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Every Monday at 9:00 a.m., we meet on time to provide you with a guide to the literary and artistic life in Beijing for the coming week.
Whether you like theater, exhibitions, literature, fine arts, or film, television and music, the Beijing Literary and Art Calendar can provide you with enough rich content and free choice.
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Monday, February 7
【Episode】"Jiang Zhao Dawn"
Starring: Ma Sichun, Bai Ke, Liu Kai
(Mango TV) Female suspense theme is a popular theme in the past two years, Ma Sichun finally chose a script suitable for himself. The play tells the story of an ordinary woman who strives to live only for stability, and completes a story of perfect self-salvation in the face of her husband's betrayal and malice, the burdens and tribulations of life. The story has both continuous reversals and the strength to reflect social contradictions, and the performances of a group of actors are also in place.
【Episode】"The Name of Ice and Snow"
Starring: Chen Ruoxuan, Peng Xiaoran, Liu Tianzuo, Ou Hao
(Beijing Satellite TV, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV) The drama takes the 40-year development history of China's ice and snow sports as the background, and shows the struggle of mainland ice and snow athletes on the road to the Winter Olympics through the time and space span of two generations of ice and snowmen and the spiritual inheritance of ice and snow sports. The series innovates the structure of the upper and lower parts, connecting the colorful chapters of the two generations of ice and snow people who have worked hard for the cause of ice and snow sports in the mainland.
【New Book】"China Winter Olympics"
Author: Sun Jingyan
(People's Literature Publishing House) The writer spent five years, interviewed more than 200 people related to the Winter Olympics at home and abroad, comprehensively wrote about the hardships, challenges and achievements of the Beijing Winter Olympics and The Winter Paralympic Games from the brewing to the construction of venues, recorded the "City of Two Olympics" in Beijing and Zhangjiakou Chongli in the 2022 Winter Olympics in the science and technology Olympics, humanistic Olympics, environmental protection Olympics, thrifty Olympics in the flash course, highlighting the winter Olympics, coaches and organization workers in the ice and snow sports style and long-term dedication. #不容错过 #
Tuesday, February 8th
【Concert】Winter Olympic Symphony Suite "Ice and Snow Rendezvous" Beijing Symphony Orchestra Special Concert
(Zhongshan Park Music Hall) At this concert, the Winter Olympic Symphony Suite "Ice and Snow Rendezvous" will debut, which is co-composed by composers Zheng Junsheng and Zheng Junli, including the overture "Ice and Snow Dream", the first movement "Ice and Snow Flying", the second movement "Passionate Dream", the third movement "Ice and Snow Rendezvous", and the final song "World Family". #不容错过 #
【New Book】Danube Gorge
Author: Feng Jicai
(Writers Press) The five stories in the book have twists and turns, different styles, bizarre, romantic, absurd, poignant, humorous... The multitude of ingenuity is dizzying. Compared with his previous works, Feng Jicai's style of writing has taken a sharp turn this time, introducing elements such as fantasy, fantasy and adventure in real reality, telling the strange world and the subtle human heart in the modern city, which can be described as "true and illusory", bringing full freshness and surprise to readers who are familiar with his style.
【Exhibition】Colorful colors - 400 years of Chinese chromatic printmaking art
(Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing 1.28~4.30) China is the inventor of chromatic printing, which makes everything in the colorful world a shadow. The discovery of the Ming Dynasty's "Luoxuan Changing Ancient Notes" shocked the world, and the maturity of its technology was breathtaking. The exhibition exhibits more than 120 kinds of color prints and independent works that began in the Ming Dynasty and ended in 2020, spanning more than 400 years, showing the charm of traditional Chinese printing techniques and presenting the flow of different eras of Chinese chromatic printmaking art.
Wednesday, February 9th
【Activities】 "Meng Hu has a date" non-heritage hand companion market
(Tongzhou Chunfeng in the bookstore 1.20 ~ 2.16) "Shan Hai Jing" records that the tiger can eat hungry ghosts, since ancient times has been regarded as a beast, in order to welcome the arrival of the New Year of the Tiger Festival, Chunfeng held a "Cute Tiger Has Appointment" non-heritage companion market in the bookstore. Clay sculpture art is one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, tiger-shaped clay sculptures with tiger heads and tiger brains, cute and cute fat tiger refrigerator stickers, ice tigers specially made to welcome the Winter Olympics... Wait for you to take a "Tiggo" home.
