Beijing Youth Daily reporter interviewed Xiao Xiangrong, the chief director of the celebration square event

Heart-warming selection of songs for the party to express the true feelings

　　At 8 o'clock on July 1, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held. Xiao Xiangrong, the director of the celebration square and the dean of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily. He said: A sense of ritual, participation, and modernity are the common ideas held by the entire creative team. We hope that the design of the conference can ignite the love of the party among 70,000 people present, and infect the people of the whole country and people around the world who have feelings for the Communist Party of China. "

70,000 people participated in the interaction

A sense of ritual of "fullness" at the conference

　　Beijing Youth Daily: How is this celebration different from previous large-scale events?

What are the characteristics of the arrangement?

　　Xiao Xiangrong: The important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping is the core of this conference.

The conference is held in Tiananmen Square, not indoors. I personally understand the centuries-old elegance of the Chinese Communist Party. I hope that more people can participate in it, and that more people can see the great country and understand the great party.

For this purpose, all the main creative teams carefully choreographed every detail. The tabletop deduction stage alone took more than a month, and every action of the actors was required to be accurate to the second.

　　Three "senses" were highlighted throughout the conference.

The first is to have a sense of ritual and to run through the audience.

A warm-up event was set up before the conference, a speech group link was set up during the conference, and the song "Singing the Motherland" was set up after the conference to allow the masses and leaders to interact, turning the entire square into a sea of ​​joy, and the ceremony was full.

　　The second is the sense of participation. From the beginning, the conference was defined as an open conference, which not only allowed the audience to sit and listen to the speech of General Secretary Xi, but also designed a lot of interactive links to emphasize the sense of participation of the participants.

For example, in the 15 minutes of the warm-up session, 7 songs were carefully designed, with the purpose of making the audience feel the great achievements of the Chinese Communist Party over the past century from different aspects.

Use 7 selected songs to ignite and arouse the love of the party among 70,000 people, so that all audiences in front of the screen have a sense of participation.

　　The third is the sense of modernity. "At the Centennial Conference of the Communist Party of China, we hope it will have a new era style, so we have made a very fine arrangement in the overall space layout. Where are the people listening? The entire Tiananmen Square is static. In the conference, how to present a dynamic streamline? All of these must be carefully considered. We worked with the entire conference space design team, including some other fraternal colleges and universities, to design Tiananmen Square into the shape of a towering giant wheel, the helmsman cockpit of the giant wheel The position is in the Tiananmen Gate Tower, the fore deck of the giant ship extends to the hero monument, and the party emblem stands tall on the foreboard. This “great ship” will ride the wind and waves into the next century, creating a dynamic meeting from a static conference. feel.

　　Generally speaking, the sense of ritual, participation and modernity demonstrated by this conference is the director's imagination and innovation of the overall art.

7 warm-up songs warmly presented

Arouse the love of the party among the participants

　　Beiqing Daily: The 7 warm-up songs are the first to appear. What are the considerations for choosing these 7 songs?

　　Xiao Xiangrong: In the past, we always said that the warm-up was a lively opening.

But this conference has a deeper meaning.

We believe that the gratitude for the Communist Party should be presented in a heart-warming and warm way. Therefore, we chose a cappella and the repertoire is "Sing a Folk Song for the Party", which clearly expresses the deep affection of hundreds of millions of people for the Party. .

　　The second dimension is the big theme of how to follow the party with one heart.

In this dimension, our choice is very difficult, because there are too many excellent songs in a century.

The principle of our selection is whether it is suitable for chorus or for military band performance. In the complex environment of the square, whether the lyrics can be understood at first sung or familiar, and the lyrics should be concise and straight to the subject.

In the end, we chose "Unity is Power", which means that our party unites all forces.

　　"We are walking on the road" is an old song, but now that we sing this song again, it demonstrates our self-confidence on the road. The Communist Party leads the revolutionary team to overcome obstacles and move forward courageously.

The song "Socialism is Good" demonstrates our institutional self-confidence.

