Nandu News On the evening of October 10, the original overseas Chinese dance drama "Overseas Chinese Criticism and Homeland", sponsored by the Leading Group for the Study and Education of Party History of the Jiangmen Municipal CPC Committee and the Propaganda Department of the Jiangmen Municipal CPC Committee, and undertaken by the Jiangmen Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, premiered at the Baiyun International Conference Center in Guangzhou.
In October 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed during his inspection in Guangdong: "The 'Overseas Chinese Batch' records the difficult entrepreneurial history and strong feelings of home and country of the older generation of overseas Chinese, and is also an important embodiment of the Chinese nation's credibility and commitment." It is necessary to properly protect these 'overseas Chinese' cultural relics, strengthen research, educate and guide people not to forget the history of humiliation experienced by our country in modern times and the difficult entrepreneurial history of the older generation of overseas Chinese compatriots, and promote the whole society to strengthen the building of creditworthiness. ”
Jiangmen is an important town for the study of overseas Chinese cultural protection. "Overseas Chinese, Homeland" is the latest achievement of Jiangmen to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of overseas Chinese culture, innovate the methods and methods of party history study and education, and is also an innovative exploration with artistic value and communication value. The drama takes overseas Chinese as the carrier and dance as the form of expression, through telling the story of a Wuyi overseas Chinese who is sad and happy, showing a historical interweaving of overseas Chinese groups and the fate of their homeland, reflecting the innovative integration of the world memory heritage and dance art, expressing the lofty tribute of the overseas Chinese in Jiangmen to the spirit of overseas Chinese, further polishing the "World Memory Heritage" business card and the "City of Chinese Dance" city business card, helping to tell the story of overseas Chinese and Chinese stories, condensing the strength of overseas Chinese, and drawing the largest concentric circles. Contribute to the strength of Jiangmen to strengthen the great unity of the sons and daughters of China.
Reproduce the intertwining of the fate of the overseas Chinese in Wuyi and their homeland
Overseas Chinese batch is a kind of postal transmission carrier of letters and remittances, known as "Lingnan Dunhuang Documents", which is a heritage of world memory. Taking the overseas Chinese as the serial carrier and the true story of the overseas Chinese in Jiangmen as the prototype, "Overseas Chinese • Home Country" uses the dance language to create art, telling a story and history of the intertwining of the fate of the overseas Chinese group and the homeland, and reproducing the spirit and strength of wuyi's former overseas Chinese who work hard, love the country and the hometown, and serve the homeland.
In the dance drama, Huang Qijia, Yu Zhenguo and Liang Ying from Jiangmen planted the seeds of blood to save the country by participating in a patriotic parade. Under the circumstances of the times, some of them crossed the ocean and eventually became well-known overseas Chinese leaders, some joined the anti-Japanese torrent to sacrifice their lives for the country, and some became educators with unremitting self-improvement, interpreting the joys and sorrows of an overseas Chinese family for half a century, reflecting the magnificent journey of China's revolution, construction, and reform, and witnessing the strong feelings of home and country behind the overseas Chinese.
In order to create fine products, the Propaganda Department of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee coordinated and united with the elites in the industry to form a strong creative and performance lineup: the general director Zhang Yuhang is a national first-class choreographer and director of the Southern Song and Dance Troupe, whose works have won awards such as the National Stage Art Key Creative Repertoire and the First Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Arts Festival Excellent Repertoire; the screenwriter is Yang Duge (pen name: Mu Ge), whose representative works include the large-scale modern dance drama "Tide Speed" (literary script), the musical "Mulan Prequel" (Mandarin lyrics), etc.; the performance team is led by the domestic first-class team.
Polish the "Memory of the World Heritage" business card with dance
Jiangmen is a famous overseas Chinese township in China and a frontier town in the protection of overseas Chinese. With its characteristics of large number, long historical span, wide coverage and rich content, Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Batch has a unique and important position in the protection of world memory heritage. Among the 160,000 overseas Chinese approved for the Memory of the World Heritage List, there are nearly 50,000 documents in Jiangmen, and the earliest surviving overseas Chinese batch is also from Jiangmen.
