For Chinese, the Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival, and the rich traditional culture and ritual expression are highlighted here, and "watching the Spring Festival Gala and talking about the Spring Festival Gala" is an indispensable sense of ceremony for more than 30 years.
During the Spring Festival in 2022, another theme that gives hope and anticipation, the Spring Festival Gala, will meet the audience on the fifth day of the first lunar month. Jointly sponsored by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Anhui Province and Anhui Radio and Television Station, undertaken by the Agricultural and Rural All-media Operation Center of Anhui Radio and Television Station, and supported by the Anhui Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, "On the Field of Hope - Anhui Province 2022 Farmers' Spring Festival Gala" (hereinafter referred to as "Anhui Farmers' Spring Festival Gala" with the theme of "Tiger Leaping River Huaihuai New Journey rural revitalization new picture", comprehensively shows the latest achievements in the construction of new rural areas in Anhui, as well as the joy of farmers in the province to strive for a better life.
The original ecological "Chinese New Year's Eve rice" and sings for the revitalization of the countryside
Sizhou opera, Lu opera, anhui southern flower drum opera, Yuexi gao cavity, Huangmei opera, flower drum lamp, lion dance, tiger head baby, Wuwei fish lamp... On the stage of the "Anhui Peasant Spring Festival Gala", relying on the ingenious combination of traditional culture and modern elements, with local opera, dance, folk songs, folklore, intangible cultural heritage and other diversified forms of expression, the themes of "who does not say that my hometown is good", "villagers in the countryside", "beautiful countryside" and "new era of meritorious service" are integrated into the program, and the audience is presented with a "Chinese New Year's Eve meal" with a "authentic emblem and rhyme", and a rich and beautiful grand picture of the new countryside of Anhui jumps on the screen.
The evening was full of creativity in program arrangement, and the opening was opened by the hosts from 16 prefectures and cities, bringing the high-quality agricultural and sideline specialties from their hometowns to the stage of the "Anhui Farmers' Spring Festival Gala", Fuyang flower buns, Dangtu crabs, Zhongshan crispy pears, Huoshan Huangda tea, Huangshan Maofeng... Each agricultural product is an Anhui specialty that is well known to the national audience, and together they present the "geographical indication products" that make Anhui farmers proud.
Sizhou opera "Picking Cotton", Lu opera "Look at the Tune", Anhui South Flower Drum Drama "Sweeping Flower Hall", Yue Xi Gao lu "Three-star Blessing", Huang Mei opera "Husband and Wife Both Return Home"... Anhui is a big province of opera, and excellent opera actors from all over the province bring wonderful and colorful opera performances with strong local characteristics to the audience, or elegant, or high-pitched, or tactful, presenting a strong hometown "taste" in the most down-to-earth way.
When the lively flower drum is beaten, singing the exciting and high-pitched "Playing Wheat Song", dancing the graceful and beautiful "Chaohu Beauty", whether it is a children's opera actor dressed up in a costume and milky voice, or an elderly singer with a strong spirit and silver hair, they all show the wonderful and unique local opera in Anhui, and have the feeling of being close to the natural scenery of Jianghuai.
On the stage of the "Anhui Farmers' Spring Festival Gala", the song and dance were innovatively integrated, and the choreographed song and dance performance "Singing the Old Lady's Head Again" was displayed in the way of sighing and singing, and the unique "nong" atmosphere nurtured by the water and soil of northern Anhui was vividly interpreted, and the image of the northern Anhui peasants facing the loess back to the sky was vividly displayed in front of the audience.
The dance program "Chaohu Beauty" brings the beauty of Chaohu Lake to the stage of "Anhui Farmers' Spring Festival Gala" through graceful dance postures, picking up lotus leaves, boating on the lake, and the latest achievements in the construction of beautiful villages have turned into beautiful shadows of dancers on the shore of Chaohu Lake.
Rooted in the countryside, looking forward to a beautiful new life
In 2021, Anhui's total grain output reached the highest level in history, achieving the great achievement of "Eighteen Consecutive Harvests". The song "Father's Prairie Mother's River" and the chorus "On the Field of Hope" brought by singer Yunfei sang the most sincere love of Anhui farmers for the motherland and also sang the new chapter of Anhui's agricultural development.
At the party, the agricultural grassroots scientific and technological personnel and the first secretaries stationed in the villages who helped rural revitalization told the touching deeds of them and the farmers from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, and issued an oath that "the road to rural revitalization has only a starting point, no end".
Famous singers Chen Sisi and Liu Yuanyuan sang "Beautiful New Era" and "Walking on the Road of Happiness" with deep affection, conveying the beautiful vision of Anhui peasant friends for the motherland and for a happy future.
In the "Anhui Farmers' Spring Festival Gala" "Rural Parlor", a group of young people became the focus of attention, they graduated from college and gave up their jobs in big cities, returned to their hometowns to lead the villagers to plant medicinal materials, vegetables, fruits and corns, etc., with the spirit of hard work and struggle to practice the ideal, and became a new force to promote the great development of Agriculture in Anhui.
At the party, the sketch "Isn't It Money" brought by the host of Anhui Radio and Television Station and the performance team of Anhui Agricultural Bank was based on the truest story of farmers starting a business, telling the sour, sweet and bitter experienced by the entrepreneurial leader "Lobster Brother" in the process of starting a business.
It is worth mentioning that the "Anhui Farmers' Spring Festival Gala" has also become an important display platform for traditional culture with Anhui characteristics. The Peking Opera "Four Treasures of Literature" sung by Dong Cheng, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, allowed the audience to deeply appreciate the profound cultural and historical heritage behind the "Four Treasures of Literature", known as the "Anhui Business Card". At the same time, the combination of song and dance drum music composed of flower drum lamps, lion dances, tiger head dolls, Wuwei fish lanterns and other symbols and festive elements with regional cultural characteristics in Anhui has created a happy atmosphere of happy new year and jointly painted a beautiful picture of rural beauty and peasant wealth.
The "On the Field of Hope - Anhui Province 2022 Farmers' Spring Festival Gala", which is participated by farmers, shows the whole picture of Anhui's "three rural areas" and dedicates to farmers and the vast number of farmers in the province, will premiere on Anhui Satellite TV at 9:30 p.m. on February 5 (the fifth day of the Lunar New Year), and rebroadcast on agricultural science and education channels at 7:00 p.m. on February 6 (the sixth day of the Chinese New Year).
Text | All-media reporter Han Ting
Image | Anhui Radio and Television Station
Braiding | All-media editor Wu Qingpei