The Chinese excellent traditional culture has become a source of literary and artistic innovation

【Hot Spot Observation】

Author: Lu Renjing Kong De (Lecturer, School of Art, Hubei University, Associate Professor, School of Art, Hubei University, respectively)

Watching the Spring Festival Gala has long become one of the New Year customs of the Chinese New Year, and the Annual Spring Festival Gala is highly anticipated, and the annual Spring Festival Gala will also bring many surprises to the audience. Wonderful national style programs have blossomed everywhere, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest surprises brought by the 2022 CCTV Spring Festival Gala and the Local Spring Festival Gala. The re-emergence of the National Style Program has made more and more people fall in love with china's excellent traditional culture, see the beauty of dance art, and the aesthetic level of the audience has also been improved in audiovisual enjoyment. Let China's excellent traditional culture become an important source of literary and artistic innovation, and this beautiful expectation is becoming a reality.

"Only This Green" performance scene information photo

"Only This Green" takes the audience to "immersive" appreciation of the painting

"YuanDai Xiu'e, only this green" "I see how feminine Qingshan is, and I should be like this when I see Qingshan", "It is like a living picture book spread out, people in the painting are dancing, people are dancing in the painting, containing the endless atmosphere of the big country" "Dancing out of the beauty of calligraphy, I still want to see it hundreds of millions of times"... During the Spring Festival in 2022, if you have not seen or heard "Only This Green", you may wonder what kind of works can make the majority of netizens so stingy and praiseworthy, and the comment language is so poetic? What kind of works can make netizens who are accustomed to "YYDS" change their painting style and express their viewing experience with poetry or poetic language?

This has to start from the stunning debut of the dance poetry drama "Only This Green" on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. "900 years ago, the Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng completed the famous work "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at the age of 18. Every green brush is painted with the magnificence of the mountains and rivers, and every ripple is full of the enthusiasm of youth. "900 years have passed, but the green is still the same." Next, we invite you to enjoy "Only This Green". After a brief introduction by the two hosts, the camera cuts to the stage, and the panorama presents the dancers dressed in green costumes, frozen in different dance postures and forms, like mountains undulating, accompanied by water waves, a good one into the painting, how not to make people intoxicated. In 2017, the "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which caused a sensation as soon as it was exhibited in the Forbidden City, once entered the public's field of vision through "National Treasure", and now it has moved from static to moving on the Spring Festival Gala stage, activating into the time and space of group dance, dancing in painting and painting in dance, leading the audience to walk with the ancients in the mountains and rivers and the Caoluhua Hall, bringing a different kind of "immersive" painting experience. Near the end of the show, the dancers and the green mountains on the painting are integrated, and the picture is from near to far, and the applause on the scene is thunderous. The program just ended, hot search, hot discussion, circle of friends forwarded, "Only this green" quickly burst out of the circle. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, the "Only This Green" Hangzhou Station tour was sold out in only seven minutes, continuing the performance performance since the first "exhibition volume" in August 2021.

What's so good about "Only This Green"? In a word, aesthetics are online. The choreographers of the work, Han Zhen and Zhou Liya, once lined up to see "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" once, "just this one glance, never forget". And their creation of "Only This Green" has obviously achieved the effect of making people remember it at a glance. The dance poetry drama turns each dancer into a touch of color in the painting, and presents the rhythmic green of the long scroll with the rhythm of the dance, which truly makes the masterpiece come alive. The works are better than the creativity of the choreographer, the expression of the dancers, the perfect assistance of virtual visual technologies such as AR and the costume of the Tao, and even more in the profound chinese excellent traditional culture and many national treasure-level cultural relics.

"Chinese New Year Fantastic Tour" continues the classic IP

After the explosion of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" during the Spring Festival in 2021, Henan Satellite TV made full use of the IP advantages of "Chinese Festival" and successively launched a series of "Wonderful Tour" boutique programs. From the "Tang Palace Night Banquet" to the "Museum Lantern Wonderful Night" to the "Dragon Boat Wonderful Tour", some people call it "the first fire fifteen, the fire fifteen fire Dragon Boat Festival", it is not exaggerated. It is precisely because of the frequent explosions that the 2022 Henan Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala "New Year Fantastic Tour" related programs have not been broadcast first, and they are full of expectations.

On the evening of January 30, Henan Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala was broadcast as scheduled, with the advancement of the program, "Henan Spring Festival Gala Cultural Inner Volume King" quickly topped the hot search list, and subsequently, "Henan Spring Festival Gala Absolutely Beautiful Peony Fairy", "Henan Spring Festival Gala Immortal Dance National Color Tianxiang" and other topics caused netizens to discuss hotly, and the "Fantastic Tour" series of programs once again went out of the circle.

