Depict the times and China Singing dreams and struggles

Author: Yang Xuemei Ren Shanshan

The "2022 Spring Festival Gala" of China Central Radio and Television Corporation takes joy and auspiciousness and joy as the main tone, adheres to the creative principle of "keeping right and innovating, and producing new brilliance", and melts ideological, artistic and ornamental in one furnace, with both artistic innovation and technological innovation. On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, three generations of old, middle-aged and young literary and art workers jointly performed their performances, showing the real and simple life with colorful programs, fixing the precious and unforgettable memories of their home and country in the past year, condensing the feelings of home and country of hundreds of millions of Chinese, and expressing the main theme of the era of building dreams, chasing dreams and realizing dreams in the strong new year flavor of reunion, reunion and unity.

Brilliantly present the pulse of the times and the Chinese story

Looking back on 2021, we have personally experienced the milestone events in the history of the party and the country, the historical intersection of the "two hundred years" goal, and the beginning of a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. This year's Spring Festival Gala will celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Party, promote rural revitalization, hold the Beijing Winter Olympics and other themes into the evening program, with colorful art forms, affectionately looking back at the extraordinary 2021, all-round panoramic display of the pulse of the times and spiritual weather, wonderfully presenting the chinese story of this year.

"This is the era of chasing dreams, this is the era of revival." The song "Our Time" led the audience to flip through this year's "National Album", the conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was solemnly held, and the literary and artistic performance "Great Journey" was exciting, "Zhu Rong" explored the fire, "Xi He" day by day, "Tianhe" traveled to the stars... The exciting pictures complement the beautiful and beautiful songs, singing "the millennium dream is setting sail" and "the road to a strong country is full of hope". The song "Spring Breeze 100,000 Miles" sung by Yin Xiumei and Yan Weiwen conveyed the good wishes of spring; the song "Sense of the Times" sung by Deng Chao, Li Yuchun, and Yi Yanqianxi, and the song "True Love Dances" sung by Ren Jialun, Wang Yuan, Song Qian, and Ji Kejunyi was full of youthfulness and rhythm of the times; and the program "Ice and Snow Shining Chinese Year" sang the song of the Winter Olympics of "Going to the Future Together".

On the stage of this year's Spring Festival Gala, the dream of rejuvenation affects the people's days, the feelings of home and country inspire the aspiration of struggle, and new people, new events, and new creations call for new harvests, new atmospheres, and new expectations. Whether it is a carefully created new program or a familiar classic melody, it shows the beauty of the times, the change of innovation, and the power of progress.

The story of the Return of the Asian Elephant in Yunnan is told by a warm sitcom, and the credible, cute and respectable Image of China is highlighted in the warm artistic expression. The "Bronze Mask" of the National Heavy Weapon first appeared at the Spring Festival Gala site, and the narration of the archaeological team led the audience back to the excavation site of Sanxingdui, experiencing the archaeology with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style, and feeling the profound and diverse Chinese civilization. Han Hong's song "So Many People in this World" is dedicated to every ordinary person who struggles for a better life.

Language programs are small and big, and they are emotionally moving. The sketch "The Story of the Rest Area" pays tribute to the medical groups who are fighting in the frontline of the fight against the epidemic and devoting themselves to the medical security of the Winter Olympics; the sketch "Joy on Joy" conveys the concept of pursuing happiness; the sketch "Father and Son" tells the understanding and care of two generations; the sketch "Red Packet" and "Not Yet Return" inspire people to treat each other sincerely and help each other in order to go further.

The Spring Festival Gala pushes open the door of spring with joyful and peaceful blessings, and presents a "joy ode" of dreams and struggles for the thriving China, for the amiable and respectable people, for the rapid development, and for the cause of continued inheritance.

Tightly unite China's heart and Chinese feelings

The Spring Festival Gala is a "reunion dinner" shared by Chinese people around the world. From the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983 to 2022, whether in the icy north or the blossoming south country, whether it is reunited with family or sticking to the post, whether it is a big screen or a small screen, because of the Spring Festival Gala, our hearts are linked. At this year's Spring Festival Gala, the annual flavor of reunion, reunion and unity has become more intense, and the character of the people's festivals and the people's stage has become more prominent.

On the stage of this year's Spring Festival Gala, the artistic expression of China's excellent traditional culture highlighted our cultural self-confidence. Traditional opera and modern television art collide with a new spark. Peking Opera Qi Pai old student Chen Shaoyun's "Xu Ce Running City", Yu opera master Li Shujian's "Jinshui Bridge", Huangmei opera master Han Zaifen's "Heavenly Girl Scattered Flowers", Yue opera master Mao Weitao and other "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and other "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and other Famous Yue opera artists, the Peking Opera "Mother-in-law Thorn Characters" that expressed the theme of jingzhongguo, and the Peking opera "Wisdom to Take Weihu Mountain" sung in unison by children... From the old artist to the seven- or eight-year-old Mengwa, in the transmission of the values of truth, goodness and beauty, the drama of Chinese opera is far-reaching and the drama rhyme is long.

The dance program "Only This Green" uses a beautiful dance language to present chinese aesthetic rhymes. More than 900 years ago, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was presented on the stage, and with the passage of time, the cultural self-confidence of the Chinese was hidden in the midst of the amazing waves.

