Reporters learned from the National Aquatics Center ("Water Cube") on January 31 that in order to enrich tourism content and create a festive atmosphere for the Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon, the Water Cube has launched a series of activities called "Dragon Yao Water Cube", which will be announced by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2024. It consists of huge landscapes, light sculptures, flying dragon performances derived from the mascot of "Happy Spring Festival", "Auspicious Dragon", "Happy Year of the Dragon with Dragon Glory Water Cube" exhibition, intangible cultural heritage dragon dance performance, New Year themed market and other scenes.
As one of the special features of the series of activities, the exhibition "Long Yao Water Cube Happy Year of the Dragon" is jointly organized by the Water Cube and Xile Museum and is open to the public at the Water Cube Competition Hall from January 26 to March 15.
The exhibition takes dragons as the core element, including the world's earliest animated "Shadow Puppet Dragon", the household idol "Wooden Dragon", the emotional messenger "Print Dragon", the oldest drama in the world "Nuo Mask Dragon", the multi-aesthetic dragon A total of more than 200 rare cultural relics from folk artists have been collected in seven categories: "Painted Dragon", "Embroidery Dragon", a craft of extremely popular women, and "Everything is Prosperous", a New Year painting to pray for the New Year.
At the same time, a well-known design team was invited to take the curatorial concept of "where there is a dragon, there is a spirit", using dynamic light and shadow, phantom imaging, art installations, creative sculptures, restoration of ancient buildings and other display methods to present "dragons gushing water" and "flying dragons in the sky". "The visual landscape uses modern technology to activate the vitality of the cultural heritage. (Produced by reporter Chen Hang and Yue Ziyan)
Editor in charge: [Tian Boqun]