On the spring evening of 2022, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" took to the stage with the dance "Only This Green", and this amazing work painted by the Northern Song Dynasty King Xi Meng came to life on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, which incarnated into dance poetry and recreated traditional aesthetics in a new way, and the two literary arts of thousands of years apart were thus integrated.
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is named because of the mineral pigment paint painted with stone bluestone, under the northern Song Dynasty King Xi Meng's expression technique and exquisite pen power of "there are thousands of miles of fun at hand", the characters are full of activities, and the gorgeous turquoise tones are intertwined to depict the splendid splendor of the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, which has not faded for thousands of years, and even now it is still shining with jewels.
In the dance "Only This Green", the main creative team, after almost reading the poetry and painting of the Song Dynasty and consulting a large number of literature materials, combined their own professional knowledge to combine the aesthetic conception of painting and the rhythm and rhythm of the dance, abstracting the turquoise color in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" into a female image, so that the dancers wore turquoise long skirts, combed their hair in a towering bun, and outlined the picturesque mountains and rivers with a graceful dance posture, converging into a turquoise mountain, like a flowing historical picture scroll slowly unfolding. With the gradual deepening of the music, the ups and downs of the mountains and the nothingness of the clouds and mist are vividly displayed in front of the audience, and the dancers' posture has also changed, moving and static, gathering or dispersing, when the dancer's cuffs are opened, it is the courage of embracing the mountains and rivers and the sun and the moon, "Only This Green" vividly interprets the famous painting of the Northern Song Dynasty "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" to the audience with dance.
The soft dance "Green Waist" that runs through the whole play is even more amazing, the dancer's long sleeves are thrown, the upper half is leaned back, and the ground is almost parallel, this high and difficult action that seems to float in mid-air requires both a steady rock-like foot strength and a waist strength as tough as a reed. The "Green Waist" ancient dance was originally called "Liu Yuan", which is characterized by "taking the sleeves of the hand as the amenity and stepping on the foot as the festival", and in the Quan Tang Poems, "Li Qunyu's poem "Changsha Nine Days climbing the East Tower to Watch the Dance" is characterized by "slow state can not be poor, and the complex posture is curved to the end." Low back to the lotus breaking waves, messy snow haunting the wind. When falling, I look forward to it, and I want to go back to the void. I can't catch it, and I can't catch it, and I fly to chase the shock" this sentence depicts the moving dance posture of the six dances.
"The 'green and green women's skirt' is a state of freehand, like the soul of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and it is also the essence of the brilliant colors that have not faded for thousands of years." After Meng Qingyang made a profound interpretation of her role, she sighed: "I think that as a literary and art worker, I can stand on the CCTV stage to inherit Chinese culture, which in itself is a tribute to traditional Chinese culture. It can be said that it is the deep-rooted cultural self-confidence that has created this show. ”
The Song Dynasty lasted more than three hundred years, and under the impetus of social economy, literature and art developed rapidly, and Shi Yaobi said in the "CeWen": "Only for more than two hundred years of the Song Dynasty, the prosperity of cultural relics spanned hundreds of generations. Lu You also believes in the "Preface to the Lü Juren Collection": "Song Xing, the Confucians look at each other, there are those who are above the Han and Tang Dynasties." "Song Taizu once demanded that his descendants should never kill literati, the status of literati in the Song Dynasty has been unprecedentedly improved, the style of heavy literature and light martial arts has reached the extreme in the Song Dynasty, so whether it is the court or the folk, the literary and artistic atmosphere is very strong, providing sufficient space and surging imagination for the creation of literary and artistic works, and there are great achievements in poetry, words, prose, and paintings. Perhaps it is precisely for this reason that the literati painters living in this dynasty have a distinctive and majestic courage, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, Ouyang Xiu, Zhang Zeduan and so on. The same is true of Wang Ximeng, who painted "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at the age of eighteen, because of the nourishment given to him by that era of literary and artistic prosperity, because of his talent and his full talent, he can make "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map" immortal across a thousand years of time. Nowadays, "Only This Green" uses dance to interpret traditional paintings, which is a surprising way not only provides a feasible way for the inheritance and development of traditional culture, but also through strong artistic expression, so that we can produce artistic empathy after a thousand years, which takes us back to the millennium with the immersive artistic perception of "picturesque rivers and mountains", allowing us to feel the great rivers and mountains of the motherland at a deeper level.
▲ Stills of the dance poetry drama "Only This Green"