The legends of past lives, the stories of this life, one ancient and one present, one illusion and one reality, will tell the melodious rhyme behind the national treasure... In the previous two seasons of the show, the cultural variety show "National Treasure" has laid out a colorful map of Chinese culture for the audience, truly "making the national treasure come alive" and "living" the traditional culture.
On October 24, the "National Treasures" program of China Central Radio and Television Corporation held the "National Treasure Concert" at the Tokyo National Museum in Japan. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchange Agreement, the National Treasure Concert carries the exchange process between Chinese culture and China and Japan in the form of literature and art, and realizes the collision and dissemination of unique aspects. At 20:00 last night, the video content of "National Treasure Concert" was shared by CCTV and Bilibili to all the audiences who paid attention to the activities, and once it was broadcast, it received the audience's extremely high attention and good reputation, and became a civilization exchange and mutual learning in the hearts of the audience that connects the historical relics and music and art of China and Japan.
Photo: The main visual poster of "National Treasure Concert".
Chinese and Japanese heavyweight artists perform together Huang Doudou recreates China's lost millennium dance "Lanling King"
The whole concert, starting from the national treasures handed down through the centuries, plays a long and ancient sound that reverberates for thousands of years, and the climax is repeated and colorful. The "National Treasure Concert" was jointly organized by the Central Radio and Television Corporation, the Central Chinese Orchestra and the Yomiuri Shimbun of Japan. Chinese and Japanese artists participating in the event included Li Xiangting, a guqin player, professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, and a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, Fang Jinlong, a Chinese music artist and representative figure of the contemporary five-string pipa, Wu Lin, a player of the Central Chinese Orchestra, Huang Doudou, a dancer and artistic director of the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe, Hideki Dongyi, a Japanese gagaku performance artist, Fukuda Huijiu, a shakuhachi performer, and a shamisen player, Anda Fukutoku. Seven groups of "national treasure- artists, eleven world-class performance programs, netizens who watched the concert online commented that this time the "National Treasure Concert" is "an ensemble that spans the shackles of time and space".
Pictured: "National Treasure Concert" Chinese and Japanese artists returned to perform and close the curtain together.
When it comes to the most moving performance for the audience, we have to mention the excerpt of the dance music "Lanling King" performed by the dancer Mr. Huang Doudou, and he also shared an unknown story between him and "Lanling King" at the scene. "Lanling King" is said to have been staged during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China, and later it was gradually lost due to its ban. In the Tang Dynasty, it was introduced to Japan through the tang envoys and spread in Japanese folklore. The family of musician Hideki Higashi Yoshi, a hereditary "music family" that has been hereditary for more than 1,300 years from the Nara period in Japan to the present, has passed on the performance of the dance music "Lanling King" for generations.
In 2014, Huang Doudou studied the dance music "Lanling King" from Gagaku performance artist Hideki Higashi in Tokyo, Japan. After learning to perform under Mr. Hideki Higashi, he customized a full set of costumes, masks, shoes and props for the performance in Kyoto, Japan, and vowed to choose an important time and occasion in the future to invite the "Lanling King" dance and performance equipment back to China. And this "National Treasure Concert" has become the occasion chosen by Huang Doudou. In the "Lanling King" music played by the team of musician Dong Yi Xiushu, he recreated this dance that china has lost for a thousand years.
After the performance, Dongyi Xiushu and Huang Doudou took off their masks together to thank the audience and hugged each other warmly, this scene not only touched all the audiences present, but also infected every netizen who watched online, netizens said that they could not witness this fusion of peace and music in person, which was a regret in their hearts.
Pictured: Mr. Li Xiangting, professor of the Central Conservatory of Music and representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, played live.
The thousand-year-old Qingyin Music echoed again Li Xiangting played the Tang Dynasty guqin "Nine Xiao Huan Pei" on the spot
Every player in the concert begins with a "national treasure." In the "National Treasure Concert", the mural "Trick Music Map" of dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is traced, as well as the Tang Dynasty spiral rosewood five-string pipa and carved shakuhachi in the Shocang Courtyard, and the "Lanling King" dance mask collected by the Four Heavenly Kings Temple. Among them, the five-string pipa of the spiral rosewood is the first famous product of the Kitakura Treasury of Shosoin Temple, and is currently being exhibited in the special exhibition "The World of Shosoin - The Beauty of the Imperial Family's Preservation and Inheritance" held at the Heisei Hall of the Tokyo National Museum. And when Mr. Li Xiangting, a guqin player, invited the Tang Dynasty guqin "Nine Xiao Huan Pei" to the scene, the audience erupted into thunderous applause.
The number "nine" can be described as a pole number according to the Chinese tradition, and is often used as a symbol of the highest realm, such as representing state power, such as "Jiuding", "Jiuchong Mountain", "Nine Colors", "Nine Tones", "Nine Xiao" and so on. Huan Pei refers to the jade shell decoration worn by the ancients on the belt. The guqin of "Nine Xiao Huan Pei" is fuxi style, and the back of the qin is engraved with the four characters of "Nine Xiao Huan Pei", and there is also a seal seal of "Dongpo Su Shi Zhen Appreciation". At the concert site, Mr. Li Xiangting used the "Nine Xiao Huan Pei" to play the guqin songs "Plum Blossom Three Alleys" and "Flowing Water" successively, which also attracted the wide attention of many guqin lovers on the Internet, "This precious thousand-year-old guqin was once considered to be 'poor sound quality' in modern times, not suitable for playing, and can only be used as a cultural relic." Until he met Li Xiangting, he finally reappeared the sound of nature. ”
Pictured: Pipa player Fang Jinlong and Zhen zhen player Wu Lin perform live.
At the same time, at the concert site, pipa player Fang Jinlong played "Ten Faces Ambush" and "Rebound Pipa Trick Lotte", and the instrument he used came from his own contemporary five-string pipa that he had successfully improved according to the tang dynasty five-string pipa in Shosoin, Japan. There are also Wu Lin, a zhenqi player, who has performed repertoire such as "Neon Dress Feather Song" and "Yangguan Sandian", and her use of "restoring ancient vertical fences" comes from the restoration results of ancient baskets that have lasted for more than 20 years in China. These musical instrument performances, which carry culture and heritage, touched every audience online and offline. The Qingyin Gagaku of the "National Treasure Concert" has written a new chapter of Sino-Japanese friendship and cultural exchanges through the millennium, allowing netizens to shout online: "I hope that the "National Treasure Concert" can hold a world tour!" ”
It is worth mentioning that the event was held at the Omkeikan of the Tokyo National Museum. The Tokyo National Museum is a comprehensive museum that houses important cultural properties of Japan and the entire East Asian region. The Omkeikan, a palace built in 1908 to celebrate the wedding of the then Crown Prince (later Emperor Taisho), is a representative of Western-style architecture at the end of the Meiji period and the first art museum in Japan. The "National Treasure Concert" is the first Chinese cultural exchange event to enter the OmbukiKan and continues a new chapter in the cultural exchanges between China and Japan. This makes the audience infected by the ancient and magnificent East Asian civilization, but also looks forward to the next new season of "National Treasure".