"Tang Palace Night Banquet" is on fire, "Resurrection" the group of "Tang Dynasty Fat Girls" said...
Author: Zhao Hui Han Zhang Yun
The makeup on the face is like copying and pasting ancient paintings, the clothes are fluttering, and the chubby body twists flexibly with the rhythm of the music...
This year's Spring Festival, a group of "Tang Dynasty Fat Girls" were "resurrected" from the museum and became popular across the Internet with a dance.
The dancers who play the role of the Tang Dynasty figurines seem to be walking out of ancient paintings.
This dance is the 2021 Henan Spring Festival Gala suddenly "out of the circle" program "Tang Palace Night Banquet".
How did this group of "Tang Dynasty Fat Girls", called "Miss Fairies" by netizens, born?
And why is it loved by netizens?
Come and hear what the people "resurrected" them.
"I go with these Tang music and dance figurines"
Chen Lin is the choreographer of Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theater and one of the main creators of "Tang Palace Night Banquet".
In Chen Lin's view, her professional dance is the same as the figurines of Tang music and dance more than 1,500 years ago. "It's just that they dance for the emperors and generals, and our dance is dedicated to the people."
Classical dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet" stills.
Photo courtesy of Chen Lin
Chen Lin, who has been learning dance since the age of four, loves Chinese history and culture very much.
She thinks that she and the figurines of Tang music and dance are the same. Although separated by more than 1,500 years, “art has no time and space barriers. When I look at them through the glass cover in the museum, it is like being with the predecessors 1,500 years ago. dialogue".
Painted pottery figurines in the museum.
Photo courtesy of Chen Lin
Chen Lin and team members visit the museum every year.
After seeing the vivid figurines of Tang music and dance in Henan Museum and Luoyang Museum, she began to think: If dance can give the soul of Tang music and dance figurines, what kind of Tang Dynasty would they lead modern people to see?
The Tang Sancai female sitting figurines, a cultural relic in the Luoyang Museum.
Source: Luoyang Museum official website
"The'Resurrection' Tang figurines lying in the museum."
Thus, Chen Lin's team began the creation of the classical dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet".
How to make the modern version of Tang figurines "fat" perfect?
In order to restore the true form of the Tang figurines to the greatest extent, Chen Lin's team conducted a lot of research on the cultural relics and ancient paintings of the Tang figurines, from makeup, clothing, manners and props.
The Tang people regard fat as their beauty, while modern dancers are very thin.
Making the actors plump and round has become a big problem facing Chen Lin's team.
The dancers of "Tang Palace Night Banquet" reproduce the plump beauty of women in the Tang Dynasty.
Photo courtesy of Chen Lin
"In the beginning we considered putting a patch on the face, but it was too time-consuming and we gave up." Chen Lin recalled that the team did not spend much time doing experiments to solve this problem.
Once in a makeup artist's home to do "make the face bulge up" experiment, during a break, the makeup artist invited her to taste Xinjiang grapes.
"The grapes are very sweet. I ate a few in a row, and my mouth was full. I was inspired by it. I quickly ran to the mirror and looked at it, and my face bulged up." Chen Lin said of the fun. During the process, the reporter could still feel the excitement of her inspiration.
"But grapes are three-dimensional, making the face not round enough. At the suggestion of the makeup artist, we folded the wet tissue and put it in our mouth to try, and the face showed a natural rounded effect."
Classical dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet".
Photo courtesy of Chen Lin
In the end, the team chose to put medical absorbent cotton balls in their mouths to make the actors' faces perfectly "fat", and use sponge prosthesis to make their bodies "fat".
In this way, wearing Tang San's colorful gauze dress and the "oblique red" makeup that was popular in the Tang Dynasty, the chubby Tang music and dance figurines were "resurrected".
New technology makes traditional culture "tide"
"Tang Palace Night Banquet" is not a program specially created for the 2021 Henan Spring Festival Gala, nor is it the first performance.
Being selected to land on the Spring Festival Gala again, Henan Spring Festival Gala director Chen Lei said that in addition to the humorous feeling of this dance in line with the festive, warm and beautiful tone of the Spring Festival Gala, it is mainly based on a bold judgment-young people may not dislike traditional culture. "It just depends on how to present it."
The dance "Tang Palace Night Banquet" uses modern video technology to reproduce the flourishing Tang Dynasty.
