Midsummer Duanyang is the time when the grass and trees prosper and life flourishes. Just one day after the enthusiastic summer solstice solar term, we ushered in the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival that has a lot to do with the image of "water". At the Dragon Boat Festival this year, a cruise ship on the Xilingxia section of the Yangtze River flew by, reciting the symphony of landscape and civilization in this place with water and poetry.
On June 22, the 2023 Dragon Boat Special Program of China Central Radio and Television Corporation-large-scale symphonic poem "Bishui Long Singing Praises Duanyang" was innovatively unveiled. This is the first time that the Dragon Boat Special Program of the main station has walked out of the studio and landed in Qu Yuan's hometown of Yichang, Hubei Province, on the Yangtze River, with a symphony and poetry recitation performed on a cruise ship throughout. This mother river of the Chinese nation carries the long history of Chinese culture. This symphonic poem of the Dragon Boat Festival reverberates with the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the enterprising spirit of respecting the ancient and not retro, and is full of the profound cultural heritage and open-mindedness praised by the mountains and rivers.
Blue water long song
A poetic expression of patriotism flows
Poetry is one of the earliest forms of expression in human civilization. The development of civilization for more than 5,000 years has made Chinese love and good at using poetry to lyrically entertain. Country and home, love and will, are the themes of singing from generation to generation. Poetry and music are inherently cognate, and they are also art that emphasizes rhythm. In many languages, the word "symphony" has the meaning of harmony and harmony. The combination of the two arts has shaped the poetic temperament of the Dragon Boat Festival special program of the main station with a very Chinese style and the beauty of rhythm shared with the world.
The director team revealed that when it was determined that "symphonic poems flowing on the Yangtze River" was the intention of this year's Dragon Boat Festival's special program, how to realize the innovation of the entire program in content and form finally had a grasp: showing the beautiful scenery of green mountains and rivers and clear waters on both sides of the strait with real scenes, according to the layout of the four movements of the classical symphony, from the lively and auspicious festival folklore to condensing the sincere and pure spirit of the Chinese literati, the scale of humanistic expression of the Dragon Boat Festival was widened, and the feelings of patriotism and love for the family were interpreted more romantically. "After finding the form of symphonic poetry, we came up with the name 'Bishui Long Singing Praises Duanyang'."
In the four movements of the overture of the special program "Duanyang" and "My Country", "My Love", "My Zhi" and "My Country", the integration of symphony and poetry, in addition to musical harmony, pays more attention to the transmission and continuation of emotions through the integration of two artistic conceptions.
For example, when Bao Guoan, a 78-year-old artist who played Cao Cao, recited an excerpt from "Step Out of the Summer Gate", a symphony with a thick style was added to the background music, which complemented the magnificent and heroic masterpiece. The "Nine Songs: Donghuang Taiyi" is first laid out by a symphony, and the recitation does not use music, and the birdsong and drumbeat that sound from time to time make the recitation sound reverberating on the clear river more solemn.
In addition to the symphonic recitation, the program uses three folk music recitals in the chapter of "My Love", using only two traditional Chinese instruments, Ruan and Dizi, to tell Chinese romantic chant about love.
The long song of blue water is a poem of scenery and a song of the times. The director team said that "protecting the clear water of the Yangtze River" is General Secretary Xi Jinping's instruction for the protection of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River, and the clear water of the Yangtze River in the special program of the Dragon Boat Festival is not only the magnificent scenery of the mother river of the Yangtze River in the literal sense, but also the root of a better life in our era. And "Long Song" shows the temperament of this program, which is an affectionate recitation of life, the times, and Chinese culture.
"There are fresh domestic citrus all year round, behind him is inseparable" "The romance of the national style, beautiful on the screen!" The reports of the two main stations' Dragon Boat Special Program were recommended by the top of the whole network. Hong Kong Dagongwen Hui Network forwarded the report "Moonlight Love! When the Zhuang Chicken Cries Meets the Ancient Lyran", "Chinese and French Children Sing French Songs in the Air<如果我去中国>" and other programs. After watching this special program, we truly feel that the yearning for a better life is gradually becoming a reality, and the fruits of China's development are constantly being transformed into the quality of life.
Humanistic stories
It flows with the enterprising and inheritance of ancient and non-retro
For thousands of years, the scenes of the Dragon Boat Festival have been Chinese in the same vein, and the versions have been continuously updated with the times. Just like the rice dumplings of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is not limited to the "sweet and salty dispute", but has made cross-border creative partners such as milk tea and coffee, so that traditional seasonal delicacies increasingly appear in the shopping carts of young people.
Speaking of food, in the special program of the Dragon Boat Festival on the main station, there is a fruit, which actually starred in three programs in a row.
From the symphonic recitation on the Yangtze River cruise ship, the public welfare class full of natural and wild interest of "Citrus Academician" Deng Xiuxin, to the innovative interpretation of Chinese classical dance, the style and character of the orange tree have been repeatedly chanted, admired and admired by strivers from all walks of life. This golden fruit, which has taken root in the land of Zigui for thousands of years, not only condenses the ancient and modern heroes, but also continues to write the beautiful poem of the revitalization of the homeland with the company of "fresh all year round".
"For every three citrus produced in the world, one is made in China, which is the power of science and technology."
