With the advent of the Beijing Winter Olympics, ice and snow-themed artworks also frequently attract people's attention and are very hot. In particular, the opening ceremony performance of the Winter Olympic Games has left a deep impression on the people of the world as "very grand and wonderful" and "wonderful". The reporter focused on the stage art works with ice and snow as the theme or background, and tried to present their wonderful and touching points by looking back at history and paying attention to the present, so as to set off the warm atmosphere of the Beijing Winter Olympics and provide inspiration for the creation of related themes in the future.
Looking back at the snow and ice:
Promote the beauty of Chinese culture
Works of art related to ice and snow can be said to be ancient and play a unique role. In general, the characteristics of ice and snow often have special symbols in works of art, either the harsh and cold natural environment, or the beautiful scenery that is white and flawless, but they can set off and express the preciousness of people's spirit.
As far as drama is concerned, in the past, works related to ice and snow focused on promoting Chinese virtues and showing the bones of resistance. The traditional play "Wang Xiang Lying on the Ice" reflects the story of lying on the ice and asking for carp in the "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties", which was first from Gan Bao's "Search for God". In the Yuan Dynasty, there was "Wang Xiang Lying On Ice", and now many kinds of dramas such as Qin Cavity, Henan Xiangzi and Huangmei Opera have circulated this traditional repertoire, and the degree of singing is very high. What is valuable is that contemporary creators have also made new artistic creations for this traditional old play. For example, Linyi, Shandong Province, has made a new compilation of this story. The creators took "filial piety culture" as the theme content, and at the same time added the theme elements of the era of building a harmonious society, expressing the cultural concept of "home and everything is prosperous".
On May 10, 1958, the four-act and nine-performance drama "Wise Tiger Mountain" was performed at the Beijing People's Art Theater, which opened the curtain on the adaptation of the novel "Lin Hai Xueyuan". Following the drama "Wise Tiger Mountain", "Lin Hai Xueyuan" has also been adapted into Peking Opera, commentary and book commentary. Among all the adaptations, the model play "Wise Tiger Mountain" has the greatest influence. In addition to the main body of traditional Peking Opera, the artistic style of "Wise Tiger Mountain" is integrated into modern arts such as Western ballet and symphony, and the music in the play is extremely artistically appealing, and the singing section is popular and widely circulated, and it has been sung throughout the country in the 1960s and 1970s. The legendary scouting hero Yang Zirong has also become a classic image on the stage and screen. In order to expand the influence of the model play, from November 1968 to October 1970, "Wise Tiger Mountain" was also made into a model drama film.
Created in the 1950s and 1960s, the modern Peking Opera play "Xueling Cangsong" portrayed the anti-Japanese fighters during the War of Resistance Against Japan, which used "Xueling Cangsong" to describe the revolutionary predecessors' loyal to the revolution and the indomitable steel spirit, which was later transplanted and adapted by other dramas such as commentaries.
"The mountains are far away at dusk, and the white houses are poor in the cold. Chai Men smell the barking of dogs, and the wind and snow return to people on the night. Playwright Wu Zuguanghua used the vast and distant artistic conception of the Tang poem "The Master of Furong Mountain in the Snow" to create the drama "Returning to the People at night of wind and snow". This drama was created in 1942, China is under the iron heel of Japanese invasion, and most of the popular literary and artistic works at that time were composed by sensing the call of the times, but Wu Zuguang wrote such a love story that at first glance seemed to be "out of the times". But in fact, in "The Return of the Snowy Night", love is only a superficial flashiness, and the theme of resistance and enlightenment is its eternal wind and bone.
In addition to drama, there are also many musical and dance works with ice and snow themes. The 12th China Arts Festival Wenhua Award national dance drama "Little Sisters of The Heroes of the Grassland" is one of them. In the 1960s, the heroic deeds of the "Little Sisters of The Heroes of the Steppe" in protecting the collective flock in the snowstorm touched and inspired hundreds of millions of people, and were successively put on the stage of dramas and musicals. After more than 50 years, in 2019, the national dance drama "Little Sisters of the Heroes of the Prairie" uses the artistic technique of combining realism and romanticism to reinterpret the historical background and the background of the times that produced heroes, so that the old stories and the new era are highly compatible, and at the spiritual level, the answers to the times are given by teenagers from the perspective of exploring and thinking about the red classics, which has a strong lyricism and reality.
