From "Tang Palace Night Banquet" to "Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour", it is Chinese style that "out of the circle"

【Culture Analysis】

  During the Dragon Boat Festival, the Henan Satellite TV party "Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour" received rave reviews.

Many viewers, while being circled by fans, also called out the provincial satellite TV to "copy homework".

If the "Tang Palace Night Banquet" on Henan Satellite TV's Spring Festival Gala made Henan Satellite TV successfully "out of the circle", this time "Dragon Boat Festival" has ignited great enthusiasm for the audience.

  There is no popular traffic star platform, no money-burning luxury production blessing, no overwhelming propaganda and momentum, from "out of the ring" to "demolition of the ring", what does Henan Satellite TV rely on?

  Relying on the newness of creativity.

Innovation is the life of art.

The master of Chinese painting Wu Changshuo said: "Those who transform me live, those who break me advance, and those who break me die." The creative team of "The Wonderful Dragon Boat Festival" pioneered the "web drama + web drama" program style, and the entire program is based on web dramas. It is presented in the form of 4 Tang Xiaomei’s whereabouts on the Dragon Boat Festival, pulling out 4 parallel story lines with interlacing, leading to 7 variety shows, in various forms such as web variety, comics, chasing drama, underwater dance, etc. , Together to tell the prequel story of "Tang Palace Night Banquet".

The programs are not only related, but also independent of each other, with strong stories and full of interest.

Inside each program, refreshing ideas are also emerging in endlessly.

The opening underwater dance "Luo Shen Shui Fu" (formerly known as "Pray") amazed the audience and attracted countless fans.

The perfect fusion of tradition and fashion adapts to the leap-forward thinking characteristics of contemporary young people and the pursuit of novel aesthetic tastes, and it is reasonable to be sought after.

  Relying on the beauty of form.

What art directly affects the audience is its external form.

Only the form of beauty can conquer the audience's senses and move their hearts.

In the dance "Fu of the Luoshen Water", the Luoshen with fluttering clothes jumps and dances, or sinks or soars, or is soft or vigorous, in the rippling blue waves, Cao Zhi's writing "It seems like a light cloud covering the moon, and a fluttering wind like a flowing wind. The goddess of "Returning Snow" seemed to be reborn, so that netizens exclaimed: "I have seen a fairy!" The folk music performance "Lanling King Entering the Battle" with the rough and vigorous drumbeat and the generous and sad pipa sounded in harmony, expressing their gallop on the battlefield. His heroic pride and longing for family and relationships, both rigid and soft, shocked the eardrums of the audience, and also touched the emotions of the audience.

From the pictures of ladies on the screen, the dance "Beauty Walk" transformed a group of women from the Tang Dynasty in full costumes. Their wonderful makeup and graceful dancing posture, coupled with the magnificent palace room simulated by virtual reality technology, reproduced from Datang’s "Chinese-style sexy" and prosperous elegance.

  Relying on the depth of the background.

Traditional Chinese festivals carry profound cultural connotations. Festivals not only mean reunion, travel, and rest, but also mean revisiting long-standing traditions and tracing the roots of culture.

"Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour" is rooted in traditional culture.

First of all, the story time of this "web drama" is set to be the Dragon Boat Festival. The audience follows in the footsteps of Tang Xiaomei and appreciates the customs and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival that has stretched for thousands of years.

The majestic male group dance in "Dragon Boat Festival" combines acrobatics, martial arts and drumming, depicting the solemnity of dragon boat sacrifice and the enthusiasm of dragon boat racing, expressing the memorial of Qu Yuan and the expectation of inheriting Chinese civilization.

The customs of hanging wormwood, wearing sachets, and eating rice dumplings decorate the scene of Tang Xiaomei visiting the market.

Secondly, with the help of 4 Tang Xiaomei's different identity settings and travel itineraries, a variety of traditional cultures are presented one by one in the historical corridor.

"Medical Sage" spreads the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, "Lie Ren Xing" is a visual representation of Li Bai's "Qing Ping Tiao".

The dancers in "Tang Yin" are incarnations of puppets, vividly interpreting the ingenuity and ingenuity of the puppet theater.

"Lanling King Entering the Battle" uses pipa and drums to play the legacy of the Tang Dynasty song and dance drama, traces the history of cultural exchanges between China and Japan, and uses Bai Juyi's poems to set off the protagonist, "I miss people, and live far away." "The thoughts and sorrow.

The Mi Concubine of the River God in "Fu of Luoshen Water" has always been the source of inspiration and emotional sustenance for literati and inscribers.

And so on, and so on.

  Innovative creativity, beautiful form, and profound background have made "Tang Palace Night Banquet" and "Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour" also popular.

Behind the Chinese-style program "out of the circle" is the creator's sincerity to meet the aesthetic needs of contemporary audiences and the respect for inheriting and carrying forward traditional culture.

The Chinese have a Chinese mentality, and the Chinese have a Chinese aesthetic.

Based on the local area, keeping up with the times, treating traditions well, and preserving the cultural and emotional memories of the Chinese nation should become a trend in the creation of variety shows.

(Author: Lu Zhenzhen, Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Guangzhou University)