Tokyo Tower lights up "Chinese Red" three times, and "Hope" ignites "Love and Hope"

Two years ago, on Chinese New Year's Eve Night, for the first time in the history of Tokyo Tower in Japan, the blessings of Sino-Japanese friendship were conveyed in the festive "Chinese red" color. On the night of February 11 this year, Chinese New Year's Eve night, Tokyo Tower lit up "Chinese Red" for three times, and at the same time, a music TV "Hope", which symbolized "love and hope", was also launched at the same time that night.

"Chinese Red" means and symbolizes countless beautiful meanings and blessings such as peace, festivity, liveliness, peace, and reunion. On the night of February 4, 2019 Chinese New Year's Eve, more than 1,000 balloons under tokyo tower were released from the hands of 500 children, and this landmark building in Tokyo lit up the "Chinese red" for the first time, thus conveying the good wishes of the Japanese people to the Chinese people. On January 24, 2020, the Chinese New Year's Eve, Tokyo Tower once again lit up the "Chinese Red" to show solidarity with Wuhan and support the people of China and Japan in fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic together. On Chinese New Year's Eve night this year, the illumination ceremony was held here in front of a huge high-definition screen specially prepared for the Tokyo Olympic Games on the Tokyo Tower Observation Deck. This is the "Chinese red" that lights up the festive atmosphere three times in three years at Tokyo Tower. This year, for the first time in its 63 years of construction, the landmark building has two Chinese characters - "Hope", which are two words of the same meaning that the people of China and Japan know, so as to bring love, courage, warmth and hope to the hearts of people who are still fighting in the epidemic. On the big screen on the lookout, the MV "Hope" premiered worldwide in the joyous Chinese New Year's Eve year of the ox. This is a musical television condensed from three musical works, of which the Matsuyama Ballet retains the play "White Haired Girl" which is also the interlude of the Chinese opera of the same name" "North Wind Blowing", the Japanese nursery rhyme "Early Spring Fu" sung by the children, and the fourth movement of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", "Ode to Joy", from winter to spring, from snowflakes to cherry blossoms, from the Forbidden City to Mount Fuji, from the dance steps of matsuyama Ballet dancers "White Haired Girl" to the chorus of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", the beautiful transformation of the lens picture completes the cross-region, The perfect grafting and fusion of seasons and art, the magnificent singing at the climax of the MV conveys the courage, determination and confidence that human beings will be able to work together to defeat the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

Music TV "Hope" is jointly produced by the Tokyo Tower Light up "China Red" Executive Committee, the China International Cultural Exchange Center, and the China Rehabilitation Technology Transformation and Development Promotion Association (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongkang Promotion"). According to reports, the China International Cultural Exchange Center and Zhongkang Promotion have both participated in the production and production of "Together" and "Hope", two public welfare music televisions that span the world. Xu Honghai, secretary general of the China Center for International Cultural Exchanges, said that the exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations have consolidated the foundation of people-to-people ties, promoted the progress of human society, and enhanced the power of peaceful development. Art has no borders, culture has great love, China and Japan, as friendly neighbors with water, have a deep and good foundation for people-to-people exchanges, especially in the difficult moment of facing the new crown pneumonia epidemic together, and have joined hands to write a touching chapter of "exotic mountains and rivers, wind and moon on the same day". At the critical moment of the global fight against the epidemic, the lighting of the "Chinese Red" at Tokyo Tower and the playing of the musical work "Hope" will surely leave an indelible memory in the hearts of the chinese and Japanese people, and will surely promote The Sino-Japanese people-to-people friendship to a new level. Song Wuchen, vice president of Zhongkang Promotion, said that as an institution that assists relevant ministries and commissions of the state in formulating and implementing guidelines and policies on health and health, rehabilitation and medical treatment, Zhongkang Promotion hopes that under the background of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, China and Japan, as the world's two largest economies, should work hand in hand to carry out more in-depth and pragmatic cooperation in the field of medical and health, assume common responsibility, and work together for the cause of health.

It is also understood that this far-reaching and well-produced musical work "Hope" only took more than half a month from the beginning of the idea to the completion of the final production. In April 2020, when the new crown pneumonia epidemic was raging around the world, a musical work "Together", which had been jointly performed by Chinese and Italian artists, spread throughout important media and networks around the world, warming the hearts of countless people, and it rearranged the famous aria "Nobody Sleeps Tonight" from the Italian composer Puccini's opera "Turandot", and the singers of the two countries sang in their respective spaces to send inspiration and strength to the people affected by the epidemic. This is the planning and execution team composed of artists such as cultural curator Jiang Ling, music producer Ma Jiuyue, and director Zheng Hao. Subsequently, the team once again completed the production of the MV "Hope". Jiang Ling, director of "Hope", said that due to the control of the epidemic, the people under the Tokyo Tower cannot interact and revel as in previous years, and the production of a music TV with the theme of Good Wishes for the New Year should be the best way of artistic expression. Ma Jiuyue said that "Hope" brings together three musical works, "the music of "White Haired Girl", which is a symbol of Sino-Japanese friendship, highlights the taste of the year, while the nursery rhyme "Early Spring Fu" sung by Japanese children sings the hope in people's hearts, and the past 2020 coincided with the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, and we used "Ode to Joy" as a spiritual force to express the faith and determination of people around the world to defeat the epidemic together. ”

Author: Zhang Xuejun

Source: China Art News