The distant and ethereal sound of the guqin sounded, and the dance posture of Miaoman was light and soft in the clouds as thin as cicada wings... On the evening of January 31, on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala of the General Station, the song and dance program "Only This Green" made many audiences shout "shock", and the works spread all over the land of Shenzhou. In the program, the dancers stand in different postures, and finally melt into a turquoise mountain, vividly restoring the famous painting of the Northern Song Dynasty more than 900 years ago, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
On February 2, Mainland Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin posted on social platforms to the world "Amway" Henan Satellite TV 2022 Spring Festival Gala Dance "National Color Tianxiang", he said: "When classical poetry meets young souls: traditional culture is presented in an imaginative way at the Spring Festival Gala. "The "National Color Tianxiang" out of the circle gathered eleven of China's top dancers, interpreting eleven influential figures such as Bai Juyi, Di Renjie, and Shangguan Wan'er of the Tang Dynasty. The graceful dance gesture portrays each legendary figure and tells a beautiful legend of the peony blooming in the snow of the Tang Dynasty, so that the audience seems to dream back to the tang dynasty in an instant.
In this Chinese New Year festival, why are the national style and national tide programs so popular and popular with the audience?
The "out of the circle" of the program is not accidental, making traditional culture and Chinese cultural relics "alive" is the form of expression of the program, and the audience's recognition of the program actually contains the public's recognition of the brilliant Chinese culture.
"Only This Green" is not only an artistic fusion that spans time and space
In April 1113, Wang Ximeng, a famous painter of the late Northern Song Dynasty, spent half a year to complete the famous silk color work "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". Today, more than 900 years later, static paintings have become dynamic dances, and "Only This Green" amazes the audience with the combination of dance and art. This is not only an artistic fusion across time and space, but also a wonderful display of the breadth and depth of our traditional Chinese culture.
"My role in the whole play is Green." In a recent interview with the media, Meng Qingyang, the lead dancer of "Only This Green", said that the role of Green and Green is pure freehand, just like the boldness of the green color in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and when interpreting, it is necessary to open the imagination, "This dance is no longer the femininity of women, more to see is a magnificent thing, representing a kind of years of traditional Chinese culture precipitation, an atmosphere, and also represents the confident side of our culture."
Meng Qingyang said: "Thank you very much for your love and support for "Only This Green", now more and more young people like traditional Chinese culture, because this is something in our roots. Standing on this hot land of China, we can carry forward our traditional culture, which is a very proud thing in itself. ”
The dancers of "National Color Tianxiang" move their postures and combine CG special effects
"'National Color Heavenly Fragrance' is really a dance feast, absolutely unparalleled!" "It is so amazing to write with peonies, to find poetry characters and history and culture"... On multiple online platforms, netizens' praise for the 2022 Henan Spring Festival Gala dance program "National Color Tianxiang" is endless.
In the dance "National Color Tianxiang", which shows the prosperous scene, Hu Yang, Luo Wenbo, Sun Ke, Su Peng, Lü Kedi, Su Hailu and other eleven dancers are moving and combined with CG special effects, so that Bai Juyi, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan'er, Zhang Xu, Yu Wenkai and other legendary figures "come alive", and finally go to a grand "Peony Covenant" with the "Peony Fairy". The dance is golden and brilliant, recalling the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang Mingtang restores the national color and heavenly fragrance, and the eleven top dancers devote themselves to it, making netizens exclaim "I feel that the entire Datang celebrities have come to accompany me for the New Year". The program also interspersed a lot of poems about peonies, allowing many netizens to watch the dance "increase knowledge".
According to the main creators of the program, the gathering of so many big coffee in the same dance is a rare event in the dance world, which is interspersed with peony poetry and high-tech means support, which is the icing on the cake for the dance, unlocking the charm of traditional culture, taking the audience to dream back to Datang and go to a grand beautiful legend.
The successful breaking of the circle of traditional culture has become more potential
Perhaps just like the comments of netizens, the magnificent green mountains and rivers of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" have once again hit the hearts of the world after 900 years. In the eyes of industry insiders, the most important reason why "Only This Green" is "out of the circle" is to restore the artistic conception of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". "The famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" has provided a fairly mature artistic motherbook, and its exquisite color setting, the majesty of the composition, and the rich meaning are themselves a great aesthetic enjoyment. "Only This Green" almost makes a one-to-one reproduction of the artistic conception of the picture, and this respect for traditional culture is also richly 'rewarded': the dance drama naturally shares the aesthetic level of the picture. Poetry and pictorials are essentially different categories of art. "Only This Green" successfully realized this artistic transformation and achieved the penetration of the qi vein. ”
Let the cultural relics "come alive" and "move", "Only this green" and "National Color Tianxiang" have the interpretation of "model" appearance. China's excellent traditional culture has an innovative expression, the dancers' dance steps interpret the stories in famous paintings and poems, and reproduce the style of the ancients, "every frame is the cultural self-confidence inherited from 5,000 years up and down to us".
Whether it is the popularity of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and "Underwater Roselle" before, or the popularity of "Only This Green" and "National Color Tianxiang" in this year's Spring Festival, it is not difficult to find that the audience's viewing demand for the program is no longer limited to leisure and entertainment, but also attaches great importance to the cultural heritage and spiritual connotation of the program, and people's national pride and increasing cultural self-confidence also make the success of traditional culture more potential.
As Chen Lei, the general director of the 2022 Henan Spring Festival Gala, said in an interview with the media, "We should understand Chinese our own traditional culture, these programs make more people like traditional culture, and a large number of high-quality cultural programs have sprung up, which is exactly the process from cultural self-confidence to cultural self-awareness." Therefore, the creation of the program is not only based on traditional culture, but also close to the times, close to the new form of today's cultural inheritance, "what we have been doing is the innovative expression of traditional culture." The so-called innovative expression is inseparable from popular culture and trends. Therefore, in the creation, we must absorb some of the characteristics, characteristics and advantages of the trend culture, and then borrow the presentation method of the 'tide', and strive to make more young people love our programs and spread our programs."
Text/Guangzhou Daily, Xinhua City Reporter: Moschig
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Li Yani