Since its launch at 19:00 on the evening of the 15th, the number of broadcasts of the B station Lantern Party "Bilibili Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Festival" has exceeded 13 million. The program took traditional opera as the main tone of the whole evening and presented a feast of opera for young people.
Picture description: Screenshot of station B "Shangyuan Thousand Lantern Society" (the same below)
This year, Station B won the support of the Chinese Dramatists Association, inviting Zhang Kai, Meng Guanglu, Wang Peiyu and other opera masters. If in the past, the B station evening party was a stage for young video creators and audiences to express their love for traditional art; now, more inheritors and artists such as opera, martial arts, folk music and so on have also stepped on this stage and taken the initiative to move closer to young people. This lantern festival of thousands of yuan makes people clearly see the "two-way rush" between traditional culture and contemporary youth.
In terms of choreography, this evening is like a traditional opera. The three protagonists look for the ancient Lantern Lantern Festival large-scale lantern color Aoshan Lantern to become the main line of the story, and various programs are interspersed in the six-fold play of "Brilliant Lantern Splendid", "Lantern Lantern Meeting", "Lantern Singing", "Dreaming with Lights", "Lantern Viewing Drama" and "Aoshan Lighting".
The famous Peking Opera actor Wang Peiyu and the singer-songwriter Alain used a Chinese style song "Yan Returns to the Nest" to slowly unfold the background of the ancient city on the night of the Shangyuan Dynasty. Wang Peiyu recited a sentence "Tu Su Chunfeng crossed the Guanshan Mountain, Hengyang Hongyan returned to Shuotian, met the Yuan Thousand Lantern Society, and saw a good reunion in the world", which led to three famous opera passages about "reunion", "Hall of Eternal Life" representing love, "Ancient City Society" representing friendship, and "Silang Visiting Mother" representing family affection... A series of classic scenes emerge, jointly highlighting the theme of happiness and reunion.
Subsequently, traditional Lantern Festival customs such as praying for blessings, eating lanterns, visiting lantern festivals, and guessing lantern riddles also "appeared" one by one. The "416 Women's Troupe" of the Peking Opera Performance Major of the Shanghai Theater Academy, which has been popular all over the Internet, has become an Easter egg. The performances of Kunqu opera actors Weng Jiahui and Shao Tianshuai combine "Peony Pavilion Memories and Frightening Dreams" with pop music. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the show was also interspersed with an ice "encounter" between figure skaters Chen Xizi and Xing Jianing. In an instant, many spectators who were paying attention to the figure skating competition suddenly realized that this sport has a long history in China and was called "ice play" by the ancients.
In previous years, the B station party, across the screen, for interesting festival customs everyone is "can see, can't touch". This year, network culture and traditional culture finally have a deep integration. During the performance, some attentive audiences noticed that there were many exquisitely crafted lanterns in the ancient city lantern festival in the background, and there were riddles hanging underneath. So someone pressed "pause" and discussed the mystery in the barrage. Unexpectedly, the live broadcast ended, the official "prepared early", immediately released a "riddle analysis" in the comment area. "Two three-story buildings by the lake" means "tear eyes", "Grandfather returned home in December" is "Grandpa Qinghui"... The answer is actually a bullet screen hot word often brushed by B station users, which also makes people feel that "the combination of ancient and modern, advancing with the times".
The custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival to pray for blessings is also realized online in the form of a bullet screen. At the end of the party, one kong ming lantern after another rose into the sky. Seeing this, the audience made wishes to participate in this unique "lantern ceremony". "The romance of Chinese is so superior!" In each message, it is an exclamation, an admiration, and a vigorous confidence of Chinese young people in national culture. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xuying)