What will the sound of a museum look like? Is it the whispering of cultural relics after they are "brought to life", or is it the quiet ensemble of ancient musical instruments? On the evening of May 17, the hall on the first floor of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing was crowded. A unique "Hear the Voices of the Museum – Museum Nights" event is an attempt to provide the answer.
At the scene, the dances, ancient poems, musical instruments and guqin performances that everyone is accustomed to seeing on weekdays have been given new functions: in the exquisite interpretation, each piece of cultural relics has been "lived".
At 20 o'clock on the 17th, the "Museum Wonderful Night" kicked off with the graceful dance of the women's group dance "Bayu Lingnu Song". Dance moves such as waist bending and three-stage twisting appeared on the stage as promised, but to the surprise of many audiences, the dance forms in the entire "Bayu Lingnu Song" actually have real cultural relics prototypes.
According to reports, the movements of bending the waist and twisting in three sections, as well as the dancing hand shapes, are all based on the Han Dynasty portrait bricks and Han Dynasty terracotta figurines in the collection of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing. The dance style, posture, movement form, and dynamic rhythm of the whole show are all unique to Bayu. In the sound of the strings, the Bayu music and dancers who were originally on the stone wall seemed to be "alive" and danced, showing the cultural characteristics of the ancestors of Bayu to the fullest.
Guqins of all kinds are also a major feature of the collection of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing. The guqin, which has been in the past thousand years, once again "sounded", and it also became a highlight of the "Museum Wonderful Night" on the evening of the 17th. The Tang Qin and Song Qin collected by the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing have "walked out" of the cultural relics storehouse, and have been "lived" under the performance of Ma Weiheng, a famous guqin artist in the mainland.
Ma Weiheng is the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage guqin art (Guangling Qin School). His son Ma Tianchi is now the representative inheritor of the Guqin Art (Guangling Qin School), an intangible cultural heritage of Yangzhou City. Famous songs such as "Flat Sand and Falling Geese", "Guangling San" and "Wine Mania" jointly performed by the father and son brought the audience into the poetic world of thousands of years ago, and felt the artistic conception of the Autumn River and the style of the Tang Dynasty.
"We hope that through activities like 'Wonderful Night', more citizens can have a 'dialogue' with the cultural relics in the museum's collection, and show the unique charm of the museum in the form of poems, songs, songs, dances, and rhymes, so as to attract more people to enter the museum and understand Chinese civilization." Mu Fengjing, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing, said that from the re-"voice" of the cultural relics guqin to the innovation and practice of modern science and technology, it is the Three Gorges Museum's attempt to creatively transform and develop excellent traditional culture, and it is hoped that everyone can hear more of the voice of the museum, enrich the cultural life of citizens, and enhance cultural self-confidence.
According to statistics, in 2023, the number of visitors to the main hall of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing will be 2136443, and the number of visitors will reach 2,803,400.
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