What is youth like? In the turbulent years of a hundred years ago, the young Li Dazhao wrote the famous article "Youth", and the proposition of "youth" awakened the youth at that time and shocked the nation. When the mountains and rivers are broken, the youth of sacrifice and the youth of dedication are all for the dream of saving the country.
What is youth like today? In today's increasingly rich and powerful motherland, this answer has more possibilities: it is Gao Jian, the chief dispatcher of the manned spacecraft mission of the Space Flight Control Center in Beijing, who answers "Beijing understands", it can also be Hu Ping, the champion of the fashion technology project of the 44th WorldSkills Competition, to show the spirit of craftsmanship, and it can also be Sui Wenjing and Han Cong on the Winter Olympics who confidently win the championship, and youth shows more diversified colors.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will be held in 2022, and this year will also mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Youth League of China. The "Long Live Youth" May Fourth Youth Day Special Program, which was broadcast on the evening of May 3, uses a creative immersive musical to artistically reshape the representative youth figures in the glory of the past century, and condenses the youth picture book of generations of young people who continue to struggle and march forward triumphantly, and also profoundly interprets the connotation and meaning of "youth lies in struggle".
An affectionate look back: engraved with a hundred years of youth glory
The special program is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, co-sponsored by China Youth Daily and Henan Radio and Television Station, and produced by the "China Festival" series program team of Henan Radio and Television Station All-Media Marketing Planning Center.
According to the main creative team, the program was created against the background of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Youth League, focusing on the theme of "please rest assured that the party, the strong country has me, continue to struggle, long live the youth", and tell the important historical nodes of the May Fourth Movement in 1919, the founding of New China, the reform and opening up, and the new era to open a new journey, which are divided into four major chapters: "Burning in Blood", "Song of Youth", "Fiery Red Movement" and "Strong Country With Me".
How to condense such a grand proposition as the centennial glory of the founding of the regiment in an hour and a half? To this end, the program team chose to take the outstanding young figures and their deeds represented in different eras in the historical journey as the key node to promote the development of the plot.
In 1920, Yu Xiusong and 8 other people initiated the establishment of the Shanghai Socialist Youth League at No. 6 Yuyangli, which was the first socialist youth league in China. In the program overture, the "Eight Gentlemen" in Yuyang li is specially reproduced, showing the bud of a new ideal in the form of a situation song. Then Fang Zhimin appeared in the stage beam and spoke to Yu Xiusong in the air. The impassioned speech shows that countless revolutionary ancestors have forged ahead in the blue wisps and bathed in fire for China's rebirth.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the new socialist youth represented by Qian Xuesen, Yuan Longping, Peng Shilu, and others threw themselves into the torrent of motherland construction with a pure heart for the motherland. The sitcom "Chinese Youth" presents the fiery dreams and lives of that generation of young people with the interlacing of "cross-time and space dialogue". Accompanied by the rearrangement of "Sea of Stars", the audience feels that "although the Slovaks are far away, they have turned into stars in the sky and illuminated the direction of our progress." ”
The spring breeze of reform and opening up is blowing, and everywhere is full of vitality. The sweat of the women's volleyball team training, the sound of books in the classroom, the whistle of the train going away, the factory hammer "ding-ding-ding"... The scene dance "Struggle" shows a vivid "symphony of labor" with vigorous vitality, and the youth who stands at the head of the tide and forges ahead in a pioneering spirit has created a Chinese miracle that has attracted the world's attention.
"A century of self-improvement road, blood fertile China." As new young people in the new era, we will never forget the martyrs and how the Chinese nation has come to this day. Xu Na, one of the main creators of the program and the executive planner of the "Chinese Festivals" series, said that this special program shows the glorious course of the party's leadership of the Chinese youth movement for a hundred years through literary and artistic forms, and then allows contemporary youth to draw spiritual strength from the history of the century-old regiment, clarify historical responsibilities from the instructions of the ancestors, and consciously strive for the great cause of rejuvenation.
A clear proposition: to write the chapter of youth with struggle
A generation has a generation's journey, and a generation has a generation's mission. Whether it was once resolutely sacrificing his life for the awakening of the nation, or "doing earth-shattering things and burying celebrities" in the early days of the founding of New China; whether it was the courage to climb, to devote himself to the great cause of strengthening the country, or to take ordinary posts as a stage for achieving life... The young heroes of different historical periods presented in the program all highlight the same youth keyword - "struggle".
