From October 6th to 10th, under the guidance of director Li Huan and with the support of Dongcheng Literary Association, the newly rearranged "Fanying Strings and Songs" will be performed for 10 consecutive performances at the Chongwen Workers' Cultural Palace. In this round of performances, the producer Teacher Wu Qian specially held a special session for front-line medical workers, and invited labor models, courier brothers and social grassroots workers to watch the performance, so that the hard-working workers in different positions experienced the double enjoyment of the body and spirit brought by the intangible cultural heritage and China's excellent traditional culture during this eleventh holiday, which is also the birthday gift that Teacher Wu Qian as a non-hereditary inheritor gave to the mother of the motherland.
The canal extends on the shore, and the excited and high-pitched labor trumpet rises and falls; above the canal, there is a melodious sound, which coincides with the sound of the harp. Under the dazzling visual picture presented by modern technology, the instrumental drama "Sail Shadow String Song Thousands of Heavy" interprets the moving story of the Kunlu class in Suzhou, Jiangnan Province, which moved north to the capital to carry forward the Kunqu culture by means of the Grand Canal, integrating love, family affection and cultural family and national conditions, and organically integrating intangible cultural heritage elements such as Kunqu opera, zhenzheng, guqin and folk dances related to the canal city into it, reproducing the culture and customs on both sides of the Grand Canal, and also showing the historical process of the transmission and integration of southern Chinese culture to the north.
The instrumental drama "Thousands of Songs of Sail Shadows and Strings" combines a variety of intangible cultural heritage with modern aesthetics, bringing the audience a new audio-visual feast of Chinese intangible cultural heritage. Modern stage technology reproduces the bustling scene of the millennium Grand Canal, which was excavated in 486 BC, and also shows the tranquility and loneliness of the Grand Canal under the stars, as well as the panic and tension when the storm comes... "The Wind shadow string song" uses the canal as a line and introduces a large number of intangible cultural heritage. With the help of modern scientific and technological means, the Kunqu opera, labor trumpet, Zhenzhen, Guqin, Shangyang Dance and other intangible cultural heritage performance forms in the north and south are connected, and the World Cultural Heritage Grand Canal is integrated with these intangible cultural heritages, which complement each other to create a new large-scale original national rhyme instrumental music drama, and also depict the long-standing Chinese civilization, just like the canal water, the river flows endlessly and the inheritance is orderly.
The audience is in the theater to watch "Thousands of Songs of Sail Shadows and Strings", as if sitting on the boat river, looking for the sound of zhengzheng piano, immersed in the Grand Canal cultural belt. See the gentle richness of the small city of Suzhou in the south of the Jiangsu Province, the heroic atmosphere of Zaozhuang, the transit station of the canal, and the capital city that has attracted countless people's dreams and blooming flowers. The romantic stories of the beauties and heroes, the customs and folk customs of the two sides of the strait, and the intangible cultural heritage with different styles from the north and the south are slowly unveiled, creating a dreamlike viewing experience for the audience.
Su Yuan, the heroine of the drama "Sail Shadow String Song Thousands of Weights", is played by Wu Qian, a famous young Chinese musician in China, who is also the creative and producer of the play. With her profound musical literacy and artistic heritage, Wu Qian played a Ming Dynasty woman with good looks, superb skills, and a romantic and tenacious personality on the stage, using a more symbolic three-dimensional character image to represent the image of "intangible cultural heritage" and convey to the audience the canal culture with a history of more than 2,500 years. At the same time, as a non-hereditary inheritor of The Basket Art, Wu Qian is good at showing traditional culture in the most approachable way, using beautiful music to unconsciously grab the audience's heart, allowing them to travel through time and space, feel the beauty of traditional culture and the beauty of the Grand Canal.
(China Daily Beijing Reporter Station)