On the stage of this year's Spring Festival Gala, different regional cultures and multi-ethnic cultures bloomed dazzlingly. A group of colorful folk songs make people shine, such as the masonry trumpet of Daba Mountain in western Hubei, the Gonggong Song in northern Shaanxi, the Evenk song in Daxing'anling, the tea picking song in Ningde in Eastern Fujian, and the heart and liver ticket of Erhai in western Yunnan, praising the ecological civilization beauty of "Shanshui Lintian Lake" with different sounds from the east, west, south and north. The dialect is wrapped in nostalgia, and the dialect has a distinct regional character and a strong sense of humanity. Crosstalk and sketches skillfully use the baggage of dialects to resolve the small barriers in life in a smile, so that laughter has more resonance.

On the stage of this year's Spring Festival Gala, the Chinese New Year is closely united with the Chinese heart and Chinese feelings. Four singers from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan sang a song together, from "the Yellow River is far above the white clouds" to "the light boat has passed through the ten thousand heavy mountains", expressing their deep attachment to the Yellow River Yangtze River.

We gathered together to keep the old age, and Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu, who were "on a business trip" in space, looked at each other from afar and exchanged blessings. In the children's program, the children's yearning for the sea of stars echoed in the distant sky, and the greetings sent by Wang Yaping's daughter to her mother were innocent and messy. The clock strikes midnight and the three astronauts send back their first Blessings for the Year of the Tiger from the Heaven and Core Capsule of the Dream Firmament.

The same program, the same warmth, the same expectation, the Spring Festival Gala stage has our concerns about the state affairs and family affairs, the power of the role models to follow, the favorite literary and artistic programs, in the song, laughter, applause, cheers, Chinese, Chinese heart, Chinese feelings, into a sense of belonging to culture, national pride, the sense of mission of the times.

Unleash the energy of innovation in the fusion of art and technology

More than 600 years ago, "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" flowed on the Spring Festival Gala stage. Feng Yuanzheng, Ding Zhicheng, Pu Cunxin, Li Liqun, Ayunga and other actors portrayed the 8 characters in the painting, all the way to Su Shi's "Xingxiangzi • Crossing the Seven Mile Se", people swimming in the middle of the painting, staying in the landscape and water. With the help of science and technology, the interaction between the actors and the virtual space is more natural, and in the ultra-high-definition restoration, the audience has a vivid and immersive audiovisual experience of the beauty of Chinese history, the beauty of mountains and rivers, and the beauty of culture.

Fusion creative programs fuse art and technology into one furnace, giving birth to a unique charm that is refreshing and shocking. Landscape Tai Chi "Walking Clouds and Flowing Water" boldly breaks through the time and space restrictions of the stage, the three martial arts champions walk through the three city landmarks in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing, the soaring Chinese martial arts and the urban landscape lined with high-rise buildings, the oriental Zen and modern rhythm constitute a sharp contrast, and the realm of "mountains and high people are peaks" is shocking.

This year's Spring Festival Gala for the first time using LED screens to create a 720-degree dome space, the giant curtain dome is not only a carrier of artistic presentation, but also an important means of rich expression. The 4,306 square meters of LED screens constitute a highly malleable stereoscopic studio space. At the beginning of the party, the dome is a big red lantern for the festival; in the program "Only This Green", the dome is the smokey "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"; in the children's program, the dome transforms into a vast starry sky, and swims through the endless universe from the perspective of a child... The rushing Hukou Waterfall, the blue and white porcelain marketed around the world, the terraces full of spring, and the changing domes enhance the immersive experience of the audience.

The Winter Olympics theme program adopts AI multi-modal motion capture system, and the mascots of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong", dance hand in hand in the ice and snow competition venues. The 130 4K cameras in the studio hall for the first time use sub-regional multi-point sound reinforcement to design the sound reinforcement system, and the use of new technologies such as virtual vision technology, holographic scanning technology and 8K naked-eye 3D presentation, to create an immersive viewing experience.

This year's Spring Festival Gala also lit up the city through "100 cities and 100 screens", and built a new spatial media communication matrix with the integration of "8K ultra-high-definition channel + landmark big screen". The audience listens to the TV accompaniment synchronous with the 8K ultra-high-definition large screen through the "100 Cities and 100 Screens Walkman" WeChat Mini Program, and enjoys the ultra-clear, colorful and real audio-visual feast in front of the outdoor large screen.

In the innovative practice of building the strategic pattern of "5G+4K/8K+AI" by CCTV, the Spring Festival Gala has become a big stage for media technology innovation. The Spring Festival Gala seeks new creative inspiration from the long-standing chinese excellent traditional culture, extracts new creative elements from the fiery real life, presents the texture of film and television blockbusters with cinematic production, and shows the vigorous innovation vitality of the Spring Festival Gala.

Across the ancient and modern times, between China and foreign countries, this year's Spring Festival Gala has gained greater artistic tension and greater cultural determination; in the interactive integration of ideas, art and science and technology, the Spring Festival Gala has gained greater space for innovation.

As the song of this year's Spring Festival Gala expressed, "Spring is an upward song, spring is a colorful dream". The bells of the New Year have sounded, the dream is in the distance, the road is under the feet, the light is in the heart, let us write a new chapter in the new era and new journey together. (Yang Xuemei, Ren Shanshan)

Source: People's Daily