"I Love You, Snow in The North of Sai" is a popular song written in 1980, with lyrics by Wang De and music by Liu Xijin. The melody of the song stretches smoothly, the lines are soft and delicate, the lyricism is delicate, the form of the snow is vividly depicted, the charm of the snow is accurately portrayed, and the scenery of the northern country is depicted with light and romantic, open-minded and heroic music, and the noble character of pure and flawless is praised.
With the development of the mainland economy, ice and snow sports are gradually loved by more and more people. In the three northeastern provinces with strong ice and snow culture, their ice and snow theme literary and artistic creations have also shown a fiery trend. In recent years, a large number of ice and snow music and dance works have emerged at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival Gala, such as the songs "Ice and Snow Fire", "From the Ice and Snow", "Ice of the North Country", and the dance "Snow Girl". The northern ice and snow art stage, which has a rich local cultural heritage, is constantly igniting new hopes.
In addition, acrobatics with ice and snow as the theme or background are not lacking, in January 2017, the Heilongjiang Provincial Acrobatic Troupe choreographed the "Four Seasons Changshuang Longjiang Ice Show" for the ice and snow season, which is a "cross-border" fusion of acrobatics and ice and snow art. The "cool" performance of ice acrobatics, ice stunts, ice magic, ice stilts, trampolines, drill circles, rope skills, flower plates and other difficult actions are the "unique skills" of the Heilongjiang Acrobatic Troupe.
Passion for Ice and Snow:
Showcasing Chinese style
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics have completely ignited the enthusiasm of the people of the whole country for ice and snow sports, and also stimulated the strong motivation of literary and artistic creators to create ice and snow themes.
▲ Symphonic Peking Opera "Ice and Snow Huaguang"
On January 25th, the beijing winter olympic games global music works collection activity came to an end, and the symphonic Peking opera "Ice and Snow Huaguang" sung by The Peking Opera performing artists Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu of the National Peking Opera House was successfully selected as the outstanding musical works of the Third Winter Olympic Games.
The Winter Olympics opened during the Spring Festival in China, and Beijing held various cultural activities in conjunction with the Spring Festival and the Winter Olympics. Among them, the symphonic suite "Ice and Snow Rendezvous", composed for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, was played in the Zhongshan Park Music Hall on the eighth day of the first lunar month, spreading the spirit of the Winter Olympics and displaying Chinese style and Chinese style through symphony, an international universal language. Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Chinese Orchestra, Beijing Wind Symphony Orchestra and other performance groups also held concerts with the theme of "Ice and Snow", expressing their good expectations and blessings for the Beijing Winter Olympics through musical art that highlighted the melody of ice and snow and beautiful emotions.
Some venues of this Winter Olympic Games are in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, and the enthusiasm for ice and snow theme art creation in Hebei Province is very high, and the works are equally wonderful. On October 26 last year, Hebei officially launched the "Hebei Winter Olympics Theme Stage Art Works Exhibition" activity, sponsored by the Publicity Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hebei Province, and 12 outstanding stage works with the theme of the Winter Olympics were successively exhibited.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that on December 26 last year, the main creative team composed of more than 70 people of China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd., together with Olympic champions Pang Wei and Zhang Yipan, National Games champions Ju Wenxin and Liu Yuqi, and more than 700 actors from all walks of life, presented a wonderful performance for the opening of the Third Ice and Snow Games in Hebei Province. From the 3D ice and snow light and shadow show "Damei Hebei" to the sports matrix performance "Passion Ice and Snow", from the ice and snow video scene performance "Ice and Snow Sports Around" to the dance sports fusion performance "Happy Youth"... The passionate music and dancing responded to the people's ardent expectations for the Winter Olympics.
February 17, 2022 China Culture Daily
Special reports were published on the 5th edition
Ice and Snow in Art
——List of ice and snow-themed stage art works
Editor-in-charge: Chen Xiaoyue