From the mascot "Rabbit Yuanyuan" to the ancient painting "Martial Monk Performing Wutu", from the thousand-year-old intangible cultural heritage Nanyin to the top cultural relics brocade... This year's Spring Festival Gala presented a "cultural Chinese New Year's Eve dinner" full of sincerity to the audience. Throughout the party, national treasures and cultural relics were frequently unveiled, and the "Easter eggs" containing the broad and profound Chinese culture were pleasantly surprised.
This year, the clever and cute CCTV Spring Festival Gala mascot "Rabbit Yuanyuan" has won the love of many people as soon as it debuted. Attentive viewers found that "Rabbit Yuanyuan" is different from ordinary rabbits in life, it has four front teeth, which is particularly cute.
In fact, the prototype of "Rabbit Yuanyuan" is the "Anhui Model Pika Rabbit" found in the Qianshan Basin of Anhui Province. Model pika, which means an animal similar to a rabbit. The fossil of this "rabbit ancestor" was discovered in 1977 by Mr. Li Chuankui of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and according to analysis, it is 62 million years old. Today, its fossils are housed in the Chinese Museum of Paleozoology.
The stage of the 2023 Year of the Rabbit Spring Festival Gala is very gorgeous and atmospheric. The art installation at the top of the stage incorporates the "petal pattern" element of the painted pottery at the bottom of the temple. It is reconstructed from the evolution of the four-petal flower structure, changing various colors with different content, complementing different programs, presenting excellent visual effects.
The iconic pattern of the temple bottom gou painted pottery from 6,000 to 4,800 years ago is the "petal pattern". In the Miaodigou culture, "flower" is a very special image. In ancient Chinese, "hua" and "hua" are the same sound, and the word "hua" in the golden text is the appearance of a flower with a flower stem. Mr. Su Bingqi, a famous archaeologist, once proposed that floral pattern painted pottery may be the origin of the name of the Chinese (that is, the Chinese nation).
During the opening dance, attentive viewers will notice that the young actor's clothes are painted with the "Three Rabbits with Common Ears" pattern. This comes from the "Three Rabbits with Common Ears" from the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes murals.
It was unearthed from the Mogao Grottoes 407 in Dunhuang, and also appeared in caves in the early, middle and late Tang dynasties. In the center of the cave roof, in the middle of the eight-petal lotus flower, is a rabbit with three ears connected. It seems that they are chasing each other, but they can never catch up with each other. As one of the most representative patterns of Dunhuang, the "Three Rabbits Common Ear Diagram" is also an unsolved mystery in the world. There are many opinions on this. Many people believe that these three rabbits represent "past lives", "present lives" and "future lives". The three rabbits share the ear to represent the reincarnation of three lifetimes, which not only contains the meaning of symbiosis of the past, but also symbolizes good wishes for the future.
Tang Bohu's painting "Mengshu Palace Trick Map" Collection of the Palace Museum is based on the court life of Mengchang in Shu after the fifth dynasty
In the third program of the 2023 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singers Tan Weiwei, Lai Duoli (Taiwan, China), Xiamen Nan Orchestra, Quanzhou Normal University and Quanzhou Nanyin Heritage Center jointly performed the intangible cultural heritage Nanyin "A Hundred Birds Return to the Nest", which quickly aroused heated discussions on the Internet.
This song "A Hundred Birds Return to the Nest" is one of the four famous scores in Nanyin, which successfully applied for the World Heritage Site in 2022, the whole song is constructed with dusk imagery and rich changes, the dongxiao in the song uses a flower tongue blowing method to simulate the sound of birds, the crows throw themselves into the forest, and the music expresses the light and lively atmosphere of returning to the nest with spitting sounds, outlining a colorful and vivid scene. If you want to trace the historical origin of this peerless sound, you will find that there is a deep connection with Chengdu - the ancestor of Nanyin is Houshu Mengchang. Because its ancestor was Mengfu Langjun, Nanyin also had the nickname "Langjunle".
In the explosive martial arts program "Performing Wu", nearly 100 students of Henan Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School and kung fu superstar Zhao Wenzhuo jointly performed the mural "Martial Monk Performing Martial Diagram" in the Guanyin Hall of Shaolin Temple.