In recent years, Jiangmen has made a lot of active explorations in the revitalization and display of overseas Chinese, and has continuously polished the "national" business card of overseas Chinese, a heritage of world memory. At present, Jiangmen has built Taishan Yinxin Square and Yinxin Museum; walked into more than 10 cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, and Wuhan to carry out overseas Chinese approval touring exhibitions, and promoted the "Home and Country Feelings Sending Ruler -- Jiangmen Wuyi Overseas Chinese Approval (Yinxin) Special Exhibition" into the Chinese Overseas Chinese History Museum and the Guangdong Provincial Museum; launched the Wuyi Overseas Chinese Criticism Global Solicitation Activity; held a seminar on overseas Chinese criticism culture and overseas Chinese spirit, established a research institute for overseas Chinese culture, and set up a research center for the protection and revitalization of overseas Chinese culture; and actively participated in the exchange and display of overseas Chinese Create literary and artistic works of overseas Chinese batch elements, accumulate rich experience in the study and protection and activation of overseas Chinese batch, and achieve good results.
On this basis, Jiangmen fully excavated the cultural resources of overseas Chinese, made good use of the resource advantages of the "City of Chinese Dance", planned the first overseas Chinese dance drama "Overseas Chinese, Home Country", and carried out new explorations in promoting the protection and revitalization of overseas Chinese.
It is understood that Jiangmen is recognized as the "City of Chinese Dance" by the Chinese Dancers Association, and is also the hometown of Mr. Dai Ailian, the mother of Chinese ballet, and the profound dance cultural heritage and humanistic origin provide rich nourishment for the creation and rehearsal of dance dramas. At present, the city has nearly a million people like, engaged in dance work, Jiangmen also built the Dai Ailian Cultural Square, Dai Ailian large relief and dance sculpture road, held a high-standard "national brand" "Dai Ailian Cup" everyone danced the national mass dance exhibition and performance activities, for many years to hold the people's health dance competition and activities, and constantly polished the "Chinese Dance City" brand.
"Dance is the universal language, with strong artistic expression and appeal. As a dance city in China, Jiangmen has the foundation, advantages, and responsibility to use the form of dance to tell the story of overseas Chinese. "Overseas Chinese Approval, Home Country" hopes to further polish the world memory heritage and the two city business cards of the City of Chinese Dance through the innovative integration of overseas Chinese criticism and dance, promote overseas Chinese to further go out of the deep boudoir, and strive to achieve creative transformation and innovative development. The relevant person in charge of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee said.
In order to further tell the story of overseas Chinese, Jiangmen carefully selected nursery rhymes, watchtowers, overseas Chinese donation schools and other characteristic resources of overseas Chinese when planning and creating, and integrated various overseas Chinese elements into the creation of dance dramas, and presented them in an artistic way, so that the audience can feel it in person and more deeply appreciate the patriotic, hometown and family feelings of the overseas Chinese in Wuyi.
The combination of dance art and overseas Chinese culture has also stimulated innovation in artistic expression. According to reports, the dance drama "Overseas Chinese • Homeland" has joined multimedia technology, while expanding the depth and three-dimensional sense of the stage, it has clarified the story line with concise words, presented the content of overseas Chinese criticism, made up for the lack of dance clumsiness in narrative, enriched the "silent" dance into "sound" art, and explained the culture of overseas Chinese criticism deeply.
Make good use of overseas Chinese resources to innovate and tell the story of party history
"Overseas Chinese, Homeland" is also a new practice of Jiangmen's continuous and in-depth study and education of party history from its own resource endowments and in combination with the culture of overseas Chinese.
In modern times, in the face of the humiliation of the country, the suffering of the people, and the dust of civilization, the overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese in Wuyi, with their strong patriotic enthusiasm and sense of national responsibility, have traveled all over the world, vigorously advocated, and fought heroically for national independence, the liberation of the people, and the prosperity and strength of the country, leaving behind many stories that are famous in history and can be sung and wept. As a "family letter", a paper of overseas Chinese carries the stories of many Wuyi overseas Chinese serving their homeland.