What's so great about the "Chinese New Year Fantastic Tour"? Song and dance "Shenzhou Gate God" integrates Chinese classical dance, Chinese martial arts and the current popular street dance elements, pushing open two doors to take the audience into the world of giant door gods; children's dance "Yellow River Mud Baby" begins with national intangible clay sculpture skills, through the perspective of small clay people, combined with children's dance, presents the childhood events in memory, tells the yellow river cultural roots inheritance, the program is warm and full of childlike fun, the living clay sculpture activates the childhood memories of generations, which is moving; the dance "National Color Heavenly Fragrance" will gather eleven outstanding dancers in China. Vividly interpreting legendary figures such as Bai Juyi, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan'er, Zhang Xu, And Yu Wenkai, and the "Peony Fairy" went to the "Peony Covenant" together, showing the prosperous scene at the same time, gathering the "Tang Celebrities" to accompany the audience for the New Year, which made people directly addicted. In addition, the dance "YingFeng Nian", "Towel Order", song and dance "The World anwell", creative Tai Chi "Next Second" and other programs cut from different angles of China's excellent traditional culture, and tradition and creativity collide with wonderful sparks, constantly bringing audiovisual impact, continuing the wonderful sense of classic IP. In 2021, the cultural images such as "Tang Xiaomei" and "Roselle" hatched by the "Fantastic Tour" series of programs all appeared, and assumed the role of host of the tandem program, which met the expectations of the audience.

Why are these shows so poignant and evocative? The most important reason is that the main creators have achieved integrity and innovation. For Henan, reaching out is the Spring and Autumn culture, two feet and one step is the Qin brick Han tile, the traditional cultural resources are inexhaustible, they not only make full use of the advantages of cultural resources, but also in the content, the form of the times, the tradition and modern organic integration, the culture into a stage story, the story to the audience's heart.

The Spring Festival Gala stage rekindled the national wind boom

During the Spring Festival in 2022, from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to the Local Spring Festival Gala, there are not many highlight programs launched around china's excellent traditional culture, and there is a great trend of competition.

In addition to "Only This Green", the CCTV Spring Festival Gala also launched the creative music and dance poetry painting "Remembering Jiangnan", the opera collection program "Endless Pear Garden Love", the landscape Tai Chi "Flowing Clouds and Flowing Water", the martial arts short drama "Milk Tiger Whistling Spring", the dance "Golden Face", etc., from opera to martial arts, from famous paintings to national treasures, wonderful. In terms of local satellite television, Henan continues to launch fine products based on the advantages of IP, Shaanxi based on the fertile land of culture to show the magnificent momentum of "Lanling King's Entry Song" with a hundred people and a hundred drums, Shanxi uses song and dance to interpret the story behind the world-famous poem "Climbing the Stork and Bird Tower", and Jiangsu makes people intuitively feel the beauty of the world's intangible cultural heritage Nanjing Yunjin through dance...

On the one hand, the national wind and fever reflect the general improvement of our national pride and cultural identity, and the firmer cultural self-confidence, on the other hand, it also reflects that cultural rejuvenation has led to the improvement of public aesthetics. We are well aware that the broad and profound Chinese civilization is the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation, the foundation of contemporary Chinese literature and art, and the treasure of literary and artistic innovation. While maintaining the characteristics of the past, the Spring Festival Gala in various places has paid attention to the excavation of China's excellent traditional culture and successively launched a large number of explosive works, which is a cultural blessing and a national blessing. China's excellent traditional culture contains valuable ideological concepts, humanistic spirit, moral norms, and the aesthetic spirit of the Chinese nation. Only by injecting the beauty of tradition into the art of beauty can the works have souls, ideas and art can complement each other, works can be passed on for a long time, and Chinese culture can maintain its vitality.

The frequent appearance of the Spring Festival Gala National Style works in the circle to some extent proves the high quality of some programs, but throughout such programs, there are still some problems. For example, the homogenization of individual programs, "copying homework" is not good at copying, but there are drawbacks of Dong Shi Gong. There are also some shows that rely too much on technology and ignore the content, in addition to being cool, lack of memory points after watching. We must understand that all creative techniques and means are in the service of content. Technological development and technological innovation can bring new ways of artistic expression and rendering, but the abundance of art always depends on life. Just like "Only This Green", "Remembering Jiangnan", and last year's "Tang Palace Night Banquet", their circle lies in the dancers vividly and vividly interpreting the freehand and aesthetics of famous paintings or dancing figurines, and the help of technology is not separated from the content of the work.

In short, we must correctly use new technologies and new means to stimulate creative inspiration, enrich cultural connotations, express ideas and emotions, and make literary and artistic creation present a new realm with more connotation and more potential. It is expected that the majority of literary and art workers will create more national style and explosive models, and that China's excellent traditional culture will continue to exude the charm of the times.

Guangming Daily (2022-02-23 13th edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily