"Cultural relics talk about the Spring Festival, ancient rhyme welcomes the New Year". The large-scale cultural series "Ancient Rhyme and New Sound" jointly produced by the China Central Radio and Television Station and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage will be broadcast on CCTV Comprehensive Channel at 12:35 on January 21, 2023 (Chinese New Year's Eve), and will be broadcast simultaneously on CCTV. The program presented a "cultural feast" on the eve of the Spring Festival Gala on the main station, leading the audience to explore the Spring Festival in cultural relics!
The Spring Festival program of "Ancient Rhyme and New Sound" uses precious cultural relics as the medium and wonderful performances as the introduction, and uses "one thing and one song" to play the four chapters of praying for Najib, retiring the old and welcoming the new, reuniting the family and celebrating the mountains and rivers, conveying the cultural heritage and charm of the Chinese traditional festival Lunar New Year. The program innovatively opens the chapter in the form of "self-statement" of cultural relics, and the hosts of the main station, Nigmat, Zhang Shuyue, Zhu Guangquan and Ren Luyu, dubbed the cultural relics, and highlighted the unique charm of Chinese culture in the fusion of "thought + art + technology" in the form of "cultural relics exhibition + cultural interview + ancient style music and dance".
The Spring Festival program kicked off with the singing of the song "Spring Return Order", and the program created a large number of original songs and dances, creating a quaint new Chinese style stage scene, reproducing the celebration situation of the ancient New Year, and innovatively interpreting the traditional festival culture.
The program adopts a variety of presentation methods such as song singing, dance, and instrumental music performance, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the "real" scene created by AR technology and ground screen, immerse themselves in the joyful and peaceful festive atmosphere, and focus on showing the continuous cultural heritage and emotional identity of the Chinese nation.
Many original songs such as "Shengshi Huazhang", "Cold and Spring Breeze", "Biansai Family Book" and "Four Scenic Landscapes" debuted in the program, and the program also incorporated many cultural relics and ancient Spring Festival customs into the song and dance performance, such as the song "The Stars Are Like a Promise" so that the world's oldest astronomical inscription (rubbing) and the Chinese space station are separated from the ancient and modern, interpreting the endless prospect of the vast starry sky that Chinese since ancient times; The dance "Dragon and Phoenix Yi" uses rhythmic rhythm to refine and sublimate the spiritual temperament of the totem symbols of Chinese civilization "dragon" and "phoenix"; The instrumental music performance "Palace Music Huiming" truly restores the scene of the Tang Dynasty court banquet, interspersed with tea artists to show the Tang Dynasty sencha skills; The live-action performance "Group Art and Music" reproduces the lively scenes of the people gathering to watch a hundred operas during the Spring Festival in the Ming Dynasty, etc.
The program also combines unique props such as on-site Spring Festival customs or Spring Festival ritual celebrations, with New Year scene elements and imagery text scenes on the large screen, showing the beautiful meaning of praying for Naji, retiring the old and welcoming the new, family reunion, and celebrating mountains and rivers together during the Chinese Lunar Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival is a folk festival that welcomes the old and the new, which always brings people new aspirations and hopes. Through more than 70 precious cultural relics, the program allows the audience to feel the festive and peaceful festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival. Tang Cai painted pottery zodiac rabbit figurines, as sensitive and intelligent as rabbits, full of vitality, opening a new chapter in the Year of the Rabbit for the Chinese people. Tang Ren Gyeonggi Ruixuetu fan and Qing Jiujiu cold relief map, with "Ruixue Zhaofeng Year", "Number Nine" and "Painting Nine", in the long winter to embrace the dream of cooling off the cold and welcoming spring. Qianlong Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty various glazed vases, also known as the "Chinese Porcelain King", condense a history of Chinese porcelain, the bottle body contains a variety of auspicious patterns, can be called the "New Year auspicious dictionary", let contemporary people feel the ancients' sincere hope for a better life. More than 1,400 years ago, the paper cut of the Northern Dynasty, its group pattern shape symbolizes a happy reunion. Dragon and phoenix, as the ancient auspicious totem of China, in the Western Han open-cut dragon and phoenix pattern heavy ring jade pendant, the dragon straightens its chest and tail, and the phoenix bird gazes back, which perfectly interprets the harmony and perfection of the dragon and phoenix.
The "most" of many cultural relics is also full of highlights: the 24-character Jiyan brick of the Eastern Han Dynasty is the largest, largest and most exquisite Jiyu brick in existence on the mainland; He Zun of the Western Zhou Dynasty, whose inscription "Zhaizi China" is the earliest inscription record of the word "China"; The Warring States open-cut dragon and phoenix pattern copper paving head is the largest Warring States period copper paving head seen in China; The "Jiaxin" wooden mound of the Qin tomb of Sleeping Tiger Land is the earliest physical object of Jiaxin found in mainland archaeology... All kinds of cultural relics related to the Spring Festival and with auspicious and beautiful meanings were all unveiled in the cultural relics exhibition.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
Editor/Cui Wei