had ever done before.
Fan Di'an, president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts: Our young teachers and students also came to understand Huang Gongwang's artistic handwriting in this process, dismantling Huang Gongwang's performance of the landscape and water first, and making a copy-style depiction, so that the scenery along the Fuchun River can be changed step by step and unfolded layer by layer.
Adapted by composer Chen Qigang, "Spring River Flower Moon Night" is accompanied by the singer's gentle and melodious chanting, and four woodcutters come slowly on the Fuchun River. The texts that appear in the program are all carved and printed by seal engravers.
In June 2011, the first and second half volumes of "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" were exhibited at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Yang Zongwei, a singer from Taiwan, had the privilege of seeing the original work in person, which left a deep impression on him.
Singer Yang Zongwei: At that time, when I watched it, I would feel that it was particularly surging in my heart, the great landscape of the motherland, combined, and then integrated together. I think that feeling makes me feel a little like in yesterday's life, and a little bit like this life.
Singer Cai Chengyu: Since I was a child, it is because my grandmother's family is in the countryside, so I also hope to substitute my experience and understanding of this kind of and the current rural revitalization into this program.
Source: CCTV news client