CCTV broadcast footage
The program "Bright Flower Shoes" was recorded at the scene
Liu Guoqiang Wang Fang/Wen Zhang Xiaodong/Photo
The program "Living Dragons and Tigers Welcoming the Spring" (formerly "East, West, South, South and North Greeting the New Year" column), carefully created by the Literary and Art Program Center of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, was broadcast on the CCTV-3 Variety Channel at 19:30 on January 30 and on the CCTV-1 Comprehensive Channel at 22:30. Langzhong once again hit the CCTV big stage, Langzhong folk customs "Spring Festival old man blessing", "bright flower shoes", "Wang Shadow" and other hot circle of friends.
In the program of "Welcoming Spring with Dragons and Tigers", Sichuan Langzhong Normal School undertook the choreography and performance of multiple programs, and the teacher and student teams performed and perfectly presented, which won the praise of the audience.
A discover the original dance behind the scenes
In the arrangement and recording of the program of the Langzhong branch of "The Dragon and the Tiger Welcome the Spring", there is a school on the CCTV stage for six ——— the Langzhong Normal School in Sichuan Province. The school has undertaken the choreography and performance of a number of programs, and more than 150 teachers and students have participated.
On December 10, 2021, Gou Chaojun, principal of Langzhong Normal School, received a notice that the school received a task: within 30 days, it was necessary to complete the choreography of the dance program "Bright Flower Shoes" with high standards, the opening dance, the dance choreography of the folk team, and the accompaniment dance of the song and dance "Come to Dance".
"Being able to re-appear on the CCTV stage and publicize the characteristic culture of Langzhong is the unshirkable responsibility of the sons and daughters of Langzhong, and it is also a great honor for Langzhong Normal School, and it is even more enough to show the professional strength of Langzhong teachers and students." At the emergency meeting of the program arrangement team of Langzhong Normal School's "Life and Vitality and Tiger Welcoming Spring", Gou Chaojun was full of affection and asked all the cast and crew of Langzhong Normal School to be carefully designed and perfectly presented.
Subsequently, led by the Arts and Sports Department of Langzhong Normal School, Luo Weijia, the leader of the dance teaching and research group of the school, Huang Lei and Xie Tianyuan, deputy secretaries of the Youth League Committee, and dance teachers Luo Yan, Cheng Liu, Zhao Qianbin, Zhu Wenwen, etc., under the responsibility of the dance teachers, they organized the performers in an intensive manner to arrange each program with high quality according to the relevant requirements of the director group of "The Dragon and the Tiger Welcomes spring" to ensure the smooth completion of the task.
In the choreography process, the completion progress and quality of the opening dance, folk team performance, song and dance and other programs were relatively good, and in the choreography and interpretation of "Bright Flower Shoes", difficulties were encountered.
As we all know, "Bright Flower Shoes" was once featured in the 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and Teachers and Students Xie Tianyuan and Zhang Zhiling participated in the whole process, allowing the audience to appreciate the unique folk customs and customs of Langzhong. Now, it is not easy for Langzhong Normal School to innovate on the version of "Bright Flower Shoes" at the Spring Festival Gala in 2018.
Under the careful guidance of the CCTV director group, the school's program arrangement team finally found its positioning after continuous conception, denial and re-conception: 2018's "Bright Flower Shoes" appeared on the CCTV stage, showing its beautiful and flexible side. This year, "Bright Flower Shoes" will be staged in the antique Langzhong ancient courtyard, staged around the people, the original taste, grounded, and even the people's hearts are the goal, characteristics, and highlights!
In order to achieve a uniform, accurate and perfect stage effect, the Langshi team worked day and night in the school dance studio, racing against the clock, repeating boringly again and again, from head to toe to expression over and over again, repeatedly cutting details, tired of sleeping on the ground, and endured the pain. Many times, because they are too ruthless to perform, their feet are worn out without knowing it. Even so, no one has complained or said give up. "Because this is our dream and the honor of our alma mater, no matter how tired we are, we are willing to eat it." Tang Cui, a student who participated in the Langshi exercise, said with a smile.