【Exhibition】Three Years of the Dynasty - A Special Exhibition of Qi Baishi's Works collected by the Beijing Academy of Paintings
(Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum 1.21~4.5) The themes on display cover a variety of genres such as aquariums, flowers and birds, vegetables and fruits, figures, miscellaneous paintings, calligraphy, etc. Qi Baishi's paintings of the year and a number of calligraphy and painting works with auspicious meanings not only represent the old man's wish for a good year, but also create a strong sense of spring for the audience. The exhibition also focuses on Qi Baishi's extremely rare zodiac group painting "Twelve Genera Diagrams".
【Exhibition】Point - Exhibition of Zhi Min's works
(Yimei Art Museum 1.18~3.30) The exhibition is divided into five sections, vividly showing this artist who uses ceramics as the creative medium, after several years of precipitation, burst out of huge creative energy. This exhibition not only shows the artist's creative achievements to the audience, but also shows the audience the raw material of the sculptor Zhi Min's creation - ceramics through the way of popular science, popularizing the audience from the perspective of the circulation of rocks, the types of mud, and the principle of firing, and understanding the artist's sculpture works more deeply.
Thursday, February 10th
【Exhibition】Like a Tiger - Yellow Gui Painting Cat New Year Exhibition
(Yanhuang Art Museum 1.25~2.27) Mr. Huang is good at capturing the expression dynamics of cats, and his methods of painting cats are also very diverse. The exhibition features more than 20 works by Mr. Huang on the theme of cats, spanning from 1980 to 1995. It is worth noting that the exhibition site also exhibits a painting of "Bamboo Chrysanthemum Double Cats" created in 1996, depicting a pair of cats playing by Huang Ji, and Mrs. Zheng Wenhui painting ammonites, from which we can see the artistic achievements of the two artists, and also show the deep love between the two.
【Exhibition】Colorful: Glass Art in the Exchange of Ancient Eastern and Western Civilizations
(Tsinghua University Art Museum 1.25~5.5) In 2022, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, Tsinghua Art Fair held this special exhibition based on the 325 sets of ancient glass of the world collected by the Silk Road Art Museum in Hirayama, Japan, and supported by the collections of many Chinese cultural institutions, to show the history of ancient world civilization, the history of scientific and technological development, the history of art and the history of trade exchanges through glass materials. From this, we can glimpse the practical significance of exchanges and mutual learning between Eastern and Western civilizations and the broad tolerance of Chinese civilization.
【New Book】"Pyramid on the Top of the Mountain"
Author: Fu Xingwen
(Writers Publishing House) This is an autobiographical novel written by a writer for 15 years, which seems to have built a "love tower" for the first love of 20 years ago with beautiful, sentimental and pure words, but in fact, it has built a more old "youth tower", "literature tower" and "ideal tower" with time, feelings and memories. In the book, the past and love that accompany time are like the street lamps lit in the second stage, resurrected in memory and imagination, and connected together, which is the mental journey of a person stumbling but constantly moving forward.
Friday, February 11
【Drama】Dance Drama "Five Stars Out of the East"
(National Centre for the Performing Arts 2.11~2.13) With the theme of the "Five Stars Out of the East and Benefiting China" brocade arm guard excavated from the hetianiya site in Xinjiang, it tells the moving story of the Han Dynasty Shubian general "Feng" between the Ancient City of Jingjie and the son of the Northern Leader "Jiante" and the daughter of the Jingjie Leader "Chunjun", from sword rattling to shoulder to shoulder, from unknown to deep identification, and forming a deep friendship, interpreting the theme of the people of all ethnic groups "hugging together like pomegranate seeds" and forming a community of common destiny for the Chinese nation.
【Drama】Beijing Renyi Drama "Ding Xilin Three Comedies of the Republic of China"
(Beijing Renyi Experimental Theater 2.11~2.28) Three one-act comedies selected from physicist and playwright Mr. Ding Xilin - "A Horse Bee", "Drunk" and "Blind Eye", all three dramas are marriage and emotional themes, in a very interesting way, presenting the views of love, marriage and life of the gentry of the Republic of China.