"The chubby musical and dance figurines in "Tang Palace Night Banquet" can be frolic, angry, and funny, and the cute and witty images are humorous and humorous, breaking the inherent impression that traditional dance is aesthetic and lyrical in the hearts of the audience." In Chen Lei's view, this The dance itself has the elements of innovation.
"Tang Dynasty Fat Girl" was popular on the Internet and received rave reviews. Chen Lei unexpectedly summed up 5 words-"The direction is right".
Tradition is rigid?
Is traditional culture just the same?
wrong!
The key is what form of expression can be used to keep up with the times and be accepted by the audience, especially the young people in the Internet age.
"We are based on Internet thinking and presented by means of integrated media. Facts have proved that the way is right." Chen Lei said in an interview with reporters. The program "Tang Palace Night Banquet" presents three things-national treasure, national style, and national tide. .
National treasures include the lotus and crane square pot, the female owl statue, etc., and the national style has a thousand miles of landscapes and mountains.
With the blessing of modern sound and light imaging technology, the Tang figurines played by dancers seem to be resurrected from the museum.
"The dress and rhythm of the young lady in the Tang Dynasty are close to the cultural and creative version of the Tang Dynasty palace. The space setting of the animation is completely beautiful in modern people's imagination. This actually represents the national tide."
The 2021 Henan Spring Festival Gala also "out of the circle" is the martial arts show "Heaven and Earth", which embodies the wisdom of Tai Chi. The cool visual packaging allows the wisdom of Tai Chi and the dream of aerospace to be cross-boundary, bold and creative.
Chen Lei believes that everything can be integrated, and the combination of new technology, new means and long and splendid history and culture will produce works that cater to the times, which will definitely be accepted by the times.
The cool visual effects make Wushu "Heaven and Earth" very enjoyable.
"Unexpectedly, the acceptance of netizens is so high." In an interview, Chen Lin and Chen Lei expressed the same surprise, but they felt that they were expected, "Let history'live' to resonate with the times. We' The resurrection of historical figures brings a familiar strangeness to the audience, which naturally resonates with the audience."
The 2021 Henan Spring Festival Gala martial arts program "Heaven and Earth" combines the spirit of Tai Chi with the dream of flying to the sky of the Chinese nation.
"The temperaments of the children of the Tang Dynasty are the same as they are now." As a senior TV viewer, netizen "Fei Fei" commented that watching the "Miss Sister" in "Tang Palace Night Banquet" is like the naughty little girl around me. , Every move is connected with this era.
"This is the power of'living'." Chen Lei believes that in the new era, we need to use new expressions in order to continue the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture.
The innovative presentation of traditional culture boosts cultural confidence
"Tang Palace Night Banquet" has been a hit with the unseen Tang music and dance figurines.
In recent years, creative cultural programs such as "National Treasure" have also made the once-cold museum a popular place for audiences to check in. Even the unpopular archaeology has attracted attention. The sales of cultural and creative products created by major museums based on the collection of cultural relics Very impressive.
In the ancient capital of Luoyang, tourists often see peonies in Tang suits.
Photo by Han Zhangyun
Huang Chao, Director of the Exhibition Department of Luoyang Museum, introduced that during the Spring Festival, many spectators made a special trip to visit the pottery figurines in Luoyang Museum. Some ancient costume enthusiasts wore Tang suits and Hanfu to check in on the spot, which even drove the sales of cultural and creative brooch products developed by the museum based on Tang figurines.
Cultural and creative products based on the figures of figurines of the Tang Dynasty and ladies.
Photo by Han Zhangyun
In the view of Shi Jiazhen, the dean of the Luoyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, these positive changes all stem from making cultural relics "live" and history "live".
"The long history of China shouldn't be the lines of text in textbooks. They are fresh, emotional, and even warm. They present traditional culture artistically and can bring contemporary people closer to history. "Shi Jiazhen said, "Tang Palace Night Banquet" dance can be loved by the audience because it not only inherits history, but also has contemporary innovations, and is a manifestation of cultural confidence.
Cultural and creative products based on the figures of figurines of the Tang Dynasty and ladies.
Photo by Han Zhangyun
A dance that "resurrected" the Tang music and dance figurines that had been silent for more than 1,500 years, and led today's people to appreciate the open, tolerant and confident Tang Dynasty.
If there is a time tunnel that can return to the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago, how would modern people tell them today's story?
Video and unsigned pictures provided by Henan Satellite TV