On the evening of August 13, on the eve of the Chinese traditional festival "Qixi Festival", a traditional culture + technology-enabled "Qixi Fantastic Tour" party was staged on Henan Satellite TV. This is another major creation of the "Chinese Festival Series" after "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and "Roselle Endowment".
The "Qixi Wonderland Tour" program tells the story of a magical time and space trip of female astronaut Tang Xiaotian in 2035: she returned to the Tang Dynasty, came to luoyang, the capital of the gods, met Tang Xiaozhu, a medical family, and Tang Xiaoke, a storyteller, and spent a special Qixi Festival under their leadership. The story connects the programs "Dragon Gate King Kong", "To the Girl", "Love", "Breaking the Array", "Applaud yourself" and "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky".
Screenshot of the show
Focus on expressing the feelings of home and country, and present more women's perspectives
Tanabata is often regarded as "China's Valentine's Day", but this Tanabata party does not stick to the theme of love, and the party presents more female perspectives. Many netizens commented that "the Tanabata interpreted by Henan Satellite TV is a festival for girls". The song "Give The Girl" integrates the ancient Tanabata festival folk customs of China such as washing the hair, grooming, dyeing nails, casting needles, and worshipping Vega. By the stream, women bathe and wash their hair, splash water and play; in the boudoir, women dress, thrush, grease powder, dotted lips, and dye nails; in the evening courtyard, girls throw needles to check their skills; at night, girls gather under the melon shed and under the vines to "listen" to the cowherd weaver girls meet; in the moonlight, girls worship the Vega star together; in the court, the concubine Womb is boarded on the needle floor and begging for luck. While displaying the traditional folklore of Tanabata, it also highlights the core of the value of encouraging girls to be self-reliant, confident and self-loving.
Director Lu Hongli said, "This time a dual director system has been adopted, and two directors, a man and a woman, jointly interpret the connotation of The culture of the Tanabata Festival from the perspective of men and women. As for the interpretation of "love", the director team chose to use traditional opera to express: through the Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion • Garden", Yue opera "Liang Zhu • Eighteen Xiang Xiang", Yu opera "White Snake Legend • Broken Bridge Meeting" three famous opera singing segments to present the classic Chinese love story.
Executive planner Xu Na said: "Since ancient times, we have been talking about the feelings of family and country, and only by having a 'small family' can we have 'everyone'. In the "small family", it contains love and affection. In our "Tanabata WonderLand", we chose to put 'love' in the context of the feelings of home and country. This is what our director said: 'Tanabata is not only about love and love', in addition to this, there are also some expressions of 'feelings of home and country'. ”
"Broken Array Music", also known as "Seven Virtues Dance", is a famous song and dance song and dance of the Tang Dynasty, originally a military song of the early Tang Dynasty, in 620 AD, the Qin king Li Shimin defeated the rebel Liu Wuzhou and consolidated the newly established Tang regime. Therefore, his soldiers filled in new words with old songs and sang praises for Li Shimin: The head of the law will beg the rebels. Xian song "Broken Array Music", enjoy the Taiping people.
The "Tanabata Fantastic Tour" version of "Broken Array Music" integrates elements such as armor, desert iron horse, and water master on the screen, showing national heroes such as Mulan, Qi Jiajun, and Shi Lang. The Mandarin Duck Array, an evacuation battle formation adopted by China's Ming Dynasty troops against the Wokou, is known as one of the ancient Chinese formations, founded by Qi Jiguang. Some netizens found in "Broken Array Music" that the lady who played Mulan was Ling Yun, who was called "Emei Pie Heroine" by netizens. During the fight against the epidemic last year, she once became popular on the Internet for short videos such as going downstairs to throw garbage and practicing martial arts by the way. In addition, the music is played by Chinese national instruments such as shakuhachi, pipa, erhu, sanxin, Chinese drum, flute, etc., and "animal props" such as wolves, snakes, and lizards are also introduced to add a different atmosphere to the show.
"Real scene + keying" style shooting, let the millennium grotto come alive
"Dragon Gate King Kong" with excellent visual effects on the hot search, under the premise of doing a good job in cultural relics protection, "Dragon Gate King Kong" in the Longmen Grottoes for real-life shooting. According to the director, this is also the most high-tech program in the whole audience.
At the beginning of the show, the flying fairy descended from the sky, the dance was exquisite, Gu Pansheng was radiant, and then the very powerful King Kong came on, the whole dance had both strength and beauty, with exquisite costumes and carefully selected music, "Dragon Gate King Kong" brought an excellent visual experience to the audience. The director team specially invited the dancers Wei Xiangyang and Luo Wenbo to serve as the male and female lead dancers of "Dragon Gate King Kong", and they once said in an interview that the image of Longmen Feitian and Longmen King Kong created this time was different from Dunhuang, and their dance posture and shape were all reproductions of the original sculpture form of Longmen Grottoes, which was very unique. The "real scene + keying" style shooting and wonderful dance made the Longmen Grottoes "come alive".
Director Li Yongming said: "In the process of historical development and evolution, King Kong has become more and more powerful. King Kong is also a portrayal of us in the Middle Plains, so we have always highlighted the sense of strength when shooting. If the only regret, I think is that the sense of strength may not be strong enough. ”
The party cared about reality and paid tribute to the frontline workers in the fight against disasters and epidemics
An official from the Ming Dynasty in China called Wanhu (formerly known as Tao Chengdao) sat on a chair tied to 47 rockets and flew into the sky with a kite in his hand in order to realize his space dream; but the rocket exploded, and Wanhu gave his life for it. People called him "the world's first spaceflight man".
The theme song "Applause for Yourself" shows the exploration of the starry sky and the pursuit of dreams by ancient and modern Chinese astronauts. The first half of the festival tells the unremitting attempt and pursuit of flying by ancient Chinese ancestors; the second half shows that with the efforts of astronauts, we have finally realized the dream of flying. Taking spacecraft such as "Chang'e" and "Wukong" as the starting point, it shows the inheritance of China's aerospace dream and the spirit of Chinese astronauts to go forward and succeed.
General director Lu Hongli introduced: "Feitian represents beauty and happiness, while King Kong represents strength and hope. We are in Zhengzhou, Henan, as witnesses of the (flood and epidemic) events, watching our partners pull the equipment out of the mud, how can we not feel it? We hope to express that kindness, beauty and spirit through this program, although we are not on the front line of the fight against disasters, we have always stuck to our posts. ”
The show "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" is an Easter egg given to the audience by the creative team of "Tanabata Wonderland". According to the program team, the aircraft on August 13 was the maximum time when the "Perseid Meteor Shower" had a maximum ceiling flow of more than 110 meteors per hour. It is precisely because of this that "Tanabata Wonderland" has finalized the broadcast of this day.
Wang Chunyang, planner of "Qixi Fantastic Tour", said: "Since Henan suffered a particularly heavy rainstorm on July 20, Zhengzhou, Xinxiang, Hebi, Anyang, Zhoukou, Kaifeng and other places have been seriously affected, and rescue teams and volunteers from all over the country have worked hard to support Henan, and we have truly felt the warmth of 'one side has difficulties, eight parties support'. As a Henan person, I am very grateful and very touched. We feel like they are like the 'brightest stars in the night sky', bringing light and strength to Henan in the floods. At the end of the program, our 'China Festivals' series of programs hopes to use the program "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" to thank the rescue teams and volunteers from all over the country with songs. ”
Red Star News reporter Wu Yang Intern Chen Zihan
Edited by Guan Li
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