Tang 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 people 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 Qinglong various glazed vases, also known as the "Chinese porcelain king", condense a history of Chinese porcelain, the bottle body contains a variety of auspicious symbolic 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 Chinese auspicious totem, in the Western Han carved dragon and phoenix pattern heavy ring jade pendant, the dragon straightens its chest and tail, the phoenix bird looks back, perfectly interpreting the dragon and phoenix in peace and harmony...
Isn't it special to spend the Spring Festival with more than 70 cultural relics as a "cultural feast"?
"New Sound of Ancient Rhyme" poster
The large-scale cultural series "Ancient Yun Xinsheng" 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, with the expression of "cultural relics exhibition + cultural interview + ancient style music and dance", in the fusion of "thought + art + technology", highlighting the unique charm of culture.
A still from "New Sound of Ancient Rhyme"
Many of the "most" cultural relics are also full of attractions.
The 24-character Jiyan brick of the Eastern Han Dynasty is the largest, largest and most exquisite Jiyan brick with the largest number of existing characters in 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 auspicious and beautiful meanings were all unveiled in the cultural relics exhibition.
A still from "New Sound of Ancient Rhyme"
Many original songs such as "Shengshi Huazhang", "Chill and Spring Breeze", "Biansai Family Book" and "Four Scenic Landscapes" made their debut in the program. The program also incorporates many cultural relics and ancient Spring Festival customs into the song and dance performance, such as the song "The Stars Are Like a Promise", which makes the world's oldest astronomical inscription (rubbing) look at the ancient and modern space station of the Chinese space station, interpreting the endless prospect of the vast starry sky that has 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.
A still from "New Sound of Ancient Rhyme"
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.
In this thousand-year-old cultural journey, we can jointly feel the connotation of Chinese traditional culture, and experience the Chinese appearance, Chinese wisdom and Chinese spirit that runs through ancient and modern times.