"Overseas Chinese Criticism and Homeland" also tells the story of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese enthusiastically serving the country in the history of the party in the past century. The dance drama takes the overseas Chinese as the clue and the deeds of the overseas Chinese in Jiangmen as the prototype, telling the story of the intertwining of the fate of the overseas Chinese and the homeland. In the play, the male protagonist Huang Qi's family bears the hatred of the country and the family hatred, has long cherished the ambition of serving the country, heroically resisted Japan, and made heroic sacrifices; the supporting actor Yu Zhenguo is a friend of the Huang Qi family, believes in "industry to save the country", travels across the ocean to start a business, and gradually becomes a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese leader, long-term support for the revolutionary struggle and construction of the motherland. Several protagonists jointly convey the spirit and strength of Wuyi's ancestors and overseas Chinese to struggle hard, love the country and the hometown, and serve their homeland.
With rich connotations, innovative interpretations, and novel forms, the dance drama presents the homeland responsibility of the overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese in Wuyi in the century-old party history to the audience, so that overseas Chinese can "live" up, "integrate" education into it, and "spread" the spirit, thus making useful explorations for the development of party history study and education.
Excavating and using the cultural resources of overseas Chinese to inherit the red spirit is a major highlight of Jiangmen's party history study and education. In addition to "Overseas Chinese Criticism and Homeland", since the beginning of this year, Jiangmen has continuously enriched the cultural connotation of overseas Chinese criticism, expanded the field of research, innovated forms of expression, and told the story of the vast number of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese and the Communist Party of China in the history of the party in the past century.
Since the beginning of this year, Jiangmen has been the first in the country to promote "party history in the overseas Chinese batch"; in a large number of historical materials of the overseas Chinese batch, it has carefully picked up the party history imprints in the overseas Chinese batch, placed it in the coordinates of the past century for observation and interpretation, and disseminated and popularized it in the form of a trend that the masses like to hear, opening up a new field for the revitalization of the overseas Chinese batch and providing a new perspective for the study of party history.
In addition, in April this year, the "Home and Country Feelings Sending Rulers - Jiangmen Wuyi Yinxin (Overseas Chinese Approval) Special Exhibition" entered the Museum of Chinese Overseas Chinese History in Beijing for the first time and appeared on CCTV news programs twice in one day. In July, the exhibition entered the Guangdong Provincial Museum and incorporated the research results of "Party History in overseas Chinese", which greatly enriched and expanded the value and connotation of overseas Chinese culture. The exhibition was also included in the list of "2021 Guangdong Province Carry forward the Theme Exhibition of Socialist Core Values".
Evoke common memories and unite the hearts and minds of overseas Chinese
"Overseas Chinese • Homeland" is not only an artistic and innovative presentation of the culture of overseas Chinese, but also an echo of the times of the century-old spirit of overseas Chinese, which is of great significance for Jiangmen to tell the story of overseas Chinese and Chinese with the story of overseas Chinese, to unite the strength of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese, and to draw the largest concentric circles.
Looking back at the course of a hundred years of struggle, we can see that the united and unified Chinese nation is the common root of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad, the broad and profound Chinese culture is the common soul of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad, and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the common dream of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad.
The story of overseas Chinese actually reflects the story of the unity and progress of the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad. The characters Huang Qijia, Yu Zhenguo, and Fang Xin in the drama "Overseas Chinese Criticism • Homeland" are all miniatures of the image of the overseas Chinese in Wuyi; when the country will not be a country and the family will not be a family, the Wuyi villagers will cross the ocean and work hard to start a business; when the nation is independent and the people are self-reliant, the overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese will throw themselves into the revolution to defend the country; when the country's fortunes are prosperous and hundreds of industries are waiting to be revived, the overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese return to China to start a business and build their hometown, and they have made important contributions to China's revolution, construction, and reform.
Compared with paper text, the art of dance is vivid and intuitive and infectious. Through the form of dance, "Overseas Chinese • Home Country" is conducive to expanding people's cognition and understanding of the spiritual world of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, and will further evoke the common memory of the homeland of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese, promote the dissemination of Chinese stories and Chinese culture, and contribute to strengthening the great unity of Chinese sons and daughters.
"For more than a hundred years, generation after generation of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese have not forgotten the motherland and their ancestral homeland, and have enthusiastically supported China's revolution, construction, and reform. The organizers said that the common memory of overseas Chinese and the spirit of overseas Chinese displayed by the dance drama will further inspire the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad to work with one heart and one mind, continue to think and work hard to make a difference, and gather the magnificent force to achieve national rejuvenation.
Nandu reporter Yan Liang correspondent Jiang Xuan