Then the song "We Are the Successors of Communism", it is our young vanguard as the reserve team of our party group, which perfectly echoes the concept of "one generation has the responsibility of one generation".

Entering the new era, we chose the song "New World", which means that China has undergone earth-shaking changes since the new era. People sing the new era as they feel it. Finally, we used the song "No Communist Party, No New "China" comes to the end of the warm-up event.

　　In addition to the 7 warm-up songs, the conference also set up a chorus of "National Anthem" and "Singing for the Motherland".

"National Anthem" is a must on the agenda of the conference. After the whole celebration, we sang "Singing the Motherland" in the form of interacting with 70,000 people, so that the crowds and the actors can interact and rejoice together, with 100,000 pigeons. The launch of more than 100,000 balloons pushed the entire conference to a new climax.

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Qi chant dedication to confide people's hearts

　　Beiqing Daily: What new attempts have been made in the design of this conference?

　　Xiao Xiangrong: When designing the link, we hope that there will be a link that expresses the voice of the people and hears the voice of the future, so the link dedicated to designing a speech also provides us with a very good creative opportunity.

This dedication is nearly a thousand words in 5 and a half minutes, and all the content can represent the feelings of hundreds of millions of young people towards the party.

　　The form of dedication is both modern and ceremonial. The young people express their gratitude to the party and also express their determination to continue to fight.

The brilliant presentation of this session paved the way for a very good atmosphere and mood for General Secretary Xi's overall speech.

　　Beijing Youth Daily: What was the biggest challenge encountered in the design of this conference?

　　Xiao Xiangrong: I think two things are the most difficult. One is how to grasp the overall design of the conference, including seats and decorations.

From the selection of flowers to the color configuration of the seats, the design of the podium, etc., all worked hard in the early stage.

In the end, we designed the shape of the "Large Giant Wheel".

At the same time, in the overall decoration of the flower colors, based on red and yellow, a lot of blue and light green have been added, representing a more modern color, implying that the Chinese Communist Party wants to sail and go to the sea. .

　　The second most challenging part is the session where thousands of young pioneers from the Communist Youth League gave speeches for the centenary of the founding of the party.

A thousand people said everything, but in a complex sound environment like Tiananmen Square, it was very difficult.

Not only that, but they are also required to express their sense of rhythm, rhythm, and true feelings in their words, and demonstrate their centuries-old elegance and youthful spirit of the Communist Party of China.

How to speak to people’s hearts requires careful consideration, word by word.

The content of the dedication of nearly a thousand words totaling 5 and a half minutes has been revised dozens of times.

　　The 4 leading chants and 1,000 group chants are selected from tens of thousands of students in Beijing, who are very good, trained very hard, eliminated, pre-selected, and constantly changed positions. We require the children to have strong stability Sex and precise emotional outbursts are a big challenge for young people.

Therefore, through psychological counseling, taking them to watch party history films, telling them party history stories, listening to party songs, and inviting party history experts to chat with you, etc., we let the children deepen their understanding and understanding of the party.

　　I think the real dedication is not to win some attention by the director’s skills. The important thing is to treat this link as a good party history education activity for the children, so that the children can send from the inside out and from the heart. , To express my feelings for the Chinese Communist Party sincerely, so as to achieve the desired artistic effect.

I ask the children to make a little progress every day and keep moving forward. This is headless and can always be better.

July 1st was their best performance in our four months of training.

　　Beiqing Daily: You served as the general director of the 70th Anniversary National Day Parade in 2019, and this time you served as the general director of the centennial celebration of the founding of the party. How do you personally feel?

　　Xiao Xiangrong: I personally feel very lucky. As an artist, as an artist, I am very grateful for being lucky enough to meet this era.

When I shared this experience with my foreign colleagues, they all envied me very much. They all said that in the case of the epidemic, it is still possible to do such a big event. It is so great that you can complete the artistic imagination in your mind on Tiananmen Square. Fortunately.

I think this is the mission and responsibility entrusted to us by the country and the times. We must work hard to do our work well and give back to this era.

　　This edition article/Reporter Wu Wenjuan Jiang Ruojing Li Zewei Dong Xin