December 22 is the winter solstice of the 24 solar terms, the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. In folk, the winter solstice is an important solar term, and there is even a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year". However, in the north and south regions, there are different solar terms and Xi customs, and the dispute between "eating dumplings or eating rice balls" has now become a kind of life interest. What kind of special winter solstice Xi customs are in Anhui, which is located at the intersection of north and south?
Henan Satellite TV's "Solar Term Singing Travelogue Winter Solstice" will follow the solar term leader Zhang Yuan, with the theme of "The Wanderer and Homecoming, the Hometown Memories Evoked by the Winter Solstice", return to his hometown Anhui, and feel the different ritual sense of "the winter solstice is as big as a small reunion in the world" in a series of love, scenery and songs.
"Solar Term Singing Travelogue", as a solar term cultural program innovatively created by Henan Satellite TV, organically combines solar terms with music, food, hometown and other elements, and spreads out a picture of solar term culture with different emotional memories in a warm and poetic way of expression, from the joy of the harvest of frost, to the revisiting of the old time of Xiaoxue, and then to the small reunion of the world on the winter solstice, conveying rich warmth in the cold winter.
"How long has it been since you been home?" opens with an interview and a bit of a question at the beginning, pulling the audience into the atmosphere of the wanderer's homecoming. Zhang Yuan's interpretation of the beautiful and moving original song "A Night of Winter Snow" adds a special time coordinate to the return to his hometown - the winter solstice, and thus extends a series of stories about the homecoming that happened on the winter solstice.
The main creative team chose to place the main narrative scene of this issue in the local family banquet, and told the imprint of life on the winter solstice with food, an element that can best evoke resonance and empathy. In the family banquet, the director team carefully prepared three dishes: "Happy Winter Solstice", "Danfeng Chaoyang", "Dumplings, Dumplings", one by one, hometown flavors, which will become the theme of the dialogue, but also the exchange of emotions.
Born from agricultural civilization and closely related to the earth, in each episode of the program, it goes to a different place, with its own unique local Xi, showing the extensive regional culture behind the rich folk customs of the solar term.
In this episode of the "Winter Solstice" program, it seems that you can feel the collision and blending of northern and southern cultures. As the new bee members of the solar term culture singing tourists, Xie Chunhua, who happens to come from one south and one north, in the difference and integration of the solar term food culture, feel that although there is a difference between the north and the south, the deliciousness of the food, reflecting the reunion of the world is the "common meaning" of the winter solstice.
In the previous two episodes of the program, the members of the traveling new bee and Xie Chunhua's interpretation of different styles of music contributed a lot of warmth to the show.
At 7:30 a.m. on December 22, this wonderful "Solar Term Singing Travelogue Winter Solstice" will be broadcast on the new media side of Henan Satellite TV, and will meet the audience on the TV side at 20:20 in the evening. At that time, please lock in Henan Satellite TV and go to a winter solstice singing tour to feel the reunion of the world.
Contracting the "Winter Solstice Romance", on December 22, Henan TV will also launch a creative short film "Chinese Solar Terms-Winter Solstice", using AI and 3D animation technology to restore the ancient painting snow scene and ancient mythical beasts with the visual beauty of "fireworks blooming", and tell the winter solstice phenology.
It is worth mentioning that from 10:30 to 14:30 on the same day, Henan TV will also launch an innovative slow live broadcast of "Different Chinese Solar Terms - Winter Solstice Live Broadcast", telling the solar term culture from the current perspective. The program revolves around the theme of "Northern Scenery Frontier Outpost", and will send 4 shooting teams, from Fuyuan Black Blind Island, known as the "East Pole of China", to the northernmost Daxing'an Mountains Mohe, and then to Xinjiang's "first border outpost" - Sandke militia outpost and the depths of Kunlun Mountain.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan
Proofread by Xu Heng