Demonstrate the twenty-four solar terms to promote etiquette and opera
Innovative national style variety shows are popular
Recently, another batch of interesting and bright cultural variety shows have been broadcast.
Some of these variety shows explore the origin of festivals in the form of ancient styles and rhymes, some spread traditional opera and traditional music in new forms, some focus on traditional wedding etiquette, and some lead the audience to experience the beautiful mountains and rivers in calligraphy and painting.
Cultural variety shows with traditional culture, national style and national trend as the core emerge in an endless stream, constantly injecting vitality into traditional culture with new models, and inspiring the audience's love for traditional culture.
Reporter Shi Wenjing
Traditional etiquette is extensive and profound
The cultural variety shows that are being broadcast begin to focus on traditional Chinese etiquette and customs, such as "Chinese Wedding" and "Chinese Rites and Chinese Music".
"Chinese Wedding - My Daughter Gets Married" focuses on different forms of weddings and tries to present various types of "new Chinese weddings".
In the program, the audience can see the traditional wedding of the unique Miao young people. Two young people "fix their love with flowers" and need to complete the process of engagement, ceremony, marriage, and return to the door. The big bridal sedan chair at the wedding scene, singing and dancing Celebration ceremonies and ethnic minority wedding costumes with strong traditional characteristics, etc., show the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese wedding customs.
"Chinese Ritual Chinese Music" interprets the essence of ritual and music culture through "immersive travel", and reactivates ritual and music culture with modern aesthetics.
The first program of "Chinese Rites and Chinese Music" presents "Chinese Wedding Ceremony". The program opens with the love story of the whole Tang poem "Poems in the Robe", which leads to the discussion of traditional wedding ceremonies.
In the wedding of the two protagonists of "Poem in the Robe", the actors performed traditional etiquettes such as "but fan" and "hexi" on the spot, showing Chinese romance in every move.
At the same time, the program experts also popularized the "six ceremonies" of weddings, that is, acceptance, asking for names, accepting, accepting, requesting, and welcoming, and the "three books", namely letters of appointment, letters of ceremonies, and letters of welcome. Some of these etiquettes are still in use today. .
The audience can enjoy ancient traditional weddings, contemporary weddings, wedding-related costumes, rituals and music, etc. in the program, and experience the wedding culture from ancient times to the present.
Although many traditional etiquette and customs have undergone the changes of the times, their core remains unchanged, and the essence of traditional culture and etiquette culture has never left the public life, and has kept pace with the times.
These programs present and discuss these etiquettes, allowing the audience to have a deeper understanding of the essence of traditional culture and recalling respect for etiquette.
Diversified presentation of festivals and solar terms
The recently broadcasted cultural variety shows also focus on traditional festivals and solar terms in a brand-new way, allowing audiences to taste the ancient charm and feel the beauty of traditional culture.
The traditional cultural variety show "Ancient Rhymes and New Voices" presents a panoramic view of a variety of traditional cultural festivals in the form of "cultural relics exhibition + cultural interview + ancient style music and dance". Currently, several important festivals such as Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival have been broadcast. , the program presents the rich cultural connotation of traditional festivals.
For example, the show's presentation of the Dragon Boat Festival is unique.
In order to vividly show the importance of the Dragon Boat Festival in history, 28 cultural relics related to the Dragon Boat Festival in major museums across the country were invited to the program. In the book, the audience re-reads the picture scroll of ancient social life and explores the cultural genes in festivals and customs.
What is even more level is that the program recomposes ancient poems such as "Canglang Xing", "Jingdu Song" and "Yi Lan Cao" to sing the Dragon Boat Festival.
The program opens the Dragon Boat Festival from cultural relics, ancient books, ancient paintings and poems, and makes traditional culture "live".
Experts commented that "Ancient Rhyme and New Voice" is both ideological and artistic, and is a traditional cultural journey that lasts for thousands of years and is rich in humanistic charm.
In addition, many programs focus on traditional solar terms, such as "The Adventures of Grain Rain" and "The Adventures of Li Xia" in the "Chinese Solar Terms" series, "Mango", "Summer Solstice" and "Little Heat" in the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms of Song Yun".
"Song Yun Twenty-Four Solar Terms" is relatively new. It uses poetry, poetry, calligraphy and painting, academic thinking, architectural style, etiquette and customs to open up the solar term culture. It can not only taste the beauty of Song Yun, but also experience the ancient and modern transmission of solar term culture.
The twenty-four solar terms have always permeated the Chinese people's clothing, food, housing, and transportation. Today, different cultural programs present the beauty of the solar terms in different forms, making the solar terms more and more ritualistic, and awakening the public's attention to the solar terms.
At the same time, these programs focus on solar terms in the way of national style and national tide, which is not only an audio-visual enjoyment, but also an aesthetic experience.
The popular expression of poetry, painting and opera
The ongoing cultural slow variety show "China in Painting and Calligraphy 2", each episode walks into real scenes related to painting and calligraphy, appreciates and interprets Chinese painting and calligraphy, learns traditional cultural knowledge, and leads the audience to find the beautiful mountains and rivers around them , feel the legends and fireworks inside and outside the painting and calligraphy.
Interestingly, the program makes the static calligraphy and painting work "move", making it more in line with the thinking mode and aesthetic orientation of contemporary people.
For example, in the presentation of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the audience can have a glimpse of the undulating landscape of Jiangnan, the vast smoke and waves, and the smooth and natural transition of the camera lens, which effectively strengthens the overall sense of space in the picture.
The program also restores the situation of various boats drifting gently on the water surface in "Luhe Supervision of Transportation", reflecting the lively scene of water transportation on the Grand Canal during the Qianlong period.
The "Poems and Far Away 3", which is being broadcast, is led by guests to appreciate the charm of Zhejiang's poetry and painting landscapes on the journey.
The program will continue to Jinyun, Xianju and other places to continue to explore the breadth and depth of landscape and humanities.
From "the first light of dawn, the Cape of Good Hope in the East China Sea" to "the place where the atmosphere of the earth hangs down" written by Zhu Xi, the scenery and culture blend with each other, depicting poetry, beauty and vitality.
The currently airing "Opera Universe" is based on the principle of "drama +". In each episode, three groups of actors and actresses visit famous opera actors and opera craftsmen on location to draw inspiration and integrate trend elements for literary and artistic creation.
In the first episode, creators and performers such as Kunqu Opera groups, martial arts actors, and rappers visited and consulted famous Peking Opera, Henan Opera, and Sichuan Opera masters.
Looking at the cultural variety shows that are being broadcast, the biggest feeling is that these shows are becoming more and more watchable, artistic and creative, constantly breaking the aesthetic ceiling.
The use of high-tech stage can restore historical scenes with full aesthetics, and break the limitations of time and space. One program can travel freely between ancient and modern times and tell stories spanning thousands of years.
At the same time, these programs are more creative and whimsical, allowing etiquette, festivals, solar terms, calligraphy and painting, opera, etc. to be presented in a new way, which is in line with the current audience's acceptance method, and leads the traditional aesthetic fashion and national style fashion. Bathed in the beauty of tradition, subtly influenced.