On the evening of October 23, the variety show "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama" was broadcast in the first phase of Beijing Satellite TV. As soon as this variety show was broadcast, it is estimated that many viewers will "see the light". This is not Wang Han, the host of Hunan Satellite TV, how did he get on Beijing Satellite TV and become the main coffee of variety shows? Originally, in this "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama" of Beijing Satellite TV, Wang Han appeared as the president of Xiqu and invited everyone to taste the beauty of Chinese opera culture.
Wang Han has hosted "Debut, Dunhuang" and "Debut, Luoyang" and other culturally related reality shows. Obviously, this time inviting Wang Han to become the main coffee of "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama" is still more appropriate. Based on the content of the first issue of "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama", although this variety show is positioned on the reality show, there are not so many bits and pieces, and there is no general reality show. The Forbidden City goes hand in hand.
In another variety reality show "Debut, Dunhuang" where Wang Han is the main coffee, I once wrote a variety show analysis article that believes that there are too few cultural things presented, and there are too many useless things for the stars to show, and all of a sudden it is noisy. Watching the beginning of "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama" and seeing Wang Han hosting, I also had the worry of the earlier "Debut, Dunhuang", afraid that there were too many bits and pieces of this variety show star, resulting in too little content of the real opera culture.
However, after watching the first episode, I think this worry is unnecessary. In "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama", it is obvious that the real choreographers are knowledgeable and disdainful of selling the broken things of the stars, so the main content of the show is aimed at the opera culture itself. In this variety show, the star guests who appear are also supporting roles for the cultural content of the opera, and what they need to do, they just follow what they do.
The real protagonists are opera culture, opera masters and opera works. This is the correct attitude to do cultural variety shows. The cultural content itself is full of points to watch, and there is no need to find any star gimmicks. Therefore, in "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama", basically there is no nonsense in the whole article, it is directly on the dry goods, the beginning is the essence of the proverbs of the famous masters singing opera culture, and later a few opera masters take their seats and unveil the opera club, and then there is a real opera master to guide and carry out a dream dialogue between Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.
Especially in the display of opera works, the star guests did not play a decisive role, in other words, they were all supporting roles, insignificant roles, real content, let the real connoisseurs perform. Wang Han, Li Fei'er, and Ayunga are just cameos in the display of opera works in this dream dialogue. Only by letting real opera masters speak, real opera experts singing, and real opera works speak can we realize the inheritance and promotion of opera culture.
The content of the first issue, especially the choice of tang Xianzu and Shakespeare's dream dialogue, is an artistic exchange between the masters of Eastern and Western theater. In fact, in the category of literary and art theory, there are many works that put Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in the category of comparative literature for academic analysis, and the research results are quite abundant. Behind Beijing Satellite TV's "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama", there is a very good theoretical academic preparation. The dream dialogue in the program aims to express the beauty of Chinese opera.
In fact, if the length of the program allows, the dialogue can continue, and the common problems of Eastern and Western dramas, especially those coincidental contents that coincide, are really very valuable for academic transmission. Presenting it in the variety show is estimated to produce a wonderful effect. Again, Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare's academic articles on comparative literature are very numerous and fruitful, and they can be used directly to do variety show content. "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama" is really not afraid of learning, which is a very test of the ability of program programming.
A few days ago, I wrote a program analysis article, pointing out a number of common sense errors in a magic tour program, and the satellite TV platform that was pointed out also corrected its own mistakes in time. However, some viewers think that people are just an entertainment program, so why take your academic theory and be harsh. This is one of the most frightening viewer perceptions. It is true that a small number of viewers have reached a state of believing in entertainment to the death, and have regarded all the programs of cultural attributes as entertainment programs, to the extent of whether they are right or wrong. It is precisely because of this that our cultural programs should be more meticulously carved, dare to show the face of culture, and even dare to give more advanced cultural content.
In terms of the content of the first issue of Beijing Satellite TV's "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama", it is at the top level of the "cultured" domestic variety show. However, it is still hoped that Beijing Satellite TV will show higher courage, not to show superficiality, but to dare to march to a deeper cultural level. I am worried that the audience has no culture, in other words, because the audience really does not understand a lot of cultural content, and they should give the audience profound rather than superficial content. My expectation of "The Most Beautiful Chinese Drama" is that the content of the 8 issues can gradually become profound, and even have a theoretical level of profoundness, and can clearly explain why Chinese drama is "the most beautiful".
In terms of cultural dissemination, I hope that these variety shows of Beijing Satellite TV will not be satisfied with the first, but should march towards a more profound first. (Text/Ma Qingyun)