Our reporter Lai Rui
Recently, the TV series "Our Ten Years" has been on the air, and the first unit "Tang Palace Night Banquet" has captured the audience's attention from the very beginning.
The audience not only saw the love and dedication of the dancers to the works, but also felt the charm of the excellent traditional Chinese culture through the ancient and the modern, inheriting the ancient and opening up the new.
From poetry and songs to pen, ink, paper and inkstone, from pear orchard spring to silk and bamboo string music, today, more and more people are falling in love with the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Creative transformation and innovative development, the excellent traditional Chinese culture is being integrated into the life of the times in a new and open way, bringing rich spiritual nourishment to the public.
Traditional culture continues to heat up
The "Harmonious Coexistence - A Joint Exhibition of Cultural Relics Collected by the Forbidden City and the National Museum" is being held at the National Museum of China, exploring the historical origin of China's "harmonious" culture with more than 400 cultural relics.
Hongshan Culture Jade Dragon, Liangzhu Culture Jade Cong, Ming Dynasty Jingdezhen Blue and White Porcelain... Walking through them is like opening a long scroll of the history of Chinese civilization.
Among the audience of the exhibition, there are young women in Hanfu, parents who specially brought their children to watch, and elderly people with white hair.
"Many cultural relics have appeared in previous history textbooks, and when you see the real objects, they come alive." 25-year-old Zhang Yijing said that every time she entered the museum, she always gained the strength to start again.
From the "Shiqu Baoji Special Exhibition", which triggered the "Forbidden City Run", to the "Why China" exhibition, in recent years, one after another carefully planned cultural and exposition exhibitions have continuously ignited the vigorous cultural enthusiasm in the hearts of the public.
According to statistics, in 2021, museums across the country will hold 36,000 exhibitions and 323,000 educational activities, plan and launch more than 3,000 online exhibitions and more than 10,000 online educational activities, and the total number of online views will exceed 4.1 billion.
While the traditional culture continues to heat up, it also enters the public life in a more approachable form.
For example, the cultural and creative products launched by major cultural and museum institutions in recent years have used ingenuity to activate the cultural relics collected in museums and the words written in ancient books.
From the Chaozhu earphones of the Palace Museum, to the archaeological blind box of the Henan Museum, from the oracle bone inscription keychain of the National Library, to the plush doll of "horse stepping on a flying swallow" in the Gansu Provincial Museum, "bring cultural relics home" has become a new trend .
When visiting museums and art galleries on holidays, it becomes a social fashion, when videos of traditional cultural programs are repeatedly swiped on social platforms; when major archaeological discoveries are announced, it always attracts the attention of the whole people... Traditional culture has entered the hearts of the public silently, inspiring More people's self-confidence and pride.
Keep upright, innovate and rejuvenate
The popularity of traditional culture is inseparable from the in-depth understanding and in-depth exploration of Chinese excellent traditional culture by literary and art workers.
The vast and profound Chinese civilization is an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
Inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture is not simply retro, but to serve the past and keep innovation.
How to translate the heavy historical memory in the pile of yellowed old papers and in the exhibition hall of the museum into a palpable and comprehensible story of the times?
Contemporary literary and art workers have made their own explorations.
In recent years, many literary and artistic works have reached out to the tradition and the contemporary time, seeking the source of living water in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and interpreting them with ingenuity and innovation, winning the love of the public.
The program "China in Classics" uses a dramatic structure and a film-like expression to visualize, story-tell, and intuitively transcode the classics, allowing today's audience to read ancient books and classics and touch Chinese culture; the underwater flying dance " "Luoshen Shui Fu" reproduces Cao Zhi's famous "Luo Shen Fu" with exquisite ideas, making the "Luoshen", which is "like a stunner, graceful like a dragon," as if it has traveled through a thousand years, and is in front of the eyes; In the form of "poetry in song", it combines traditional poetry classics with modern pop music. While paying attention to the expression of the times, it also digs deep into the connotation behind the poetry, showing the beauty of Chinese poetry and music; the dance poem "Only This Green" features a From the perspective of a researcher of the Forbidden City, he tells the story behind the handed down masterpiece "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which not only shows the gentleness and honesty of oriental aesthetics, but also expresses the spirit of the times, connecting the tradition and the present.
