The bun is high and the hairpin is trembling; the skirt is swaying, graceful and elegant - a group of girls with an average age of 21 years, let the treasure of Liaobo's town hall "Ladies with Hairpins" "live" on the stage stand up.

　　In order to welcome the Liaoning Regional Trial of the 13th Chinese Dance "Lotus Award" Classical Dance Competition to be held on the 28th, the Shenyang Art Troupe is currently rehearsing the participating dance "Happy Spring with Hairpins" (tentative name).

The dance is based on the famous Tang Dynasty painting "Lady with a Hairpin". It is a cross-art work created under the guidance of the concept of cultural and tourism integration. It is also an active exploration and beneficial attempt to trace the origin of local culture.

　Intention to make cultural relics "live"

　　"Go - lift - drop - get up -" On the afternoon of the 26th, in the rehearsal hall of the Shenyang Art Troupe, the dance teacher was leading the actors to do the decomposition movements over and over again.

During the break, some girls were so tired that they lay flat on the ground.

　　"The 'Lotus Award' is the highest award in the Chinese dance industry. It is selected every four years and will be held in Shenyang for the first time in 2022. As the main venue, all art troupes in the province attach great importance to and are actively preparing for the battle." Yesterday, Shenyang Teng Hongjiang, deputy head of the art troupe and one of the directors of the dance "Happy Hairpin", said that in order to meet the competition, the entire team rehearsed from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day.

　　The idea is the soul of classical dance.

Teng Hongjiang said that in order to pay tribute to the excellent traditional culture and carry forward the local culture, the Shenyang Art Troupe specially invited Dong Baohou, the deputy director of the Liaoning Museum, and other experts to conduct many discussions.

"The original topics were "Mrs. Guo Guo's Tour in Spring", "Ladies with Hairpins" and "Long Live Tongtian Posts", which are the fine collections of the Liaoning Museum. Artifacts are brought to life through dance."

　　"Ladies with Hairpins" painted by Zhou Fang in the Tang Dynasty depicts the scene of six beautifully dressed women playing among flowers, butterflies, cranes and dogs at the turn of spring and summer.

"According to research by experts, the graceful and luxurious Tang Dynasty woman in the painting may be competing for 'fragrance' to attract butterflies. We used this as a script to choreograph the 7-minute dance into a story line, followed by 'competition for beauty' and 'competition for fragrance' At the last moment of the dance, the paintings are beautifully restored, leaving a deep impression on the audience, like a living "Lady with a Hairpin" "Picture" suddenly freezes on the stage." Teng Hongjiang said.

Every detail of the creation has been polished several times

　　For "The Story of Xichun with Hairpins", the biggest difficulty in creating and arranging lies in the understanding of traditional culture.

"In the early stage of creation, we asked Liaobo experts to train the actors many times, so that they could have a deep understanding of the history and culture of the Tang Dynasty and the connotation of "Ladies with Hairpins", which was helpful for the actors to improve their artistic accomplishment and expressiveness. It's very important." Yesterday, Xu Xiaoxia, one of the directors of "Xichun Ji with Hairpins" said that every detail of the dance has been revised and polished many times, and it was repeated a dozen times just from the angle of the little lady's entrance. .

　　The lack of experience in Han and Tang dances is a major challenge for the Shenyang Art Troupe.

"These performers have danced ballet and folk dances before, but none of them have danced Han and Tang dances. The way of Han and Tang dance is different from other dances. It needs to show restraint and restraint." Xu Xiaoxia said, in addition to inviting In addition to the guidance of Han and Tang dance experts from Beijing Dance Academy, Shenyang Art Troupe also invited a number of experts from the province to give guidance on dance names, costumes, music, dance vocabulary and other aspects, and finally deepened the attributes of Han and Tang dance, allowing The dance exudes the beauty of Han and Tang culture.

　Tracing the source to promote local excellent culture

　　Making cultural relics "live" and highlighting the traceability of culture is a major pursuit of "The Story of Xichun with Hairpins".

To this end, the dance highly restored the painting "Lady with a Hairpin" from several details.

　　The costumes of the actors are based on the high-definition scans of "Ladies with Hairpins", and the colors and patterns are carefully compared. , lotus and other five kinds of huge hairpin flowers, according to which the stylist made five kinds of hairpin flowers by hand with silk, and strived to restore each petal and flower leaf to the painting.

　　In addition to the scarlet costumes, towering cloud temples and huge hairpin flowers, the dance also highly restored the appearance in "The Lady with Hairpin Flowers".

The ladies in the painting are all "moth-winged eyebrows" with upward thorns. In order to restore this small detail, the actors need to shave off their eyebrows for modeling.

Some girls are reluctant and get on fire.

In order to convince these young girls, director Teng Hongjiang said "I will shave with you" and first shaved off his eyebrows.

　　Although he has gone through many twists and turns, but recalling the creation and rehearsal of "The Story of Xichun with the Hairpin", Teng Hongjiang believes that this dance has also brought him a lot of inspiration: "The Story of "Xichun with the Hairpin" crosses the artistic categories such as dance and painting. The integration of the world is an active exploration and beneficial attempt by the Shenyang Art Troupe and the Liaoning Museum. There are many fine cultural relics in the Liaoning Museum. We can make more cultural relics 'live' and present excellent traditions through the form of dance. The beauty of culture shows cultural self-confidence, and at the same time contributes to the promotion of local excellent culture.”

　　Zhang Ping, reporter of Shenyang Daily and Shenbao All Media