【Movie】"Chosin Lake No. Pramon Bridge"
Director: Xu Ke
(War/Plot/History) No matter from which point of view, "The Water Gate Bridge of Chosin Lake" is the box office hegemon that cannot be shaken by this Spring Festival. Compared to the panoramic "Chosin Lake", "Chosin Lake No Shumun Bridge" is more like a compact movie. The fate of the seven warriors in the film is revealed one by one, and the sacrifice of each soldier is moved to tears. The film also reflects the typical style of director Xu Ke, both face-to-face fighting and shooting, as well as the action imagination of flying martial arts films, and the red scarf fluttering high at the end of the film brings a rare poetry to this film.
Saturday, February 12
【Concert】"Ice and Snow Tour" Beijing Chinese Orchestra Winter Olympics Theme Concert
The repertoire of this concert is very representative, such as China's "Festival Overture", "Great Wall Caprice", France's "Across the Ocean", Italy's "Santa Lucia", Austria's "Serenade", Japan's "Dragnet Minor", Russia's "Cargo Lang & Kalinka" and South Korea's "Arirang". Erhu player Zhou Wei, Bayan accordionist Wu Qiong, Jia Weiqin player and singer Quan Taiqing and other specially invited musicians will assist in this performance.
【Drama】Beijing Renyi Drama "Antiques"
(Capital Theater 2.12 ~ 2.27) Long Guichen and Jin Hexin, the treasurers of the two antique shops of "Zhizhentang" and "Baozhenzhai", have experienced the rise and fall of the capital for more than thirty years because of a pair of Guding who have been fighting in secret for half a lifetime, and they are also enemies and friends, and they feel sorry for each other, and have experienced the rise and fall of the capital for more than thirty years. They have laughed, cried, sunk, struggled, and like the antiques in their hands, they have gone up and down. The authenticity of antiques is accompanied by devious tricks and changes in the world. However, artifacts have a spirit, more durable than antiques, and a human heart...
【Movie】Sniper
Director: Zhang Yimou, Zhang Mo
(War/Plot/History) "Zhang Yimou's opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is too long for us, I am going to watch "Sniper" now, and support the old man with practical actions." "On the Internet, many netizens spontaneously called the film "Sniper". As the first pure war film directed by Zhang Yimou, the film is used to see the big picture from a small perspective, reflecting the process of a "sniper five squad" fighters in the late stage of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and a US sniper squad. Among the eight new films in the Spring Festival file, "Sniper" had the highest rating, but it was subject to scheduling, and the film was released for 4 days and only achieved a box office of 157 million yuan. The good news is that with the fermentation of word of mouth, the film has a little sign of counterattack. Audiences who like Zhang Yimou must take practical action!
Sunday, February 13
【Concert】"Sound of Golden Mountain" Romantic Lantern Festival Concert
(Zhongshan Park Music Hall) This concert will be performed by Zhang Bingbing, Wu Shuang, Geng Zhe, Li Yuhe, Jin Runyi and other musicians and Zhang Ziyi, Yang Enzhi, Jin Zi'ao three children together, the opera "Tang Hauser" overture, violin concerto "Liang Zhu", "Romeo and Juliet" fantasy overture and other pieces are quite classic.
【New Book】"A Cave in the Studio"
(Writers Publishing House) Few people know that Feng Jicai, who is famous for his literary achievements, was a painter with profound skills before. Writing for him is a social responsibility; painting for him is more of an expression and expression of personal heart. Therefore, he called his studio "a hole in the sky", and the 76 short articles in the book, with his studio as the divergence point, chronicled people, talked about the past and the present, and expounded the mysteries, described his artistic career and spiritual life, and revealed the mysteries of the soul.
【Movie】"This Killer Is Not Calm"
Director: Xing Wenxiong
(Comedy/Plot) A comedy that was not optimistic in advance actually became the biggest box office dark horse in this year's Spring Festival file, with a box office of 925 million yuan in 4 days of release, only behind "The Water gate Bridge of Chosin Lake". The general evaluation of the audience for the film is that there is constant laughter during the viewing process, but the comedic technique is not vulgar, and it does not play the next three ways. The film has deep sympathy for the life situation of Wei Chenggong, the dragon set actor played by Wei Xiang, and his obsession with acting and slightly blunt emotional intelligence remind people of the difficulties in everyone's life. Many viewers who were indifferent to the film's "harmonic terrier" approach at first finally changed their views. With this film, the 43-year-old Wei Xiang is really on fire.
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