"New Year's Day,
Our museum has more than 2,300 visitors,
Twice as much as usual,
Many viewers are after watching the Spring Festival Gala,
Came for this artifact. ”
January 23
He Jia, secretary of the party committee of the Xinjiang Museum, told reporters
Screenshot of the dance "Splendid"
This artifact is
Excavated from the ruins of Nya in Xinjiang
"Five stars out of the East to benefit China" brocade arm guard
Held on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve
Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television Corporation
The dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" excerpt "Splendid" appeared
Quickly swipe the screen on WeChat moments and social networking sites
Many netizens called out:
"It's really amazing, beautiful crying!"
"This is the most authentic and charming 'Oriental Beauty'!"
Screenshot of the dance "Splendid"
"Splendid Embroidery" "dances" a prosperous scene of the Han Dynasty
Vividly expressed
The theme of harmony, friendship and common prosperity of all ethnic groups
Highlight the beauty of traditional culture
On the stage, thousands of silk threads are constantly intertwined in the starry night sky, emitting dazzling glare. The dancers dressed in Han-style long skirts, their steps are gentle, and they dance on the warp and weft lines of the brocade... The dance "Splendid Embroidery" is selected from the second half of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" to dream back to the prosperous era of Chang'an.
Wang Ge, the chief choreographer of the play, introduced that the creation of the dance was inspired by the national first-class cultural relics Han Dynasty brocade arm guard, on which there are 8 seal Chinese characters "Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China", reflecting the ancients' observation and understanding of the convergence of the five planets of metal, wood, water, fire and earth in the eastern sky.
"Splendid Embroidery" describes that the lights of the Shangyuan Festival cover the sky, the dancers look up and pray, and the "Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China" brocade arm guard gradually appears in front of the audience. "The characters in "Splendid Embroidery" are based on the image of Han Dynasty figurines unearthed in the Hanyang Mausoleum in Xi'an, Xi'an, with wide sleeves and thin waist, skirts and skirts, women's clothing characterized by layered necklines and sleeve cages, and the aesthetics of the girdle and spread dresses also add a lot of novelty to the dance." Wang said that Han dynasty dance terracotta figurines provided an important reference for dance movement design.
Screenshot of the dance "Splendid"
"The Han Dynasty was a country of etiquette, and court women would generally wear curved skirts that restricted movement to wrap their whole bodies, and dance movements would be limited by clothing. Small broken steps, stretching long sleeves with the strength of the hand, and wiggling the body with a slight sense of machine are all characteristics of Han Dynasty court dance. In addition, Han dynasty saluting movements were also incorporated into dance. Wang Ge said that the "Splendid Embroidery" performed on the Spring Festival Gala showed all these vividly and highlighted the beauty of traditional culture.
Museum welcomes "Splendid Powder"
On the stage, the dancers used the dignified and gentle "splendid shake", the powerful "red sleeve winding", and the subtle and introverted "Han Warrior Turn" to bring the Han Dynasty dance figurines in the museum to life, leading the audience to appreciate the charm of legendary national treasures through time and space.
Under the stage, in the exhibition hall of the Two Han Dynasty of the Xinjiang Museum, many tourists came to visit.
"The best dance on CCTV's spring evening is to interpret this cultural relic collected in the museum at the doorstep, so you must come and see it." Although the cultural relics are only the size of a palm, the color is bright, and the text woven on the brocade can be clearly seen on it: Five stars out of the East to benefit China. Urumqi citizen Wang Sichen said.
Last summer, the Xinjiang Museum launched the "Cultural Relics Revitalization Stage Play" "The Language of the Millennium", including five parts, including "Guzi Music and Dance", "Xiaohe Princess" and "Five Stars Out of the East", which were performed more than 30 times, and ticket sales were hot.