General director Qian Linlin said that the hard work and struggle of outstanding young people from all walks of life in different historical periods have jointly achieved today's China, and their struggle process is shining, this program is a tribute to youth, dedication, ideals, and faith.
In order to highlight the theme more prominently, the program specially set up "youth messengers" and "youth witnesses", which play a role in connecting the program and promoting the plot, and organically integrate with the performance and sublimate the emotions.
Among them, youth witnesses come from different industries and different fields with different identities, and they combine their own experiences to truly tell and jointly interpret "youth should struggle, and strivers are young!" "This clear attitude and proposition.
Li Jinying, a researcher at the China Institute of Atomic Energy and the proposer of the slogan "Start from me, from now on," tells the story of turning the slogan into action and making his own contribution to the development of China's nuclear industry. In her narration, "Young people are strivers, actively moving forward, bravely moving forward, always moving forward." We will all grow old, but our hearts will always be young, let's move together to the future! ”
Hu Ping, the champion of the fashion technology project of the 44th WorldSkills Competition, was also invited to become a witness to youth. As a young technician, she worked hard and made extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary position of "tailor".
Xu Na said that inviting Hu Ping as a witness to youth reflects the glorious tradition of Chinese youth adhering to the "eternal struggle" in her body, so that the brilliant youth shines in the struggle of these ordinary posts.
Taking the struggle as the most vivid footnote of youth, in the oath-taking ceremony at the end, the youth representatives of the league members of various industries across the country, together with Fang Zhimin's descendant Fang Hanhui, Beijing Winter Olympic volunteer Chen Haini, Zhao Jianming, the leader of the speech to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Wu Wenfang, a member of the Peking University Medical Team, and young artists Wang Yibo and Yang Zi jointly issued a "Struggle is youth, youth is dedicated to the party!" "Sonorous vows, showing the vigorous power of youth."
A dazzling symphony: evoking the empathy of the youth of the moment
The "Chinese Festivals" series of program teams, in the many explosive programs previously created, let the audience see the innovative expression of ancient traditional culture. And this theme program, the audience saw the new integration of thick red historical themes and bright youth vitality.
First of all, in the form of the program, the main creative team broke the inherent form of expression of the traditional stage, but creatively borrowed the performance methods of the situational music stage drama, and then integrated a variety of artistic languages such as film, dance, multimedia, stage mechanical movement, etc., to lead the audience's thoughts into the scene, so that the whole program is "integrated" and has an immersive and three-dimensional look.
"We have always insisted on showing the multi-faceted nature of Chinese civilization through programs and disseminating excellent cultural knowledge points through artistic means." Program executive planner Su Wei said.
To this end, in terms of music selection and dance choreography, the director team carefully considered, including well-known classic songs such as "Let's Swing the Oars" and "Young Friends Come to Meet", as well as popular songs such as "Star Sea" and "Teenager", as well as newly created songs such as "Colorful China" and "We", through rich music and performance elements, forming a dazzling symphony and enhancing artistic tension.
Among them, "Colorful China", with a relaxed national style melody, integrated into the drama singing voice, is presented through the background screen stage, and freehand depicts the beautiful splendid mountains and rivers from the smoke and rain in jiangnan to the yellow sand in northern Saibei.
If the first three chapters review history, in the fourth chapter, it focuses on the present, and arouses the empathy of young audiences in terms of program design to be close to reality.
The situational performance "Rainbow Nest", with the current rural revitalization as the background, more and more young people return to the homeland of "born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Si", contributing to the development of the countryside in the "return to entrepreneurship", and also finding their own youth dreams.
"We hope to convey an attitude - dare to break through their own limitations, dare to see the hardships of life and still choose to love life, which is the courage of contemporary youth, and it is also the heroism of contemporary youth." Xu Na said.
It is worth mentioning that the third phase of "Lixia Adventures", which is also created by the "China Festival" series of program teams, will be broadcast online on May 5, also against the background of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the group, telling a story of "contemporary youth struggling to grow up". Many fans cheered, "The same team, similar story background, there is such a dense program output, very much looking forward to it!" ”