China News Service, Beijing, March 1, Question: How does traditional culture tell "Why China"?
Author Li Jingze Xie Yanbing Liang Xiaohui
After five thousand years of civilization, how did China become the China it is today?
From "Tang Palace Night Banquet" to "Only Blue and Green", in recent years, more and more popular traditional cultural IPs have answered the question of "Why China" from another level. Such discussions are also one of the hot topics of the two sessions every year.
Today, the two sessions of China News Agency invited the representatives of the National People's Congress, the "traders" of popular cultural IPs, the Rong Media Center in Chibi City, Hubei Province, and together with experts and scholars, to discuss how traditional culture can tell "Why China" and share traditions Inheritance, protection and innovative utilization of culture.
From Tang Palace Night Banquet to Lantern Festival Wonderful Tour: "Not a Porter of Traditional Culture"
In recent years, with the revival of the national tide, popular programs based on traditional culture have emerged one after another.
To say which programs are particularly impressive, Henan Radio and Television's "Chinese Festival" series is naturally among them.
Data map: Tang figurines displayed in the Henan Museum attract tourists.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Kan Li
From the restored Tang Palace night banquet to the beautiful and romantic underwater Dunhuang Feitian, to the wonderful Lantern Festival tour this year, the "Chinese Festival" series vividly shows the charm of traditional culture.
"It is easy to make a relatively popular program, but it is really very difficult to continue to be popular." Xu Na, executive planner of the "Chinese Festival" series of Henan Radio and Television Station, admitted that the content output of this series of programs really made her and the team struggle.
As the saying goes, one minute on stage, ten years off stage.
Almost every program created by Xu Na and her team contains an in-depth exploration of traditional culture. They are not porters of traditional culture, but two-dimensional processors. They combine their own thinking and modern skills to make traditional culture. "Alive".
Through a simple example, we may be able to feel the "cold" thinking behind the "hot" program.
The song and dance drama "Five Stars Out of the East", which appeared on the Lantern Festival, was inspired by a brocade armguard of the Han Dynasty.
In October 1995, members of an academic expedition to the Niya Ruins between China and Japan discovered this brocade of Shu in the Han Dynasty in an ancient tomb in the Hotan area of Xinjiang. ".
What's the story behind this armguard?
In what era was it born?
What happened in the end?
It was the problem that Xu Na and the team had to solve when they got this work.
After learning about the history, they decided to combine traditional culture with modern audio-visual means to show the prosperous scene of palaces in the Han Dynasty.
Yang Lanjie, a researcher at the Humanities Beijing (Humanistic Olympics) Research Center of Renmin University of China and a teacher at the School of Philosophy of Renmin University of China, commented that "Chinese festivals" and similar programs have established a realistic connection between everyone and cultural traditions, and it can arouse people's emotions. Empathy, and then arouse collective resonance.
If there are no relics carefully protected, how can we see "Red Cliffs in the Snow"?
"When the river goes east, the waves are washed away, and there are romantic figures through the ages. To the west of the old fortress, the humane is Chibi, the Zhou Lang of the Three Kingdoms." Chibi City, Hubei Province has won a place in China's famous historical and cultural city due to the classic stories of the Three Kingdoms.
How do they protect cultural relics?
How to tell the story of the Three Kingdoms?
In the snow, Wang Li, a reporter from the Rong Media Center in Chibi City, took everyone to the ancient battlefield of Chibi and a vivid case of Chibi cultural protection.
Wang Li said that, as the only ancient battlefield site that still remains in its original appearance among the seven major battles in ancient my country, "the less wins the more and the weak wins the strong", there are many landscapes in the ancient battlefield of Chibi.
Wang Li introduced that on the cliff of Chibi Jitou Linjiang, there is a stone inscription "Chibi", which is said to have been written by Zhou Yu, and is the earliest extant cultural relic in Chibi.
Of course, there is also a stone statue of Zhou Lang proudly facing the Yangtze River, full of ambition to point out picturesque mountains and rivers; on the platform of worshipping the wind, Zhuge Liang's feather fan swayed gently, borrowing the east wind, lending a new pattern of the Three Kingdoms...
Feng Xiaoguang, a scholar of Chibi culture, said that in recent years, the Chibi Municipal Government and the competent cultural relics department have established rules and regulations to implement the safety responsibilities of cultural relics and actively develop the cultural industry.
Over the years, Chibi City has cooperated with production and living construction projects, and cooperated with the Hubei Provincial Institute of Archaeology to carry out rescue archaeological excavations in the protection area and construction control area for many times. .
He said that in order to tell the story of the Three Kingdoms represented by the Battle of Chibi, Chibi has held a "walking class" for 13 consecutive years, bringing cultural relics exhibitions to the campus, and more than 100,000 primary and secondary school students have received research activities.
He successively organized and held academic seminars related to Chibi, which contributed to the revision of the entry of "Battle of Chibi" in Chibi and "Chibi" and the "identification" of Chibi Cliff Stone Carvings.
Data map: The Three Kingdoms Chibi Ancient Battlefield Site Park Scenic Spot.
Photo by Cao Xufeng
Leng Cong, secretary-general and researcher of the World Media Research Center of the Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that when culture and tourism come together, it is like poetry and distant places. It also advocates literature, business, education and leisure.
He believes that the development of learning tourism and the holding of ancient style crossing festivals may add further support to the inheritance and development of Chibi culture.
Yang Lanjie said that these also need to be promoted by local top-level design and mechanisms. If they are presented in a scattered manner, it is not conducive to integration and the sharing of experience.
Deputies to the National People's Congress suggested that traditional culture "Why China"
In fact, the practice of institutionalizing the protection of traditional culture is worth forming a norm and forming a demonstration effect, and even forming a law to normalize and systematize the protection and development of traditional culture.
Wang Binmei, a representative of the 13th National People's Congress and president of Zhejiang Xiaobaihuayue Theater, who has been committed to the inheritance of traditional culture for a long time, has done many researches in various places in view of the current difficulties faced by the national opera troupes, and proposed to establish and improve performance-based salary incentives for opera workers. mechanism, increase investment in the creation of literary and art troupe projects, and suggestions on the reform of the troupe.
Wang Binmei mentioned that she once suggested to do a good job in the classification and guidance of the protection and inheritance of operas. According to the survival status of different types of operas, the opera genres were divided into three categories, and different support and protection measures were adopted, so that the popular opera genres in Zhejiang Province have been effectively revitalized and endangered. The genre has also been effectively protected.
This year's two sessions, around how to spread traditional culture more scientifically and professionally, she put forward two specific suggestions:
First, online, it is suggested that the government should put forward a request to let Douyin, Kuaishou and other major platforms increase the promotion of excellent traditional cultural content.
The second is offline. It is suggested that the government should increase the guidance and supervision of outdoor advertising in the public domain, and increase the proportion and coverage of excellent traditional cultural publicity content.
Talking about the protection and utilization of traditional culture, Leng Song pointed out that protection and utilization are means, and the real purpose is inheritance, and it is an innovative inheritance.
"Let the classics become popular again, and let the inheritance go to the world."
Yang Lanjie believes that culture should share beauty and beauty, and respect the unique form of each culture.
From this perspective, respecting Chinese traditional culture and Chinese history is actually making a contribution to the world. "I hope the world civilization will present a beautiful and splendid appearance."
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