"In March this year, we plan to rearrange the show, focusing on 'Five Stars Out of the East' to make the story more complete and interactive." He Jia said that in the next step, the Xinjiang Museum is ready to cooperate with the relevant parties of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" to broadcast wonderful clips such as "light dance" and "splendid embroidery" in the Xinjiang Museum through purchasing copyrights and other means, so as to bring the audience a richer viewing experience.
"Five Stars Out of the East" stills. Provided by Beijing Performing Arts Group
In the Century Hall of the China Millennium Monument Art Museum in Beijing, the "Five Stars Out of the East - Hotan Historical Relics Exhibition" planned by the China Museum of Nationalities, the China Millennium Monument Art Museum, the Capital Museum and the Hotan Regional Museum has also become a good place for the audience of the Spring Festival Gala to explore national treasures.
"The Spring Festival Gala program has aroused everyone's curiosity about the cultural relics behind it, and thousands of people come here every day to 'hunt for treasures'." Zhou Tingting, director of the exhibition department of the Museum of Nationalities of China, said.
With the further promotion of the activation and utilization of cultural relics, the "Five-Star Out of the East Benefit China" brocade arm guard has entered ordinary life in a richer form.
"Five stars out of the East to benefit China" brocade arm guard. Courtesy of Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The "five-star out of the East" cultural and creative products developed by Xinjiang Museum have attracted many people to buy. "During the Spring Festival, this series of stamps, refrigerator stickers and other cultural and creative products were basically sold out." Guan Yi, head of the cultural and creative department of the Xinjiang Museum, said that in 2017, the Xinjiang Museum began to develop a series of cultural and creative products such as "five-star out of the East", and has developed more than 100 kinds of cultural and creative products such as cups, mouse pads, scarves, notebooks, and work cards.
Cultural and creative products of Xinjiang Museum. Photo by Guan Yi
"We are launching a four-episode documentary series entitled "Five Stars Out of the East to Benefit China – Hotan Cultural Relics Tour", which will be broadcast on Beijing TV's "Archives" column." Zhang Huajie, deputy director of the Hotan District Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, said.
The artifacts come to life on stage
Over the past year, the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" has toured more than 30 times across the country, appeared on many popular TV programs such as CCTV's "National Treasure", and related topics have been on the hot search for many times, with more than 500 million exposures. A dance of "Splendid Embroidery" on the spring evening made the "Han Dynasty Dance Figurines" popular on the Internet again.
Screenshot of the dance "Splendid"
Where is the secret to bringing cultural relics to life? Wang Ge said that in recent years, from the broadcast of "National Treasure" to the outing of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and "Only This Green Green", we can see the strong demand of the people for the consumption of excellent traditional Chinese culture, "This also prompts us literary and art workers to carry out cross-border cooperation with a more open mind, and constantly explore effective ways to make cultural relics 'live'." ”
As Zhang Ping, executive deputy director of the Dance Art Center of the China Federation of Literature and Literature, said: "The dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East" has a very high degree of recognition of the theme, because this brocade arm guard is not an ordinary cultural relic, and this work is not just dancing with cultural relics, but conveys the theme of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation by interpreting the important historical events behind the cultural relics. ”
"Five Stars Out of the East" stills provided by Beijing Performing Arts Group
In the view of Zhao Jiachen, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Beijing Performing Arts Group, this is also the original intention of the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East". "The appearance of a brocade produced in Shudi in the Xinjiang desert thousands of miles away fully proves the smooth flow of the Silk Road in those years, and is also a witness of the exchanges and blending of various ethnic groups. The purpose of bringing cultural relics to the stage is to hope that more people will understand the historical story behind it. Zhao Jiachen said.
Cultural relics are the witnesses, witnesses and survivors of Chinese civilization, as well as an inexhaustible resource treasure trove for stage art creation. Nuerbia Mutalifu, an actor of the New Jade Song and Dance Troupe in Hotan Prefecture, who participated in the dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", wrote this sentence after watching "Splendid Embroidery": With dance steps as the golden thread, weaving the temperament of splendid China, this is our cultural self-confidence!
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