The "Martial Monk Performing Martial Diagram" painted on the north wall of the White Yi Hall at the end of the Qing Dynasty depicts the eighth year of Daoguang (1828) of the Qing Dynasty, when the Manchu ruler Lin Qing Dynasty inspected Yangmeiliang Sacrifice Song Mountain Daolin Temple, and 34 martial monks practiced in pairs in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall. It is worth mentioning that the composition of this mural breaks through the form of traditional Chinese painting, but is similar to the Western mural paintings of the Renaissance. The whole painting is scattered from the temple in the center of the picture, which has a deep sense of space.
At this year's Spring Festival Gala, Zhu Jiejing appeared on the stage again, bringing the charm of Jiangnan Water Town, and netizens called it "too beautiful". The dance "Ikari Bridge" led by her brings the oldest Ikari Bridge on the mainland to the stage, making people feel like they are in the Jiangnan water realm.
Ikari Bridge, in fact, is the original form of the bridge. Compared with bridges, it is actually a kind of "water stepping stone", which refers to the laying of stones at a certain distance in shallow water, and the stones are slightly exposed to the surface, so that people can step through. Because its shape resembles a piano key, it is also known as "piano bridge". In this show, the dancers performed the Shishui Ikai Bridge in Taishun, Zhejiang. Built in the 60th year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1795), this Ikabu Bridge has a total length of 144 meters, and is the best-preserved, oldest and longest ancient Ikabu Bridge in the mainland. In 2006, it was officially listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Phoenix, Qilin, Bai Ze, Pixiu, Kun, Luduan... The real divine beasts in ancient books appeared on the stage together with the "modern divine beasts", and a musical "When the "Divine Beasts" met the divine beasts" sang the vitality of spring.
Taking the mythical beasts recorded in ancient classics such as "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Holding Puzi", "Shiji", "Liji", "Zhuangzi", "Shuowen" and other ancient texts as prototypes, the image of ancient mythical beasts is inspired and innovated, and the characteristics of kindness and benevolence, courage and endeavor, self-improvement and self-confidence, Bogu Tongjin, leisure and comfort, and being able to sing and dance are displayed to show the auspicious meaning carried by the sacred beast, and perfectly integrate the beautiful characteristics of China's excellent traditional culture with the infinite imagination of modern people. Let the audience get an audiovisual experience while more vividly understand the breadth and depth of Chinese traditional culture.
The annual opera program of the Spring Festival Gala is an all-round audio-visual enjoyment for theater fans. This year, the highlight clip "Huacai Liyuan" in the fourth fold of "Parachute Travel" "Common Crossing" brought the Puxian opera of Song Yuannan's "living fossil" to the stage, which made the majority of opera fans shout.
Puxian opera originated from the Tang, Song Dynasty, and Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is very popular in the areas of Putian and Xianyou in Fujian, as well as in the Xinghua dialect areas of central Fujian and southern Fujian, and still retains many musical elements of Song-Yuan-Nan opera. Puxian Opera, which was inscribed on the first list of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006, is one of the ancient surviving operas in China. In terms of performance, Puxian Opera is deeply influenced by puppet shows and has a unique artistic style; In terms of singing tone, it combines the artistic characteristics of Puxian's folk songs and slang songs, ten-tone eight music, Buddhist songs, Song and Yuan songs, and Daqu songs and dances, and sings in dialects, with a strong local color.
A dance "Splendid" selected from the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" surprised the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, showing the great Han spirit of a great country and splendid China. This beautiful dance is inspired by a national treasure - "Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China" arm guard brocade.
In October 1995, at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, an academic expedition team from the Sino-Japanese Nya Site found a brightly colored brocade tied to the right arm of one of the people in the tomb at the Nya Ruins site in Minfeng County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang. Professor Qi Dongfang, a famous archaeologist, once said that the "five-star out of the East" brocade is most likely Shujin, and Shujin is known as "inch brocade and inch gold", and only Chang'an and Chengdu were capable of producing at that time. This brocade arm guard can represent the top level of silk weaving technology in mainland China and even in the world at that time. As a national first-class cultural relic and one of the first cultural relics banned from overseas (border) exhibition in China, it is also known as one of the greatest discoveries of Chinese archaeology in the 20th century.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Wu Yating Intern Reporter Wang Ruyi According to CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Xinhua News Agency, Palace Museum, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Miaodigou Museum Responsible Editor He Qitie Editor Lu Yarui