On cultural variety shows, there are also intangible cultural heritage and food

Recently, many excellent cultural theme programs and reality shows have been broadcast, which deserves attention. Following the integration of celebrity reality show variety shows with cultural elements such as intangible cultural heritage, world cultural heritage, traditional landmark buildings, and traditional cuisine, star reality shows have targeted traditional opera and spread the beauty of Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera. At the same time, local human resources are also becoming treasures excavated by variety shows, and many programs dig deep into local historical and cultural resources, and present them from a differentiated perspective to make programs frequently "go out of the circle".

Reality TV explores the rejuvenation of opera

"The Most Beautiful Chinese Opera" is a cultural experience program that combines outdoor garden reality show and opera reality show, which is filmed in the most complete royal garden Summer Palace, interpreting the traditional opera represented by Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera, bringing the audience a dreamlike stage drama. Judging from the content broadcast, although each episode of the show invites celebrity guests, the content focus is still on promoting and disseminating the art of opera. The opening content of the first program is the selection of classic plays such as "Farewell to the Overlord", "The Case of Gongmei", "Three Forks" and other classic plays brought by Peking Opera actors Li Gen, Wang Meng, Li Xiaopei, Cheng Haochen, etc. Through these excerpts, the appearances and singing voices of various professions of Peking Opera are presented to the audience.

After letting the audience have an intuitive understanding of the art of Peking Opera, the next step is the "task mode" link of the reality show variety show, which is to run a drama club, with the host Wang Han as the president of the Yihe Opera Club, the singer Zhang Yanqi as the small class, and the members of the drama club include Wusheng, Qingyi, Lao Dan, Kunqu Xiaosheng, Wenu and other actors. These actors and actresses want to renew their theatrical appearance with the celebrity guests and present the traditional drama in a young way. The first play they adapted and created was the Kunqu opera live-action show "Midsummer Yihe Dream", which integrated "Four Dreams of Linchuan", which mixed tang Xianzu, Shakespeare and other characters with traditional Kunqu performances, not only presenting the beauty of Kunqu opera, but also analyzing and interpreting traditional drama. The program is very suitable for young people who do not know the traditional music art. The original intention of the show is also to hope that younger audiences will like and love drama, so that traditional culture can blossom in the hearts of the younger generation.

The star guests of the first program are Ayunga and Li Fei'er, and the drama guests include Wang Yinghui, Zhang Jianguo, Gu Wenyue, Li Yufu and other famous theater artists. The stars experience traditional opera, and the theater masters reminisce about the past and reminisce about the stories of the older generation of masters, which is very interesting. Zhang Jianguo said: "Every link of drama is a technology, and the cultural content is very high." Wang Yinghui will say: "The older you are, the less courageous you are to act on stage." The famous artists opened their hearts to communicate, and they could see their love for opera and respect for their profession. The program also has a large number of shots to present the beauty of Peking Opera's costumes, costumes, props, etc., and introduce the cultural and aesthetic value of drama to the audience. Kunqu opera, Peking Opera as the representative of the traditional drama for young people to appreciate the threshold is relatively high, this program is also through the star driven, the traditional opera in-depth adaptation, novel live performances and other ways to explore the rejuvenation of traditional drama, in general, the program has both cultural heritage, as well as fashionable national style presentation, is the recent rare cultural flavor of the reality show variety show.

Local human resources help the program out of the circle

Recently, local satellite television seems to have found a new key to program creation, igniting a fire of regional cultural programs. Many local stations have dug deep into local historical and cultural resources, constantly innovated the program model, and presented in a unique local style to make the program frequently "out of the circle".

The "Qilu Cultural Conference", which is being broadcast on Shandong Satellite TV, examines the contestants' knowledge and understanding of China's excellent traditional culture in the observation of life by dabbling in traditional painting art, food culture, philosophical thought, idioms and allusions, architectural knowledge and other aspects. The guests in the program include Dr. "Xueba Village", Doctor of Anthropology, Guoxue Big V, Policeman, Students, etc., and these contestants from all walks of life understand and think about traditional culture, providing the audience with multi-dimensional and diversified cultural thinking. In the program, experts and professors such as Yang Yu and Kang Zhen also presented the obscure traditional culture to the audience in a simple and in-depth manner. Truly integrating traditional culture into their own lives, occupations, life growth and inner cultivation, and letting ordinary people present their stories with traditional culture, many media call this program model an innovative move of variety shows.

The development of regional cultural programs is very rich in Beijing Satellite TV and Henan Satellite TV. Following the "Shangxin Forbidden City", "I am waiting for you in the Summer Palace", "Meet the Temple of Heaven" and other programs continue to go out of the circle, "China in Calligraphy and Painting" and "The Most Beautiful Central Axis" have also attracted many viewers, and the national tide program built by Beijing Satellite TV with the support of Beijing's regional traditional culture has carried the banner of cultural inheritance and promoted the development and dissemination of "Beijing flavor" culture. Henan Satellite TV's "Lantern Wonderful Night", "Qingming Fantastic Tour", "Dragon Boat Wonderful Tour", "Chongyang Fantastic Tour" and so on formed a series of festival culture, which greatly spread traditional culture. In addition, Zhejiang Satellite TV's cultural tourism exploration variety show "There are poems and distant places in Zhejiang", and the first world cultural heritage exploration experience program "Ten Thousand Miles Walking Alone - China in heritage", etc. also integrate traditional culture with interaction, secrets and other techniques, making the program more dynamic and trendy. The video platform launched the "Debut! Dunhuang "Debut! Programs such as Luoyang and "Dancing Up and Down for a Thousand Years" also use traditional culture and national style elements to create new variety shows to attract the attention of young people. From some new programs, such as "Home from the End of the Yangtze River" and "There Are Stories Everywhere in Chang'an", it can also be seen that variety shows have become a trend in the continuous digging of local traditional culture.

After several years of development, cultural programs and cultural theme reality shows have paid more and more attention to content superposition, integrating various traditional cultural elements with popular culture elements, new models and new types of variety shows to meet market demand. Pure cultural programs and innovative mix-and-match cultural variety shows are indispensable contents of the screen, and these programs highlight the cultural charm and also promote the youthful dissemination of traditional culture.

Reporter: Shi Wenjing