After 19 competition days, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics also ended successfully on February 24. This Year's Winter Olympics will impress the audience not only with the gripping competition and the Olympic athletes who bloomed, but also the music tracks played in the competition scene were also amazing.
For example, in the short track speed skating men's and women's 2000 meters mixed relay final on February 5, a song "Chinese Fan" when the Chinese team won the first gold medal of the Winter Olympics ignited the atmosphere of the entire venue; when the Chinese men's ice hockey team defeated Germany on February 12, the "Glorious Years" that sounded on the scene also made us full of confidence in the future of Chinese ice hockey.
One of the songs that has attracted the attention of young people is a series of soundtrack tracks in the video game "Glory of Kings". For example, the "Red Flame Of Tassel", which was played in the national speed skating hall, quickly triggered a wide discussion on Weibo as soon as it was played, and the current discussion of the topic of "Red Flame And Speed Skating Match" reached 20,000+, and the number of readings reached 130 million.
The Olympic Games are world-class sporting events and an important window for the host country to showcase its national culture to the world. Fourteen years after the Beijing Olympic Games, China's colorful and profound traditional folk music has once again been shown to the world through the Olympic stage.
For example, the above-mentioned "Red Flame of Tassel" is a musical repertoire with Chinese characteristics, composed by young composer Liu Dong, and co-created and performed by Zhao Cong, head of the Central Chinese Orchestra and pipa player. The intense and speedy style of "Red Flame" also makes it complement the visual effects of short-track speed skating.
In this regard, many netizens not only applauded this collocation effect, but also commented on the message: "Chinese culture is vividly presented here, and it is also displayed in front of every Olympic athlete, which can let everyone appreciate the beauty of Chinese culture and appreciate China's national style music." ”
It can be seen that through video games and the Olympic stage, traditional folk music has successfully narrowed the distance between it and contemporary young people. Through the carrier of games, young people contact and understand national music, and then through the wide dissemination of the Olympic Games, young people have formed a certain cultural confidence in our traditional culture, and this cultural confidence can also feed back national music and build a bridge of inheritance among young people.
In the view of Zhao Cong, the pipa player and creator of "Red Flame", the game is a very good position, when everyone plays the game, they will understand the profundity of traditional Chinese music, so that in their underlying psychology, they will slowly produce cultural identity and cultural self-confidence and national pride.
Not only "The Wisp of The Red Flame", but also "Guan Yu Shakuhachi God" and "Sheng ShihuaZhang", which are also the original voices of "Glory of Kings", have appeared in the arena of this Winter Olympic Games. At the opening ceremony of last year's Tokyo Olympics, Japan showcased its proud anime culture with nearly 20 anime game theme songs. This year, we can also use game music as a medium to show the world a more diverse cultural landscape. This is both a national pride and a manifestation of cultural self-confidence.