At the Spring Festival Gala in 2022, the most amazing thing is that the long scroll of the green landscape of the Northern Song Dynasty King Xi Meng, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", was reborn in the form of dance. Use the stage to recreate the splendid rivers and mountains of a thousand years ago, and use dance to connect thousands of miles of green, static and moving, green and green, just this glance, is a thousand years.
"Only This Green" appeared on the screen of the Spring Festival Gala, which was breathtaking and couldn't stop. The music sounded, the lights came on, more than a dozen girls danced in the green mountains and green water, one move and one style, one swing and one sprinkle, the kind of beauty condensed in the calligraphy and painting, after thousands of years of ironing, the water of the mountains, the wind and snow, the beautiful feelings came one after another. It succeeded in capturing the hearts and minds of the audience. In particular, subtitles appear: (teenager) If you can tolerate hills and valleys in your heart, you can paint mountains and rivers with your pen, and it is a fusion of literature, painting, poetry, dance, and characters, which connects history, modernity and the future, making people unable to distinguish themselves, and the hands serving tea are trembling, dazed and unknown...
The picture scroll of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" shows the scenery of the mountains, the deep valleys of the rocks, the peaks and flat slopes, the flowing streams and springs, the water villages and wild cities, the fishing boats and yachts, the bridges and waterwheels, the maopeng pavilions, as well as the fishing, sightseeing, traveling, and Hudu scenes, which are vivid. The talented teenager Wang Ximeng depicted the great rivers and mountains of the motherland with the expression of "a thousand miles away" and the exquisite brushwork.
The choreographer skillfully grasps the vast rivers and the rhythmic rhythm of the undulating mountains in the picture scroll of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which has the characteristics of commonality with dance, and makes full use of synaesthesia to integrate two different art forms, and the dancers stand in different postures to represent different shapes and colors of mountains. In the background of slowly unfolding, the trend of the mountains changes, the clouds and mist are ethereal, the dancers are dressed in green costumes, the head is mountain-like hair ornaments, the trend changes, or standing or leaning, or standing or scattered, neat and fast as the wind, gathering and scattering and light like a song, with the music of the scene, vividly restoring the famous painting of the Northern Song Dynasty "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
Dance is pure freehand, just like "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with grandeur, not only the femininity of women, but also a kind of eternity and tranquility of traditional Chinese culture precipitation, but also represents the confident side of our culture.
On the bottom page of people's memories, the Song Dynasty has experienced more than 300 years, many wars and humiliations. However, the artists living in this dynasty have left us a large number of popular classics, such as Zhang Zeduan's "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty", such as the "Great River East" by su Shi, a poet of the Haofang school, and so on. At the age of eighteen, Wang Ximeng, who painted the famous and huge production "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" for thousands of years, was the pride of that era. In the long river of history, in the personal secular life, or painting or poetry, they are brilliant, so that we can appreciate this "living" cultural relics a thousand years later. It has to be said that this successful practice of "living" cultural relics also provides innovative ideas and practices for carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, meeting the needs of the people's spiritual life, and enhancing cultural self-confidence.
Author Affilications:Hunan Daily