Chinanews.com, Shanghai, February 25th (Reporter Li Jiajia) On the stage of the National Center for the Performing Arts during the Lantern Festival, the children's drama "Luduan", based on the auspicious animal "Luduan" in the Forbidden City, brought drama to parents and children A gluttonous "feast" of innovative interpretations of art and traditional culture.

Recently, this trend has also continued, and the national tour of "Lu Duan" has officially started, and the first stop is scheduled to land on Shanghai Majestic Theater on March 4th and 5th.

　　"Lu Duan" is the first musical children's drama produced by the Palace Museum in order to give full play to the role of cultural soft power after three years. It is a family carnival work suitable for family audiences.

Let cultural relics "live", through the power of drama, let children travel through time and space while watching performances, feel historical culture, cultivate historical "empathy", stimulate true feelings, pay attention to the past and present, and think about the value of time and life ,significance.

　　A cultural relic is a piece of history. "Lu Duan" extracts character prototypes from more than 1.86 million pieces (sets) of collections, and endows each cultural relic with a unique character appearance and personality traits, allowing them to tell their own stories.

The image of Luduan in the play comes from the fragrance of Luduan with filigree enamel in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. There are also national treasure-level cultural relics, such as the Jinou Yonggu Cup of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Shen Zifan Kesi "Picture of Plum Magpies" in the Southern Song Dynasty, and cursive script calligraphy works by Lu Ji, a calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty. "Ping Fu Tie", they embody important roles on the stage, and have a big debate with Lu Duan on classical culture and contemporary trends.

There are also Xingshi with wings on its back and a vajra pestle in its hand, a strange beast in the sea that makes wind and rain, and a wise and brave Xiezhi with horns on its head. The three roof ridge beasts are no longer silent cultural relics, but as Lively images on the stage, singing and dancing.

　　The colors and symbols of these images retain the original traces of cultural relics. With the help of actors' vivid performances on the stage, combined with stage effects and progressive plots, they tell stories of the times and explore life in an authentic way. Philosophy, to create a childlike and vivid image of cultural relics, truly let the cultural relics speak and walk out of the thousand-year history.

The image of Lu Duan in the play comes from the fragrance of Lu Duan in cloisonné enamel in Wanli of Ming Dynasty.

Photo provided by the organizer

　　In a musical children's drama, the three elements of song, dance, and drama are indispensable.

"Lu Duan" not only has a fascinating, tortuous and touching plot, but also has visual art effects created by cutting-edge technologies such as immersive stage images and naked-eye 3D, and has well-designed dynamic dance steps suitable for children to imitate. The music on the stage is even more worth tasting. .

　　The music style of the whole play is rich, with the original Chinese style song "The Ballad of the Forbidden City" as the main theme, the rhythm is graceful and melodious, and the lyrics are catchy, allowing the audience to "enter in a second".

Music serves as a boost to the plot, and original music such as "Unwillingness" and "Race Against Time" properly renders the atmosphere and expresses emotions, making the whole show fast-paced and lively, and achieving a perfect combination of content narrative and innovative forms.

　　The stage design of "Lu Duan" uses the "vertical line" of red columns and the "horizontal line" of beams painted with Hexi as the main skeleton of the space, and extracts the most visually tense basic lines to construct the stage space. The concept of "fills the entire theater, presenting an intuitive and oriental aesthetic color on the stage, and the audience will be immersed in the grand dance beauty of the twelve red pillars flying.

　　When the cultural relics that originally lived in the Forbidden City "live" on the stage after the actors' careful interpretation, the audience was immediately attracted. Whether they are children or parents, they can gain their own touch in the play.

After watching the play, the young audience said: "It's the first time I saw the cultural relics alive on the stage, and I really like it." Parents said: "I felt the beauty of the Forbidden City on the stage that I had never seen before, and the children were immersed in it. I learned knowledge that is difficult to learn on campus, and I also received a good education about time and life." Some viewers said that they were moved by the professionalism of generations of "guardians" and felt their love for professional life ...

　　The perfect fusion of culture, technology and art is also the success of this drama.

"Lu Duan" created a gorgeous and shocking stage through cutting-edge technologies such as immersive stage images and naked-eye 3D. The cool architectural structure and space creation at the opening made the audience feel proud of ancient Chinese architecture.

The creators of the play said, "This is a story about the inheritance of technology, art and culture. On the stage, multimedia technology is used to make the Forbidden City glow with artistic beauty, which can directly hit people's hearts. At the same time, every number, every line, every line in the play This period of history is also determined under the strict review and check of experts in different fields, which reflects the great importance and responsibility of the Palace Museum to the inheritance of traditional culture and youth education. (End)