Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 22 (Reporter Ying Ni) The 2023 CCTV Year of the Rabbit Spring Festival Gala "Man Ting Fang · National Color" uses traditional Chinese colors as the starting point, uses dance as the language, and music as the rhyme. "Chinese colors" with beautiful names such as , Xiangye, and Ultramarine come to your face, making people immerse themselves in it.
"Man Ting Fang·National Color" uses innovative visual presentation methods and externalized performance forms of the program, highlighting traditional Chinese aesthetics, using dance as language and music as rhyme, forming three paragraphs of color seeking, dancing color and singing color as the main structure of works of art.
The eloquent melody is integrated into the ancient style of singing as the beginning of the "Looking for Color" section.
Some composers of "Dancing Color" selected five Chinese national musical instruments, suona, zither, erhu, flute, and pipa, to correspond and cooperate with five colors and five top dancers, using orchestral music as the atmosphere base, and national percussion Chinese drums and clappers are used as rhythm parts to recite the beauty of the world with music and paint with dance.
Finally, in the "Singing Colors" part, the names of several Chinese colors are cleverly used as lyrics with a memorable national style melody. By writing and arranging melodies that conform to the aesthetic sense of contemporary people, the whole work is full of atmosphere, and it also makes the whole work more impressive. The audience was full of praise.
"Man Ting Fang·National Beauty" Condensed CCTV Year of the Rabbit "Spring Festival Gala" Video Screenshot
The music for this work comes from the composer Zhang Qu.
It has always been his creative direction to make fusion music that not only highlights the charm of Chinese classical culture, but also conforms to the aesthetics of modern people, and is not limited to any form to express emotions.
And through years of in-depth understanding of national style music, Chinese characteristic melodies, rhythms, and arrangements have been integrated into singing and dancing.
From the composition of "Building a Snowflake" for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, to "The Return of the Crane" in the variety show "Dance for a Thousand Years" and "Mid-Autumn Wonderful Tour", to "Yuanxi" in the Henan Spring Festival Gala "Wonderful Night of the Lantern Festival" "The Covenant of Qingming", "Longshang Song Xing" of "Qingming Wonderful Tour", "Wang Feng Caige" during the Dragon Boat Festival and the touching dance "Send off Children" in "The First Lesson of the Beginning of School". His works combine dance with Chinese traditions. The combination of cultures is impressive.
The 2023 CCTV Year of the Rabbit Spring Festival Gala "Man Ting Fang·National Beauty" embodies this point even more.
"Man Ting Fang National Beauty" Xiangye CCTV Year of the Rabbit "Spring Festival Gala" video screenshot
Use Chinese traditional colors as an entry point, and use Chinese music to spread Chinese culture.
In Zhang Qu's view, "I always believe that skills and means should serve expression. This time, "Man Ting Fang·National Colors" still finds a balance between creative skills and exciting melody, so as to achieve the purpose of conveying the music through music. Chinese emotions, telling Chinese stories with music, and spreading Chinese culture with music. Through rich and colorful rhythms and beautiful and moving melodies, the audience can immerse themselves in the program, feel the endless charm of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and develop a sense of beauty. things, yearning and pursuit of a better life.” (End)