"For more than two thousand years, poetry and Qu Yuan have always been the soul of our Zigui."
"The place where you live has changed, but the inheritance of culture has not changed."
The three special thematic short films, from a fruit that has lived for a long time, to the inheritance and development of culture, the change and revitalization of the hometown. When talking about the creative feelings, the director team sighed that the continuity and vitality of our culture are undoubtedly manifested at this moment. "Where the people are reciting poetry, there must be a fiery and warm life."
Not only in Qu Yuan's hometown and the bank of the Yangtze River, but also more programs about inheritance impressed us. The Dragon Boat Customs Hanfu Show "Hua Yi Qianqiu" selects the costumes of the four periods of Wei Jin, Tang, Song and Ming, and restores them in the life scenes related to the Dragon Boat Festival, so that traditional costumes are integrated into seasonal customs. The duration of the program is more than seven minutes, and every picture should not be missed:
Regarding the details of this Hanfu show, the director team said, "Traditional clothing is closely related to life and season, and we don't want to let it just stay in the museum, but should be restored and applied in real life scenes." Therefore, in the show, all clothing and accessories are derived from historical relics, and the clothing and craftsmanship try to restore the traditional craftsmanship, so that these costumes are truly worn on the body, with corresponding styling and makeup, and the details of the popular science process are shown through the macro lens. ”
Zhuang Tianqin singing "Moonlight Love" is an intangible cultural heritage program that the director of the general station paid attention to and recommended to the Dragon Boat Program Group during his research in Guangxi. When the Zhuang chicken cries meet the ancient Tianqin singing, singing the natural sound of young men and women telling each other heartfelt and loving life. The hot labor scene in the "Tea Picking Song" truly reflects the production and living conditions of the Xiajiang people and the development trajectory of regional music over the past two thousand years. This Dragon Boat Festival, two kinds of folk intangible cultural heritage arts sang and danced on the water in the real scene, exuding vitality in performances that are both national and full of sense of the times, awakening the heart of loving and inheriting intangible cultural heritage.
String song answers
It flows with the cultural heritage of the landscape
Be open-minded
Just as the third movement of the symphony will add a varied rhythm to the whole text, the third movement of this symphonic poem, "Wuzhi", takes us to appreciate a different kind of "sass" and "fun" in the beauty and harmony. "Six Finger Piano Demon vs. Piano Fast", "The Yangtze River brand piano played by Maxim is also made in Yichang", "The Three Gorges Dam, the Three Gorges People's House, and the Three Gorges Waterfall appear in it, welcome everyone to Yichang", the instrumental ensemble "Shore Rising Clouds Back" This program, netizens listened very carefully and watched it particularly carefully.
In the program, Maxim, a pianist from Croatia, and Zhao Jienan, a guzheng player from China, performed the artistic integration and civilization dialogue between ancient and modern, East and West. In the preparatory stage, the biggest challenge for the director team was how to combine the harmonic-based Western instruments with the melody-based Chinese folk instruments, and find the aesthetic commonality between the two.
In more than four minutes, four Western tunes of "Nostradamus", "In the Palace of the Mountain Devil King", "Wild Bees Flying" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" and a Chinese piece "Fixing the Wind and Waves" shuttled back and forth, and the performance of the two artists was sometimes like sword qi through clouds and stones, and sometimes like splashing ink paintings. The director team said that at the end of this piano and chime, the exploration of the meaning of life has become a unified connection point for the emotions of Eastern and Western music, fully releasing the spark of the collision of national and cosmopolitan.
In March this year, Shen Haixiong, director of the General Station, had an exchange with Thomas Konetsko, president of the International Canoe Federation, on working together to promote "dragon boat entry into the Olympic Games". On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the 2023 International Canoeing Federation Dragon Boat World Cup was successfully held in Zigui, Hubei, and Konetsko sent a Dragon Boat greeting. We look forward to the fact that in the near future, dragon boat sports, which are full of the enterprising spirit and fearless character of the Chinese nation, can meet the athletes of the world in the Olympic arena.
"If I go to China / on the hills of Guilin / go to Hubei / pay attention to dragon boat racing..." After French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China in April this year, the French nursery rhyme "If I Go to China" became popular on Chinese social platforms, and many netizens wanted to help children re-plan their travel routes while being cute. When this song full of curiosity and childlike fun appeared on the Dragon Boat Festival, sung by Chinese and French children, another beautiful fate began, and the peace and tolerance of beauty and beauty were naturally transmitted.
The ancient Yangtze River, which gave birth to Chinese civilization over the long years, is still flowing today, vividly demonstrating the geographical and human diversity of the land under our feet.
Auspicious days long songs, peace with the king, remembering my hometown, cherishing my love, expressing my will, and repaying my country.
This year, the main station responded with a mobile special program and the world's string songs, telling many stories related to this mother river, and playing the great river of Chinese civilization and the spiritual bloodline into a symphonic poem with thousands of meteorological scenes.
Director system ▏ Yang Hua, Zhang Guofei Yu Lei Dou Xiaowen
Producer ▏ Xu Chaoqing Wang Min
Editors-in-chief: Hu Shushu, Xie Bitong, Cui Lili, Zhang Yadong
Raw materials ▏ Ma Yueqi Li Zhuo
Video ▏ Jia Bei
Edited ▏ Zhang Siqi
Source: CCTV