These literary and artistic works rooted in Chinese culture and endowed with the aesthetics of the times have emerged on TV screens, online spaces, and performance stages, allowing the excellent traditional Chinese culture to reach more people.
In addition, the rapid development of science and technology has opened up new space for the dissemination, development and transformation of Chinese excellent traditional culture.
The application of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and other technical means allows people to "roam" major cultural and museum institutions without leaving their homes, and experience extraordinary visual experience; digital technology makes the handed down famous paintings incarnate thousands of people, approaching Ordinary people realize protection and inheritance in wider dissemination; the presentation method of integrated media has effectively promoted the cross-media and cross-disciplinary audio-visual integration exploration of traditional cultural programs, realizing the blending of the new and the old, the ancient and the present.
Today, Chinese excellent traditional culture has various ways of opening up, radiating the vitality of the times.
Whether it is theme exploration, form innovation, or technological innovation, the profound connotation of Chinese excellent traditional culture is always based.
Only the narration that is loyal to the core spirit and conforms to the expression of contemporary aesthetics can let more moving works come from the depths of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and let those cultural relics, words, stories and heritage that condense the wisdom of the sages be vividly narrated and truly realized. Creative transformation and innovative development.
Passing on the fire from generation to generation, overseas "fans"
"Looking up at the size of the universe and looking down at the prosperous categories, it is enough to enjoy the visual and visual entertainment. I believe in Coke." A few days ago, Italian female astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who was on a mission in space, was in On social media, the famous line of Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion", a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was quoted to express what he saw and thought in space, accompanied by photos of Chinese landscapes taken from space, which aroused heated discussions among Chinese and foreign netizens.
A famous sentence from a thousand years ago, traveled through time and language barriers, and caused a foreigner's emotional resonance in the vast space, so romantic and so magnificent.
This is a vivid manifestation of the profoundness, depth, and timelessness of Chinese culture.
In recent years, the Chinese have gained a firmer cultural confidence towards the world.
More and more people, especially young people, not only fall in love with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also devote themselves to it, injecting the source of living water into the inheritance and development of traditional skills.
They add new ideas to the traditional culture with the understanding and expression of young people, innovate the old while inheriting the tradition, and make extensive use of the power of new media to continuously expand the influence of communication at home and abroad, so that the strength of China's excellent traditional culture is "popular".
"Can you do me one more favor? Can you pinch another 'Bingdundun'? Because I have twins in my family." During this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, Prince Albert II of Monaco experienced the making of dough sculptures in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. , has been widely concerned by netizens at home and abroad.
The third-generation inheritor of "Beijing Noodles Lang", the post-95 Lang Jia Ziyu, taught the Prince of Monaco to make the noodle maker "Bing Dun Dun".
After graduating from university, Lang Jiaziyu has been trying to use old craftsmanship to make new themes, and also used media platforms such as short videos to let more people see the different side of traditional dough modeling.
In the wave of national style, there are many young people like Lang Jiaziyu.
Peng Jingxuan, a post-95s generation who played traditional music with guzheng on the streets of France, made many foreigners feel the charm of traditional Chinese musical instruments for the first time; the post-90s girl Yangliu, dressed in a long skirt and stepping on bamboo poles, danced on the water, gave her The new charm of the ancient technique of Duzhu drifting; and Li Ziqi, who has attracted much attention, foreign netizens have seen the idyllic and beautiful China in her videos.
The profound traditional culture nourishes young people, and the innovation and creativity of young people activate traditional culture.
In the interaction with young people, the excellent traditional Chinese culture grows in joints, blooming fragrant flowers, and the fragrance is far and clear.
("People's Daily Overseas Edition" November 02, 2022, page 07)