■Our reporter Wang Licheng

　　Musicians use their feet to measure the mountains, rivers and country roads of the motherland. What kind of stories will they discover?

The large-scale outdoor music travel variety show "China is So Beautiful" co-produced by Strait TV, Southeast TV and Tencent Video is on the air. The show is in the form of "documentary + music" and invites a band or a musician in each episode. Discover the beauty of nature and humanity in every grass and tree, and sing about the ordinary world.

　　As the first domestic documentary variety show focusing on "Chinese-style life aesthetics", after the broadcast of "China So Beautiful", the number of views on Tencent Video has exceeded 10 million times, and "details full of fireworks" have become a hot topic among netizens. high frequency words.

In this regard, Liu Tao, an associate professor of drama, film and television at East China Normal University, said that this work places pop music in the world of fields and ravines, uses music as a free indirect quotation in images, and tries to explore a Chinese-style aesthetics of life. It enlightens the audience on how to live better, how to cherish the moment, and gives the creators of slow variety shows new ideas.

Under the seemingly ordinary life, there is the most poetic aesthetics

　　At the home of Lao Song, a "local player" who makes a living by chopping bamboo, the members of the admiration band watched the "logged pulley" gift Lao Song personally made for his wife, and listened to Lao Song and his wife telling about their travels. Paradise - mountains, trees, streams; in the ancient city of Jianshui in Yunnan, Luo Xu, a "geek architectural artist", teased his life while showing musicians the cooking skills of barbecue...different from travel documentaries that focus on famous scenery , "China is So Beautiful" does not make up a poetic paradise, through the band members and nearly 100 characters such as folk calligraphers, tea makers, independent creators, craftsmen, etc., observe the life of ordinary Chinese in rural corners.

　　During the visit, the band members felt the extraordinary power of ordinary people. Although the old Song and his wife were confined to the mountains, they maintained their freedom and innocence despite their limited culture and lack of money; Ye Xiangmei, who resolutely returned to the countryside to teach after graduation, The wife of rural calligrapher Chen Mujin, whose dowry helps her husband pursue his dreams, can face the future with an optimistic attitude even if he has suffered life hardships; Luo Xu, who has the opportunity to make a lot of money, with a pure heart, Rejected many business opportunities... "It's true" on the barrage is the envy of netizens for the mood of these ordinary people.

　　In the simple land, even a small group, as long as they know how to live, then life has a unique charm.

The free and easy way of living in their lives contains a poetic aesthetic life that deserves to be sung about.

These flesh-and-blood ordinary people have found their true self in their lives and conformed to the phrase - "people, poetically inhabit the earth".

Music has become a carrier for exploring human nature and expressing life perception

　　An Dong, a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, said that adding music elements to travel variety shows, or adding travel elements to music variety shows, has become a popular creative idea for variety shows.

"The combination of slow variety shows and good music can add color to the show itself." As An Dong said, the songs running through "China is So Beautiful" make the show an emotional journey where characters and music complement each other.

　　In the program "China is So Beautiful", musicians who are accustomed to expressing their emotions with notes and singing under the spotlight have abandoned their status as artists and went to all corners of China to challenge different lifestyles and open up their hearts to talk with different people, from the band From the performance experience to the stretched life in the past, from the longing for the hometown to getting along with the parents.

　　"Music makes the honey, hare, Trojan horse, hibiscus scrambled eggs and other ordinary people's lives that the variety show tells come alive." Liu Tao said.

"Let me be a little bit happier, let me be a little bit happier, don't let doubts remain in my heart", a song "Goodbye Jack" by the deploring band expresses their envy for the plain but rich spiritual world of the Lao Song couple; "Shafina, Shafina, only I know how precious you are.” This is Chen Mujin’s confession to his wife; Ye Xiangmei, who has covered almost all the courses in rural primary schools, spends her best youth to accompany the children in the mountains. Give students the hope of a worry-free childhood... The sentence on the barrage "makes people yearn for a better life from the heart" is the resonance between the audience and the characters in the show, and also witnesses the story, narrative artistry and emotion of the show Sexual unity.

　　The beauty of nature, the beauty of human feelings, the beauty of human nature... These abstract contents related to all aspects of "beauty" or "people" are expressed in the form of images under the carrier of music.

Beauty is in all living beings, and beauty is also in people's hearts.

The members of the band used the wilderness as a stage, allowing the loud singing to reverberate between the heavens and the earth, allowing the music to return to nature.

They dedicate the purest music to the vast mountains and rivers and thousands of souls on the land of the motherland.

They sing about every grass and every tree, and also sing the most ordinary fireworks in the world.