When the Tang Dynasty girl "traveled through" the wonderful night of the museum

  "Fragrant cheeks and snow on temples, fragrance of clothes and shadows are the prosperous Tang." In the past few days, the classical dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet" created by Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater debuted in 2021 Henan Spring Festival Gala and continued to be searched on Weibo, swiping the screen WeChat Moments.

In the program, the Tang dynasty girls who participated in the night banquet were "round and pleasing". They sometimes dressed up, sometimes laughed and played, just like walking in ancient paintings, showing the prosperous scene of the Tang Dynasty vividly and vividly, which was praised by netizens as " Wonderful Night at the Museum of the Girls of the Tang Dynasty".

  "Classical dance is deeply rooted in China’s excellent traditional culture. We go to many museums every year to collect styles and creations. When we saw the distinctive figures of Tang Dynasty musical and dance figurines in Henan Museum and Luoyang Museum, we began to think about how to use art. The technique presents the music and dance scenes of the Tang Dynasty in dance works.” said Chen Lin, the chief creator of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and the choreographer of Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater on February 14.

Thus, the dance had this beginning: the chime and the ancient flute were played one after another, and a group of painted pottery figurines gradually "walked out" from the museum and transformed into Tang Palace girls, vivid and vivid.

  In fact, "Tang Palace Night Banquet" was originally called "Tang Figurines". It was created to participate in the 12th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" Classical Dance Competition. The first performance was at the "Lotus Award" awards scene.

Chen Lin said that this program mainly tells the interesting events of the young female musicians on the way to the banquet. The cute and naughty image and personality are in sharp contrast with the imprisoned court life. The costumes and styles are very characteristic. Tang Sancai elements bring the viewer into the unique aesthetic space in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, showing the beauty of Tang Sancai art.

  In the exhibition hall of the museum at the beginning of the dance, together with the figurines, there are also the "Wu Hao Owl" unearthed in the Yin Ruins of Anyang, the "Lotus and Crane Square Pot" in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the earliest physical instrument of China "Jiahu Bone Flute"; In the world where the girls walked through the lotus steps, there appeared one after another famous ancient Chinese paintings such as "Hairpin Lady" and "Practicing Picture", as well as the mural of "Being to Travel" unearthed in the tomb of Xu Minxing and his wife in Jiaxiang, Shandong. Cultural feast.

These "heavy" Chinese excellent traditional cultural elements constitute the reason for "Tang Palace Night Banquet" "out of the circle".

  In the opinion of Ma Xiaolin, the director of Henan Museum, this program really made the cultural relics quietly displayed in the museum showcase "live", and made musical and dancing figurines and images of musical and dancing dance and sing, and the cultural charm behind the cultural relics , Humanistic feelings and artistic charm have truly spread to the hearts of the public and nourish people's spiritual world.

  Coincidentally.

On the evening of February 11, the main Buddha head on the north wall of Cave 8 of Tianlongshan Grottoes, which had been lost overseas for nearly a century, appeared on the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala "National Treasure Going Home" special program. Its appearance made the audience cry.

This is a grand ceremony for the people of the whole country to welcome the lost cultural relics home, and it is the warmest response to the long-lost reunion.

  The power of culture is shocking and deep.

Nowadays, many young people regard museum visits as a new fashion. Cultural self-confidence is constantly strengthened during visits and tours. Cultural identity is constantly enhanced by understanding each cultural relic and the stories behind it.

The documentary films "National Treasures" and "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" vividly tell stories of the long-standing heritage of Chinese culture behind the cultural relics; variety shows "Chinese Poetry Conference" and "Chinese Idioms Conference", etc., let us feel the profoundness and profoundness of Chinese traditional culture. The intention is lofty.

  It is worth mentioning that in recent years, Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater has created many high-quality repertoires, from dance dramas "Shaolin in the Wind", "Water Moon Luoshen", "Loyalty to Serve the Country", to dance programs "Joint in the Army", "Early Lotus", and "Flower Picking Love" "Go to the Opera", "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and so on, all left a deep impression on people.

The common feature of these works is that they are all derived from traditional Chinese culture, and they have won the gold medal of the Chinese dance "Lotus Award" dance drama and poetry competition, the "Five One Project" Excellent Works Award of the Central Propaganda Department and the Wenhua Award for Outstanding Repertoire. , Successively went to more than 40 countries such as Poland, Thailand, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, the United States, Kazakhstan and other countries for cultural exchanges and performances, which became a bridge and tie for spreading Chinese culture.

  Regarding the "out of the circle" of "Tang Palace Night Banquet", Sun Shujie, director of Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater, expressed his special thanks to the audience for their love. Works of traditional culture.

  Sun Shujie said: "The extensive and profound Central Plains culture is the inexhaustible and inexhaustible source of the Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theatre's artistic creation. We will strive to give traditional culture new connotations of the times and modern expressions, so that the ancient cultural genes of the Chinese nation can be combined with the contemporary Adapt to culture, create cultural works that people love to hear, and enhance people's cultural identity and cultural confidence."

  □Our reporter Wen Xiaojuan