Modern Express News (reporter Li Ming) Spring equinox arrives, all things are born. On March 20, the spring equinox in China's "24 solar terms" will be ushered in. On March 19th, the first issue of Henan Satellite TV's "Chinese Festival" sister article - "Chinese Festival" series of programs , "Chinese Festivals - The Adventures of the Spring Equinox" will be opened online, tracing the source of Chinese civilization and unlocking the code of oriental culture. Zhejiang Satellite TV also launched the "China Good Season" series, which began broadcasting on the night of the spring equinox. The cultural program big PK, really can be described as "fairy fight"!
△ Henan Satellite TV "Chinese Solar Terms - The Adventures of the Spring Equinox"
A new form of interpretation, "Mr. Solar Terms" tells the story of solar terms
The "China Festival" series of programs is created by the "China Festival" out-of-the-loop team of Henan Radio and Television Station, and 12 episodes are planned to be launched this year. If "Chinese Festival" has created the expression form of "network drama + network synthesis", and "Chinese festival" as a new theme, what kind of form will be presented?
The twenty-four solar terms were born in the agricultural era and guided farmers' agricultural activities in the past, but in today's digital age and technological age, what is the significance of the twenty-four solar terms for today's lives? This is also what the creators hope that the "China Solar Terms" series can be discussed in depth. It is understood that when planning the project, after many discussions by the main creator, he decided to adopt a completely different form - to express the connotation and meaning of the festival with a small but beautiful, interesting and new dramatic story that is close to the life of the times.
"Compared with traditional festivals, many contemporary audiences may not know and be familiar with the festival, so to do this series of theme programs, we must first have the nature of popular science, a more plain and straightforward way of telling stories, and be able to better express them." Chen Lei, the general director of "Chinese Solar Terms - The Adventures of the Spring Equinox", revealed that the main creation has constructed a "fantasy space", and Mr. Jieqi in the illusion observes the shifting of stars and the flow of time from a unique perspective higher than heaven and earth, and sees the changes in the human world. This "Mr. Solar Terms" will run through the annual series of programs, presenting the origin and connotation of each solar term through macroscopic, microscopic and other latitudes.
△ Henan Satellite TV's "Chinese Solar Terms - The Adventures of the Spring Equinox" filming scene
The "Chinese Festival" series of programs uses the form of ancient and modern characters "Adventures" to unfold the story of each issue, showing people and people, people and things, people and feelings in the adventures, highlighting the Chinese spiritual philosophy contained in the festival, and evoking the empathy and resonance of today's people. The Modern Express reporter learned that each episode of the program is about 10 minutes to 15 minutes long, and in the "Chinese Solar Terms - The Adventures of the Spring Equinox", Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, who first wrote and recorded the twenty-four solar terms, will cross to the present, and once the little boy Liu meets, he will jointly complete a scientific experiment of "spring equinox arrival, egg pretty". In the program, we will continue to use AI, XR and other technologies to enrich the visual presentation and integrate some traditional folk customs. At the end of the show, there will also be an original song to sublimate the emotion.
Inspired by Song Yun and The Festival, it presents the style and inheritance of Jiangnan people
Zhejiang Satellite TV's "China Good Season" series of evenings is a cultural evening party purely based on Jiangnan as the cultural background. The series of evenings focuses on presenting the graceful and subtle beauty of Jiangnan culture, with Song Yun and solar terms as the creative inspiration, with the theme of "turning the festival into a festival", excavating and showing the style inheritance of Jiangnan people from ancient times to the present in the seasonal festivals.
△ Screenshot of the trailer of Zhejiang Satellite TV's ""China's Good Season" - Spring Equinox
In the official announcement trailer of "China's Good Season" - Spring Equinox Chapter", the young girl who plays gracefully with porcelain as instrumental music in the verdant bamboo forest, the chivalrous guest who dances the sword in the rolling waves, the scholar who stands tall and upright under the bright morning light, ordering tea, setting up eggs, playing the piano, and paper kites... All of them are the rituals of the Jiangnan people about the spring equinox.
It is reported that the Thousand Hands Guanyin, bells, and long swords exposed in the film are the foreshadowing of the program, which triggered the audience's heated speculation and discussion about the evening program. According to the program group, the Spring Equinox Gala skillfully combines abstract expression of feelings and figurative cultural imagery, and the balance and blending of contemporary science and technology and the tradition of the Southern Song Dynasty allow the audience to experience the beauty of the season that belongs to China in the exquisite fireworks of Jiangnan.
"Fairy Fight"! Who can wow out of the loop?
From the intention to the form and cultural connotation, Zhejiang Satellite TV's "China Good Season" series of evening parties and Henan Satellite TV's "China Festival" series have the same magic. The same cultural programs around the solar terms, which of the two may be better?
From Lantern Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and then to Chongyang, Henan Satellite TV's "Chinese Festival" series of wonderful tours will dig deep into the connotation of traditional culture in 2021, and programs such as "Furong Pond", "Paper Fan Shusheng", "Luoshen Endowment", "Dragon Gate King Kong", "Ink Dance Mid-Autumn Festival" and other programs highlight cultural self-confidence, and once again export amazingly with the strength of traditional culture. Therefore, for the newly launched "China Festival" series of Henan Satellite TV, the audience is naturally full of expectations.
And Zhejiang Satellite TV's "China Good Season" series is also an all-out attack. The upcoming "Good Season of China" - Spring Equinox, one of the highlight stages of the party, "Thousand Hands Guanyin", which will be unveiled on the night of the spring equinox, has taken the lead in unveiling some mysteries. For the return of this well-known dance work after 17 years, the "Chinese Good Season" team took the spring festival folklore of the spring equinox and "equal parts of day and night, yin and yang balance" as inspiration, and chose to move "Thousand Hands Guanyin" directly to the surface of Xizi Lake, with the "Impression West Lake" located in the Yue Lake Scenic Area of The West Lake as the filming location, so that the dance and the spring color of Jiangnan are integrated. There is feeling and mood, which is full of the audience's expectations.
Can Henan Satellite TV recreate the explosive trend of the "China Festival" series? Can Zhejiang Satellite TV be popular out of the circle? High and low are judged by the audience. As a clear stream in the entertainment variety circle, cultural programs are gratifying.
(Image source: Henan Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV)