China News Service, Fuzhou, July 16th (Reporter Lin Chunyin) The sound of beating Yanpi, the sighing chants of Fujian opera, the singing of Wing Chun fists, the jingle of she silver...surging in the light and shadow of the bridge, on the saddle wall Down reverberation.
On the evening of the 15th, the immersive performance "Looking for Dreams · Fangxiang" held in the historical and cultural district of Sanfang Qixiang, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, brought the audience into the world of Mindu culture.
The 44th World Heritage Conference opened in Fuzhou on the 16th.
Fuzhou, a national historical and cultural city that has been established for more than 2,200 years, gave a prelude to welcoming guests on the eve of the show with this outstanding performance of the culture of the capital of Fujian.
Immersive performance of "Looking for Dreams · Lanes" stills.
Photo by Zhang Bin
Located on the central axis of Fuzhou City, the three lanes and seven alleys have the reputation of "a piece of three lanes and seven alleys, half of China's modern history".
More than 400 celebrities have emerged in the past dynasties, including Lin Zexu, Shen Baozhen, Yan Fu, Bing Xin, Lin Juemin and other figures who have important influences on the process of modern China.
In the evening, light and shadow were projected from the archways of Nanhou Street in Sanfang Qixiang and the scenery was volley.
In the light, shadow and electro-acoustic, the pictures are hitting the shore with waves, and the style of Fuzhou's Wenjiang Paihai is fully demonstrated.
The audience wandered through the lanes, listening to "Yan Fu" to unlock the wisdom of the people, and walking side by side with "Bing Xin" who chanted poems and love.
"The inner and outer walls of the city are built into lanes, the pen awakens the mountains and rivers, and the mind is awakened." On the bridge, "Minwang Wang Shenzhi" and "Northern Song Dynasty famous Cheng Cai Xiang" stood in the wind, expressing aspirations with poems.
The Min Opera appeared in the immersive performance "Looking for Dreams·Fangxiang".
Photo by Zhang Bin
"While rubbing together, rubbing together, every year is high." The young actor from Dounan Primary School chanted folk songs together, and ran and played on the stone roads with lanterns in their hands.
In Nanhou Street, intangible heritage craftsmen and artists poured a glass of She wine, played a piece of palm puppet dance silk, sang a piece of Min opera, carved a piece of Shoushan stone, scented a basket of jasmine tea, the folk customs, life scenes and commercial style of Mindu during the Ming and Qing Dynasties To be reproduced.
The elements of jasmine flowers from Fuzhou City are present here in full color.
Fuzhou Shoushan stone sculptor Sun Zhaoyong is good at sculpting jasmine flowers with hibiscus stone, white as gelatin, thin as cicada wings, lifelike, full of a plate that seems to be fragrant.
Lin Bifeng (left), the fourth-generation inheritor of Fuzhou jasmine tea scenting technology, demonstrates the skill of sieving flowers.
Photo by Zhang Bin
"'A green tile house with earthen wall and wooden fan, a field of jasmine flowers in front of the door.' This nursery rhyme sings the Fuzhou people's imagination of a happy life, and it is also the simplest homesickness of the Chinese." Sun Zhaoyong said, thinking of the troubles in the jasmine field as a child From childhood memories, even though carving is not easy, he is willing to dig deep into Shoushan stone carving and present the jasmine flower representing "Mo Li" to the guests from all countries who went to the World Heritage Conference.
Lin Bifeng, the fourth-generation inheritor of Fuzhou jasmine tea scenting technology, is giving three baskets of jasmine flowers.
It is now the scenting season for jasmine tea. Lin Bifeng said that the traditional scenting is only 7 times. Nowadays, we are innovating the craftsmanship and breaking through to more than ten scenting times.
"We are now keeping upright and innovating." Lin Bifeng said frankly that he wanted to take advantage of the east wind of the World Heritage Convention, "let Fuzhou's treasure-jasmine tea fragrance all over the world."
Shoushan stone carver Sun Zhaoyong carves jasmine on the spot.
Photo by Lin Chunyin
Fuzhou Ancient House Protection and Development Group Co., Ltd. undertook the performance.
Yan Tao, the chairman of the company, said that in order to "make everyone have the feeling of walking through ancient houses and traditions, but also talking to the future through time and space."
"Looking for Dreams·Fangxiang" is planned by Yang Lan of Sunshine Media Group and directed by Qin Yiwen.
In Qin Yiwen's view, this is not a mere performance, but an "artistic performance that grows freely in the lanes". He chooses "very diverse forms" of artistic expressions to "fully express that every point in Fuzhou can be moved. Human culture".
"The most touching thing is the actors." Qin Yiwen said, "It is these non-hereditary inheritors and the people who live in this land. They let people all over the world see Fuzhou." (End)