The langshi teacher and student team overcame the time conflict between the dance rehearsal and the final exam, endured the cold weather during the outdoor rehearsal on the ground, and withstood the pain caused by the high-intensity training to the body, especially the dance teacher Luo Yan relapsed from the old injury during the rehearsal, still while treating, while insisting on rehearsal until the final perfect performance. In the face of difficulties, the teachers and students did not flinch, but opened their arms, danced and danced firmly. On January 9, 2022, "Bright Flower Shoes" officially participated in the recording, and the teachers and students of Langshi stunned and showed the "style" of Langshi on the stage.
The Langshi girls, lotus steps and flowers, Gu Pansheng posture, uniformity, agility and lightness, perfectly showed the playful and vivid scenes of Langzhong daughter's "bright shoes", "racing shoes" and "shoe grabbing", showing thousands of styles of Langzhong girls, fully demonstrating the school's excellent talent training quality and good spiritual outlook, and won the warm applause of the audience.
The professional quality and style of the Langshi team left a deep impression on the CCTV director group, and the CCTV director Molly, who was responsible for directing "The Dragon and the Tiger Welcomes the Spring", gave a thumbs up after the recording was completed, and was quite satisfied with the choreography and interpretation of the program, she sighed: A secondary vocational school can also cultivate such a dedicated and excellent dancer, which is awesome!
B tells the story of Langzhong to inherit excellent traditional culture
"Inheriting and innovating the excellent traditional culture of Langzhong and telling the stories of the folk customs and folklore of Langzhong has always been the school's concept of cultivating talents and serving the society." Enlightening wisdom with art and making traditional culture moisten the soul is the unshirkable responsibility and mission of our school! Gou Chaojun said.
It is reported that Langzhong Normal School has played a good cultural card, and has sent teachers and students to perform in the 2013 Spring Festival Gala of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the 2014 CCTV "City 1 to 1", the 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the 2018 "Golden 100 Seconds", the 2020 CCTV "Music Open Class" and other columns, which have won sustained social attention and high praise.
In addition to the continuous inheritance and innovation of local folk dance, Langzhong Normal School also relies on strong art and sports education resources to open music, dance, painting, broadcasting and hosting, sports training and other art and sports majors all year round, integrating cultural education and art and sports education, paying more attention to the excavation and development of traditional culture, and has created more than 50 works of song and dance, drama and folk songs, interpreting the multiculturalism of Langzhong for all sectors of society, displaying the characteristics of Langzhong folklore, including the dance "Dream Back to Huaxu" created and choreographed with the original culture of Langzhong. Known as the living fossil of Chinese dance, the Bayu dance "Ba Guo Xiongfeng", the Langzhong folk dance "Bright Flower Shoes", the Langzhong folk song "Fun and Good Fun to Langzhong", "Drying Clothes", "Pinching Garlic" and so on.
Langshi also carried out wonderful community activities, inheriting traditional skills such as shadow puppetry, lamp play, paper tying, face sculpture, paper cutting, pottery, etc. Teachers and students cooperated with the Spring Festival culture and the keju culture as the prototype, designed and produced more than 30 pieces of related cultural and creative products such as mini ancient city, four treasures of the study room, and nian grandfather, which won the high praise of vocational education from all walks of life and made significant contributions to the inheritance and development of local culture in Langzhong.
"Tell the story of Langzhong well, inherit excellent culture, and cultivate new people of the times" is the goal that Langzhong Normal School, a famous school in China, has always strived for. In the new year, Teachers and students will continue to be high-spirited, with light in their eyes and endless efforts. The trend of ambition is far away; the poor mountains and the sea cannot be limited. At the beginning of the new year, everything in Vientiane is new, and the future of Langshi is full of flowers.